Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-04-14
IDAHO NEWS.

James Cannum, a convict, has es-
capped from the state penitentiary.
Senator Hepburn has recommended
the establishment of rural free de-
livery route at Rupert.
Herman ]. Rossi of Wallace has is
sued statement saying he would not
be candidate for governor of Idaho
Sheriff Foresman of Lewiston has
gone to Portland to get Jack Matthews,
who has been wanted for over year
for the murder of Antoine Broncheau.
The First National bank Of HALEY
has been designated as a government
depository. The bank will secure the
government by the purchase of $4,000
in government bonds.
At Burke David Taylor, a machinist,
was caught by belt in the Hercules
mill and his body was drawn into the
big wheel, killing him instantly and
mangling him in a horrible manner
Mr.. Taylor was rs years of age and
unmarried.
The board of regents of the Univer-
sity of Idaho has completed their
work and adjourned. Nothing definite
was done relative to rebuilding the
administration building, and nothing
will be done until the matter of insur-
ance is adjusted.
Alexander Burns, fireman in the
planning mill of the Post Falls Lumber
| company, was suffocated recently by
falling into bin of shavings. Burns
is supposed to have gone to the bin
to get shavings with which to feed the
furnace, and to have fallen in.
The state of Idaho has won its con
test in the United States land office
over the right to file on lands in town
ship A, range 2 east, against As set
tiers on the lands. The contest was
commenced on the ground of the priol
right of the state to file on the lands
C. A. Stevens, pioneer meat deale
and stockgrower, whose principal place
of business is at Wallace, but who's
farm is at Osborne, recently kille'
what is probably the largest steer eve
! slaughtered in the Occur d 'Alenes. TIL
, beef was year old and dresse
: 1860 pounds, weighing, alive, just prio
to it's killing, 1910 pounds.
: John Jacks, a slovenian, was kille
and Clarence Ebney, machine mar
: badly injured by cavein in the Tige
} mine at Burke last Saturday. TIL
men were working about 1900 fee
e underground in a tunnel when a mas
r of rock about eight feet in length an
!, thickness fell without warning, bur.
i,on hnnnoth Tho in
J. is well timbered, and the cause of til
/ cavein is mystery.
r Word has reached Senator Heybur
y that construction work on the Pacifi
y Idaho & Northern railroad, now bull
) ing through Idaho, will have to
, abandoned for year or more on a
/ count of the action of the departmel
d of justice in notifying the railroad {
ficials to desist in further cutting til
Der from the lands withdrawn fro
entry on account of forestry purpose
under penalty of answering to Il
n courts for their conduct.
T. V. Powderly has written to &C
-. ernor Gooding of Idaho, urging tn
r he insure a fair trial to Meyer Ha
A wood and Pettibone, charged with t
murder of former Governor Steune
u berg. He declares that justice
70 quires, and the whole country deman
i a fair trial for the men. They a
If charged with the practices of the
q. sassin, he writes, and they in tn
were taken at a disadvantage and
Of moved from their lawful place of r
to iuence u loreieh Jurisuic'ion WI
~ out resort to form of law.