Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-12-08
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IDAHO news NOTES.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Crop Outlook Just Fair.
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IDAHO NEWS ITEMS
The Y w. G. A. of the State Normal
is in as fourishing a condition as it
was last year.
The commercial club of Occur d'Alene
city is making plans for a strenuous
boosting campaign the coming year.
Miss Frances Schick of Moscow will
this week leave for South Africa, where
she will be a missionary for the Pres
byterian church.
A series of lectures dealing with
topics of especial interest to rural
school patrons will be given this winter
at the Lewiston Normal.
The Lewiston State Normal school is
fast becoming recognized as an institu-
ton of first rank among the normal
schools of the United States.
Harry Orchard admits that he has
been offered his parole from the Idaho
state prison at Boise. The man con-
victed of the murder of Governor Frank
Steunenberg and now serving a life
sentence for the crime will not accept
the parole.
Thanksgiving day, the Lewiston State
Normal decisively defeated Spokane Col
lege 10 to 3, in the most spectacular
game of the season, thus giving the
State Normal the interscholastic foot
ball championship of the Inland Empire.
A corporation armed by the consti-
tuition and the statutes of this state
with the power of eminent domain has
no right to enter upon and take pos
session of the premises sought to be
condemned until it either pays to the
owner of the property the amount as
sessed and found as damages by COM
missioners duly appointed, or, in case
the owner refuses to accept this award,
has paid the same to the clerk of the
court to abide the result of action, de-
clares the Idaho supreme court, in the
case of E. E. Pyle and his wife, Aletha
J. Pyle, against Judge William w.
Woods of the first district court.
Senator Borah of Idaho is endeavor-
ing to obtain relief for a number of
homesteaders who made entries in the
st. Joe river country, in northern
Idaho, between 1902 and 1904. In 1906
the townships in which the lands are To-
Gated were put in forest reserves and
the forestry bureau protested the en-
tries. Borah wants the timber on the
lands which was killed by the recent
fires disposed of before it rots. If the
protests are dropped patents can issue
coll tho Tim a y
or the government can do so if the
protests are made good. Borah wants
the lands excluded from the national
forests.
The state board has completed it:
canvass of the returns from the recent
Idaho election. The official figures give
James H. Hawley, democratic candi
date for governor, a plurality of SO!
over Governor Brady. The total vot'
cast on governor was s6,159, including
the socialist vote, as against 96,413 oil
the same office in 1908, or a falling of
of 10,254,
Abstract of oficial Vote.
Following is an abstract of the OF
fetal vote as canvassed by the stat
board:
For congress-French, republican, 46
4O1; Bowen, democrat, 1889.
For supreme court justice-Sullivar
republican, 43,167; McClear, democra
32,s26.
For governor-Brady, republican, 80
961; Hawley, democrat, 40,S56.
For lieutenant governor-Sweetse
republican; 41,776; Hunter, democra
34,7e3.
For secretary of state-Gifford, r.
publican, Al ,53s; Bailey, democrat, IS
353.
For state auditor-Taylor, republican
1859; Jones, democrat, 1866.
For state reasurer-Allen, repu'
lican, $4,000; Carruth, democrat, 1880
For attorney general-McDougal, r
publican, 4o,229; Moore, democrat, 81
1872
For school OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
republican, 43,s49; Noble, democra
33,1S3.
For mine inspector-Bell, republica
44,s3O; Czizek, democrat, 30,s53.