Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-28
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Olly DtCeHDtI 20.
Ground will be broken shortly in
San Francisco for a million-dollar
marine supply depot.
The epidemic of mumps in the Ward
ner schools is making inroads into the
attendance and the school work
In the recent death of Mrs Sarah
Culbertson, a pioneer of north Idaho
passed away Mrs, Culbertson lived in
Troy for more than 25 years.
Victor Roman, aged 80 years, bar
tender from Portland, committed sui
eide in Seattle by drinking carbolic
acid Sunday.
P. A. Daggett, well-known pioneer
of Spokane and father of ex-Mayor
Floyd L. Daggett, is dangerously i'll
at his home in Standpoint, Idaho.
| Lumbermen of northern Idaho, repre-
senting 100000 acres of timber, have
pledged the University of Idaho $5s,O0O
to construct a forestry building.
r. Wild, produce merchant at Port
land, shot and slightly wounded E. P.
Lyle, real estate dealer, as the result
of quarrel over a young woman.
The defunct State Bank of Commerce
of Wallace paid its third dividend,
Monday. This dividend is for per
cent, and raises the total to 80 per
cent.
Mrs. Luella Forbes, 30 years old, of
Twin Falls, Idaho, committed suicide by
taking laudanum at Medford, Ore. Her
father, f. f. Richmond, of Twin Falls.
is reputed a man of means.
The government hospital on the Fort
Peck (Mont.) reservation was destroy
ed by fire Sunday. The inmates were
taken safely out of the building, but
many lost their clothing and personal
effects
Members of the Plains, Mont, high
school held a public reception Satur-
day evening, the occasion celebrating
the news that the high school had been
placed on the accredited list of the
state university.
Wesley D. Fletcher, buried Sunday,
residents. He was musician of con
siderable ability and for several years
was the leader of the famous Pendle
ton "boy band"
The Pacific coast handicap, the big
event in shooting circles on the Coast,
has been secured by the Portland Gun
club. The date for the affair will be
in July, when the Elks attending the
national convention are here.
Vancouver, B. Can interurban troll
ley car bound for Vancouver to New
Westminster ran away four miles down
steep grade Saturday, but the con
ductor locked the 20 passengers in and
the car stuck to the track, so that all
survived the terrific ride.
At Baker, Ore, Mrs. W. A. Morris.
aged 81 years, died recently Mrs.
Morris came from Missouri She was
the mother of 13 children, nine of
whom survive her. She was the grand
mother of So grandchildren, who are
all living, and great-grandmothe of
SO.
The fact that he had swallowed the
only prima facie evidence against him
did not save Walter Watson, charged |
with attempting to pass So bill which
had been raised to $40, from prison.
Federal Judge Marshall sentenced him
at Salt Lake City to three and one
half years at Leavenworth.
After lingering in a semi-conscious
condition for almost two weeks. Ru-
dolph White, aged 25 years, a mining
man, who was shot twice, one bullet
lodging in the brain and another in
the forehead, while hunting with a
companion, Frank Lorang, near Forest,
died at Winchester, Idaho.
While assisting friends in loading an
enormous pig into a wagon at Lewis
ton j.. c. higgins, Idaho pioneer and
owner of higgins hot springs, south.
east of Grangeville, was bitten on the
calf of the leg by the maddened brute,
the crate In which the animal was con-
tanned giving away, allowing the boar
to fall on Mr.. higgins.
Eight years in the penitentiary was
the sentence awarded to the Rev. John /
h. Hedberg, aged 26, who until five
weeks ago, was pastor of a Swedish |
mission church at Anaconda. He had |
been brought to Bozeman from st. Paul
to answer the allegation that he had