Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-11-30
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS.

John Wolfnger, pioneer of Grant
county, Oregon, died recently.
Miss Lulu Mae Johnson, magazine
writer of the northwest, who lived in
Los Angeles, died recently.
The engineering crew which has been
locating a logging road west from
lone, Wash, finished its work.
The famous Pendleton Cowboy band
is at Spokane for the Enakops jubilee
carnival and the Apple show.
The Rev. T. Walker, an Episcopal
clergyman, committed suicide at Van
couver, B. c., recently by hanging III
health.
Charles Lewis, a Occur d'Alene In
dian, was found dead recently near
Lowell Idaho. All indications point
to murder.
Three railway mail clerks of Spokane
narrowly escaped death in a wreck near
White6sh, Mont, on the Great North
ern recently.
Walter the 13-year-old son of Judge
j. c. Groseclose of Juliaetta, Idaho,
was shot while playing with shot
gun recently.
N. Sullivan, laborer, is suffering
as the result of having been acciden-
tally immersed in the boiling hot water
at Hot Lake, Oregon.
The report of the purchase of the
steamship Mariposa by the Alaska
Steamship company from the Oceanic
Steamship company for 100000 is con-
firmed.
This years assessments of timber
owners in the Pend Oreille district for
fire-fghting amounts to 2H cents per
acre. Last years assessment was 10
cents.
Caryl Davis Haskins of Schenectady,
N. Y, one of the most prominent cleo
trical engineers in the United States,
died at Salt Lake recently with pneu-
monia.
Shot at from the side of the road by
an unidentified person, DR.. Frank E.
Smith, superintendent of the Oregon
state school for feeble minded, had a
narrow escape.
New capital will be invested by the
Mitchem Packing company at Spokane,
with view of making the concern one
of the largest and most up-to-date pack
ing plants in the west
Under the direction of Professor DIN,
who has recently been appointed d.
rector of the university agricultural
extension work, correspondence
course in agriculture is being conducted
from Boise, Idaho.
Two hens in the department of poul-
try and husbandry of the Oregon Agri-
cultural college have, it is believed,
broken all records in egg production in
the United States, with 259 eggs each
for the last ~ months.
Lewiston retailers will perfect an or
ganization to encourage the growing of
fruit and vegetable products which
command high prices throughout the
year and which are secured largely
from outside districts.
Joseph A. Edge has received his ap-
pointment from Governor Norris as a
delegate to represent Montana at the
first American Road congress of the
American Association for Highway I'm
provement, to be held at Richmond,
Va, November 20 to %.
The Oregon Horticultural society, in
recent convention, appointed commit
tee of three to draft a substitute for
the Lafean bill, now before congress,
regulating the size of apple boxes. The
Lafean bill, it is claimed, would be, if
adopted, greatly prejudical to the in
terests of the apple growers of the Pa
cifc Northwest.
Charles F. Sauerbier, blacksmith of
Virginia City, Mont, is the victim of
peculiar accident that nearly resulted
fatally. Mr.. Sauerbier was in the act
of welding wagon spring, which he
had heated to a white heat, when he
tainted and fell on the floor on the
heated iron. His groans were heard by
Frank J. Presch, who conducts a black
smith shop next door, and he was hor-
rifed to see Sauerbier in flames. He
grasped a bucket of water and extin-
guished the fire.