Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-07
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AT WallOWa, Ore, lne nO"
hall was dedicated last week.
The Missoula high school is way too
small and a new one is now proposeu'
The Missoula police department nave
instituted a system of hard LABOR ioi
Migrants and other petty offenders
Women voted in the liquor election
at Fullerton, Calf, and the city was
carried for prohibition by vote OF
$40 to 140.
Judge Taswell of Portland has de-
cided that sack of potatoes must
weigh 100 pounds, whether sold by the
sack or pound.
The furniture stock of McGilvery
Seeley, Lewiston, has been taken over
by the Lewiston National bank to sat
isfy creditors.
At Radersburg, Mont, Daniel McMil-
len, young miner, is dead as result
of a drink of carboic acid, mistaken
for medicine.
Judge R. N. Dunn of the district
court of Kootenai county will not be
candidate for the republican nomina-
ton for governor of Idaho.
The railroads announce a special rate
of fare and a third for the Western
Forestry and Conservation congress,
which meets in Portland December
and 5.
Smith is sure to be elected mayor of
Grants Pass, Oregon, when the votes
are counted on polling day, as there
are three by that name, the only candi-
dates.
Martin Burch, the lumberjack who
passed bad checks at Kalispel,' Mont,
to the extent of SIS, pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to two years in the peni-
Tertiary.
The national weather bureau at
Washington has ordered the department
officials at Missoula to send daily re-
port of Missoula weather to 81 bureaus
throughout the country.
Friends of Charles Dunn, son of
Judge Robert n. Dunn of Coeuc
'Alene, have been advised that he has
been made lieutenant in the United
States navy. He has been an ensign.
The second business men S excursion
to leave Lewiston will be on December
Z, to towns along the Clearwater branch
of the Camas Prairie railroad, in con
nection with work in the interest of
the Idaho Washington Development
league movement.
Through the explosion of quantity
of dust which had been dumped into
the furnace of the municipal crematory
at Portland, three employees were more
or less seriously burned about the head
and arms.
The refusal of a Spokane girl to
marry him after all the plans were laid
and after he had gone to her home to
claim his bride was responsible, so he
says, for the three attempts at suicide
of Adolph Guldil, at Wallace.
Sustaining the charge of unskillful
navigation preferred as a result of the
sinking of the steamer Multnomah in
Seattle harbor October 81, inspectors
suspended the license of Captain Harry
Carter of the steamer Iroquois for 60
days.
Perhaps for the first time in Idaho =
brief history will the president of a
bank be sent to the state prison. Leo
Cramer, president of the defunct HALEY
bank, who was sentenced by the dis
trict court, is held guilty by the SUI
preme court.
George S. Loomis, n-in-law of viii.
lam Deary, charged by the postal au
thorities with embezzling $45s2.33 from
the Elk River (Idaho) postoffice. over
which he was postmaster until recently
was arrested in Los Angeles, after a
months chase.
Two heavily armed masked highway.
men held up the Drain-Coos Bay (Ore-
gon) stage at a point three miles from
Drain and robbed two passengers Of
about 5000 in money and robbed tho
driver of his gold watch. The mail
and express matter was not taken.
j. L. Chavigny, well known resident
of Missoula, has been arrested as tho
result of an investigation by an insur.
ance company, and charged with arson
IN connection with the destruction of a
three story lodging house, October q
which burned under mysterious circum,
stances.
Two hundred victims of the drug
habit were arrested Saturday night in
San Francisco Chinatown IN