Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-09-21
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The Elks order will build fine home
at Kalispell, Mont.
London.-Poker has entirely super
seeded bridge as the fashionable game
in the smart set.
Not since 1893 has the price of lum-
Der in San Francisco been as low as at
present, namely, from $40 to $11 per
thousand.
Springfield, Ill-To swim from Liv-
erpool to Boston is the aim ST Dr.
Julius William M. Demmer, known as
the world IS champion long distance
swimmer.
London.-Conservati England is
aghast at the mixed bathing at night
at some of the popular seaside resorts,
and the papers are filed with protests
from Mortified readers.
The war department has given it's
consent, conditional on the approval of
congress, for the use of portions of the
Presidio and Fort Mason at San Fran
cisco for the Panama Pacific exposi-
ton in 1915.
attends communion service in Kansas
City's churches in the future may be
required to have an individual com
munion cup if the new ordinance passes.
William A.. Larned, who won the
lawn tennis championship of the
United States for the seventh time, is
Al. No other player in the world has
ralo
Larned's age.
Oklahoma City, Okla.-Walter Ham
ilton, who escaped from the peniten-
tiary at Huntsville, Texas, five years
ago, was arrested by police officers
here and has admitted his identity. He
talked in his sleep, giving himself
away.
Chicago year-old Mary Wui-
chel, daughter of Louis Wuichel, a
wealthy lumberman, shot and killed her
9-year-old brother, Eugene, and
wounded has mother, when she acct
dentally discharged revolver she
thought to be empty.
Chicago, Sept. 9.-Is the Illinois
Suffrage association political organi-
zation9 The Illinois State Fair asso-
citation has refused to allow the stuff
ragists booth ON the state fair
grounds at Springfield, claiming it is
political organization.
Chiasso, Switzerland.-Moi Del
Collie, city with population of 90
600, in the italian province of Bara
de la Pugli, has, according to official
advlces received here, been the scene
OF savage excuses in consequence of
the cholera epidemic now raging in
Italy.
If the treasury department plans
tor redistrlcting the customs territory
or the United States are approved by
congress the number of customs houses
will be reduced from 1874 to 70 and
many collectors who now hold impor-
tant political offices will find themselves
reduced.
By score of to 3 the Vancouver
(B. CO. lacrosse team defeated the New
Westminster champions in a game for
the Mimic cup at New Westminster
Saturday afternoon. New Westmins-
ter and Vancouver are now tied in
the lead for the cup, which carries with
1t the championship of Canada.
Kansas City.-Henry c. Gumbell, Jr.,
wealthy speculator in hay, with head
quarters in Wichiat, Kan, and a son
OF Henry G. Gumbell, a Kansas City
capitalist, was shot and it is believed
mortally wounded here by Robert E..
Curtiss, cigar salesman He blamed
Gumbell for breaking up his home.
The problem surrounding the disap-
pearance of the long lost Captain Ar
thur James Matthews, senior captain
of the United States marine corps and
son of the late Rear Admiral Edward
0. Matthews, is believed to have been
solved by the finding of suicide IS
body at San Pablo, near Jacksonville,
Fla.