Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-11-09
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The Presbyterians of Moscow, Idaho,
last week celebrated the founding of
the church there 80 years ago.
The seventh annual session of the
teachers joint institute of Nez Perez,
Latah and Clearwater counties, Idaho,
is being held at Lewiston this week.
The touring members of the national
monetary commission have concluded
their hearing in Seattle and after a
visit to the navy yard went to Port
land.
Burton L. French, representative in
congress for Idaho, who, nearly a month
ago, underwent an operation for a seri
Gus case of appendicitis in Portland,
has left the hospital.
The Western Steel corporation, a
$40, 900 corporation, whose affairs
have been before the courts for sew
eral weeks, was adjudged. bankrupt by
U. 5. Judge G. H. Hanford.
Lon r. Hoss, a former Montana
newspaper man and at one time secre.
tary to former Governor Toole of that
state, died recently in Portland after
an illness of over several years.
A child welfare conference and ex-
hibit, the first such event ever held
west of Chicago, was held in Portland
November L to 4, under the auspices
of the Oregon congress of mothers.
The fashionable section of Portland
is to be the scene of a strike. The
cook ladies have been ordered to walk
out unless their various employers will
agree to standardize the monthly wage
at $40.
The mining outlook in the camps of
British Columbia and those near the
international boundary, like Republic,
Orient and Chewelah, Wash, has been
greatly frightened by the settlement
of the coal miners strike in British
Columbia.
Fremont Older, who, having led a
fight for many years to send Abraham
Ruef to the penitentiary, is now at
tempting to secure his release. He has
received a letter from Joaquin Miller,
the poet, who commends Older for his
efforts and urges him to continue.
With bonfires burning and special
features of celebration the construction
of the grade of the first section of the
flathead lnterurban railway was COM
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Davis, j.. A. Roe and others to whom
contracts were awarded by D. r. Nc
Ginnis, promoter.
w. f. Borst, aged counterfeiter, who
confessed to manufacturing and circu-
lating spurious dollars, was arraigned
IN Kalispell, Mont, and bound over to
the grand jury at $500 bonds. He
was taken to Helena. Borst is past
72 years old. He said his outfit is To-
Gated near Lewiston, Idaho.
William Walls was probably fatally
shot by Evan Evans at the Hamilton
ranch, near Butte, owned by w. A.
Clark Jr. Saturday. Evans is held at
the county Jail. The row between
Walls and Evans occurred over a foot
bridge, which Walls threatened to re-
Evans declared that he would
shoot Walls if he did.
Bankers of Oregon have joined the
''back to the farm movement. At
a meeting of officers and directors of
the Oregon State Bankers association
IN Portland a anpnrnftfaa VIVA ,,or,1l =.
devise the best ways and methods of
inducing young men now on the farms
to stay there and to urge young men
in the cities to go to the farms.
The land conspiracy ease of the gov
eminent in which six prominent ranch,
ers of Long valley, Idaho, were charged
with forming a confederacy to deprive
homeseekers of their claims by threats
to tar and feather terminated in the
federal court at Boise when a jury,
having reported a disagreement, was
discharged. The case will be retired at
the next term of court.
Subscribing to an affidavit Eleanor
Maceo charges Max G.. Cohen, who
served as municipal judge in Portland
during the absence of the incumbent,
George Tazwell, recently, with under
taking to dictate to her the employ
ment of a lawyer, S. j. Silverman, for
a fee of $3.50 as an essential condition
to the promised dismissal of the charge
against her of selling liquor without
a license.
At Seattle Olaf Dahlquist of Daven-
port, Iowa, was revenged upon his wife,
Gladys, who deserted him in 1908, and
upon Henry Johnson, with whom she