Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-10-26
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. Emeline Price, wife of John N.
Price, II years of age, pioneer of
Moscow, is dead.
At Mullan, Idaho, the postal savings
bank opened Saturday with only three
deposits, totaling Sis.
Mrs. Angeline Hill, formerly of Pull
man, died at Seattle recently. She
came to Whitman county S5 years ago.
At Spirit Lake, Idaho, a postal saw
ings bank was opened Saturday. The
deposits for the first day amounted to
sos.
On conservative estimate 40 per cent
of the lead mines in the United States
is taken from the mining properties of
the Occur d'Alenes.
Taking enough potassium cyanide to
Kill half 4 dozen men, w. l.. Zeiger, a
blacksmith, committed suicide at
Athena, Ore, recently.
The twelfth annual Lewiston Clarks-
ton Interstate fair closed Saturday and
the management is being congratulated
on the success of the industrial exhi-
bition.
The city of Spokane recently sold
S1,OOO,O0O worth of water department
bonds bearing per cent interest to
local bank for $962, 500, a discount of
SS7, 800
Hiram c. Hutchinson, age 46 an
employee of the Portland postoflice, COM
mitted suicide Saturday by jumping
into the Willamette river. Ill health
was assigned as the cause.
1t is predicted more than 80 mining
men of Spokane and the Inland Empire
will attend the annual convention of
the American Mining congress at Chi
cage, October pa to rs.
The Globe Navigation company s
schooner Nottingham, from Westport,
Wash, for Callao, with lumber, was dis
master recently off the Oregon coast
during terrific gale.
Stanley Miller, arrested on suspicion
of being implicated in the holdup of
the bank of Harlem, July 81, and fully
identified by Cashier Hatch of the bank,
is in Jail at Fort Benton, Mont.
Portland, Ore.-With a charge of
stealing gold from a smelter in Idaho
held in allegiance, Stanley Hayward
of Los Angeles is under arrest here, ac-
cused of defalcation in the sum of $500.
Chief of Police Blacker of Moscow,
Idaho, has secured evidence that boys
Is to IS years old have been buying
liquor from Portland wholesale houses
and having shipments made by express.
E. L. Brotherton of Umatilla county,
Oregon, wso disposed of GAO acres of
farm land near Vanzicle, Ore, a few
days for $25,60O, has purchased the
farm of Mrs. Julia Weidert, near Walla
Walla.
1t is rumored that Fort Lawton, at
Seattle is to be made a government
military supply station for Alaska and
that headquarters for the Twenty fifth
infantry are to be trans erred to Fort
Wright, making it a regimental post.
AT Pendleton, Ore, fire of doubtful
origin recently destroyed the Oregon
feed yard and a roller skating rink
occupying square block, with a loss
estimated at between $4,000 and $751;
600. A number of horses were burned.
The amount of money which is
brought into Spokane each year by the
successful operation of the mines in
the Occur 'Alenes and British Column
bia is inestimable, for that city is the
base of the food and machinery supply
of these extensive operations.
A. J. REESE, president of the Granger
(Wash.) Commercial Club, has left for
Omaha, where he will take charge of
the Granger exhibit at the land show
to be held there this week. From
Omaha the display will be taken to
Des Moines and later to the land show
at Chicago.
One of the most important strikes
made in the SLOGAN country has Just
been reported by John Koskey, an old
time prospector and single maker. The
strike was made near the 15-mile post
on the Kaslo & SLOGAN railroad, and
consists of three feet of galena and
carbonates. This showing has been ex-
posed by stripping for 20 feet.