Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-08-03
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Los Angeles.-H. @. Rogers was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment for rob
berry.
Nelson, b. C.-Andrew Berry, 80
years old, was drowned one mile north
of st. Leon recently.
New York-The city awarded the
whole 1925, 100000 subway extension to
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company.
Marion, Ill.-Mrs. Daniel NORM of
Herrin was put in Jail here to await
coroner IS jury verdict over the body of
her husband.
Ottawa, Ont-A conspiracy to con-
troll the smuggling of Chinese and
opium through Pacific coast points has
been unearthed.
Mexico City.-Telephone girls at
Chihuahua struck for three hours re-
Gently and secured substantial ad.
vance in wages.
Victoria, B. C.-Frederick Hussey,
for the last 20 years superintendent
of the British Columbia provincial po-
lice, died here, aged SO.
DR.. w. r. Brooks, director of the
New York observatory, professor of as
tronomy at Hobart college, announces
that he discovered a new comet.
Ritzville, Wash.-Claude Willis, IS
year-old son of j. A. Willis of this
place, was drowned at the Frank York
20 % n 0f
day.
Butte, Mont.-David H. Steele, aged
20, pioneer mining man of the north
west and one of the wealthiest prop
erty owners in Butte, died Saturday of
general breakdown.
Cashmere, Wash.-The body of f. R.
Chandler, who was drowned in the
Wenatchee river July 10, was recov
cred near the Monitor bridge, five miles
below the place he was drowned.
st. Petersburg-It has been no Sc
cret that Russia has been perhaps the
most graft-ridden country in Europe
and that official corruption is rife in
high as well as the lower circles.
La Crosse, Wis.-Organized labor of
Wisconsin, represented at the conven-
tion of the State Federation of Labor,
Friday voted the Buck Stove and
Range company in good standing with
the unions.
A puzzling eye disease, which is
widespread in Connecticut towns this
summer, is said by physicians to be
caused by the use of oil ON the streets.
The eyelids of those affected turn a
yellowish color and the lashes fall out.
San Bernardino, Cal.-Cloudbursts
that filed canyons with debris and
turned bunk shacks at the mines into
Households have marked the climax of
hot wave which sent the mercury up
to 140 degrees in the Death Valley
sink.
North Adams, Mass.-Drawing re-
volver in a crowded electric car, Pablo
Mallock, a 21-year-old youth, shot and
killed Motorman Hoyt and Mrs. Isler
and seriously wounded Miss Margaret
Shea of Cheshire and Mrs. S. l.. r.
Hall of Pittsfeld. He was captured
New York.-Three armed thieves in
vaded the heart of the Tenderloin at
its gayest hour Saturday night, smashed
a Sixth avenue jewelry window, shot
the clerk, killing him, seized $4,000
worth of diamond rings and escaped in
taxicab, pursued by scores of persons
who had witnessed the murder and rob-
berry.
Patrick Welch of Spokane, and asso-
ciates, have been awarded the contract
for the construction of 551 miles of the
Canadian Northern railroad between
Port Arthur and Sudbury, Ont, for
$12,000,0 900. This is the second large
contract obtained by the same persons
: from the same company within month
and constitutes a new record in the
annals of railroad contracting The
contract just awarded is one of the
most extensive ever let, figured from
a mileage point of view. Several thou
sand men will be employed on the work
The time set for its completion is De-
tober, 1913.
PONY Bob Paralyzed.