Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-09-28
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IOSIdl savings DdHho VIII W 1890
lished October 16 as follows:
Idaho-Parma, Nez Perez, Post Falls.
Montana-White Sulphur Springs,
Conrad, Stanford, Harlem and Sheridan
The Brotherhood of Owls no longer
exists in Washington state.
Laundrymen of the Pacific northwest
met in convention in Portland this
week
Edward Parry, aged As, of Valentine,
Neb., headed for Salem, Ore, was
found drowned in the Spokane river.
Positive information that Hugh
Whitney, the outlaw, and his brother
Charles have been located near Smoot,
Wyo., has been given out.
Mrs. Louisa Crabtree, who died at
Rathdrum, Idaho, at the age of 70
years, after a lingering illness, was
one of the early settlers in Idaho.
Company of the first battalion of
the Second infantry, Idaho national
guard, has a strong team picked for the
competitive shoot to be held at Boise
the first of October.
So heavy and continuous has been
the harvest in the Inland Empire the
last week that the warehouses and ship
ping platforms in the towns in the
wheat belt have been blockaded for
hours daily.
Butte, Mont.-A. D. Maroney, %
year-old paranoiac, who is a veritable
DR.. Jekl and Mr.. Hyde, was, at his
own request, examined for insanity and
committed to the state asylum by a
sanity commission.
Toppenish, Wash.-Indians from all
parts of the Pacific northwest and In
land Empire are expected to assemble
at Toppenish during the week of Octo-
Der . to Z, when the annual Yakima
Indian reservation fair will be held in
this city.
Portland, ORE. A. Pender,
rancher in Apple valley, was brought to
Portland from Independence, Ore,
where he was arrested in connection
with the death recently of Mrs. Daisy
Wehrman and her young son, near
Scappoose, Ore.
A verdict for $4,000 damages has
been awarded Miss Jennie Bourland.
who instituted action against the city
of Grangeville, Idaho, to recover dam
ages to the amount of $4,000, alleged
to have been sustained by falling into
an unprotected sewer ditch.
Grangeville, Idaho. - Through the
breaking of the main shaft of the bio
generator of the Grangeville Electric
Light and Power company's plant, on
the south fork of the Clearwater.
Grangeville and Cottonwood were in
darkness for several nights.
Selected as an aide de camp TO
Brlgadier General Marion P. Maus. U.
5. A., commanding the department of
the Columbia, Lieutenant Edward G.
McCleave, attached to the Twenty
fifth infantry, will leave Fort Wright
shortly for Vancouver barracks.
Boise, MISREPRESENTATION is rife fol-
lowing the acquittal of Frank w. Ket-
tenbach, former president of the Lew
iston National bank, on charges of falsi-
tying a report with intent to deceive
the comptroller, as to whether Clarence
w. Robnett, who was also indicted in
with the disclosures result
ing from an IS months examination of
that institution, would be brought n
trial. Robnett has suddenly left Boise
for parts unknown.
Mullan, Idaho.-Canvas fire cbutes
an innovation in life-saving apparatus,
have just been installed in the Mullan
public school. Tried, they proved highly
The chutes consist of fiat
bottomed canvas. tubes. One end is per-
fastened inside a window.
The other when in use is held taut nv
two men on the ground. The angle is
about As degrees. When out of use the
canvas is rolled up and placed in a box
under the window. This box serves as
a step in time of need. In time of fire
two older students will slide down the
canvas, using it as a rope. HOLDING
by provided handles, they may stretch
it tight. Other students will follow
feet first, and will be Landed nearly 20
feet away from the walls.