Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-08-17

Prince Ching, the Chinese premier,
is to retire on account of poor health.
Pope Plus has completely recovered
from his recent attack of sore throat.
The revolution in Haiti has tri-
umphed, and President Simon has fled
the capital.
Wamic, Ore.-Richard Burrell San
ford, an early pioneer, died here re-
Gently at the age of "a.
Whitefsh, Mont.-Harry S. Crane, a
Great Northern switchman, was killed
in wreck here recently.
Mullan, Idaho.-Jacob Luoma, a
mucker, was instantly killed here in the
Morning mine by a slab of rock falling
upon him.
Athena, ORE. w. Lockwood, one
of Umatilla county's most widely
known mining men, has become de-
ranged here.
The bones recently found in the
wardroom of the battleship Maine were
identified as those of Assistant Engi-
neer Merritt.
The young prince of Wales probably
will pay visit to the United States
before long, following the footsteps of
his illustrious grandfather.
Leipsic, Saxony.-Ten thousand
metal workers here and 5000 in the
4 efrio cd Io
cause some of the men had struck.
San Francisco.-The United States
army transport Sheridan has sailed for
Manila with $1,OOO,0OO in coin for the
payment of troops in the Philippines.
Mexico City.-Generals Candida Ma
varro, Francis Miranda, Delfna Villa
neuva and other former revolutionary
chiefs are charged with melting re-
bellion.
New York.-Col. John Jacob Aston
will settle a princely fortune on his
young bride-to-be, Miss Madeline Tai
madge Force, when they are married
this fall.
Chinese in the province of Chefoo
are replacing opium by the cigarette
habit. The Importation of native Gig.
arettes has trebled in the last three
years.
Vallejo, Cal-Commander Levi S.
Bertolette has relieved Commander Ed
ward A. Anderson as commanding Off
Ger of the gunboat Yorktown at the
Mare Island navy yard.
Edinburgh.-The 500th birthday of
st. Andrews university will be cele-
brated this month. The immediate orr
gin of the university was the action
of the council of Pisa in 1909.
A recent electric storm in the vi
entity of Pierce City, Idaho, blew
down a giant fir, known as the "con-
fession tree,' which stood in the main
street of the ancient mining town.
Suit has been filed by the govern
ment against the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, charging four violations of the
federal law requiring railroads to rest
stock en- route about every "a hours.
Cananea, Mexico.-Colonel w. G.
Greene, the former copper magnate, is
dead here. He succumbed to acute
pneumonia, which developed as re-
suit of injuries he sustained in a run
away accident.
San Francisco.-C. A. Marker, the
former banker of Pearl, ILL.,, who sur
rendered himself to the police here
confessing that he was wanted for the
embezzlement of $4,000, committed
suicide by stabbing himself in the neck
San Francisco.-Unable, she says, tC
T'make a man. of her husband, Anna
Langley, fragile little woman, Is
years old, shot and killed him here
They had been married Is months. She
was admitted to the nominal bail OF
800.
klamath Falls, Ore.-Nine hundred
and seventy-six dollars were paid out
by the county treasurer in July fol
jackrabbit scalps. This means that th,
county now has 9760 less rabbits thar
1T had month ago, as a bounty of II
cents is paid for each scalp.
Wilmington, Del.-Upton Sinclai
and his followers from the single ia,
colony at Arden, who were sentenced
to serve IS hours Imprisonment IN thu
workhouse for violating the Sunda.
blue law by INDUCING in sports, labore'
as hard as 40 other white and negr
convicts.