Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-25
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Waller, Mont.-Sheep shearing on the
&. E. ranch is finished, 5000 sheep being
clipped.
The new 100000 rural high school al
Fort Lapwai, Idaho, is to be one of the
types of rural schools provided with
modern equipment.
Boys and girls under IS years of age
are being offered some handsome pre-
miums for vegetable displays at the
Spokane Interstate fair this year.
A straight carload of Black Republi.
can cherries was shipped from Clarks
ton, Wash, Saturday night to Chicago
A second car of the late variety of cher.
ries goes this week.
Fourteen carloads of cattle and hoes
were brought down from the Camas
prairie country to North Lapwai, Idaho.
Saturday, where they were picked up
by stock train and taken to Spokane
and other points.
With the second and third battalions
of the Fourteenth infantry and the full
regiment, Second infantry, National
Guards of Montana, in encampment, the
military reservation at Fort William
Henry Harrison presents a wartime
scene.
At Grand Forks, B. c., only one dis
senting vote was cast recently on the
proposed issuance of $4,000 worth of
debentures to meet the expenditure nee
essary for the construction of the new
reservoir to serve the city with an ade-
quate water supply.
Notwithstanding the Montana Elks'
band of Kalispell, Mont, won the sec
ond prize of $500 in cash in both pre-
liminary and final contests at the Eiks'
national convention in Portland. they
Will have trouble getting the money, it
is reported. Some labor trouble.
All exhibits for the Upper Potlatch
far, to be held at Deary, Idaho, Septem-
Der 2O-21, will be carried by the Wash
ington, Idaho & Montana railroad free
of cost. This will bring considerable
exhibit of livestock from the Prince
ton, Harvard, Potlatch and Palouse ter.
ritories.
Cheyenne, Wyo.-The convention of
the Master Plumbers association of Col
orado, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho. Utah
and Wyoming adjourned Saturday after
electing officers. The new officers. all
of Colorado, are: N. w. Haas, presi-
dent; A. P. Gumlick, vice president:
John E. Wallace, secretary-treasurer
Dick Strand, athlete, who was
drowned at Sacramento, Calf, recently.
while bathing in the river, was a resi-
dent of Spokane for five years. remov-
ing to California only short time ago.
He came with his relatives from Effino-
ton, 5. d., in 1902 when II years of age.
His father, I. N. Strand, is a resident
of Deer Park, Wash.
Ottawa, Ontario.-The province of
Saskatchewan has reaffirmed it's wish for
reciprocity with the United States bv
vote OF about five to one. Latest fig
ures indicate the return in the provin-
clal elections there of 40 liberals and
eight conservatives, with four seats in
doubt. The reciprocity sentiment is
likely to sweep Alberta province also.
j. Herbert Anderson of Spokane, pres.
ldent of the Idaho Smelling and Rein
ing company, is one of the organizers of
$6,000,000 corporation that proposes
TO develop 1000 acres of land in Mon
tana. The incorporation papers for the
company, to be known as the Belgo
corporation, were fled re-
Gently. Edward Donlan, wealthy land
owner of Montana, is president.
Roscoe Haines, acting supervisor of
The Occur 'Alene forest, is in Wal |
ACE and is distributing the $4,000
which was granted by congress for the
heirs of the victims of the fires which
swept this district two years ago. He
las found the majority of the heirs and
Yesterday delivered check of $1,000
% Mrs. James Kerr of Lewiston, whose
was one of the victims near
To carry water through a 12,413-foot
'unnel under a portion of the Blue
Mountains from Camas creek to Butter
'reek and thence by irrigation canals
% $4,000 acres comprised in its project
vest of Echo and Stanfeld, Oregon, is
he purpose of corporation whose petit
ions for incorporation were granted re-
'ently by the county court This is to
'e known as the Teel project, in honor
# 0. D. Teel, resident of Echo and
me of the pioneer irrigators of eastern
oregon.
Business men of Great Falls, Mont,