Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-03-07
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES


formed at Lubec, Mont.
j. A. Gartley of Occur 'Alene is
now the object of police search.
By majority of 2o1 votes Boise
adopted the commission form of gov
eminent.
Peaches, cherries and other fruits are
10 days farther advanced than usual in
the Lewiston country.
A homeseekers league is the latest
innovation in the Inland Empire in
the way of booster organizations.
The 1912 show and sale of the North
west Live Stock association is to be
held at Lewiston, Idaho, December
9-13.
Dudley Axtel, who had been engaged
in the newspaper business in Montana
for several years, died at Lewistown,
Sunday.
Milton Ruppin, clerk of Sacra-
mento. whose home formerly was in
Portland, killed himself by poisoning
Saturday.
The funeral of Frank Aldrich, pio-
neer and prominent stockman of the
John Day valley, Oregon, was held Sat
urday.
About so farmers in the vicinity of
Roman, Mont, met at the Glacier View
clubhouse recently and voted to organ
ize a permanent farmers association.
Kalspell, Mont.-The organization of
at least three new labor unions and the
probable formation of as many more is
the record at Kalispell, Mont, last
week.
General Sir Robert Baden-Powell,
father of the Boy Scout movement,
will not visit Spokane on March as
planned, but will talk at Portland, Sc
attic and San Francisco
The vote taken at Kamiah, Idaho, on
the question of authorizing the school
board to issue $4,000 in school bonds
to run 25 years resulted in an over
whelming vote in favor of issuing the
bonds.
The second annual gathering and ban
quet of the Northwestern Montana Re-
tailers' association took place in Kali
ispell Monday, February %, with nearly
200 representatives of the trade in at
tendance.
A freight wreck occurred at Kane,
Idaho, a small station on the Mil
waukee railroad, about seven miles east
of this place. Fourteen cars were piled
up, and about so yards of track was
destroyed. No lives were lost.
| To accommodate a large number of
friends anxious to attend the funeral
of John j. Nicholson, former sheriff of
Shoshone county, Idaho, two special
trains were run to Wallace, Idaho, Sun
day. The funeral was very large.
The Northern Pacific roundhouse at
Logan, Mont, was destroyed by fire
Saturday, practically running two en-
gines. The fire originated from hot
Goals falling upon the floors of the
roundhouse office. No estimate of the
loss has been made.
Mrs. X. Ruthledge, wife of a Flat
Willow (Mont.) rancher, was seriously
injured when her stove blew to pieces
while she was engaged in preparing a
meal. Unknown to her man sinking
a well on her place had placed stick
of dynamite in the oven to thaw.
Governor Oswald West of Oregon an
nounces that he had obtained a full
confession from one of the men impli-
Gated in the robbery of the steamer
Humboldt, from which in September,
1910, was stolen $57, 500 worth of gold
bullion. Twenty-Five pounds of this
was delivered to the governor.
Even though the commissioners of
Lincoln county, Mont, have been en-
joined from signing the $125,000 bonds
for roads and bridges the Coast Bridge
company, which has the contract to
build the three bridges, is going ahead
with the construction of the bridge
across the Kootenai river at Libby.
Forty sheep dead from poison and a
couple of bullet holes through the cabin
of the herder is the result of a mid
night visit of two men to sheep camp
ON Box Elder, near Great Falls, Mont,
owned by j. B. Long & Co. The whole
affair is mystery, as the sheep were
grazing on leased land, and interfered
with no other claimant as to grazing
privileges.
The report of the house committee on
rivers and harbors made Monday in