Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-01-04
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Therrell Monroe, the S-year-old so1
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Monroe of Burke
Idaho, was injured while coasting, re
Gently.
Frank Cook, former postmaster and
druggist at Boomers Ferry for num-
Der of years, was adjudged insane re-
Gently.
That Missoula county is in excellent
condition financially is shown by the
county treasurer calling in all outstand-
ing warrants
Within the next week Secretary of
the Interior Walter L. Fisher will an
nounce his final decision on the Marble
Creek claims.
Kalispell, Mont, is arranging a cele
bration on New Year day to com
memorate the arrival of the Great
Northern railway in the valley.
Lewiston flour has invaded the wheat
districts of Alberta, and orders for
double and thrice the amount of the
initial shipments have been received.
Frank Garrison was found guilty of
murder in the first degree at Coquille
City, Ore. The death of Roy Perkins,
near Marshfeld, August 81, 1910, is the
cause.
Governor Hawley of Idaho has called
the Legislature to meet in extraordinary
session, the first in the history of the
state, on January IS, to enact new
revenue law
The supreme court of Idaho holds that
the Black, or commission, form of gov
eminent law applied to Boise notwith-
standing the special charter, which is
nullified by the new act.
The confession of Albert p. Balsam
has solved the mystery of. the double
murder Saturday, at Nelson, b. c., in
which Caleb A. Barton and Jack Gould
were killed in a saloon.
Fred Gehrke, a young employee of the |
Lumber company working
on the Slate creek camp, 10 miles south |
Of Wallace, was frozen to death Sun
day, few hundred yards from camp.
Charles w. Jones, former cashier of |
the Oregon hotel at Portland, who is
charged with having appropriated |
$4,000 or more of the hotel funds for |
MS use and who was arrested, has con-
fessed.
Governor NJ. E. Hay may be right in
,Ondemning militant methods of obtain
ng votes for women in America, but |
,hese methods are needed and justified |
n England, according to the statement
Of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst at Seattle.
Dalton [. Sparks, who was arrested at
Phoenix, Ariz., as he was calling for
MS mail at the postoflice, is said to have
admitted to the authorities that he is
Mel }. lowell, who is wanted at Big
Timber, Mont, for the killing of Dep
lty Sheriff Brannin, November 16.
AT Helena it took jury but 40 min
ties to decide that Mrs. Mary Murphy
S entitled to the $4,000 estate left by
ler son, Edward J. Murphy, who died
n Spokane in 1909, willing his estate
% his sister, Mrs. Anna E. Nett of
Augusta. He was mentally incompe-
ent when the will was made.
Portland IS (Ore.) Chinatown took its
inal step toward complete regeneration
night when a number of young
jhlnese broke into a new joss house,
md with axes and crowbars deliberately
murdered IL sacred figures, defiled the
acred tea, and wrecked the ornaments
The damage will amount to between
100000 and 100000.
The attention of railway men has
been attracted by unique invention of
Carl d. Brown of Kalispell, Mont,
ermed by the inventor the oscillating
witch" The new device is designed
o eliminate all trouble from clogging
~ snow or other matter, the switch
all being cylindrical in construction,
% as to rotate rather than slide, as in
he model in general use. |: