Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-21
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Kellogg, Idaho.-The hope of Ike Pc
terson, who killed Constable M. A.
Cavanagh, recovering from the bullet
wound through his breast is slight.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rosecrans, aged SO
years, grandmother of Harry Burke, a
newspaper man of Moscow, Idaho, cast
her first vote at the recent election.
Myrtle Clark of Standpoint, Idaho,
narrowly escaped serious injury when
kerosene thrown into the furnace ex-
ploded, burning her face and hands
severely.
McFarling has closed a contract to
cut and place on right of way 100000
feet of timber for the Potlatch Lum-
Der company, near Deary, Idaho, and
will begin work at once.
A branch nine miles long of the
Portland, Eugene & Eastern railway,
of which Robert E. Strahorn of Spo-
kane is president, was purchased re-
Gently by him for 100000
The CRANKY Smelling company
earned $145,000 net during October, ac-
cording to preliminary figures recently
sent out from the offices of the smelt-
ing department at Grand Forks, B. c..
| A strange woman registering at a
hotel in Moscow, Idaho, recently, who
was accompanied by two children, left
one of the children at the hotel when
she left. The child is only months
old.
A project to build a History hotel in
Portland is being considered by the
Day Bros of Wallace, Idaho, and Ed
ward Boyce of Portland. The Port
land hotel will be RACED and the new
structure built on the same site.
Robert Hopkins, 81 years old, and
Lawrence Culp, alias Fred L. White,
were indicted and pleaded guilty in fed
eral court at Moscow, Idaho, to having
burglarized the postoffice at The
Dalles, Ore, and the boy confessed at
that time.
At Portland, Ore, Circuit Judge Nc
CHM sentenced William Wilson, a
young man, to spend the rest of his
days in the penitentiary for holding up
and robbing a grocer of $27. Wilson
was an escaped honor man" from the
Kansas state reformatory.
Governor West says that when the
time comes to issue the proclamation
declaring woman's suffrage in effect
in Oregon he will go to Portland to the
home of Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway,
aged rs years, requesting her to write
out the proclamation in her own hand
writing and he will sign it.
Something more than overheating
lack of water or the turning of cold
water into it, caused the boiler in the
basement of the Salem (Ore0 Bank
and Trust company building to explode
and kill three men October 20, accord
ing to testimony of three experts on
boilers before the coroner's jury.
The property of G. Scott Anderson
including the business of the Anderson
; Lumber and Hardware company and
numerous Wallace lots, recently placed
in the hands of trustee pending the
settlement of an account of near $40,
900, due to the defunct State Bank OF
, Commerce, was returned to Mr.. An
derson.
Ben James, a butcher at Butte
Mont, who owns a shop at the corner
of South Main, and Platinum streets
was robbed of $1,000 Saturday nigh
{ and locked in his own refrigerator fol
| over four hours. When he finally
} worked the lock holding him a pris
) oner the man was badly frozen abou
the feet and hands.
The trial of the first count, the max
ing of false reports, against Bernard
5 O'Neil, formerly president of the Stat
: Bank of Commerce of Wallace, for al
: legged unlawful acts in relation to tn,
management of the banks affairs, be
O gan Monday in the district court a
Z Occur d'Alene city before Judge Flynn
: on Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
> Eldon Goodman, who had leased tn
! historic Goodman ranch, once the head
quarters of the Hudson Bay compan
/ in the Walla Walla valley, COMMITTEES
suicide recently on the porch of tn
f house by shooting himself in the hea
|. with a revolver. He died about a.
S hour afterward without regaining cor
o seriousness. No reason is given TO
S the tragedy.
|, Roscoe Haines, supervisor of tn
II Occur d'Alene national forest, state
& that the work of planting 1928 acre
L Of forest land in the Lost Creek dii
} trict to white pine seed has Just bee
completed. In addition to the seet
the government set out 10000 2-yea
old seedlings. Five thousand acre
IS near Cabinet has also been nlanted 1