Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-07
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

The new high school building, which
has been erected by the WardnerKel-
logg district at 100000 cost, was for
mally opened Monday.
Union county, Oregon, suffered the
loss of one of its oldest and wealthiest
pioneers in the death of Charley Hall
garth of Elgin Sunday
Frank Turner, who had charge of
the John Kelly ranch in Hudson Bay,
was killed recently by falling from
his wagon near Milton, Ore.
At Trenton, N. j., the Montana
Water Power company filed articles of
incorporation recently. Three million
five hundred thousand is the capital
given.
Friend Hyde, 46 years of age, and
former superintendent of the Minerva
Mining company of Atlanta, Idaho,
committed suicide at Seattle by in
haling gas.
DR.. Hill of Freewater, Ore, has eight
Flemish Beauties pear trees from
which he gathered three tons which
he sold for three-fourths of a cent
pound.
Sybil Dyer, II years old, who left
her home in Occur d'Alene, Idaho,
several weeks ago, was taken into GUS
tody by the police at San Francisco
Sunday.
Mormon colonists who were driven
from Mexico probably never will re-
turn to their homes there, according
to the announcement of President Jo-
seph F. Smith.
The body of Frank Bentz, the miss
ing pumpman, who was lost in the
mine fire of the Bunker Hill and Sulli-
van, October 7, was found Saturday
afternoon in one of the drifts on the
No. 10 level.
At the state land sale at Moscow,
Idaho, Saturday, only 1920 OF the 1000
acres advertised were sold. The high
est price paid was $2150 an acre for
40 acres along the canyon below Jul
liaetta. Most of the sales were for
stump lands.
Port Hill, Idaho.-The Idaho Cont
mental Mining company has brought in
rs additional men for work on the new
road to the mine, chartering a special
train to do so. This has been neces-
sary in order to rush the completion
of the work before snow falls.
William Dittman, for 80 years q
resident of Minneapolis and for several
years editor of a German paper, is
dead at his home there of paralysis
He was well known in the northwest
having also been editor of a German
paper at Helena, Mont, for one year
AS an echo of the failure of the
State Bank of Commerce, Wallace
Idaho, came the closing recently Of
the business of G. Scott Anderson, g
former director. The doors are closed
under the orders of the court to pro
tect as far as possible the claims oil
the defunct institution.
The creation of a new horticultural
station to be known as the south Idaho
station, and located at Jerome, is an
nounced. Its work will include the
solution of important problems con
nected with the raising of potatoes
under irrigation methods and the pro
duction of sugar beet seed.
Using the house of John Uormi as {
barricade, Isaac Peterson, a well
known character at Kellogg, Idaho
, terroried the town for six hours Friday
by series of random shots and ended
his wild spree by shooting Constabl,
M. A. Cavanaugh through the RICH
temple and sending a bullet into him
: self near the heart.
. Oliver w. Bates, who was recent.
indicted by the grand jury at Boise
Idaho, on a white slavery charge, wa
| arrested at his ranch near Cardston
=. Alberta, recently and was deported t,
the United States. Alice Wingardt
who is wanted as witness agains
!. Bates, also was deported. They will
? be taken to Idaho at once. The Win
2 gardt woman is said to be the wife O
: the prisoner.
William Purdy, engineer on the Ore
d. gon Short Line, and his fireman, Ell
\ gene bare, were killed Sunday after
:. noon when the train which left Butt
crashed into two "battleships" file
with coal that had been detached fror
freight train in the yard at Lima
and had escaped through an ope
2 switch on to the main track, wher
b they had a clear field down grade
L miles to Kidd, a station "a miles frol