Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-02-15
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Judge Victor 2. Moses, Corvallis, Ore
was elected president of the new Ore
gon Good Roads league.
Mrs. Curtis Miller, aged 40 years,
of Nez Perez, Idaho, ended her life by
firing ball from 22-caliber rifle
through her BRAIN
A rear-end collision at Vancouver, B.
c., between two street cars during a
thick fog caused the death of motor
man, and several persons were injured.
To call a non-union man a "scab, -
with other uneuphonious terms, is a
breach of the peace and will be pun
ished accordingly, ruled Judge Tazwell
of Portland.
The jury which has been trying
Mabel Young Warner at Pendleton, on
charge of having forged the will of
her uncle, J. w. Young, brought in a
verdict of not guilty.
The judge at Portland has bound
over to the grand jury Oh Sen, captured
in Billings, Mont, Wong 81 Sam and
Lew Soon, who are under arrest on a
charge of murder in connection with
the death of Seid Bing in Portland on
the night of December 20.
Information has been filed direct in.
the district court at Kalispell, Mont,
against Bertha Bell, young woman of
20 years, charged with violation of
the white slave law in the alleged at
tempt to induce two girls from that
city to go with her to Bozeman to enter
a house of prostitution.
-Four barren and scared brick walls
are practically all that now stands on
the site of 1.-THE once famous Hotel
Helena, which was Quilted by fire, Sun
day. The building was valued at $780,
600, and the furniture at 100000 On
the building, $23, 500 insurance was car
ried, and $4,000 on furnishings.
Sweepstakes and gold medals won by
Idaho during 1911 were not confined to
Moscow and Latah county, according
to the report just out by Samuel j..
Rich, commissioner of irrigation, labor
and statistics for Idaho. This report
shows that Idaho won a gold medal for
hard winter wheat against all other
states and Canada at the last dry farm
ng congress.
Receiver Harry Z. Wilson of the
Columbia River Orchard company and
The Washington Orchard Irrigation and
Fruit company is in Portland to consult |
Allen j. Biehl an official of the Oregon
Z Washington Trust company of Port
and, which was trustee for the holders |
If $5,000,000 of bonds of the Columbia |
River Orchard company. The orchard |
were launched under the di- |
lection of w. L. De Larm and Biehl
The Connell Northern railway, a sub
diary corporation of the Northern Pa
life, has filed a deed from the state
or tract of land three miles from
he Columbia river in Kittitas county,
The land is for station
purposes on the Ellensburg- Ritzville
utoff, the right of way proper having
previously been purchased This re-
ives the report that the cutoff, which
will shorten the main line between Spo-
-ane and Seattle, many miles, will be
'uilt this summer
In November the Northern Pacific
nd the Anaconda Copper Mining com
any filed complaints in the district
curt at Thompson Falls, Mont, alleg-
ng that some of their lands were taxed
n all of the counties of Sanders, Lin
DIN and Flathead and that on account
f a dispute over boundaries they were
nable to determine where the taxes
hould be paid, and also praying that
he court compel the three counties to
ONE in and interplead their respective
ghts. With this the two corporations
aid into the court the amount of taxes
ssessed.
Judge J. p. Kavanaugh, in the state
rcuit court at Portland, Ore, has de-
ded in favor of the defense its motion
l the case of Louis j. Wilde, the
anker charged with embezzlement, to
onsuit the case without requiring them
} submit evidence in behalf of Wilde.
he effect of the decision is that Wilde
declared not guilty. The case of
Lorris is interesting and presents per- {
exing question, in that he has pleaded
lilty to a crime which Jodge Kava-
iugh, in his decision, declared was not
crime. Just what the state will do
the case of Morris has not been de-
rmined. Morris is serving term in
lie penitentiary at Salem, having been
nvicted of receiving funds in the Ore
IN Trust and Savings bank after he
lew of its insolvency. The bank failed
ugust 81, 1907.