Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-29
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port, says he.
Julien Emile Frederic Massenet, the
well-known musical composer, died at
Paris Wednesday at the age of 70.
Thinking his wife a burglar, Harvey
Troyer of Evansville, Ind, stabbed her
in the back and she probably will die.
At Wilson Creek, Wash, Wednesday
w. A. Jennings, a young man firing on
the Great Northern, was killed by acct
dent.
General Pascual Orozco, chief of the
Mexican rebels, admits peace negotia-
federals.
Al Seattle Frank Majane, the Allan
tic City politician, was arrested
Wednesday as a briber and will not
oppose e%xtradition.
DR.. Theodore Hansmann, who as a
p%ratcicing physician of the national
capital a half century ago numbered
Lincoln AMI Carl Schurz among his
patients, is dead at the age of 81.
zation has fixed the valuation of all
railroad tracks in the state. But few
increases were made over last years
figures. Main lines were assessed at
$19,925 a mile and double tracks at
$23,925.
The Peruvian government will not
permit a Protestant mission to go to
Putumako to investigate the alleged
atrocities reported by Sir Roger Case
ment, on behalf of the British govern
ment, to have been perpetrated on the
Indians in the Peruvian rubber gath
ering district.
Judge e. e. Cushman of the United
States district court overruled the mo-
ton to quash the indictment against
Charles E.. Houston of Seattle and
John H. Bullock of Portland, charged
with conspiracy to sell coal to the gov
eminent at an exorbitant figure. Case
ome up in September at Tacoma.
Myron H. Morton, who opened the
first wholesale grocery in Chicago,
died Saturday, aged sc years.
Nat G. Goodwin, the actor, who was
injured recently at Los Angeles when
his rowboat was dashed ashore, has
about recovered.
Edward Sweeney, superintendent of
the United States mint at San Fran
cisco, and president of the Continental
Building and Loan association, died
Saturday.
The nomination. of Jacob Gould
Schurman, president of Cornell uni
versity, as minister to Greece and
Montenegro, has been confirmed by
the senate.
Sidna Edwards, one of the Hills
vile, Virginia, court house assassins,
pleaded guilty Saturday to second
degree murder and was sentenced to
15 years in the penitentiary.
The 1S-hour New York; Chicago flyer,
due in Chicago Saturday afternoon,
went into the ditch near Middle Point,
Ohio. Three passengers were re-
ported injured but none was killed.
The senate bill for the payment of
$11,236 to Postmaster George H. Hoy
at Cheyenne, Wyo., for sums embez-
zled in his office last year by a sub
ordinate, has been reported favorably.
Waterman Garrick was killed and
Engineer Harry probably fatally in
jured as the result of the derailment
of a construction train on the Goose
Lake line of the Canadian Northern
railway recently.
Lieutenant John Rogers, the pioneer
of the United States corps of navy
a~viators, has been detached from the
school of aviation at the naval acad-
envy and will assume command of the
gunboat Yankton, at>the request of his
wife.
Mayor Karb of Columbus, Ohio, has
suspended Chief of Police Charles ].
Carter on charges Of gross incompe-
accepting and converting fees
to inferior officers and of
knowingly permitting gambling re-
sorts to operate.
Nearly 800 telegraph operators of
he Canadian Pacific service will re-
S. a month increase in wages
from July 1 last under an agree
nent signed last night by the railway
telegraph officials and the CONNER
ial Photographers Union of America.