Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-08
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

The annual peach day at Freewater,
Ore, will be held from August Is to
August %.
Gate, Wash.-Trooper E. Bramon,
First cavalry, Boise barracks, was
killed by train at Oakville.
James M. Riley, chairman of the
board of county commissioners of Sill
yer Bow county, died suddenly of heart
failure, Sunday morning.
For the death of John Sample, Ruby
Stevens, whose knife stabs are said to
have caused Samples death, near Mis-
soula, will be held to the district court
for murder.
Rich or poor, physicians or surgeon,
they must conform to Portland s de-
mand that automobile drivers shall not
continue to kill and main luckless pc
destrians.
The flag associations of Spokane,
Portland, Seattle and other Coast cities
are taking steps to form an organiza-
ton to be known as the Northwest Flag
association.
The Rev. John Herrick, former presi-
dent of the University of Forest Grove,
Ore, and later of the South Dakota uni
versity, died at Chicago Saturday. He
was born in Milton, VT, in 1922.
Leaving his home for no known
cause, the Rev. John Marshall, aged
so, rector of Portsmouth Protestant
Episcopal church, Portland, has disap-
peared. Mrs. Marshall and four chill
dren are mourning his absence.
The "hiking" craze has caught
Butte. Clubs of society girls have
been walking for some months and
Saturday two well-known women
tramped from Butte to Anaconda, 80
miles, attending dance in the evening.
The Idaho Washington Power and
Light company of Moscow, Idaho, is in
vading the Montana field and has pur-
chased the Plains light and power plant
and water system from Mrs. j. A. Nc
Gowen, paying $4,000 for the two
plants.
The depot of the Northern Pacific at
Logan, Mont, caught fire, it is
supposed from spark from a passing
engine, and was completely destroyed.
All freight and express was saved. The
building was valued at $4,000 and is a
total loss.
One of the largest cattle deals made
in Montana for some time was consum-
mated Saturday, when George E. Dell
of Helena bought all the cattle, about
700 head, including the famous ~
brand, owned by Charles A. Lynch of
Pleasant valley.
The jagged peak of Mount ingalls,,
one of the highest in the Cascade range,
which for ages has reared it's head
among the clouds, is now engulfed in
the waters of Icicle lake, at an eleva-
ton of 5000 feet above sea level, hav-
ing crumbled down.
Lawrence f. Converse, former Spo-
kane boy, who gained national promi-
hence during the first Mexican revolu-
ton two years ago, when he was cap
tured and threatened with death, is
now about to collect $4,000 indemnity
from the Mexican government
Spokane wins the 1913 logging con
gress, which adjourned it's two-day ses-
sion at Tacoma, July &c. E. p. Blake
of Tacoma was reelected president; H.
Q. Claire, vice president; George NJ.
Cornwall, secretary-treasurer. The ex-
ecutive committee member from Idaho
is II. M. Strahern of Coeur 'Alene.
Under the general nuisance stat
ute,' Mayor A. G. Rushlight, Chief of
Police Slower and c. d. Beatty, Clifford
Maddux, Frank Reed and B. F.. Smith,
all connected with the police depart
ment at Portland, were indicted Satur-
day in connection with an alleged plot
to bride Deputy District Attorney
Frank Collier.
Moiese Reeves, one of the Oldest resi-
dents of Montana, died of paralysis at
Frenchtown, Mont, July &c. Moiese
Reeves came to Montana at the age of
21, settling among the Indians around
Fort Benton. He accompanied Cover
nor Stephens ON the treaty-signing ex-
petition into the Bitter Root valley in
1854. He is credited with erecting the
first gristmill in western Montana.
At Butte, Nick Velky, Macedonian
switchman, wagered his friend T.