Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-01-25
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

The Idaho legislature was called tc
order at noon Monday
A chapter lodge of Masons has been
formed at st. Maries, Idaho.
Recall charges against Mayor w. w
Seymour were filed with the city clerk
of Tacoma Saturday.
A trainload of 80 cars of cattle gath
cred in Idaho and Oregon were shipped
to Portland Saturday from La Grande
The funeral services of Tolbert r
Glenn were held at Summerville, Ore,
recently. In 1868 he settled on the
land where he died.
Abraham Finley is dead at his home
southeast of Poison, Mont. He said
he brought the Jesuit priests west from
the Hudson bay. He was 1O7 years of
age
Ilo Odaho) trustees have passed an
ordinance providing for calling an $11,-
600 bond election for use in construc-
tion of a water works system Febru-
airy &c.
j. S. Lewis, better known as "Sky'
Lewis, an old-time resident and saw
mill man of Plains, Mont, was killed
by a snowslide at Sophia creek, seven
miles from Perma.
One of the prize Poland-China boars
from the farm of T. B. Haynes, breeder
of purebred hogs, near Creston, Mont,
has been shipped to M. S. Hendrickson
of Cottonwood, Idaho.
G. f. Mathews, secretary of the Fer
gus County Fair association, also sec
rotary of the Lewistown Commercial
club, has been elected president of the
Montana Fair association.
Governor Hawley of Idaho has APP
pointed Charles P. Mccarthy, prosecut-
ing attorney at Boise, to be one of the
judges of the Third district to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Judge John F. Maclane.
A suit to recover $4,000 was begun
in Butte recently against the Northern
Pacific by the estate of Settimo Nal
acan, who, it is alleged, was killed by
reason of the negligence of w. D.
Gardner, an engineer, who is made CO.
defendant.
William S. Borst, self-confessed coun-
terfeiter of Grass Range, Mont, Il
miles from Lewistown, pleaded guilty
to having counterfeited 213 dollars last
February, and was sentenced to three
wears in the federal prison at Leavea-
worth, Kan.
The annual meeting of stockholders
of the Flathead (Mont.) Farmers Mu-
tual Insurance company was held
recently and the following officers
elected: President, J. NJ Parker; vice
president, F. c. Spannuth; secretary
Sam D. McNeely; treasurer, A. N.
Tobie.
The authorities have in jail at Occur
d 'Alene City two men who, if the con
fessions of one is true, are members of
a gang robbing banks and cracking
safes in north Idaho and eastern Wash
years of age, confessed, duplicating
Frank Star.
The annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Wenatchee Valley Fruit Grow
ers association, which will be held in
Wenatchee on January 90, will be one
of the most interesting meetings of the
association, as at that time the ques
tion of marketing will be brought up
and settled
Gus Q. Kohl of Butte has brought
suit against the Anaconda Copper Min
ing company to recover 1898, 700, the
value of ore alleged to have been mined
and extracted from the May quartz
lode claim, of which, it is alleged, the
plaintiff is a co-owner with the Ana
conda company.
w. Z. Harmon, state superintendent
of public instruction in Montana, act
} ing on behalf of the state board of edu
cation, has made public its reasons foi
dispensing with the services of DR.. c
A. Duniway, president of the state uni
versity at Missoula, upon the expira
ton of his term, September 1, 1912.
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