Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-05-30
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Wallace Idaho, is boosting for city
gymnasium. The council school board
and many citizens are united in urging
the plan for the young men and boys
Miss E. L. Rice, a school teacher of
Portland, was killed Sunday eight miles
east of Oregon City, when the automo-
bile in which she was riding went over
steep embankment.
Prosecuting Attorney James A.
Wayne of Shoshone county expects to
be able to have B.. F. O'Neil, former
president of the State Bank of Com
merce, Wallace, brought back for trial
by June 1.
The Canadian Pacific railroad has
purchased the Kootenai Valley railway
from the Great Northern and that the
operation will be turned over on June
1, when through trains will be run from
Kootenai lakes to Spokane.
S. A. Stevens, a pioneer merchant
of the Occur d'Alenes, died Saturday
at Wallace from abscess of the liver.
The deceased leaves a fortune of be-
tween $4,000 and 100000. 1t is left
to the widow. The funeral was held
in Spokane Tuesday.
Judson Mather, musical director for
the chautauqua at Spirit Lake, Idaho,
July 10 to August 1, is in correspond
ence with a number of prominent mu-
steal people for engagements and has
already secured the services of Gus
tav Holmquist, the eminent basso of
Chicago, III.
DR.. E. B. Craighead, president of the
Tulane university of Louisiana. has
been rendered the presidency of Mon
tana university, made vacant by the
resignation of DR.. c. A. Duniway. The
compensation fixed for DR.. Craighead
is $4,000 year, $500 more than DR..
Duniway is receiving.
The Inland Empire Sunday school
convention, which convened at Lewis
ton, Idaho, May 16, closed Saturday,
an unqualified success. There were
present rs ministers, As Sunday school
superintendent, SO other officers, IT'S
teachers, and 343 delegates, and 131
schools were represented.
Mrs. Weldon B. Hepburn, wife of
Senator Hepburn of Idaho, and Mrs.
w. E. Humphrey, wife of Representa-
tive Humphrey of Washington, are
members of the executive committee
of the national congressional section of
the women IS welfare department of the
National Civic Federation, just or
gained.
AT Kalispell, Mont, William Black,
wealthy and prominent citizen, over
whose head a charge of assault with in
tent to kill has been hanging for more
than a year as the result of his shoot
ing of I. L. Flinchpaugh in contro-
versy over an irrigation ditch last
spring, was acquitted by q jury in the
district court.
District Judge J. B. McClernan of
Butte has granted an injunction re-
straining the Butte Clerks union from
picketing or interfering in any wise
with the conduct of the business of
Elizabeth o Boyle, widow, who oper-
ates a grocery store. The woman 8
determination to keep open after
o clock in the evening aroused the op-
position of the clerks.
Crazed by jealousy Frank Truckle
Saturday shot and killed his wife in
full view of many people, on one of
the principal streets of Hamilton,
Mont, and then made dash for lib
erty. Jumping into an automobile and
holding revolver to the drivers head
he threatened to kill the chauffeur un-
less he hurried him away from the
scene of the shooting. Policemen in
automobiles and on motorcycles fol
lowed the murderer and when he found
himself cornered 30 minutes later, after
an exciting chase, with hundreds of en-
ragged citizens at his heels, he turned
the weapon on himself, infictine
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