Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-03-14
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Senator Dixon took charge of the
Roosevelt campaign Monday.
Two resolutions giving relief to set.
tiers on the Minnedoka project in
Idaho have been introduced in the
senate.
The mercury fell to A below at Butte
March Q. This is the coolest weather
Butte has had this year. Two inches
Of snow fell there.
James ]. ELL, chairman of the board
of directors of the Great Northern
railroad, will speak at the Spirit Lake
Chautauqua, Thursday, July rs.
Charles E. Arney, formerly Boise
newspaper man, is now in Spokane to
take charge of the immigration and in
dustrial department of the Northern
Pacific.
W. E. Carlson, alias Arthur Laugh
ton, a convict paroled from Salem, Ore.
was arrested at Boise recently, charged
with forgery, embezzlement and marry
ing under fictitious name.
Plans of the Palouse country Chau-
tauqua club for making a 14-acre lake
five miles northeast of Moscow are
Undertaking. rapidly. Work on an
extended scale win begin early in the
spring.
To the efforts of several prominent
people destitute little band of Cal
ispel Indians, who live across the Pend
Oreille river from Cusic, Wash, owe
the movement now on foot to obtain
government aid for them.
Despondent because of her inability
to earn enough to keep her four chill
dren from starvation, Mrs. L. F. Jell-
son, aged about SO, administered a
of them and then drank a fatal. dose
herself. All five are dead at Salem.
The men and religion forward move
ment for Montana begun in Billing:
Monday with the team of experts from
the east in charge Of the work. This
campaign is being conducted in 81
: cities on the continent, Montana ant
northern Wyoming being covered from
Billings.
, Because the Salt Lake & Idaho Rail
road company, branch of the Harri
man system, has started to build acros
the Minnedoka reclamation project il
Idaho without permission of the secre
5 tary of the interior suit for an in
junction and damages in the sum o
. $780, 900 was fled in the federal distric
court at Boise by United States Dis
trict Attorney Lingenfelter.
: Claiming that Bridget Madden
;. the rightful heir to the estate of job
Cobertt, valued at 100000, attorne
have filed an action in the probat
! court at Occur d'Alene City to sc
g aside the settlement of the estate. TIL
9 property has been administered an
! distributed between L. F., J. J. an
e w. G. Connolly and Ellen Udell, claim
: ing to be cousins of the deceased.
i Cattle losses in Montana will be COZ
siderably above the average this VIII
d ter, according to man whose holding
il have been ranked among the bigge:
y in the state. The range is sheete
# with ice in portions of Chouteau, Hill
?. Blaine, Valley, Dawson and Custt
l. counties, he says, and in addition til
e wolves have been more numerous. tina
[. usual, even forcing stockmen to Sc
j. out before the wolves cleaned up the
J. herds.
% The federal grand jury which, fl
- several weeks, has been investigator
~ Ialleged frauds in connection with Il
operations of several land developmel
% companies returned indictments II
- alleged fraudulent use of the mai
70 against officials of the Columbia Riv'
IA Orchard company and the Oregon /
land Development company. The fc
lowing men were named in the indie
It ments: W. E. Da Larn, A. J. Bief
N George C. Hodges, H. P. Humphrey,
D. p. MeWhorter, all of the first nam'
Is company, and J. IT. Conway, FraI
ie Richet and P. C. Lavey of the la
10 named company.