Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-02-29
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

1t has been decided to erect a new
courthouse in Moscow, Idaho, rather
than the expenditure of money for re-
pairing the present building.
Frank Engling, the Is year old son of
a homesteader living about 10 miles
from Roundup, Mont, is dead from ac-
cidental strychnine poisoning.
A special election held at Genesee,
Idaho, recently, resulted in the addi-
tional sum of $4,000 being voted for
the purpose of high school construction.
To facilitate the handling of the grad
ually growing ore tonnage at Wallace,
Idaho, the Northern Pacific will make
material additions to its Wallace yard
trackage this spring.
Sam A. Hall, former real estate
dealer and private banker at Butte, is
in Calgary, Canada, under arrest on a
charge of grand larceny preferred at
Butte.
At Salt Lake, Utah, death by shoot
ing, March 26, was selected by Harley
McWhinney when the court asked him
how he preferred to die for the murder
of C. l.. Erickson, October 6, 1911.
With the thoughts of facing charge
of murder, the desertion of wife and
baby in Berlin, and probable deporta
tion from the United States in his mind,
Arthur Nuendorff, a young German,
hanged himself in the county Jail at Og-
den, Utah.
THE agency of the Occur 'Alene In
dams will be moved back to the reser-
walton. The new agency quarters will
be one and one-quarter miles from
Lowell Through the efforts of Senator
Hepburn of Idaho an appropriation of
$4,000 was made for a lot of new
buildings.
A suit for $4,000 damages has been
filed against the Southern Pacific Rail
road company by Mrs. G. II. Waller,
mother of George Waller of Tacoma,
for whose death Daniel Fleming, a for
mer Southern Pacific policeman, was
found guilty by jury at Redding, Cal,
December 80.
Mrs. c. Dixon of Columbus, Ohio,
mother of Aviator Cromwell Dixon,
killed while making flight at the inter
state fair at Spokane last fall, has writ
ten the Great Northern for motion pic
lures taken by the company of her
son IS fight, that she may exhibit them
to replenish her broken fortune. Her
request was granted.
AS a protection to the orchardists of
Montana and other western states, the
Billings chamber of commerce has en-
tered a protest against the enactment
by congress of any law which has for its
end the establishment of a government
standard apple box that shall discrimi
nate against localities. 1t is believed
that such an act would give the Inter
national Apple Shippers association
prestige over the growers.
Senator Jones of Washington has re
ceived a number of letters from variou.
business firms of Washington and othel
states protesting against the proposition
contained in the corporation tax Law
whereby they should make returns o.
annual net income for the special ta1
on corporations at the end of the cal
endar year, and suggesting that thu
period should be placed, instead, at tn
end of the fiscal year of the corpora
tions.
With the death of the venerable Pau
L. Hawks at his son s home near Glen
dive, Mont, there passed from life on
of the most remarkable men in Mon
tana. Mr.. Hawks was born at Bristo
England, March 6, 1913, and was there
fore 80 years old, lacking but a fey
days. He is said to have been the onl
survivor of the celebrated Black Haw
war, one of the most sanguinary India
campaigns in the eventful history o
the west.
RAPS SUGAR TRUST.