Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-03-28
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

at Standpoint recently.
The Inland Empire Teachers associa-
ton meets in Spokane April to 6.
Hugh Toole was recently elected ex.
allied ruler of the Wallace lodge of
Elks.
At Kellogg, Idaho, chapter of the
Woman's Relief corps was organized
recently.
Governor Hawley of Idaho has issued
a proclamation setting April &c as
Arbor day.
At Missoula J. L. Chevigny, found
guilty of arson, was sentenced to IL
years in the penitentiary.
B. A. Bascom, instructor in mathe-
MATES and English in the Wardner
Kellogg high school, has resigned.
The Lewiston orchard growers have
perfected one of the most active fruit
associations in the Inland Empire
After weeks of activity by the
Idaho Washington Development league
225 Inland Empire live stock support.
ers went to Portland to the show there.
A strike that will affect the mechani-
cal department of every railroad in the
northwest is imminent, according to j.
H. Walters, grand lodge deputy for the
union.
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin an.
nounces that he will campaign Nebras.
ka, Oregon and Washington in April,
previous to the presidential primaries
in those states.
Admitting that he had part in the
murder of William Sandercock, mer-
chant of Garfield, Utah, whose store
he was burglarizing, William Mcvey
took life sentence to the peniten-
tiary.
The 7-month old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene Seeman, living near
Waller, Mont, was recently fatally
scalded by overturning a pan of hot
water upon herself.
AS the result of drunken brawl Sun
day afternoon at Butte, Thomas Ryan
was shot in the arm by Patrick Lyden
with 5000 rifle. Ryan is a miner
and Lyden a plumber.
At Butte the Barker police bill was
passed over the veto of Mayor Lewis
j. Duncan, socialist, ending a stubborn
fight to take the unlimited appointing
power to the police force from the
mayor.
Fortine, Mont.-The Lincoln Logging
and Lumber company expects to start
its new mill April 10. A cut of logs
has been made during the winter and
the mill expects a good run. A daily
output of five cars is planned
Manager N. w. Mumford of the Mil
ton-Freewater (Oregon) fruit growers
has gone to Seattle, Spokane and Mon
tana,. where he will endeavor to open
new markets for hay, potatoes and
other produce handled by the union.
At Missoula Allen Perkins, laun.
dryman, was found guilty of grand lar
ceny. Perkins is alleged to have en-
tered the apartments of Mrs Lizzie
Shelley and her daughter and to have
stolen $1,000 from the bottom of
trunk.
The railroad officials this year do not
contemplate having any trouble from
mud slides or washouts along the Great
Northern in Montana due to the heavy
fall of snow in October, which has kept
the ground from freezing to beyond a
few inches deep.
A Bartlesville, Okla, occurred the
death of Mrs. H. S. Clark, aged 6s.
one of the most prominent pioneer
women of Butte. Mrs. Clark IS daugh-
ter, Clara, is the only known woman
mining engineer in the west. Mr.. Clark
is wealthy mining man.
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
company, the western Bell corporation,
announced at San Francisco that it had
completed the purchase of all the hold
ings and properties, except only the
franchises of the Bay Cities Home Tele-
phone company, for $9,275,OOO
Because Ray Schofeld, young pos
tai clerk in the Lewiston postofice, be-
ieved he was overworked he bundled
a package of AZ letters of the third
class, wrapped them carefully to pre-
vent any Identification, rode to the
middle of the Lewiston Charleston
bridge and dumped the bundle into the
Snake river. The budget was found.
He pleaded guilty to robbing the mails
and was bound over on $1,000 bonds.
G. G. Hyatt, general manager of the