Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-01-18
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

bridge at Libby.
A Chautauqua is planned for Spirit
Lake this summer.
On January Is a postal savings bank
will be opened at Waller, Mont.
Wireless telegraphy will become a
factor in the prevention of forest fires
in Montana.
One hundred years ago Saturday the
first white man arrived at or near what
is now Pendleton, Ore.
Tablets sold as cold cure caused
the death of little Edith Antell, aged
2 years, at Bingham, Utah.
Kellogg, Idaho, is to have a weekly
newspaper, according to the plans of
Walter Moriarity, a journalist.
The Pacific plumbing "trust, "
against which the government filed suit
in Los Angeles last month, dissolved
Saturday.
Both Washington and Idaho are in
splendid condition financially, with ex-
cellent prospects for a great progress in
the year 1912.
William Grower, a passenger on the
steamer Santa Barbara, en- route from
Grays Harbor to San Francisco, became
violently insane.
Charles earns and George Fargo, who
escaped from the Asotin county wash
ington) jail December 20, were recap
tured at Ferdinand, Idaho.
The 1912 meeting of the Northwest
Livestock association and Livestock
show will be held at Lewiston, Idaho,
december Q to 13, inclusive.
A combination of paint and oil es
Establishments on the Pacific coast is in
course of formation, involving an out
lay of Approximately $2O,OoO,o0O.
The Great Northern Railway company
has let contracts for $25O,OOO worth OF
work in the revision of its main line
track west of Crossport, Idaho.
Sheriff Clifford c. Brown of Moscow
has gone to New York to bring back tc
prison Robin K. Bradbury, who twice
escaped from the Latah county jail.
The recent fall of snow. unless i
melts too soon and is followed by freez
ing weather, will be great help to thu
wheat crops of the Inland Empire
James Brown, well-known lumber
nd
ously injured recently by being kicke'
in the face by fractions horse a few
: miles from Sumpter, Ore.
e Lieutenant Colonel Charles w. Pen
e rose, commandant at Fort Georg
Wright, near Spokane, has asked for
b 60-day sick leave and will leave for Cali
+ fornia as soon as the request is granted
+ Temple w. Alexander, former pun
G purchasing clerk of the O.-W. r. & y
company at Portland, is charged wit
d embezzlement of $4,000. He has cor
> fessed. He blames butterfly life.
Alexander was recently married.
q c. J. Clark, who has been held q
p Eureka, Mont, pending the outcome q
!. the injuries to William Conklin, VIII
was shot by Clark in an alteration o
q Christmas night, has been release
n Clark was night officer at the time.
IS Sunday the enormous steel bridge {
e. the Oregon Trunk railway across IL
% Columbia river at Cello falls W;
/ opened for through trains between Por
e land and all central Oregon points c
ID the Oregon Trunk. The new bridg
If eliminates the ferry service at Fal
e. bridge.
Paul J. Berg and his wife, Loui'
= Berg, an elderly couple from McLeo
~ Alberta, Canada, were placed in prise
, at San Francisco following a raid |
-, detectives on their apartments in
- hotel where women s wearing appar
= valued at about $1,000 and supposed
have been stolen, was discovered.
is According to estimates compiled |
ly United States Surveyor General J
in rome Locke, there will soon be open
j. entry in Montana 6,1O7 900 acres
a public land, settlement of which HI
been delayed owing to the fact that Il
Of land was unsurveyed. OF this amour
lie 100000 acres has been surveyed du
c, ing the last year, and the remainiI
100000 acres were surveyed in 19t
and 1910, but the returns have not Y
rs been checked up. The land will prob
bly, be opened this year.
John Laird, one of the most motor
20 Gus boxcar robbers operating in Il
~ western country, and going under son