Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-26
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DAILY PAPER DISPATCHES
DURING PAST WEEK.
Review of Happenings in Both Eastern
and Western Hemisphere During
Past Week. National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told
in Short Paragraphs for Everybody.

President Taft was SO years old
Sunday.
Paul Clagstone of Idaho has refused
to accept a nomination from the pro-
gressive party for the governorship.
The bodies of suicides cannot be
cremated in Paris. Exceptions are
made, however, in favor of persons
who commit suicide outside the city
limits.
Upon pleading guilty to the charge
of bigamy, Scott S. Brown, in the SUI
perior court at Vancouver, Wash, vas
sentenced to five years in the peni-
Tertiary.
Wanted, a wife. Must be good
worker who can help at light work
like blowing, digging potatoes and
loading hay" says a ranchman's ad-
VertiSement.
The most powerful battleship yer
ordered will be laid down in November
by the British admiralty. 1t will be
700 feet long, displace 10000 tons, and
be armed with 14-lnch guns.
Charles Coombs, a pugilist of New
York, enraged by the attacks of a
large mosquito, swung on it with his
right. He hit the door and broke his
arm. The mosquito was unhurt.
Harry Irving, $616 behind in ali
mony payments, asked Judge Auden-
raid hour lnnO hn had tn ctau in Toll tn
be rid of his wife. For life" the
judge said. Send me along" replied
Irving.
Hilda Schneider, declared dying at
Brooklyn recently, following an opera
ton, will recover because a nurse as
a last resort, arranged a party with
flowers that aroused the girl from
her listlessness.
Working himself into a pitch of
frenzy over the absence of any at
tendance at a lecture he had proposed
to give at Albany, Ore, F. M. Cats of
Lebanon, Are, after returning to his
home died of heart failure.
All 33 so-called Cunningham Alaska
wa oAQ NidILio lAfOlflu6 dllc6GQ
fraudulent blanket patents, which con
tributed to the Ballinger-Pinchot con-
%troversy, have been disposed of finally
by the interior department cancelling
the whole bunch.
Since Major Daniel w. Arnold has
retired, Colonel l.. Clef of Chicago,
quartermaster of the central division
OF the army, Is the last of the civil
wal veterans in active service. In one
more year Colonel Glen will have
reached the age limit of "a.
The bodies of Leslie Oliver, John
Shattuck and Dell L%inscott, young
men of Juneau and Douglas, who went
hunting September 5, On Sheep Creek
mountain, Alaska, were found Sept. II
on the mountain. They had persisted
from hunger cold and exposure.
A judgment for $4,000 against Cen
eral Daniel E. Sickles was satisfied re-
Gently in New York by his long
estranged wife who, for the p
sacrificed jewels she chrished very
much. This is a very strong indica-
ton Of an approaching reconciliation.
Attorney George E.. Marlowe of Her
rick, Idaho, was found guilty on each
of the four counts of a federal indict-
ment charging him with violating the
white slave traffic law, in conspiring
with Edith Depugh, who plead guilty
in transporting Pearl Stevenson and
Freda Kuhl from Washington to Idaho
for immoral purposes.
Murray, Enthusiastically never in
the history of Murray has a funeral
beer more generally attended than was
that of MI. and Mrs. Charles Keil, the
aged couple who died in a suicide
pact recently. Business in the village
was practically suspended during the
hours of the service and many of the
leading citizens attended.
German Torpedo Boat Sinks,