Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-11
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Ample water for the season s irriga-
ton of the Umatilla project in Oregon
is now assured.
Angus Smith, an oldtime member of
day at Spokane.
The town of Whitebird, Idaho. was
almost completely destroyed by fire
Sunday morning entailing a $4,000
loss, half insured.
At Occur 'Alene, Idaho, Monday
200 public school teachers from Koote-
mai and Shoshone counties met in joint
institute for three days session.
William Fondren, who killed Isaac
Coplen at Amwaco, Idaho, was SEN
fenced to 10 to 25 years in the peniten-
tiary for murder in the second degree.
The highest price paid for beef cat
tie in the Lewiston country in recent
years was paid by Dill Brothers when
they bought consignment of stock
for $3.50 per hundred on foot.
There were, January 81, SO postal
savings repositories in Idaho, with de-
posits of $4,000. This amount was
held by about 1900 depositors, an aver
age of $1O5 to each depositor.
A "welfare matron'' has been Sc
cured by the management of the larger
telephone centers of the northwest
whose sole duty is to look after the well
fare of the girls both in the different
homes and offices.
Louis Swanson, an aged miner, was
instantly killed by train at the east
Saturday. According to trainmen, he
was on the track and was caught on
curve ON the way to Burke.
During a quarrel that followed an
alteration at a dance at Whitney
Ore, John Irvine, aged about "a, shot
and killed j A. McGraw, who was
about 49, Whitney is in the Sumpte1
valley few miles from Sumpter.
After celebrating for just Is minutes
the jury in the case of Stanley D.
Miller, accused of being participant
in the bank robbery at Harlem, Mont
returned a verdict of guilty, leaving
the sentence for later determination OF
the court.
A pension of $40 per month for all
members of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers incapacitated through
age, accident or disease was favored
| by the northwest convention of divi-
sion representatives of the B. of L. E.
held in Tacoma recently.
| According to reports of construction
firms having contracts for work along
the Canadian Northern railroad in Can
ada, 1900 of the .workmen, from Hope
to Kamloops, have struck for SO day
of nine hours. They have been receiv-
ing from 1926 to So for 10 hours, ac-
cording to the kind of work.
Alexander E. Mathew, the oldest
practicing attorney in the Coeul
d 'Alenes and one of the Oldest in the
entire northwest, was made the guest
of honor at banquet of the Shoshone
County Bar association Sunday even
ing at Wallace. The occasion was Mr.
Mathew S S4th birthday anniversary
For more than 25 years Attorney
Mathew has been a resident of Idaho
According to reports Sunday high wa
ter such as has not been seen in north
eastern Montana for years is threaten
ing to seriously interfere with the
Great Northern and is causing much
concern among ranchers along the Milk
and Missouri rivers. The streets of
Chinook are running water several feet
deep in places. The town of Wolf Point
is surrounded by water and water is
running over the railway tracks two
feet deed.
Angered when his command to halt
was not complied with, a robber re-
Gently fred several charges from re.
peating shotgun loaded with buckshot
into an automobile party at Elk Rock
near Portland, fatally injuring two OF
the occupants and slightly injuring a
third. One of the injured men, George
Hastings, a travelling salesman for a
casket company, died after being taken
to the hospital. Donald Stewart, a
youth employed by a grain exporting
company, who received three wounds
in the head, is expected to die from his
wounds.