Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-22
SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM
DAILY PAPER DISPATCHES
DURING PAST WEEK.
Review of Happenings in Both Eastern
and Western Hemispheres During
Past Week National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told
in Short Paragraphs for Everybody.

PRESIDENT Iaft mas Withdrawn from
the senate the appointment of Leslie
M. Scott as United States marshal for
the district of Oregon.
The board of managers of the Wash
ington state ~reformatory have en-
gagged the services of Ronald E. Chap
man as director of agriculture.
William J. Bryan is not going to fol-
low the trail of Colonel Roosevelt
around the country in the coming pres
idential campaign as had been planned.
The constitutional amendment to
provide a single six-year term for the
president and vice-president of the
United States, will be pushed for con-
sideration in the senate this week.
Jacob Foy Guthrie, termed "the
educated burglar and forger," who is
accused of stealing more than 5000. 900
worth of property, Chicago, was held
to the grand jury in bonds of $37, 500
on eleven complaints.
The weekly report of the Cranky
Smelling company at Grand Forks, B.
c., shows 24,011 tons of ore treated.
23,711 tons of which came from he
CRANKY mines, and 100000 pounds of
blister copper shipped.
Seward, Alaska.-Passengers on the
mail steamship Dora, which arrived
on her monthly trip from the west
ward Saturday, say Mount Katmai.
which was in violent eruption in June,
is emitting great volumes of dense
smoke.
On reading the dispatch from Mex
leo City that he had made overtures
for peace if allowed to escape from
Mexico unprosecuted, General Pascual
Orozco, commander in chief of the
rebel forces, makes flat denial of the
whole story.
Honolulu.-The strike of the mas
tiers and mates of the Inter-island
Steamship company, which has been in
progress for several weeks, has been
settled. All the demands of the Off
GERS in the employ of the company
were granted, except that of increase
in pay.
Vallejo, Cal.-Martin S. White, chief
yeoman of the naval ship Iris, who was
courtmartialed last month at the Mare
Island navy yard on a charge of send
ing letters to officers of the Pacific
torpedo mflotilla, threatening Lieutenant
Commander G.. F. Va%nderbeck of the
Iris, was acquitted.
Wood pulp, print paper and paper
board manufactured from woods of
British Columbia, from which the ex-
port restrictions were recently re-
moved by the council of hat province.
Will be admitted to the United States
rec of duty under the one operative
clause of the Canadian reciprocity act.
An appropriation of $35, 900 to Sen
ator Lorimer to part of his ex-
penses in the two fights to retain his
seat Will be recommended by the SEN
ate committee on privileges and cleo
IONS. Chairman Dillingham; has been
authorized to also recommend a pay
ment of $4,000 to Detective William j..
Burns. who worked on the case.
London.-Lying helpless in an arm
chair at the homeopathic hospital in
Great Ormond street, w. c., is a girl
of 10 named Edith Winter, of Boundary
lane, ~Camberwell, s. E., who is suffer-
ing from h mysterious disease which
is causing her muscles to turn into
bone. 1t is the same disease that at
tackled Allan Rushbrook, known as the
brittle man." who left the same hos
pital partly cured some months go.
At Kamloops, B. c., w. B. James
and a Japanese named Takahashi
were hanged in the Jail recently.
James, a young man who is said to
have come from North Dakota and to
have been known also as Walter
Palke, shot and killed Constable AS
tern after the latter had arrested him
for holding up and robbing a store
keeper. Takahashi shot and killed a
fellow countryman in his bunk at
night.