Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-12-05
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Kila, Mont, were arrested recently
charged with butchering cattle belong
ing to John Herman.
The plans for the construction of an
interstate bridge over the Columbia
river between Vancouver and Portland
have been recently adopted.
Guy NJ Clark, former cashier of the
First National Bank, Earlville, Madison
county, New York, was taken into
custody recently at Portland, Ore.
Through the cooperation of the Pen
dleton Commercial club and the
Roundup association Pendleton, Ore,
is to be assured of permanent band.
Owing to the bad condition of the
streets the merchants of Standpoint,
Idaho, have signed an agreement that
they will make no deliveries of goods
ordered after A p. m.
Montana's cowboy band, headed by
"Heinle" Houle and "Bill' Pruitt, cut
loose Saturday in Chicago in great
style, at the opening of the United
States land show at the Coliseum.
A general rush from Fairbanks, Ruby
and Nome to the new gold field in the
Innoko district, Alaska, is in progress,
according to Victor Carmichael, now
in Seattle from Cripple Creek, the
main camp of the new strike.
The suit between J. Ross Clark, for
merly of Butte, Mont, and Mrs. John
S. Tanner over the custody of little j.
Ross Clark has been settled at Los
Angeles. They each will have the
child for six months of the year.
w. w. Terrell of Terrell, Idaho, is
suing the w. w. p. Co. in the federal
court for $4,000 damages for alleged
injury to his property at Terrell, due
to the raising of the water of the St.
Joe river by the dam at Post Falls.
Glenn Gault, who confessed to the
murder several days ago in Portland
of d. M. Leitzell, led the officers to
the spot and a few minutes work with
a shovel revealed the conclusive evil
dence of the gruesome tragedy near
Oregon City.
Chico, GAIA flight of $50 miles in
eight hours and half was made by
wild goose Friday, if a tag found
fastened to its leg bore correct figures.
The goose was shot at $3.50 p. m. The
tag bore the date "Okanogan, B, c.,
Nov. 81, a. M
Scarcity of labor during the last
several months has materially reduced
the logging operations in the north
west and will result in a decrease of
not less than 20 per cent in the lumber
output below the estimates of the tim
bermen earlier in the season.
At Butte, Mont, James j. Smith
pleaded guilty recently to the murder
of Clarence A. Ackert at Melrose,
Mont, April 10 last, and was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment. He served
time in the Idaho penitentiary in 1909
for assault with a deadly weapon I'M
der the name of Clabe, alias Dankes.
Lumber has been shipped to Koote-
mai Falls, Mont, for the construction
of camps for the workmen, who will be
employed in the building of the big
$6,000,000 power plant at that place.
These camps will be occupied at first
by a crew of 80 engineers, who will
finish the final surveying and engi-
neering work. AS soon as the engi-
neers get through the camps will be
turned over to the workmen.
With the closing of deal Saturday
by the Southern Pacific for 80 miles
of right of way in southern Oregon the
between Eugene and klamath Falls
has been secured for the Natron-Weed
cutoff. The right of way just secured
extends on part of the old Oregon
military road grant from Odell lake
to the northern boundary of the Kla-
math Indian reservation. With the
construction of the cutoff an immense
territory will be served with transpor
tation facilities.
The second annual Northwestern
Products exposition at Minneapolis,
Mimi, came to a close Saturday night
with the celebrating there of Idaho
day" Next years session probably
will be held in some eastern city. An
nouncement was made that Leonard
and Ballentyne of Glendive, Mont, had
won first prize for the bushel of flax,
and that Cook county, in an Oregon
colonization company's exhibit, was
awarded the silver cup for the best
display of forage plants. Award of the
$4,000 prize for the best bushel of
wheat probably will not be made until
after Thanksgiving.
Burned almost to a crisp but still
alive Archie McPhail aged 60 and I'M