Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-02-08
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

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j. M. Foster, a farmer of Moscow
Intentionally shot himself with fatal
result last week
The damage to the Shubert theater
IN the fire at Salt Lake Friday is esti-
mated at more than 100000.
The Kellogg Wardner bond issue of
$4,000 to erect a new school building
carried at the recent election.
The republican revenue bill passed
the Idaho senate by vote of IA to z.
1t now goes to the governor. 1t was a
straight party vote.
The Rev. Roland c. Ross, pastor of the
Congregational church at Livingston.
Mont, recently from st. Louis, was
killed in runaway.
Dalee Taylor, young fellow who is
under sentence to year on the county
rockpile at Portland, has confessed to
forgeries of over $4,000.
Mrs. Charles L. Hoffman, wife of the
chairman of the republican state COM
mlttee of Idaho, fell on the ice at Rath-
drum and broke her limb.
Paul Platt, 6 years old, was drowned
in the river basin at Oregon City, Ore,
when he fell from sidewalk that skirts
the pool just below the falls.
resolution adopted by the directors
of the Northern Montana Forestry asso-
citation favorS an extension of the ter
ritory embraced in the association.
The body of Seid Bing, the Chinese
who was murdered in Portland last De-
cember, and the dismembered BODY
shipped to Seattle in a trunk, has
been again shipped back.
The Chinese woman, Me Fung, ar
rested at Billings, Mont, is believed to
be Oh Sen, who is wanted in connection
with the death of Seid Bing at Port
land.
Lumber manufacturers in western
Washington and Oregon whose mills
have been closed for several weeks. are
preparing to resume operations Febru-
airy 1.
The following northwest postofices
have been designated postal savings
banks: ashington-Almira, Wilbur
and Watervile. Idaho-Wardner and |
Preston.
The Milton Freewater Fruit Growers
union and the Walla Walla Fruit and
Vegetable union of Walla Walla here
after will cooperate in selling their
produce.
f. IL. Murphy, a business man in
eastern Montana, has been removed
from the asylum and taken back to
Glendlve to stand trial for getting $4,000
unlawfully.
More than 100 people between the
boundary line and upper Camas creek,
near Columbia Falls, Mont, are snow
bound and completely isolated, accord
ing to report.
William Dollar of Occur d'Alene has
the contract to cut a considerable
amount of choice white pine, which is
20 be shipped to Scotland to be used
FOR boat building.
High prices on wheat are causing I
farmers around Lewiston to sell their
holdings, although there is still an i'm ;
nense amount of gram being held in !
he warehouses on the Camas prairie. {
The Alaska Steamship company's ,
wooden steamer Santa Ana went ashore
n Karta bay recently. The vessel
struck at high tide and was left high ,
md dry. Passengers and cargo were
aved.
An entire train load of potatoes, 21 6
'ars, was shipped from Elgin, Ore,
Monday to eastern markets, Is of the {
;ars being billed to Kansas City, three
o Oklahoma City and three to Hous-
on, Tex.
The bridge over the Salmon river
the town of Golf with rich
attle and agricultural country has been /.
opened. Golf is so miles south of
The bridge measures 26O
'eet long, with no piers. .
kilograms urging completion of the t
'alouse irrigation project and the estab- t
ishment of railway mail service on the
Nv. R. & N. company's lines between S
Attalia and North Yakima were dis 7
PATCHED to congress on behalf of the +
inland Empire Federation of CONNER
ial Clubs. 7
At Missoula, Charles r. Waterman !,
vas elected president of the state !.
county commissioners association. The
county clerks reelected: f. W. Cuphal
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