Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-06-13
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Oliver V. Dempsey, aged 25, was run
over and instantly killed near Elko, B.
G. recently.
President Taft nominated James w.
Freeman to be United States attorney
for Montana.
Thomas Manning, aged 95, pioneer
of Montana and the great lakes coun-
try, died Saturday in Butte.
This week the cherry crop of the
Lewiston Charleston and Snake river
valley will be on the market.
The remains of the late Mayor N. J.
Blake of Plains were laid to rest Sat
urday in the Catholic cemetery at
Plains.
The funeral of William S. Brown,
who died recently at the age of "a in
Moscow at the home of his son, c. w.
Brown, was held Saturday.
Secretary Fisher has granted an ex-
tension of time to San Francisco to
present arguments and data regarding
the use of the Hetch Hetchy valley as
a reservoir site.
One hundred and thirteen head of
choice dairy stock have been purchased
in the middle western states by DR.. W.
L. Carlyle of the University of Idaho
and are now at Moscow.
} 1t is now known that Fred Barker,
the Spokane printer, who ran as a pro-
gressive candidate for president of the
, International Typographical union, has
been defeated by a majority of about
5000.
The body of Agnes Smith, who has
been missing from Great Falls for some
time, was found in the Missouri river
: She disappeared from a hack on the
morning of May 10. Probabilities point
to suicide.
S The appointment Of Daniel E. Clark
= of Cheyenne, Wyo., as live stock agent
of the Oregon Washington Railroad
s Navigation company for Washington
: and Oregon with headquarters is an
q nounced by the company.
OIdAcu ny Jealousy uhlo. u. -. CdChil
= shot her husband, a sergeant of the
', Portland police department, probably
. fatally, and then shot and killed her
9 self at their home at Wichita, a suburb
: of Portland. She died almost instantly
/, The formal opening of navigation il
i Boring sea, which is closed by ic,
nearly five months of the year, wa
|, marked Saturday by the sailing from
t Seattle of the passenger liner Senate
It and the freighters Seward and st
Helena for Nome, Alaska.
y Michael Pablo made his final ship
/ ment of buffalo to the Canadian gov
e eminent from Roman, Mont, Saturday
II There are several head in this last ship
IS ment. There are few more on hi
e range west of town, but they are to
20 wild and dangerous to corral and vii
u be shot probably before captured.
10 The government reclamation servic
A. has corps of engineers under the d
n rection of j. B., Bond, project enginee
of the Sun river (Mont.) project, sui
"a veying Benton lake to make it a stol
N age reservoir to irrigate Palouse benc
It west of Portage. Work is supposed t
he begin as soon as the survey is con
80 pleted.
pit If the Washington Water Powe
I'd company gets an injunction restrain
is ing Kootenai county Idaho) tax co
81 lector from selling its property fl
e. taxes on the sth day of July as adve
tised if must at once pay to the count
the sum of $4,000 to secure even ten
porary order. This is the decisic
reached by Judge Dietrich in the fe'
~ eral court at Occur d'Alene.
Hearing the wild cries of her tv
drowning sons, James, aged 10 al
n' Otto, aged Is, calling for her aid, MI
~ May Upper, in an endeavor to say
~ them, together with the boys, W
- drowned in pond at their ranch,
az Gated several miles from Leland, Idah
IL Having just returned from school
"a "a Kendrick and wanting to take adva
az tage of the first warm day of summe
:, the boys took to the pond used f
- watering stock to take swim and DO
ve took cramps. htt
In connection with the contemplate
improvements to be made by the Gre
Northern by building the Sun Riy
branch out of Great Falls, Mont,
py Augusta and thence to Java, point
miles east of here, it is said that IL
or road will eventually be part of t
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