Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-10-24
NEWS NOTES

lanIS success.
The new city dock at Occur d'Alene,
Idaho, is nearly completed. 1t is 36x
400 feet and cost $4,000.
Miss Alice Holmes, aged 81, had her
neck broken in an auto accident at
Portland, Ore, Saturday.
The new name suggested for Sand
point, Idaho, is "Ponderay." A change
in lame is to be made
Odd Fellows from every section Of
the state of Idaho were in session at
Wallace, Idaho, this week, during
grand lodge.
1t is reported that almost the entire
hay crop of Idaho, Utah and Wyoming
has been q%uarantined by Canadian Of
ficials because of the weevil.
Gerald Sullivan, the 7-year-old son
of Mrs. Mary Sullivan of Butte, Mont,
was killed recently when a street car
struck him while he was playing on
the track.
o. U. Mills & Son of %Juliaetta, Idaho,
have constructed a concrete furnace
for drying prunes and this firm is now
drying Italian prunes at the rate OF
about three tons a day.
This year, for the first time, owing
to the unprecedented dry season al
most the entire flat land of the Koote-
mai valley from Boomers Ferry to the
lake is being cut of it's wild hay.
A caullflower measuring nearly SO
inches in circumference, 1615 inches
in diameter and % inches over the
head, and weighing IL pounds, raised
without irrigation, is on display at
Moscow, Idaho.
A freight wreck in the yards at
Clarksfork, Idaho, resulted in break
ing up about 40 cars with only one
man injured. A man in charge of a
race horse on it's way to Springfield.
Mo-, was slightly injured.
The Meeks hotel, a two-story struc-
ture at Vollmer, Idaho, was destroyed
by fire recently. The fire department
with the help of the lilo fire depart
ment saved the surrounding buildings.
The loss is about $4,000, with about
$4,000 insurance.
T.. j. Scum, a prosperous farmer re-
siding six miles from Eureka, Mont.
killed himself recently with a rifle. He
had been acting strangely for some
time, several times threatening suicide.
Dependency is supposed to have af-
fected his mind. He leaves a large
family.
Every member of the 1912 class grad
uated from the engineering depart
ments of U. of l. has a good paying
position. The civil engineers are main
ly with the United States reclamation
service, the coast and geodetic survey
and railroads. The mining engineers
are filling various positions in Ana
conda, Rossland, Mullan, Burke and
other mining districts.
Perched on a handcar and bearing
her baby in her arms when it struck a
car of workmen rushing downgrade
from the opposite direction, Mrs. Liz
zie Sage, aged 10 years, was hurled 30
feet, with her infant, aged six months.
Saturday night, near Elk, on the lum-
Der tracks of the Consolidated COM
pany, the babe escaping injury, but
Mrs. Sage was killed.
Oscar Carlson, a laborer employed
on street work in Whitefish, Mont,
was shot in the neck Sunday morning
by an Italian, Mike Racenelli. Carl
son and other young men had been
drinking, and when three Italians
passed by abused them, it is alleged.
Racenelli whipped out a 22-calbre re-
volyer and fired at his %assailants, hit
ting Carlson, and then fled.
AS a result of a drunken brawl on
the main street of Stevenson, Wash,
two men are in the hospital in Port
land suffering from gun wounds which
physicians say probably will prove
fatal. They are A. M. Lindsay, a fore
man for the Northwestern Electric
company, and Charles Hicks, a laborer.
Their assailant was John Inman, mar
shall of Stevenson, who is now under
arrest.
An automobile party from Winona,
composed of Mr.. and Mrs. Vanskike,
Mrs. j. M. Windes, Mrs. James Banta
and her three children, aged 6 and 4
years and 16 months, drove to Endi-
colt Sunday to visit relatives, and on
returning to Winona in the afternoon,
when about a mile north of town, the
car turned turtle endwise and killed
Mrs. V~anskirke instantly by breaking
her neck. One of the childran hos 4