Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-12-26
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Wheat continues to pour into Port
land from the Inland Empire in |
steady stream.
San Franciscan. Wood, wealthy
clothing merchant, has reported the
theft OF $4,000 worth of jewelry and
1925 in cash from his home
Nominations sent to the senate by
President Taft Saturday include
Charles l.. Harris to be register of the
land office at Billings, Mont.
Standpoint, Idaho-The Kootenai
mill of the Humbird Lumber company
has shut down owing to the cold
weather, ice forming in the mill pond
and making work difficult
Pendleton, Ore.-All vehicles with
horses as their motive power were put
out of commission for several hours
in this city Saturday a beautiful, but
inconvenient, "silver thaw" being re-
sponsible for the trouble The streets
were rendered so slippery that it was
impossible for horses to keep on their
feet.
Paris.-Le Patrie, a newspaper de-
clares that the condition of Walter
Mumm, the champagne dealer shot by
Mrs. Barnes, an American, is critical
1t is not known where Mumm was
taken. The report that Mumm shot
the woman twice before the latter
fired, and that the womans condition
is dangerous, is unconfirmed.
Terrell, Idaho.-A car loaded with
coal ran away recently from Stetson,
little station few miles east of
Avery, and came down through Avery
at about 40 miles an hour. When half
way through the yards it struck a
freight train just ready to start west
and overturned two box cars, disabled
the caboose, and spilled the coal over
the tracks. No one was injured.
Wallace, Idaho.-The first effort
ever made in this section of north
Idaho to test the right of county COM
missioners to force companies to col
lect road taxes from their employees
came Saturday when Shoshone county
brought suit against John M. Carey
for the taxes of % men. The COM
plant also asks for the penalty of SO
a man prescribed in the statutes.
Harrison, Idaho.-The $4,000 Y. M.
c. A building erected through contri-
buttons coming in large part from the
sawmill companies of the city has just
been opened here. The building is
complete in every respect, with gym
nasium, shower baths, class rooms
and reading room. The gymnasium is
so arranged that it may be used as
an auditorium to seat 900 people.
Jacob Kamm, the veteran steamboat
man of the Columbia river valley and
the old Oregon country, who founded
the business of which the Oregon
Washington Railroad and Navigation
company is the direct successor, died
at his home in Portland Saturday from
diseases incident to old age. Mr.
Kamm was SO years of age. He was
one of the wealthiest men in the Pa
cific northwest, having vast property
in San Francisco. His reputed worth
was many millions of dollars.
One of the largest logging contracts
ever awarded in the northwest was lei
Monday to Mann & Hayes, logging
contractors of st. Maries, Idaho, by
the Milwaukee Land company. The
contract calls for the delivery at Santa
Idaho, station on the Chicago, Mil
waukee e Puget Sound railway, Of
40,000,000 feet of logs, and to facilitate
operations the Milwaukee Land com
pany will construct a siX-mile, stand
ard gauge logging railway into the
timber to be felled, which is in the
heart of the white pine belt of the st
Maries region. The contract involve:
approximately 100000 and will re
quire not less than two years to com
plete.