Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-04-24
ON PACIFIC COAST

San Domingo.-Jose Borda Valdez
was elected by congress as president
of the republic to succeed Archbishop
Nouel, who resigned recently because
of i'll health.
A short but severe earthquake was
felt at San Bernardino, Cal, Sunday
morning There was no damage, al
though the shoc6 was strong enough
to rock buildings.
Ray Munjer, aged Is was accidental
ly shot and killed recently by Stanley
Atte1bury, aged II. The boys were
hunting near Litch Landing on the
Sacramento river, California.
Robert w. Jennings of Juneau is to
be appointed United States district
judge for Alaska and c. l.. Reamus OF
Medford, Ore, has been selected for
United States attorney of Oregon.
The railroad commission of Califor-
mia have authorized California corpora
lions to issue securities in the sum of
$17,S59,OOO. This represents the lar
gest volume OF securities ever author
lied by the commission in a single
day.
Charles F. Baker, former assistant
cashier of the Crocker National bank,
San Francisco, pleaded guilty to EN-
bezzlement on 40 counts, in amounts
not specified in the Indictment The
shortage is estimated at approximate
ly 100000
A joint committee from the two
houses of the California legislature
has been appointed to take charge of
the investigation into the affairs of
Secretary of State Jordan's office,
heretofore being carried on by the
state board of control.
The final draft of the proposed anti
alien land law in California that is to
take the place of all the bills that have
been introduced relating to the same
subject has been adopted by the SEN
ate on second reading and will come
up for final passage in the upper house
of the legislature.
Downtown druggists in Portland,
with the exception of +. G.. Forbes,
proprietor of the pharmacy in the
Portland hotel, have expressed a will
lingness to join in a Sunday closing
movement, it being contemplated also
that stores shall be closed at IL D. m.
on week days. The Sunday hours con-
sidered for keeping stores open were
from 10 o'clock until 1.
John d. Spreckels and his brother.
Adolph, need make no accounting to
their brothers, Claus A., and Rudolph,
of the millions given them by their
father, the late Claus Spreckels, the
sugar king, during his life, as Superior
Judge Seawell has sustained the de-
murrer of John d. Spreckels and
Adolph to demand for an accounting.
With the arrest of two men, giving
their names as Henry Oct and John
Forbes, at Vancouver, b. c., police
think they have two counterfeiters
with international regulations Tween
ty-one hundred and fifty dollars in
bogus money was found in their
clothes when searched at the station,
the largest amount of counterfeit
money ever taken here.
Sailing dates for the opening of nav
igatios in Boring sea are announced
by steamship companies. The little
wooden steamer Corwin, formerly a
revenue cutter, which for years was
the first steamship to reach Nome af-
ter the breakup of the ice, will be the
first vessel to get away for that port
this year. The Corwin, carrying a
cargo of fresh vegetables and provis-
ions, will sail from Seattle for Boring
seaports May 10.
Indictments charging conspiracy to
suborn perjury were returned by the
federal grand jury at San Francisco
against Maury l. Diggs, former state
architect, and Charles B. Harris of
Sacramento, his attorney. Drew Cam
inetti, son of State Senator A. Camin-
ETH of Amador, was indicted under
the Mann act, which forbids the trans
portation of women from one state to
another for immoral purposes.