Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-02-20
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Standpoint Sunday.
Joseph S. Harris of Wardner was
the lucky applicant for the position as
county deputy state game warden.
The Chase National bank, New York,
has been approved as reserve agent
for the First National bank, Moscow.
Lewiston sheepmen on the river re-
port their flocks in good condition, al
though they still regard the situation
as serious.
The removal of State Bank Com
missioner V. w. Plat as receiver of
the defunct Boise State bank has been
made permanent.
st. Maries citizens have formed a
poultry association and are planning
for poultry show to take place Feb
ruary 20 to February %, inclusive.
Petitions have been presented to
the board of trustees at st. Maries,
signed by property owners and vot-
ers, asking them to take the neces-
sary steps toward putting this city in
the second class.
The Potlatch Lumber Co.'s mill at
Potlatch, Idaho, which shut down for
few days owing to a shortage of
logs, due to the deep snow, has re-
commenced operations and will soon
be running full time.
A fire, the origin of which is un-
known, totally destroyed the mercan-
tile establishment of Perry Buckley at
Myrtle Sunday morning. The loss is
$4,000 on building and stock, which is
partially covered by insurance.
Wholesale Strengthening of deer by
coyotes, cougars and hunters is being
reported from every part of the Occur
dAlene section and it is a question
whether the hunters or the wild ami
mails are committing the greater dep
: relations
Edward Payne, former president of
the defunct Boise State bank, was
found guilty of having made false re-
ports to the state banking department
. by a jury here tonight. Eugene ID.
Payne, a son, jointly indicted with his
father, was acquitted.
B. F. ONeil, the Wallace banker, an
inmate of the county Jail at Occur
t dAlene city during his trial for the
alleged signing of a false report of the
+ condition of his bank, received a draft
z Saturday for $25 from a man whom
9 he had befriended at Latah, Wash, 2(
O years ago.
t. The railroad was exonerated Satur
= day at Kellogg by the coroners jury
:, which probed into the death of William
= L. Sheehy, the 16-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. James Sheehy. The verdic
attributed the death of the lad to hi:
own negligence in attempting to board
/ a moving train.
a The new $500 caterpillar engine o
o the Canyon City Lumber company a
= Port Hill was destroyed by fire re
j. Gently. The fire caught from thu
p flame of a gasoline torch in the hands
Q of some men who were trying to thav
out a gasoline engine in the SAM
4 building which contained the cater
It pillar.
The State Legislature.
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to prohibit minors in pool rooms, ant
making minors equally responsible
!, with proprietors.
10 The house has passed a resolution
10 congratulating Ireland and the hous
of commons on the passage by tn
latter of the home rule bill.
The house has passed the followin
bills: Allowing an extension of tim
to purchasers of state lands when in
Ia provements to the amount of one-tent
n the purchase price are made each yea
For the protection of school district
80 affected by new county division me-
o. sures.
in The probability of the enactmei
into law of the bill proposing the Gre
ton of a new judicial district to b
% made up of Idaho, Nez Perez an
Us Lewis counties, is considerably il
i creased now that the senate commi
VI tee of the whole has recommended til
measure for passage.
IN Sitting in committee of the who
ng the house has recommended the fC
III lowing bills for passage: Creating tt
ed county of Jefferson ont of mart
IT, Fremont county. Prohibiting the sa
of gunpowder or fire arms to person
Id under Is years of age. Creating
20, state board OF geology and approprla
an ing $4,000 for its use.
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