Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-07-10
ON PACIFIC COAST

Iowa H. futile, one of the most
prominent residents of the Pajaro val
ley, Cal, killed himself Saturday, ow-
ing to financial difficulties.
In the presence of 10000 people the
second Worlds Christian Citizenship
conference opened Sunday afternoon
in Portland. The sessions will con-
tinue for eight days.
Fair candidates for jobs on the po-
lice force at San Francisco almost
trampled each other in the rush to get
their applications before the police
commission Saturday.
Fire, which destroyed the Oregon
Lumber company's plant, stock and
cars at Dee, Ore, Saturday, is esti-
mated to have done in the neighbor-
hood of 100000 damage.
The first shipment of the 700 tons of
coal to be mined by the United States
government party in the Boring river
coal fields was received at salt water
at Katalla Thursday night.
Battery c, California field artillery,
has received an army scout biplane,
which has been turned over to the
signal corps of the battery. George 1.
Morane. has been ordered to instruct
the artillerymen in flying.
AS the result of cloudburst at
Elota, New Mexico, Saturday, consid-
cradle stretch of track on the Santa
Fe was washed out, tying up traffic
indefinitely, and destroyed crops and
drowned sheep and cattle.
Robert Mcpherson of VERONA, Ore,
was shot and killed Saturday and
Green Adams, formerly a member of
the United States navy, is under ar
rest charged with the crime. Atten-
ton to Adams wife was the cause.
George w. Boggs, charged with pass
ing forged checks in Portland is back
there after a three months extradi-
ton fight in Canada. Boggs served
time in the penitentiary at Walla Wal
la for converting funds of the city of
Tacoma, of which he was treasurer for
time.
The steel steamer Dolphin of the
Alaska Steamship company, which left
Seattle June 81 for Skagway, Alaska,
went ashore Sunday morning near
Alert Bay, B. c. All the 1853 passen-
gers, many of whom were eastern tour
lists, were taken off by the Canadian
Pacific steamship Princess May.
For two weeks beginning July G.,
California will inaugurate an expert
ment in teaching its national guard
officers practical warfare at regular
army pay. A camp of instruction, COM
manded by Arjutant General Forbes
and in charge of regular army officers
will be maintained at Laveaga Heights
near Santa Cruz for Officers, noncom-
missioned officers, and certain en-
listed men. The school will be main
tanned exclusively for officers of the
infantry, cavalry, medical corps, and
certain enlisted men serving as cooks
With accommodation for so passen-
gers the steamer Benito Juarez arrived
in San Diego Saturday from Mazatlan
and Guaymas, Mexico, with lis pas
sengers, all of them, they said, refu-
gees from Mexico. Smallpox is rag
ing at Guaymas, the price of food pro-
hibitively high and the Mexican troops
made life unbearable for Americans,
the refugees declare.
Rev. w. A. McKune, a Baptist min
lister of Utica, n. Y, while walking
along the banks of the Mokelne river
near Lodi, Cal, was attracted to a
group of lads at the waters edge who
were frantically screaming while one
of their playmates. Howard McCleary,
aged IL years, was drowning several
feet from the bank. Rev. McKune
eaped into the stream and in trying
10 save the boy both were drowned.
Firebugs Guilty.