Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-02-13
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Jacob Goldberg, pioneer of Libby
died of heart failure Sunday.

Jacob Goldberg, pioneer of Libby
died of heart failure Sunday.
Representative Edwards has intro
duced a bill to officially designate civil
war as "war between the states"
Harry A. Wheeler of Chicago has
accepted the presidency of the cham
Der of commerce Of the United States
for 1918.
President Taft has signed the con-
gressional resolution providing for the
erection of a memorial to Lincoln in
Potomac park.
John D. Rockefeller and other Stand
ard Oil interests have sold their stock
in the Water-Pierce Oh company to
Henry Clay Pierce.
Augusta Endicott of Colorado Springs
and Lawrence Endicott of Seattle were
bequeathed 100000 each in the will of
Henry Endicott of Weston, Mass.
Tariff revision hearings have been
concluded by the congressional ways
and means committee, which now be-
gins executive meetings to frame a bill.
w. C. Mcfarland, postmaster at Gar
rison, Mont committed suicide Satur-
day morning. He took poison and then
shot himself through the head He was
Respondent.
About 1000 men formerly employed
in the Rankin & Braddock plants of
ho ri Stoa1 \Niro "
have decided by a unanimous vote to
continue the strike.
The Rev. Emanuel Eckland, former
pastor of church in Madison, Mimi,
has pleaded guilty to charge of arson
and sentenced to seven years in the
state penitentiary at Saltwater.
The bodies of August Harmon. aged
10, wealthy farmer, and wife, were
bund at their farm home near Sparta,
Mis-, Saturday. Each had been shot
10 death. Robbery was the probable
motive.
A. V. Rentz, who was arrested in
connection with the murder, has con-
fessed.
For misapplying $4,000 of the funds
of the Audubon National bank in q
deal to obtain control of the institu-
ton, David S. Mills, the banks former
president, was sentenced at New York
to serve seven years in United States
prison at Atlanta, Ga.
cairnes, Queensland.-Thr an
awful mfstane on the part OF a railway
official, six persons were killed and
five probably fatally injured Monday,
when the Brisbane express, south
bound, crashed into the wreck of a
cattle train at Murpheys creek.
AT st. Joseph, Mo-, Henry Sorenson
was for the third time sentenced to
Jail for failing to produce in court
Alice Greenleaf, aged 13 years, for
whose possession her mother, Mrs.
Alice Hollingsworth of Los Angeles,
Cal, has brought habeas corpus suit.
General Rennankampff, one of the
few successful Russian generals in the
Russo-Japanese war, has been appoint
ed commander in chief of the troops
in the Wilma district. His force in
.cludes five army corps and will form
the main western army in case of war.
The $4,000 bond of Frank M. Ryan,
president of the International Iron
Workers union, was approved at Chi
cago by Judge Baker sitting in the
United States circuit court of appeals.
Ryans sentence in the dynamite con-
spiracy case was seven years impris-
onment.
Richard Lorenz, a member of the
German consulate in st. Paul, Mimi,
has received a golden cross from EN-
peror William H. of Germany, in token
of his elevation to membership in the
knights of the Order of the Prussian
Crown. The honor is conferred for
long service in the German consular
service.
The department Of the interior al
Washington has rendered a decision
whereby 100000 acres of Indian
lands, scattered throughout Wyoming
Montana, North and South Dakota anc
California, have been thrown open tt
homesteaders and Indians for free
grazing purposes. Each homesteadel
will have the right to free grazing fol
40 head of cattle or horses or 2OI
sheep, while each individual IndiaI
may Craze 100 head of cattle or horses
or 500 head of sheep. Cattlemen VIII,
have large herds will be required t,
pay rates varying from 20 cents t.
$1.00 head for cattle and horses, an