Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-05-29
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

| age of labor in almost all occupations.
The Camas prairie district has the
best prospect for a large crop in it's
history.
The new storm sewer system for
Moscow's business district was COM
pleted Monday.
The old brewery building at Julia
eta, with its contents, was destroyed
by fire Sunday. The origin of the fire
is mystery.
Harper's weekly, in brief editorial,
says: 1--WE predict today that the next
republican candidate for president will
be William E. Borah of Idaho"
Jesse Anderson was shot and prob
ably fatally injured recently at Wal
lace, in row with T. H. Jones, a cook,
and now lies in a critical condition.
At the annual student election at
Moscow Vergil Samms, junior stu
dent from Pocatello, and a member of
the Idaho football team, was elected
president.
Potlatch now boasts of one of the
best equipped schools in northern
Idaho. The domestic science depart
ment is equipped with the latest cleo
trical cooking devices and is installed
in a separate building.
In a recent interview at Standpoint
Charles A. Weyerhaeuser, member of
the worlds greatest family of lumber
men, declared that the removal of
tariff on lumber would have little or
no effect on the industry in the United
States.
Some of the most interesting and
valuable courses to be offered to the
teachers of the state of Idaho at the
coming summer session of the Univer
sity of Idaho are those to be given by
Professor G.. A. Stewart of the mining
department.
Through an appropriation made at
the last session of the legislature
new department will be added to the
courses offered in agriculture at Mos
cow. This will be a poultry depart
ment, the legislature appropriating
$4,000 for it.
State Horticultural Inspector John
U. Mcpherson has made a careful in
vestigation of fruit conditions in the
state and has authorized the statement
that the fruit crop this year bears ev-
cry indication of being as large as last
year. The 1912 crop was above nor
NAL
Representative French has been
called upon by Horticultural Inspector
Mcpherson of the state of Idaho to
have the Indian department set aside
sufficient money to bear the expense
of spraying the fruit trees on the Nez
Perez reservation.
The Milwaukee Lumber company
has entered into a contract for 100,-
100000 feet of timber on Benewah,
Alder creek and Little Plummer. A
railroad, to be known as the Alder
Creek railroad, will be constructed into
the territory for the purpose of remov-
ing the timber.
Information was filed in the district
court at Standpoint, charging Algot
Carlson with an assault with intent to
kill upon Mrs. Lille Rood at Granite
April 3. Carlson is alleged to have
beaten her about the head with an
iron rod, according to the police. He
said that he had to kill rabbit, lion
or a woman"
William F. Kettenbach and George
H. Kester, former president and cash
Ter, respectively, of the Lewiston Ma
tional bank, sentenced each to five
years in the penitentiary for alleged
violations of the banking laws by max
ing false reports to the comptroller of
the currency, are seeking from Presi-
dent Wilson reopening of their appli-
cations for pardons, denied by former
President Taft
report from Occur d'Alene, Idaho,
says that one of the hardest fought
cases of the present term of the dis
trict court is that of the Cameron
Lumber Co. VS.. the Stack-Gibbs Lum-
Der Co., the case involving the ques-
ton of the booming rights on the
Occur d'Alene river. The plaintiff in
the action is the owner of the land on
both sides of the mouth of the Occur
dAlene river, and claims the right to
prevent any one else from stringing
boom across the mouth of the river
to catch logs. The defendants con-
tend that they have right to stretch
their boom across the river and they
also contend that in so doing they
have at all times kept a swinging
boom to allow boats to pass up and
down the river.