Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-13
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Elizabeth Hale, an aged resident of
Garfield, Wash, died at Cottonwood
Thursday evening.
The funeral of Richard Murphy, bet
ter known as "Spud" Murphy, we'll
known character of st. Maries, was
held Sunday.
Mrs. Marick Edmondson, aged SO, Of
Moscow, is dead. She was one of the
pioneers of Latah county and resident
for SO years.
1t has been announced that the cleo
trification of the Milwaukee road from
Harlowtown, Mont, to Avery, Idaho,
will begin soon.
Prohibition is lost in Idaho for a
while at least as the constitutional
amendment failed to secure two-thirds
vote in the house.
The new ST. Maries drawbridge, the
highest in the world, being a few
inches higher than the one at Chat
.colet, has been accepted by the state
and county.
The First Bank of Culdesac has
taken over the interests of the Farm
ers' State bank, which was organized
a short time ago to take over the bust
ness of the Bank of Culdesac, which
failed. D., ,,.Air..
The senate paid tribute Saturday
morning to the late Senator Hepburn
of Idaho, setting aside business long
enough to permit his former. colleague
and his successor to deliver eulogies
on his life's work.
The University of Idaho is to take
an important part in stamping out the
hog cholera in the southern part of the
state The manufacture of hog cholera
serum is to be undertaken at once by
the veterinary, bacteriology and animal
husbandry departments.
A bill has been introduced in the
Idaho legislature by r. o. Jones, which
is securing the backing of the mem
bers of volunteer fire departments
over the entire state. The bill pro-
vides for the exemption of the firemen
in regular volunteer departments from
the road poll tax.
The new map of Idaho, which has
been in course of preparation by the
interior department and which was to
have been published last year, will be
withheld from publication pending the
action of the state legislature, regard
ing changes in the county lines, and
the creation of new counties.
A deal has been consummated be-
tween the Idaho state land board and
the national government whereby Ida
no secures 54S,157 acres of white pine
timber land in exchange for a large
body of state school lands. The ex-
change was made at the rate of about
four acres of the states mixed timber
land for one acre of the government
land covered with white pine timber,
the state receiving in addition suffi-
cient acreage of grazing land on the
edge of the forest reserve to make the
gross acreage just mentioned and to
make the gross acreage exchanged and
acquired by the government and the
state practically the same. This deal
has been pending for the. last four
years and it is considered that it will
be advantageous to the state in many
ways The land acquired by the state
is located principally in Bannock, Bing-
ham and Bonner counties and the tim
Der land alone is worth approximately
$15,000,000.
In the Legislature.
The characterization bridge bill
passed the senate by vote of Fl to
2 and goes to the governor for sigma
ture.
The house has passed the following
bills and sent them to the senate: 81,
abolishing the 81 fee for teachers ex-
aminations; 1898, providing that all
public officials must file itemized
statements of expenditures.
The Machold insanity investigation
has been terminated in the senate by
the adoption of the investigation COM