Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-30
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

association met in Butte Saturday in
convention.
Wardner-Kellogg high school team
defeated the Wallace high school team
in the interscholastic debate.
A fatal fire at Edgewood, B. c., oc
Cured Friday, in which Mr.. and Mrs
H. L. Mcintosh were burned to death
Pure Food Commissioner James H
Wallis of Idaho has been reelected
for term Of two years to succeed
himself.
The fire at Edmonton, Alberta, Jan
16, crushed out the lives of two men
both Austrians, and entailed property
loss of $250,000.
A meeting of the North Pacific Fail
association will be held at Salem, Ore.
February 6, to determine dates for the
fairs of the northwest.
The Great Northern railway has sent
in a large gang of Japanese and Fill
pino laborers to lay the steel on the
new Idaho Continental company's spur
this side of the river, the grading OF
which has been completed to Port Hill
Bids on the assets of the wrecked
California Safe Deposit and Trust com
pany will be opened February 20.
About 20 per cent will be all that
creditors will receive. Liabilities at
the time of the failure were booked
at $9,000,000.
Members of the Moose lodges in the
West have adopted resolution favor
ing the purchase of the Hot Lake SAM
forum property to be used as a home
for aged members of the order. The
property consists of 1880 acres and
the price asked for it is 100000.
Work is to be started at once by the
Montana Pulp and Paper company on
the building of sawmill at the mouth
of the Yakt river, and this will be fol-
lowed in the near future by the con-
struction of two dams across the river
and the construction. of a pulp and pa
per mill.
Sacramento, Cal.-Daniel Fleming,
former Southern Pacific Waterman,
found guilty of manslaughter for hav-
ing caused the death of George Waller
of Tacoma, must serve his ten-year
sentence, according to a decision by
the district court of appeals, sustaining
the trial court.
Although plans for the electrified
ton of $50 miles of main line of the
Puget sound division have not been
officially announced by the manage
ment of the st. Paul road, it is under
stood that the directors are prepared
to authorize an expenditure of $1,000
900 for the project.
Andrew Carnegie, with no reference
to the San Francisco discussion as to
the ACCESSIBILITY of accepting tainted
for public purposes, will send
the first installment of the $750,000
which he offered for the erection of a
library building in that city. The city
already has raised $4,000 for the Ii
brary and will raise 100000 more.
The snow which has played such
havoc with the Puget sound country
and the Cascades for the last few
weeks, swept down upon Portland Sat
urday night and through the Columbia
and Willamette valleys, covering the
earth with a depth of snow of from
six to Ia inches in the city and to a
greater depth in exposed places in the
valley.
David M. Hand, former pastor OF the
Baptist church, Moscow, who was con-
victed by jury in the district court
of having been the means of the de-
linquency of Hazel Benedict, the IT.
year-old daughter of the superintend-
ent of the Baptist Sunday school, was
sentenced Friday by Judge Steels to
from five years to life in the peniten-
tiary at Boise.
Two hearings have been ordered by
the railroad commission, according to
advices received in Butte by railroad
officials, one January 20, to investigate
the service furnished by the Great
Northern between Butte and other
cities, and another February A.. to in
vestigate rates on fruit, lumber, grain,
forest products, lumber products and
vegetables in carload lots between sta
lions in Montana on the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy. All 10 classes I'M
der the western classification are af-
fected. Both hearings will be held at
Helena.
With its blades revolving at a ter
rifle speed, an O.-W. R. G. N. snow
plow running over the company's right
of way served snow to hundreds of