Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-02-06
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]. Pierpont Morgan is visiting at
Alexandria, Egypt
Electrocution has been substituted
for hanging in Vermont.
Tattooing still finds favor among the
enlisted men of the navy and marine
corps.
The salary at Yale of Professor Will
liam H. Taft, as Kent professor of law,
will be $4,000 a year.
Jean Bielovucci, the Peruvian avi-
ator, flew across the Swiss Alps from
Brig in less than an hour.
There was a severe earthquake
shock in the Turkish capital Saturday
morning. No loss of life is reported
At Los Angeles, Saturday, Fire Chief
Archie Eley and eight of his men were
injured by an explosion of turpentine.
Locking Cashier Brown in the looted
vault, three masked men robbed the
state bank of Mounds, Okla, of $500.
The Colorado and Wyoming Retail
Lumbermen's association has become
n part of the northwestern association.
President-elect Wilson intends to
visit the Panama canal Immediately
after the extra session of congress ad-
journs.
Miss Laura Schimmel, %, steno-
grapher, turned on the gas in her
apartments at San Francisco, and was
asphyxiated.
The rising of the Seine to within six
feet of the flood marks of 1910 has
caused great uneasiness throughout
the low lying districts of Paris.
Andrew Cushner of Forst Collins and
Thomas Dunno of Denver are believed
TO have been killed by a snowslide 20
miles north of Grand Lake, Colo.
Eugene " Debs has been arrested
and charged with obstructing justice
by corrupting a witness in the govern
ment's case against the Appeal to
Reason.
Amos w. Grant, receiving teller OF
the Pioneer State bank, Denver, and
son of a director of the institution has
confessed that he stole 1910 in cash
from the vaults.
Republicans against whom contests
were filed will retain their seats in the
Wyoming legislature, practically insur-
ing the reelection of United States
Senator Francis e. Warren.
Officials of the pure food board hold
they have no authority to place gov
eminent inspectors in Pacific coast
packing houses to inspect citrus fruits
before shipment, as has been request
ed.
Abandonment of the inaugural ball
and the decision not to permit use of
the capitol for a public reception, has
aroused talk of a mammoth public re-
ception at the White House on the
evening of March 4.
The marriage of Norma Anderson,
reputed to be the most beautiful
trained nurse in San Francisco, and
Ernest Rochat, son of millionaire
furniture manufacturer and realty
operator, is announced.
The United States circuit court of
appeals at st. Louis last Thursday re-
versed the district court decision in
the case of the government against
the Lexington Mill and Elevator COM
pany of Lexington, Neb., in the
'bleached flour" case. The lower
court held that the electrical bleach
ing process was violation of the
pure food law.
The national educational board OF
the Methodist church has decided to
accept the offer of the citizens OF
Gooding, Idaho, and locate the new
Methodist college there. The agree
ment is that the city of Gooding fur
nish 100000 to the college fund. AS
soon as necessary funds subscribed
for the college can be collected the
work of construction will commence.