Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-05-08
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

The new postoffice building is near
ly completed at st. Maries.
Grangeville has decided to observe
Memorial day in a fitting manner.
The Idaho state tennis tournament
Will be held in Lewiston June 1928.
Two Greeks were accidentally shot
at Enaville Sunday in a celebration OF
the Greek Easter.
The sudden disappearance of Will
liam A. Matthews from Boise has
caused some comment.
The Idaho university cadets, who
have been at Hayden lake for camp,
have returned to school.
The debating team of the Wardner-
Kellogg high school won the cham
pionship of Shoshone county.
Besides a dozen or more dwellings
work is in progress on the new $50, 900
school building at st. Maries.
The fruit growers of Kootenai coun-
ty will not join the Spokane Fruit
Growers company this season.
A decrease of $685., 926 in the as
sessed valuation of Latah county be-
tween 1911 and 1912 is shown by the
records.
Richard G. Halliday, for years en-
gagged in the hotel business in Spo-
kane, has purchased the Idaho State
bank at Rupert, Idaho.
AT the recent interscholastic decla-
nation contest at Lewiston first place
was won by Ernest Poe of Moscow,
and Karl Clark, Culdesac, second.
The Odd Fellows of Shoshone coun-
ty were the guests of the Wardner
and Kellogg lodges Saturday to help
celebrate the Oath anniversary of the
founding of the order.
Walter Johnson, great pitcher of the
Washington Americans, formerly of
Welser, is soon to take a bride in the
person of Miss Anna R. Scully, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick ]. Scully
of Cambridge.
DIR. S. B. Nelson, secretary of the
Northwest Live Stock association. is
mailing 10000 preliminary premium
lists for the show and sale, which will
De held at Lewiston, Idaho, December
1 to 6, inclusive.
The Judgment of $15,51O given Frank
E. Denbeigh, an employee of the Stand
ard mine in Shoshone county, for in
Jurles received by a train between
Wallace and Burke was recently re.
duced to $11,510 by the supreme court
of Idaho.
Earl and Herman Schultz, and G
years old, and Willie Chapman, aged
4, were burned to death at Boise re-
Gently, as the result of fire started
by the boys, who were playing with
in shed partially filled with
waste paper.
The old south mill of the Bunker
Hill Mining and Concentrating CON- |
pany has been leased by the lessees
Of the Tyler, Stemwinder and Hall |
tunnel workings of the same property
and Will be prepared at once for con-
;entrat1ng to it's capacity of ESQ tons
/ day.
County School Superintendent Cath
crime L. Dryden is elated over the con-
iltlon OF the public schools in Latah
county. On her records are 166
licensed teachers, and according to the
asst school census there are $3.50 per-
IONS between the ages of and 81
ears old.
Representatives French and Smith
II Idaho have taken up with the treas
Try department the question of having
IDS made upon Idaho building ma
erial in the construction of public
buildings in Idaho. They believe that
he material is as good as that which
S being shipped thousands of miles.
nd that its use would not only save !
n appreciate sum in the cost of [
uilding material but would aid in the
development of important industries
within the state. j
After resisting the collection of
axes levied against the property of
he Washington Water Power COM
any by Kootenai county, carrying the
ase to the federal court for adjudi-
alton, 1t is found that the company
vii be required to pay but s7O7.S2
ess to the county than it would have
aid without litigation. The county !.
riginally claimed s35,655.O7. It will
ave to pay $34,94S.25, besides the
osts, which probably will aggregate
everal thousand dollars.
The following are members of COM 7