Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-05-01
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Latah County Sunday School asso-
citation held a convention at Potlatch
Saturday, April 10.
The Peck FIGURING mill is filling an
order for 10000 sacks of flour for ship
ment to Hongkong, China.
The coming meeting of the state
grand council of the Knights of Column
bus meets in Wallace May 10.
Crowds are expected in Occur
d'Alene city for the big regatta during
the three days, July 3, 4 and 5.
The Farmers Grain and Milling
Company has succeeded the Utah
Idaho Elevator Company, at Curry,
Idaho, and at Bull, Idaho.
By direction of the district court Sat
urday officers destroyed over $500
worth of whisky and beer secured in
different raids made by the sheriff's
office.
Robert H. Barton of Moscow, we'll
known in Grand Army circles, was
elected commandant of the soldiers
home in Boise to succeed Willard
White, incumbent, on June 1, 1918.
Representative French of Idaho has
introduced bill extending the number
of annual payments to homesteaders
and purchasers of water from the gov
eminent under reclamation projects
from 10 to 80 years.
The conditions in Lake Occur d Alene
and the Spokane river in the Idaho
city are growing more alarming. The
Blackwell Lumber company and the
Stack-Gibbs Lumber company were
compelled to shut down.
Ira Small of Lewiston last week sold
two carloads of beef cattle to the In
land and Cold Storage markets which
netted him s104.75 per head. There
were 46 head of cattle in the two cars,
Mr.. Small receiving $7S7h per hun
dred weight.
No traces have been found of Will
liam Graves, night station man for the
Decentralization improvement com
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demented and is wandering around in
the sparsely settled district around
Alpowa creek
Petitions are being sent out to diff
ferent towns for the signatures of bust
ness men and citizens asking their in
dorsement toward the resumption OF
steamer traffic on the upper Columbia
and Snake rivers, as proposed by the
Columbia and Snake River Waterways
association at the recent meeting in
Pendleton.
e. P. Marshall, wanted in Sacramen
to for issuing fictitious checks, in
mento, leaped from Short Line train
two miles east of Nampa and escaped
Holding up farmer, Marshall found
a file in the wagon. Taking this to
file off his handouts Marshall fled
into the desert.
Bridge number 8, between Snyders
and Meadow creek, on the Spokane In
ternational railroad, caught fire re
Gently and was discovered by one OF
the forest rangers, who tried to ex-
| tinguish the flames after he had in
formed one of the nearby ranchers OF
the fact. The Soo-Spokane flyer was
about due when the fire was discov-
cred and was tagged by Mrs. Knob
| loch and was probably saved from a
bad wreck. She was rewarded by the
passengers.
At the recent growers meeting of
the Weiser River Fruit association
which was attended by Secretary A.
A. Prince of the Northwestern Fruit
exchange, the marketing contract with
the exchange was received for the
coming season. While this year has
been one of small gain to the growers
they fell that the acreage prices re-
celved for both prunes and apples com.
pare very favorably with the average
prices secured by other districts. Com
plete averages have not as yet been
compiled, but the average prices al
which their fruit sold, covering remit
| tances, received to date are as follows
Italian prunes, 49 cents; Jonathans
extra fancy, 81 cents; Arkansas Blacks
extra fancy, $1.63; Rome Beauties, ex
ira fancy, $40; Winesaps, extra fancy
SLIP.
The board of regents of the Uni
versity of Idaho, at it's final session
discharged the heads of eight on ter
departments, designations to be asked
for Immediately, to take effect at The
end of this semester. The cause is
said to be for lack of results by those
members of the faculty whose posi-
lions are made vacant Several O
these have been with the university
for many years. The names will moi