Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-06-19
IDAHO NEWS NOTES
Flag day is Sunday, June Is.

Plans are being made for a new
lighting system at Genesee.
A disastrous fire of unknown origin
recently completely destroyed three
fine homes at Wallace.
S. ]. Linden has received notice
from the department that he has been
appointed postmaster at lilo.
The recent heavy rain, which was
general throughout the northern part
of the state, did untold good to crops.
| Lewiston sent roses in abundance to
the Idaho state university at Moscow
for use at the commencement exer-
cises.
| One of the worst storms of the sea-
son passed over Occur d'Alene Satur-
day night and considerable damage
was done by the strong wind which
prevailed .or more than two hours
At the recent meeting Of the Idaho
State Pharmaceutical association, held
at Boise, Idaho, the following officers
were elected: l.. R. wager, president;
Donald S. whitehead, secretary; F.
s. Smith, treasurer.
| Representative Addison T. Smith,
was best man recently at the wedding
of Francis Auguste Millot, formerly of
Kellogg, Idaho, and Miss Mabel Lee
Powell of the national capital Millot
now lives in Pittsburg.
One of the new processes for the
treatment of Idaho timber when man
ufactured into lumber discovered by
DR.. G. H. Shattuck, head of the for
estry department of the University of
Idaho, is to make tamarack or 1arch
and fir lumber as light in weight as
white pine for shipping purposes.
Dr. S. B. l.. Penrose of Whitman
college at Walla Walla announces that
at commencement a degree of l.. l..
d. will be conferred upon United
States Senator William E. Borah of
Idaho and degrees of d. D. upon the
Rev. Walter B. Hinson of Portland
and the Rev. Horace c. Mason of Sc
attic.
A cloudburst near Orofino Saturday
afternoon swept such quantities of
mud and rocks down on the tracks of
the Clearwater Short Line that traffic
was delayed a few days. The cloud
burst emptied itself over a section Is
miles long. No serious damage to hui
man life or crops was reported.
Assessors in the state of Idaho who
have failed so far and who continue
to fail to assess property at it's full
cash value will be held liable under
their bands and their oath of office
This is the edlct that goes forth from
the tax commission of this state. The
reports that have come into the COM
mission from it's three agents now in
the fled indicate that in a number of
the counties the assessors are assess
ing property at a reduction from 20
to 40 per cent basis of it's full cash
value.
William Thompson, vice president
of the Lewiston National bank, was
elected president of the Idaho Bank
ers' association just before one of the
most successful annual conclaves of
that association closed at Weiser. Guy
Bowerman of st. Anthony, was elected
vice president; j. G. Blackwell, Parma,
treasurer, and ]. w. Robinson, Boise,
secretary. Twin Falls was selected
as the convention city for 1914, the
date to be selected later by the execu-
tive committee The convention odont
ed the suggestion of D. w. Davis, pres
ident of the First National bank of
American Falls, to speak of the Snake
river only as the Lewis river, the
original name this stream had in the
territorial days.