Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-04-17
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

The Methodist Sunday school OF
Boomers Ferry won the attendance
prize last quarter in Bonner county
The trial of F. S. Chenea, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Ray Burke
known in Lewiston as Blanche Cor
don. began Monday, April Z.
ILL., Forest is now being held in the
county Jail at Wallace as a suspect IN
the murder of ]. w. Ward, near Adalr'
on the Milwaukee railroad, on March
IS, last.
The new north wing of the admins
tration building of the university is
practically completed. The new addl-
ton to the administration building has
been erected at cost of $4,000.
The wheels in the big Humbird mill
at Standpoint were turned Monday and
the mill is now in readiness for the be-
ginning of the seasons run. The mill
is one of the biggest in the state, and
it's payroll the largest in Standpoint.
Representative Burton l.. French
has taken up with the chairman OF the
house committee on appropriations the
Importance of a sufficient approprla-
ton for the national sanitarium for
tuberculosis located at Fort Lapwai.
Mrs H. It. Rood of Granite, Idaho,
victim of a maniacal attack of A. Carl
son, armed with an angle bar, lies very
ri
when arrested that he was forced to
kill a rabbit, woman or lion every time
he meets one.
The board of regents of the uni
versity will meet in Moscow April 10.
This will probably be the last meet
ing of the old board as the new board
of regents and state board of control,
merged into one, as created by the
last legislature, will then be in charge.
Although he repented of the act of
writing a $4,000 check in favor of Mrs.
Ross E. Coe, the woman who nursed
him when he thought he was going to
die, Phil McGran, a wealthy retired
business man of Boise must make the
obligation good This is the edict of
the supreme curt of this state.
Dr. C. H. Shattock, head of the for
estry department of the Idaho expert
ment station, has announced that his
department will furnish all kinds of
trees practically free to residents of
Idaho He has 10000. The cost to
Idahoans will be only cents a tree
and the cost of packing, which will be
In the early days the poplar was used
almost universally in the towns for
ornamental and shade purposes and it
is thought these trees will now be re-
placed by better varieties The list
available this year includes Austrian
pine, black locust, Norway maple, sill
yer maple, black walnut, white ash,
red oak and willow cuttings
Governor John NJ. Haines Officially
announced his appointments of men,
bers of four important commissions
created by the last legislature. They
are as follows: Public utilities COM
mission-J. A. Blomquist, Boise, two
year term; A. P. Ramstedt, Moscow,
four-year term; ID. w. Standrod, Poca-
tello, six-year term. State highway
commission-Theodore Turner. Poca-
tello; Miles Cannon, Weiser Professor
Little of Moscow is made a member of
the commission by the terms of the
act. State board of Observation-Disclosures
). Bruce, Boise, one-year term; David
Levans, Malad, two-year term; Her
man j. Rossi, Wallace, three-year
term; H. Harland, Payette, four-year
term; Evan Evans, Grangeville, five
year term. Panama-Pacific exposition
commissioner. G. Beach, Lewiston:
E. II. Dewey, Nampa; Major Fred r
Reed, commissioner of immigration.
labor and statistics, is named execu-
tive commissioner by the terms of the
act.