ELKINS ELKS ELKINS, a city of West Virginia, the county-seat of Randolph co. It is on the Western Maryland and the Coal and Coke railroads. The chief industries are tanning, locomotive and car repair- ing, and the manufacture of boxes and extracts. The city is the seat of Davis and Elkins College, and has an Odd Fel- lows' home, hospitals, and other public institutions. Pop. (1910) 5,260; (1920) 6,788. ELKINS, STEPHEN BENTON, an American capitalist and public official, born in Perry co., O., in 1841. He grad- uated from the University of Missouri in 1860 and after studying law was ad- mitted to the bar in 1864. In the same ELK, MOOSE, or MOOSE DEER, the largest of the deer family, a native of northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American form (to which the name moose is usually given), is sometimes separated from the European, but most naturalists find no specific difference between them. The elk or moose has a short, compact body, standing about 6 feet in height at the shoulders, a thick neck, large, clumsy head, and horns which flatten out almost from the base into a bi'oad, palmate form with numerous snags. In color the elk is grayish brown, the limbs, sides of head, and coarse mane being, however, of a lighter hue. The moose has a wide range in Canada, extending from the AMERICAN ELK year he removed to New Mexico and was elected to the Territorial Legislature. He became in succession district attorney, Attorney-General of the Territory and United States District Attorney. He was a delegate to Congress from New Mexico from 1873 to 1877. He later re- moved to West Virginia and married the daughter of Henry Gassaway Davis, thus acquiring large business interests, par- ticularly in the coal business and rail- ways. From 1891 to 1893 he was Secre- tary of War in President Harrison's cab- inet, and in 1894 he was elected to the Senate. He was twice re-elected. He was the author of Elkins' Railway Law Of 1903. He died in 1911. Arctic Ocean, and British Columbia, to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; it is found also in Maine. It feeds largely on the shoots of trees or shrubs. In Sweden its destruction is illegal, and in Norway there are many restrictions. ELKS, BENEVOLENT AND PRO- TECTIVE ORDER OF, a fraternal so- ciety organized in New York, 1868, by members of the Jolly Corks theatrical club. The Grand Lodge was incorpo- rated in 1871, the first members being the past officers of N. Y. Lodge No. 1. Lodges were formed successively in Phil- adelphia, San Francisco, Chicago, Cincin- nati, Sacramento, Baltimore, Louisville,
