Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-06-28

Al members, IL OF whom are LADIES',
and its organization will surely
work much good.
More new goods at Fletcher &
Fletcher's.
Jim Smoot arrived with big
load Of freight Wednesday morning. !
Mary L. Leonard Of Glenn's
Ferry was granted divorce from
Mark Leonard in the District Court
Of Alturas on the 18th instant.
Wednesday night and Thursday
this section was blessed with copi-
GUS showers, and the surrounding
high peaks are again wearing snowy
nantes.
Major Cavanah is having the
court house and its surroundings
cleaned and repaired preparatory
for the District Court to convene
here on the 30th.
Josiah Potts and wife, Elizabeth,
were hanged at Elko, New the Goth
instant, for the murder of Miles
Fawcett in January, 1888. Their
last words were 1--WE are innocent
Hon. Jno. s. Lewis, in a private
letter to the BULLETIN, from Three
Creek, Owyhee county, among other
things, saws: Everybody and
everything doing well up here and
the goose hangs high"
In the Alturas District Court on
the 18th: Fletcher & Simpson. re-
spondent, VS.. Jacob Reeser, appel
liant; Judgment as per stipulation
; on file in favor Of respondent for
500 and costs; stay of execution
for 20 DAYS.
Judge Scout of Alkali creek, FL
more county, while in Boise a short
time ago assisted Jud. Boyakin in
putting up his new Democratic
power press. The Judge is a rip
snorting Republican-but there's
: nothing mean about him.
President Harrison says he has
been made sick by the ingratitude
Of friends, will not be a candidate
for denomination, and his action ON
the Silver bill will be governed by a
sense of duty, and not by selfish
considerations.
Ex-Gov. Stevenson, who will com
mence carrying mails and passon
!. gers between here and the Basin o.
the 1st of next month. says he will
: take the ribbons himself and show
: the boys little Of tho Hank Monl
style Of driving-Boisc Dem.
Speaker Reed has referred tn
Senate silver bill to the Commi tie
: on Coinage, Weights and Measures
= where we fear il viii sleep forever
This reference puts it beyond tn
power Of the silver men to gain an,
= advantage from the Senate amend
:, ments to the BILL II puts the entir
e matter into the hands of the Ad
c ministration people, and the Speake
!, can dictate action just as he sees Fl
II TO do.
It The Eagle Rock Register says
Ie Three years ago Mr.. Free on San
8. creek, sowed little strip of groun
n some twenty yards long and one Q
IL two wide, to flax. Every yea
g year since the volunteer has az
d peared and thicker each year tina
$. the proceeding crop This shout
satisfy the most sceptical mind thu
:, flax can be raised to SPLENDID SUI
u. cess in Snake river valley.
- =, A New Mexico miner tells II
.ie Scientific American how TO brea
n. boulders as follows: Some te
y y years ago superintended the sinl
- ing Of large well in which we g,
L. great quantities Of very hard gram
:, bonlders, varying from 100 ID.
% 1.5O0 lib. in weight. The heavie
Il sledge we had brought To bear {
y them by a powerful man had lit
is. or no effect on them, but we brol
Il. them easily by means Of gial
=, = powder without drilling holes in
~ them. We placed from one 10 Gig
an m sticks of seven-cighths giant on
boulder, according to tile size, al
eat put a shovelful of moist earth ,
~, -, the powder, jus, To keep it IN 7
. sition, fired the charge. and new
~ failed to break our boulder. If q
nm pieces were tho large to handle, al
md would not yield to the sledge, '
repeated the operation until tn
IA were small enough.