Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-03-08
Mountain Home, March A.

Surveyor Tow ne went down to
the valley Wednesday.
Lon McMullen Of Boise has been
sent to the insane asylum.
Hereafter the Salt Lake Tribune
will appear every day in the year.
His Holiness Pope Leo was pro-
nounced dangerously ill on March
LIST.
II is now announced that the
cholera is following in the wake OF
ia grippe"
Silas w. Moody of Caldwell has
been appointed special agent of the
census department of Idaho.
Congress has voted that Chicago
shall have the Worlds Fair in 1892.
Lewis Benson committed suicide
by shooting at Clayton, Idaho, Feb
ruary 10.
j. W. Rowzee of Oreana informs
the Avalanche that the sheep in
his section are doing we'll and other
stock tolerably so.
DIR. Reynolds has sold the Salu-
bria Citizen to w. ID. Shaw, who is
making an excellent local paper of
that publication.
The World says the residence,
saloon etc, belonging to the estate
of the late VIM. Tincher was sold
at Idaho City short time ago for
$4,000.
Gil Bixby, former resident of
Atlanta, engaged in the mercantile
business and in mining there several
years ago, is tending the bar in the
Central hotel for Mickey Reynolds
at present.-Boise Dem.
y Conversation on the Bruneau
plains: "Whar's Bill?" "Gone to
heaven, | s'pose." 'Dead?" "Guess
so; he tried to ride my bronco"
"Whar's he planted?' "Ain't bur-
led; he never come DOWN.
A Boise clergyman who at a for
mer period of his life had gambled
a little, was absorbed in thought
just before divine services began.
lie was approached by the organ
list, who whispered, referring to the
opening hymn: What shall /
play?" "What kind of a hand
have you got?" responded the alb
sent-minded sky-pilot.
An Arizona paper proifers the fol-
lowing excellent advice If you
have frequent headaches, dizziness
and fainting spells, accompanied by
chills, cramps, corns, bunions, chill
blains, epilepsy and jaundice, il is a
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are liable to die any minute. Pay
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and thus make yourself solid for a
good obituary notice.
At Sehome, Washington, lives
one of the leading women in the field
of letters in America. Ella Hig-
ginson has reputation as wide as
the union for her poetry, which has
been published in the leading liter
airy journals and magazines of the
country. She wields a strong and
caustic pen, and punetures follies
and foibles with unsparing hand.
The West Shore, beginning March
8, will contain department edited
by her, devoted exclusively to the
discussion of topics of especial in
terest TO women. The West Shore
is the only illustrated weekly on
the Pacific coast and is published
at Portland, Oregon.
Since il has been dem onstrated
that the Snake River Land Com
pany's dam, on Bruneau river, will
hold water, the company, we under
stand, will push work on the canal
as fast as possible. When com
pleted it viii be about twenty miles
long, and will carry water enough
to irrigato all the land living under
It. The land is of the kind called
sage-brush, and will produce wheat
and other grain, and hay in large
quantities. We do not know what
this company will charge for water
by the inch, but understand that it
will be SO low that all ranchers can
afford to buy ii. When the canal
ss.all have been completed, ranch
I -s sssssss4leEE 4, anywhere between Bru-
ncau river and Cattle creek, will be
very valuable property. In less
than five years the whole will be
settled by thrifty farmers.--0wyhee
Avalanche.