Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-05-06
The patient Wa Immediately quaran-

tined.
Wheat and oat hay is bringing &c a
ton in the Big Bend country, and there
is disposition ON the part of num-
Der Of the farmers to raise hay instead
Of grain.
A New York company offers to put
in creamery plant at Asotin If the
milk from 800 COWS can be secured
The irrigation company will give
free site.
The electric light plant at Cheney
is again in operation. and the citizens
hope that satisfactory agreement has
been reached by the Edison company
and the bondholders.
The residence of w. E. Mitchell, in
Olympia, burned with its contents last
Saturday. There was $500 insurance
on the building and furniture, which
about covers the loss.
The effects of the bank of Anacortes,
which suspended in 1898. were sold at
assignee's sale the other day, and
brought but a small sum, compared
with the banks liabilities.
The dead body OF an unknown man
was found in the bay at Seattle last
week. There was frightful wound
on the right side Of the head, but the
real cause of death has not been ascer-
tanned.
The Whatcom Reveille claims that
the old brick courthouse on e street in
that town is not only the first brick
building built in the territory of Wash
ington, but the first built north of San
Francisco.
Mrs. Sidney T. Ford, of Centralia,
last Thursday celebrated her Goth
birthday, among many Of her old
friends Mrs. Ford is one Of Wash
ington's earliest pioneers, having set
tied on Ford's prairie.
Saddle horses belonging to Wesley
Jones and E. w. Braokett were taken
from hitching posts in the center Of
North Yakima last week and ridden
off. The horses, stripped of saddles
and brides, were found in the sage
brush near the old town a couple OF
days later.
A doubt has risen in the minds OF
some in Seattle as to whether or not
James X. Allsop, the man who com.
mltted suicide in the Seattle Jail re-
GENTLY, after being arrested for murder
was the man the police was after. A
, photograph of the real Allsop has beer
received, and does not resemble tn,
| man who killad hi,naaIf
1t is claimed that there is snake
measuring about three inches in length
in the eye of horse belonging to Ale,
MoAllister, of Yakima City. TIL
snake can be plainly seen wrigglin
, around in the ball of the eye, and tn
horse is gradually becoming blind
Mayor Lake and George Gervais voncl
for the truth of this statement, says tn
, Yakima Herald.
, A surprise was created in land Office
circles in Spokane last week by the ar
rival of patents to the Northern Pacifi
, Railroad Company for lands near Pa
louise, occupied by Edward f. Power
: and James d. Holiday. The settler
had contested the company's claim an,
the local office decided in their favor
The railroad company appealed an,
3 pending decision patents were is
\ sued to the company.
Commander Wadhams, of the Mon
terey. says the damage to the Montere
when the steamship Transit collide
with her in Seattle harbor recently di
t not need immediate attention. One G
. the Monterey's plates was sprung b
g the collision, but it had been caulket
and there was no necessity of perms
i nent repairs till the monitor returns |
9 Mare island. Commander Wadham
i said the Monterey might remain ON th
r Sound all summer.
y A number of farmers living nes
. Lake Stevens have organized societ
u called the Lake Stevens Mutual Benei
u Society. The society is organized I,
o practical cooperation. Each memb,
IL is asSessed an equal amount, and b;
IL the use of the community propert,
rs which at present consists of stuml
Is puller. fruit sprayer. some full-bloC
re Jersey stock and several improv,
|" farming implements. 1t is the inte
70 tion of the society to erect fruit-dry
at the lake in time for this season
le crop of prunes, which will be lar
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