Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-09-08
IDAHO STATE NEWS.

1he EeFiseu hBureS on the state as
sessments show total of 500 ,951, $50.
Two ianchers living near Portage
eoulee, Montana, in digging a we'll,
found petroleum.
The Chinese of Placerville are run
ming fan games and faro banks in vio-
lation of the law.
Parties from Yellowstone park state
that up to July 27th 10000 persons had
registered in 1897.
The assessments this year show a
great increase in the state valuation of
Ss2l ,457, compared with last year.
The governor and secretary of state
will go to Shoshone county this week
to supervise the selection of timber
lands for the state.
family row between Mr.. and Mrs.
! Golden, Boise colored couple, led to
the woman being fined $50 and costs,
which she will serve out in jail.
A committee Of Dunkards from Illi-
nois are inspecting various localities
in the state with a view to establishing
n colony.
Leander jackson of Payette, received
fatal wound Sunday in a peculiar
manner. While stending on a tub
dressing he had occasion to seize q
broom to frighten away some chick
ems. The tub collapsed and fell on the
broom handle.
The farmers on Silver creek and Lit
tie Wood river are thinking strongly
of clubbing together and making a
shipment of wheat to San Francisco.
They have learned that they can get
Sill bushel there for it, but they
must pay the freight
Surgeon Steely of the Short Line
operated on George Yashioka, the Jap
who was shot in the neck at Idaho
Falls last Saturday, at the Japanese
hospital at Pocatello taking ten frag-
ments of bone and two pieces of bullet
out of the wound.
The Idaho State Fair committee has
decided to extend the event over Ave
days, beginning Oct. ~ and continuing
until the 7th. The exposition build
ing will be 200x120 feet. There will
be 500 stalls for stock.
Ellis Wade, the little blind son of III.
Il. Wade of Prospect, Ida, has acquir-
I'd faculty in recognizing objects by
the sound, being able to tell which of
several pans have been placed on the
table by the sound produced by the
act.
Late news received from the scene
of the hunt for the escaped conyicts
was to the effect that they had been
rallied eighteen miles from the sheep
camp they had robbed, but that the
trail had been lost A later report
announced that the fugitives had tax
en- dinner Monday at the logging camp
on the north fork of the Boise. George
2alston and Andy Robinson were re-
ported close on the trail.
Lewiston claims to have the wheat
king of the Northwest j. p. Vollmer
of Salmon, Ida, has crop of $4,000
acres this year. ALI of this body OF
land Is in the best division of the
wheat belt, the crop was well farmed
and the yield uniformly large, beiug
conservatiyely estimated at thirty
bushels to the acre, or grand total of
100000 bushels.
For several days huge clouds OF
smoke been rolling over the Priest
Sake range of mountains. indicating
that great fire was raging in that di-
rection. The fire seems to be in the
Priest Lake forest reserve, set aside
by Cleveland before he retired from
Office. 1t will probably destroy more
timber within few weeks than the
hand of man would destroy in twenty
five years.
NJ Carey Of Haily has commenced
suit against the Warm Springs Mining
company to recover $4,000, wages
which he claims are due him. lie has
been agent for the COMPANY for sew
eral years, and has done development
work and never received any money
from the company. Some time ago he
leased the property. A considerable
body of ore has been struck in the mine
and as soon as they learned of it, they
removed Mr.. Carey as agent and put
another man in his place.
The mine owners of Silver City,
New, met recently to effect a Joint ar
rangement with the American Flat
Tunnel company, or the Comstock
Tunnel company, to drain and exploit
the mines of that district to greater
depth than the present owners acan
afford to do. The American Flat
Development company has under con.
sideration the proposition of operating
a pumping plant at the old Dayton
works and running tunnel to drain
the mines of both Silver City and the
American Flat.
State Auditor Anderson of Boise
will contest the constitntionality of
the State wagon road act in defending
the 1nandamus case brought against
him by William H. Payne, for the issn-