Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-07-21
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4 Costeo Arnold, rancher at Soldier,
Camas Prairie, is in Jail at Haley ON
charge of horse stealing.
Large parties of homeseekers from
the east are looking for place to
plant colony. They are looking
around Nampa.
On the / It'll the miners at Wallace
celebrated the anniversary of the con
ilict at the Frisco mine last year
President Boyce of the Miners FEEDER
htion was the orator of the occasion.
The Albion Normal school trustees
have selected the following officers:
Prof. j. Black of Indiana, principals;
Mrs. .. Z. Steunenberg, Caldwell; w.
A Mullins, Mountain Home; II. S,
Hampton, Albion; Miss Ethel Thomas,
Denver
A fatal accident occurred at Ovid,
idaho. The s-yem-o1d son of Peter
Nelson was assisting to uni Dad load
of hay when the mast of the derrick
broke, fallingon the boy and iunocking
! his brains out. He died instantly.
The refusal of the miners unions Of
.Iren and Burke TO talSeePart in the
Wallace Fourth OF July celebration
because the Wardner militia had been
invited, although they knew they were
not going, Is sufficient to Snow the I'LL
feeling which exists there against tho
properly constituted guardians of the
peace, says the Wardner News.
Sunday was the hottest day of the
year thus far and the hottest day since
S92 at Boise. The mercury at the post
stood 107 degrees and several places
about the city registered at a higher
mark In the past twenty five years
there have been only ten days in which
old Sol poured down his rays with
greater vigor,
Lon leeds and u a. Baker came over
to Boise from the Snake river bridge.
Mr.. Baker is one of a party of eight
who came from Chicago with fourteen
carloads e3tff Of iron for the bridge work.
Nearly all of the cars have been taken
to Guffey and the work of stringing
the iroh, the false work will be begun
a. g Church of Emmett reports con,
siderable damage at his placer mine
at Marsh from the eloudpurst recently.
lle.was preparing to clean up race
where large quantity of gold was
lying at the time the flood came, and
such was the force of the water that
when it was over he found that gold
aad ,alLhad been carried entirely out
of the race ON to the dump
E&lTlientehant Governor Bierbowe,
while at Shoshone, when asked what
the effect OF the recent decision on tht
fee law -lIad ION the legislation estab
fishing the counties of Blaine and Lin
coin, said. it was difficult to tell, but
his recollection of the action of th,
Legislature on these measures was tha
they have not been passed in accord
ance with the rule laid down by til,
court lie feared That further litiga
tion over their long standing trouble
there would result He advanced tn,
opinion that the only safe course I,
pursue would be to cali the legislatur,
in hXtra session.
Charles Ilopf was killed by an eXplo
sion of giant powder at the Trade Dol
lar mine at Silver City. The explosion
occurred on the 30 foot level of tn,
Trade Dollar Hopf had drilled mum
Der ofholes and was preparing to blast
In an instant there was terrific eN
plosion, and Ilopf was blown back
wards, falling heavily His body wa
frightfully mangled. hardly an inch o
it but was covered with pieces of meta
froie the caps. The top of the hea
waSblown off, carrying away both tn
eyes His left hand was torn off a
the wrist, and every finger on the righ
hand was taken OFF, but the little fir
ger. The cause OF the explosion
not known, but it is conjectured tina
Mr.. Iopf was smoking at the time an
spark ignited the blast, with til
above result.
"Shorty" Miller, one of the hands I
the Dewey company at Pearl. had IL
misfortune to have his right hand cr
of just above the wrist. lie also II
ceived a frightful cash in the back ,
the neck and one of his legs was bad
crushed lie and man named Hs
per We're wsrSingsat the bottom of Ii
Judas Shaft and were preparing /
come out, as the end of their shift ";
near at hand just as they were rol
ing large stone into the center of Il
shaft preparatory to sending it u
another boulder which had hecou
loosened about ten feet above the
fell, catching Miller's arm between
and the other rock, cutting It off
clean as though ii had been done BY
surgical instrument. fragment
the rock struck Harper on the hea
cutting an ugly cash.