Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-09-22
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Gently with eighty head of P. McMon-
i@ls's herd of stolen cattle.
Alexander Tolman, a sheep herder In
Cassia county, was attacked by bear
last week and terribly mangled. 1t is
thought he will recover.
Kendrick druggist is wroth be-
cause he locked up common Indian
dog, which made break for liberty
through SIS plate-glass window.
Charles White, alias Clarence Hoyt,
of Boise, was sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary for perjury com
mitted in case in justices court.
The Elmore county assessment roll
for 1897 foots up 81 ,1s3, ,577, II, making
S96, ,449.76 more than the assessment
OF 1896, and not including subsequent
entries.
The crowning act of verbal pledge
made between two men who were in
business in California some years ago
took place at the home of j. L. Taylor
nearKendriek, Latah county.
Mrs G. b. Brown of Wardner was
explaining the working of parlor
rifle to Clara Falconer, aged IA years,
not believing the gun loaded The
weapon, small 81 skeleton stock rifle,
was discharged, the bullet striking
the girl on the right eyebrow and
merging less than two inches from
where it entered After few minutes
she lost consciousness and died in
about an hour.
terrible accident occurred at
point in Kootenai county recently
resulting in the death of John V. Nes-
bitt, manager of the sawmill. Mr..
Nesbitt and his wife were riding on a
railroad velocipede about one mile east
of town when the westbound express
came around the curve. Mrs. Nesbitt
jumped from the velocipede in time to
save herself. Mr.. Nesbitt also jumped,
but the train struck the velocipede,
which was hurled against him with
such force that his back was broken
and his head crushed.
Captain Bledsoe has brought into
Boise a curiosity from Union county,
Or, that may prove to be an object of
great interest in the scientific world.
This find is either freak of nature or
relic of the civilization of prehis-
toric times. 1t is stone in the form
of human head, life size, and is SO
perfect that men who have seen it de-
clare it is either petrifcation or the
work of human hands. 1t includes
neck terminating in a rounded knob.
The head and the knob are polished
and are of greenish color, while the
neck has the appearance of sandstone.
The curiosity was found in a placer
claim under IS feet of gravel on East
Eagle creek in Union county. Captain
Bledsoe hoped to be able to submit it
to Prof Lindgren, the geglogist, but
that gentleman had left for Warrens.
The image, or whatever it may be, is
on exhibition at the Nye-Galbraith
drug store.
was engaged in business in California,
and being in need of partner took a
man by the name of J. c. New. After
two years business grew dull and
after hard struggle they were com
PEELED to give up. without dissolving
partnership, the men decided to part
and made anagreement that should
fortune ever smile upon them they
would hunt each other up and divide.
Mr.. Taylor drifted into Washington,
Engaging in business at Oakesdale, for
time, and then bought a ranch on
Cedar creek, where he now resides.
Mr.. New went to Alaska and when
the riches of the Klondike were her
aided to the world was one of the first
In the camp, and succeeded IN making
small fortune, besides securing three
claims. Faithful to the promise that
was made in the shadow of a business
failure, he hunted Mr.. Taylor up and
recently, in company with an attorney
went to the home of Mr.. Taylor to get
MS power VI htboi iOA bhN oiSB'9"'
of his interest in some claims on the
Klondike. Mr.. Taylor also received
S27, 500 as his half of the earnings OF
one of the claims. He has been offer
cred 500, 900 for the other three clans.
John Lowry, miner on the Boston
& Montana property at Butte, fell
down n shaft 400 feet and every bone
In his body was broken.
Cascade is the first county In Mon
tana that has taken steps to rid it,
lands of the Russian thistle.
1t is said there is not an idle man ir
Hamilton, New, owing to the advances
in lead.
Mrs. Sylvia Northway of Gunnison
Colo, is making inquiry of the Bois,
authorities for the location of her hus
bands grave. Mrs. Northway ha
Just learned that her husband wa
BILLED sometime during the years 500
70, while cutting timber, somewher
IN the state.