Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-05-26
G. NJ. PAYNE MABEL L. PAYNE
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
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IDAHO STATE NEWS.


case is in progress aeMountain Home.
Over 5000 worth of property was
DESTROYED in the Glenn's Ferry fire
prognostieator at HALEY thinks it
will be all summer now until fall, as
the weather has become so nice and
summer-lilSe.
Fifty-four of the guns stolen from
the Mullan armory, and 1900 rounds
of ammunition have been recovered.
All the wearing apparel left Mrs.
Kruse and her daughters after fire at
Glenn's Ferry, was stolen from
clothes line.
From all parts of the Potlat III and
Palouse countries are coming reports
of the splendid outlook for fruit.
A thousand Indian ponies will be
rounded up and driven to Nez Perce
by white and Indian cowboys, to take
part in the sports on the Fourth.
Ruby Bowen, a charming young la
dy of HALEY, was thrown from a horse
and received serious injuries.
Lieutenant Irwin, Indian agent at
Ross Fork, has rescinded all orders
permitting the taking of rock or build
ing stone from the reservation. Uncle
Sam looks after no one like he does an
Indian, and perhaps no one needs it so
mt ch.
Mamie Dick, a popular young lady of
Little Basin, met sad death. She
was thrown from a horse, dragged and
kicked to death before the spirited an
i'm Il could be caught.
Considerable stir has been created at
Boise by the dismissal of John p. Par
ry, melter at theassay Office. The civil
service law applies and Mr.. Barry says
it protects him from summary dismis-
sal so he has laid his case before the
civil service commission.
Frank Cameron, night amalgamator
of the Golden Chest mill at Murray,
slipped while putting on belt. and
fell between the engine and pump.
The piston rod struck him and cut his
head entirely off just below the ears.
William Kessler, who started for
the Thorn Creek cabin, lost his way in
the mountains and wandered around
for several days with nothing to eat.
searching party, who supposed him
to be dead, found him.
A break occurred in the Ridenbaugh
canal about three miles southwest OF
Meridian in what is known as the Stan
ton region. The disaster was caused
by a cloudburst which swept the EN-
bankment away like so much sand and
made break of 800 or 400 feet. The
water came down in solid wall thai
nothing could Withstand.
About 5000 sheep belonging to Will
liam Hirsh were drove through Boise
last week and when passing the depo
Stopped to Craze on the carefully KEEP
lawn. The rose bushes were complete
" ruined so far as this year is con
cerned, the lilacs were destroyed ant
the bark is strippe,> - = the II INK o
of the olive tree.
A notice has been given of a meeting
of the directors of the Boise, Nampa
Owyee railway company, limited q
their office here June /, for the pun
pose of authorizing the company to II
sue bonds in the sum of $3.50, 900.
A sturgeon weighing $50 pounds an
measuring ten feet in length was sol
in Caldwell the other day by Nj
Coleson who lives about II miles frol
that city. He caught it with hoo
and says that fish weighing two an
three times as much are frequentl
caught.
The fruit and berry crop of Wasl
ington county promises to be phenoI
enal. The citizens there claim to ha,
plenty of good land, plenty of wat
and the best cline on earth and ST
there is plenty of land left for desir
BILE people.
The total delivery of wool at Weiss
this spring will somewhat exceed
million and half pounds.
Henry p. Horridge, of Brooklyn,
Y, wrote few days ago to Sheri
o'Malley of Pocatello, inquiring co
eerning Henry Plumer, an uncle III
at one time sheriff of one of the cou
ties of Idaho. In relation to the ms
ter |. NJ. Yandell, of Fort Hall, writ'
please inform Mr., Horridge that
uncle. Sheriff Henry Plumer, met |
death by sad accidents at Bannock q
in 1861. lie and his friend Geor
Ives were tangled up in the end OF
rope and were cholSed to death sh
if Plumer was a very religious ms
I heard him pray just before the ae
dent happened. There are others W
would have met the same fate,
they were on the night shift and
kind providence spared their lives u
they might be the future govern
and United States senator's OF ldaf