Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-07-21
WEDNESDAY, July 81, 1897.
Miss May Hice has returned


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Miss May Hice has returned
home from Caldwell.
Mrs. Howeth and children have
gone to Duck valley for a short
visit.
The assessed valuation of the
Village of Mountain Home foots up
100000.
Road contractor John Bryant, of
Little Camas, came down last week
to interview the county dads.
Arthur and John Pence, from the
Owyhee side of the Snake, have
been in this place since Friday.
Judge Geo. D. Golden of Rocky
Bar boarded Sunday evenings train
for Salt Lake, where he will spend
the days of the jubilee.
Archdeacon johnson, of Idaho
and Wyoming, will hold divine SER
vices in this place this evening at
the Episcopal church.
Mrs. Campbell and children re-
turned from the mountains Monday
evening-the weather up there be-
ing too chilly for comfort.
Mrs. Ste We Robertson of Bruneau
went to Salt Lake last week for
medical treatment-her heath hav-
ing been bad for some time.
Assessor James O'Neill, up to
July, had turned into the county
treasury a little over $4,000, for
personal and delinquent taxes.
Ed Gaetz and Thee. " alters, &C.
companied by Miss Matte Wootan
and Miss Ella Gaetz, came down
from Atlanta Saturday en- route to
Salt Lake to witness the great jub-
lice in that city.
Frank AXE and wife, Mrs. y. A.
Hyde and children Mrs. Dorsey,
Captain Rhoades, A. b. Clark,
John Heifrich and Elmer Smith
went out on Monday nights train
to attend the Salt Lake jubilee.
Mrs. ~. l.. Bailey, president OF
the State Assembly. D. of R., spent
Thursday evening in this place and
made the Mountain Home lodge an
official visit. Little Miss Nellie
Turner accompanied Mrs. Bailey
to Meridian for short visit.
]. NJ. johnson, who is best of au-
thority, estimates the wool ship
ments from Mountain Home this
summer at over one and half
million pounds, and the revenue
from sales already made exceeds
that of last year by at least $50, 900.
Arthur Davis came down from
Atlanta and went to Boise last
Friday. He informs us that Mr..
Morice is working about rs men on
his Yuba mines. Also that Abbott
and Sullivan, at.Rocky Bar, who had
tunnel contract from the Idaho
Con. Co., have struck 7-foot ledge
of good ore.
Commissioner George Butler re-
ceived letter last Thursday from
Mrs. Butler at Atlanta, stating thai
on the afternoon of the 18th the
dwelling house belonging to Ruff,
Turner, with nearly all its contents
was destroyed by fire. How tn,
fire originated seems to be a mystery
The loss falls heavy upon Mr.. Tur
ner and family.
Nine months ago, on the night o
October II, John Kensler was muir
dered by his wife and Alfred Freel
On the 18th of this month, in tn
Idaho penitentiary, Josie Kensler
the murdered mans wife, CAV
birth to girl baby. Freel is ais
in the pen and it is generally be
LEVIED that this child's father is in
carcerate6 within the same wall
that surround its convict mother.
w. H. Manion last Saturday pre-
scented $4,000 bond to the count
commissioners, which was accepts
and he was Immediately sworn i
as Auditor and Recorder and ClerI
of the District Court. Mr.. Manic
received the unanimous supper
, of the board of county commission
ers for the position, and gave goo
sufficient bond without having I
leave his desk to obtain it, and VIII
the goldbug Republican paper {
this town persists in libeling M
Manion is mystery TO all the bel
people of this community.