Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-12-15
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John F. Durham of Silver City was
granted a patent last week on a water
elevator.
The exhumation of the body of a
child at Grangeville caused an out
break of scarlet fever.
There is wood famine at Nez
Perce. Many citizens have been COM
pelleS to burn fence posts.
Ex-senator Dubois will deliver a
lecture in Blackfoot on his observa-
tions in the orient, in the near future.
Marion Keer was appointed post
master at Basalt, Bingham county,
on the 10th, vice C. L. Anderson, re-
signed.
Howard Sebree will feed 500 head of
steers on his farm near Parma He
will probably require / 500 tons of hay
for this purpose.
The United State grand jury has in
dicted William Whitehead, Peter Chris
tiansen and William Gibson of Frank
lin, Oneida county, for unlawfully cut
ting timber.
Judge Piper at Moscow, last week,
sentenced w. B. Me Graw, convict
ed of criminal assault on Florence
Cartwright, to fifteen years in the
penitentiary.
The lard Office did the second largest
months business in November that has
been done since the present officials
assumed control. The amount of land
homesteaded was fraction over 8, ,90S
acres.
Charles Adams is getting the ferry
boat that has been stranded at Ford's
Creek into the water, and will bring it
down to Orc Fino to supply the place
of his boat that was wrecked during
high water last spring. So in few
days travellers can shorten their route
to Nez Perce and Camas prairie points
by good many miles.
The interest taken in basket ball is
on the increase among the Boise high
school girls. The rules for the game
have arrived, and all the members of
the teams are studying them with
diligence. 1t is expected that arrange
ments will be made soon by which the
public will have an opportunity of
witnessing one of their exciting games.
taa La.. IaI
case of Ball VS.. Bannock county, re-
versing the lower court and sending
the case back without instructions to
overrule the demurrer and allow the
defendant to answer if desired. The
case grows out Of the purchase of the
court house Ste at Pocatello. The
warrant issued in payment for 81, 900
was held invalid by the supreme court.
Bah then sued to recover S4 900, with
interest from July 20, 1893.
A refrigerator car jumped the track at
Kendrick, but being empty, the fact
was not noticed by the engineer. The
car bumped over the ties until the
switch was reached, when the wheels
undertook to follow the rails of the
spur, jerking the coach round, until
the forward coupling broke and the
car had been swung around at right
angles to the rails. nearly tipping
over the caboose. Had the coach gone
a few feet further the passengers
would have been hurled down the
twenty We foot embankment.
Kittie O'Neill, one of the teachers in
the public schools, of Boise, met with
a terrifying experience recently. She
was just returning to her rooms in the
sherman house, opposite the State
capital, and was within few feet o1
the gate, when she was seized by a
man who brandished a knife an6
threatened to cut her heart out if She
made an outcry. He started across
jefferson street with her. just ther
William Bullock came out of the capi
tai grounds, and she flew to him fol
protection. Bullock gave chase, bu1
the wretch escaped. Mrs. O'Neill was
completely FRUSTRATED. No motive fol
the alta elk is known.
William Falles, a prominent sheep
man of Caldwell was thrown from 1
wagon last week, while descending a
steep hill, and severely injured. H,
received concussion of the brain ant
frightful cash which laid the seal
open for about fonr inches.
Louis Forrest the shee pherder, ha'
been sentenced to nine years and sil
months Imprisonment for killing Jual
Martinas, brother herder, at a rancl
uear Soda Springs in June last. Hi
trial consumed nearly weeks time a
Pocatello.
G. f. Brown, young nan who wa
befriended and aided by the churc
people of Idaho Falls, stole bottle c
whisky and revolver and attempte
to hold up party of card players a
the hotel, The gun was not loaded
and the young man is in Jail