Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-06-09
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Snow is six feet deep ON the level in
the Seven Devils camp.
The state supreme court has decided
that the new anti-gambling law ap-
plies to Boise.
: postoffice has been established at
Banner, Boise county, with Mary Mil
Ter as postmistress.
l.. c. Bowers has been appointed pen
sion examining surgeon at Boise and
w. G.. MaXey at Caldwell.
The Helfrich Mercantile company
shipped 10000 pound of wool east last
week from Mountain Home.
Indian policemen lodged one of their
own tribe in Jail at Salmon City, upon
the civilized charge of horse-stealing.
Eight persons were found guilty of
counterfeiting at Moscow last week
and were sent to the United States
prison in Michigan.
Grasshoppers have made their ap-
pearance on Camas prairie, and the
farmers are apprehensive OF serious
damage to growing crops.
The engineering corps of the Weiser
& Seven Devils railway are pushing
ahead as rapidly as possible They
passed Salubria early last week.
Lightning struck the house of E. S,
Sweet at Tolo, going down the stove
pipe and severly injuring Mrs. Sweet,
who was building fire at the time
Johnston, the Seven Devils railroad
protector, has sued the town Of Pay
cite for $3.50 damages, so It's said. 1t
is alleged a rope was placed around
his neck and lynching threatened.
The wool crop to be shipped from
Weiser will approx. mate 100000
pounds. Much of this is stored there,
owners holding out for cents, with
no offers. Thirty thousand head of
sheep have been sold to go east from
that point
A Grangeville special to the Boise
Statesman says man named Culbert-
son was found dead at the Warrsns
warm springs. The men with him
buried the body and they act suspicious.
Foul play is apprehended. There
were checks on the body on Colorado
bank
A cloud burst on Asotin creek last
week swept everything within its
reach down the valley. Many beauti-
full farms were ruined, lovely homes
swept away, bridges destroyed, and a
tunate people living on the creek.
No lives We're lost.
A party of government engineers are
In the Nez Perce reservation to COM
plete the work of surveying the unsur-
veyed parts, which lie in several bod
les, which win add to the time re-
quired to complete the work. When
accepted by the government and the
plats filed in the land office, the land
will be opened for settlers and squat
ters can then make filings.
The Supreme court of Moscow has
handed down decision of interest, in
that it decides that Board of County
commissioners has not the right tc
employ counsel to assist the District
attorney in criminal cases. If the
District attorney is unqualified or un
able to act, the court shall appoint
someone to act for him. This deprivei
Judge Clagett of a $3.50 fee.
meeting of the board of director,
of the Boise, Nampa & Owyhee rail
road was held in Nampa recently foi
the purpose of authorizing the issuing
of bonds of the company The officers
were authorized to issue S915,0 900 o.
bonds and to execute trust deed upor
the line as security; the bonds to b.
issued at the rate of Sl5, 900 a mile a,
the road is constructed, and 1880, 600 Il
be issued at once to cover the twenty
two miles finished.
useful work has been inauguratec
by the Womans Columbian club a
E Boise, under the supervision of tn,
town and village improvement commit
Y tee of that organization. The pur
+ pose is to aid in keeping the street,
q clean, to maintain healthful condi
! tions, to beautify the towns aud dis
seminate correct views on municipa
government A portion of this worl
consists in training the rising genera
ton.
While going up the middle fork o
the Boise recently, J. w. Brill entered
an old cabin, on the floor of which h,
found a dynamite cap. He picked !
up in his right hand feeling of it, an
when about to rise from the floor h
transferred it to his left hand aud pu
that hand on the floor to assist him il
rising. The extra pressure was a.
that was needed to explode the cay
blowing off his thumb, the end join
of his first finger, all of his middl
sigit and badly shattering the fourth