Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-10-13
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IDAHO NEWS.

A telephone line has been completed
to st. Anthony.
Twelve cases of typhoid are reported
at Oxford, due to impure water.
An original pension has been grant
ed John Brasch, Nez Perce City Ida.
The Boise city council has changed
the official time from Pacific to noun
tain time.
Blaine county's revenue from sheep
tax this year will amount to about
Sc, 500.
Leopold Il. Marchand has been
commissioned postmaster at Pitcher,
Idaho
The construction of a new road
from Idaho Falls to Teton Basin will
begin at once.
The Boise, Nampa & Owyhee rail
road bridge across Snake river is com
pleted and track is laid three fourths
of a mile beyond
At hearing held in Challis. Elmer
Hulford, deputy sheriff charged with
beng an accessory to the killing of
Frank McLaren, was discharged.
Directly after the late rain near
HALEY, the alfalfa became frosted and
the stock ate it, and several head of
horses and five cows are dead from the
effects.
George Cook, living near Caldwell,
while riding across a slough, was
horse and was drowned. The water
was but six inches deep.
Frank Massey. who has mined in
the Boise basin, on Wood river, in
Smoky and Owyhec for quarter Of a
century, has gone to Tuolumne county,
Cal, where he will make his future
home
Boises first piece of street paving,
five blocks on Main street, was com
on the 4th inst with appropriate ex-
ercises. 1t is wood block pavement
laid on six inches of macadam, upon
which there is cushion. of sand.
At Moscow last week Bert Vickery
engaged in family row with his
brother-inlaw, George Woods, and
shot Woods in the side. He then ac-
cidentally shot himself through the
foot The wounds are not serious.
DIR. Norris left Boise Sunday for
Salt Lake. While there he expects to
meet c. i. johnson of Greenwood, Ne
braska, the doctors old home, and f.
S. Stetson of Kansas City. The party
will then go to San Francisco, and
within the next thirty days take pas
sage for Juneau.
The receipts of the Boise assay Office
for this year already exceed those of
last year by 100000 A shipment OF
about $1,000 has been received from
Anaconda, which is the first large
shipment that has ever been sent from
that place to Boise. 1t assayed 9sC
fine.
The record of the Boise land office
for the past quarter shows there have
been $50 acres sold 1,269 acres taker
up by original desert entry and 5,54;
taken up by homestead filings. The
amount of homestead entries for the
month of September was LOS, ant
the number of acres taken up in deser
entries was s62.
Mr.. Mcdonald and Louis HERES
living at Peck, had thrilling expert
t., 10 l. " Ii
canyon. Both men had emptied thei
guns into bruins hide without fata
result, and being at close quarters
Mcdonald grabbed the bear by th
hind legs, and HERES bv the ears. an,
down the steep hill they rolled, Th
bear recovered first, and suffering iron
loss of blood, made for the timber.
Sneak thieves got in their work il
novel manner on the granary of An
derson Bros, of Idaho Falls, but struc
an empty bin and left empty handed
Their method was to bore augur hole
in the floor from beneath, eXpectin
the wheat to pour through but nothin
but empty air met their augur points
Precautionary measures have bee
taken against future attempts by tn
boarding up of the sides of the graz
ary.
Work on the High line canal nea
Nampa is progressing nicely and whe
completed il will irrigate a large tra'
of valuable land The ditch is fro
two to three miles above the preser
canal and win empty into the big lal
which will be built later The lal
Paradox) will cover about sectic
of land, the dam will be some 30 fe
high.
A party of ten hunters with 81 hei
OF horses arrived in Challis recent
and departed Immediately for Il
Sawtooth mountains, The expedite
is lead by L. 5. Thompson of Ne
York who is said to have an income
$1,000