Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-12-22
ELMORE BULLETIN.
!. NJ. PAYNE. MABEL L. PAYNE
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
Terms of Subscription:
IDAHO NEWS.

brisk
The planning mill in Preston is now
IN full operation
There is talk of a new telephone line
to run from Weiser to Grangeville.
A new school house is being vigor-
ously urged for Malad
All stock on the range in Blaine and
Lincoln counties is said to be doing
well this year,
There are now confined in the peni-
tentiary LAG prisoners, the numbe,
having been increased 1715 per cent
during the past year.
The Stakesberry hotel at Meridian
has been purchased by San Francisco
parties, who will build forty-room
house. Fifty new buildings are look
ed for before May.
Under the new time card which
went into effect recently on the Boise,
Nampa & Owyhee railroad, the stop
over night en- route to Silver is made
at Reynolds creek
The comptroller of the currency has
declared a second dividend of 10 per
cent IN favor of the creditors of the
Moscow National bank. of Moscow,
making in all 20 per cent on the claims,
amounting to SS5, ,290.
After two years of hard work the
new road from Gibbonsville over the
Bitter Root range into Montana, has
been completed, bringing the town
within 65 miles of the railroad at
Grantsdale.
One of the things that impressed
Gov. steunenberg during his recent
northern trip was the condition of the
State normal school at Lewistown. He
declares it is the best institution of the
kind he ever visited.
Hon. w. II. Morgan of Moscow has
been appointed private secretary to
Heit6eld, and has left for Washington,
Mr.. Morgan was a member of the last
legislature. He succeeded C. A.
Fuller.
The last act of the asst session provid-
ing that convicts shall be conveyed to
the penitetnary by the warden or by
guards sent by the warden, is to be
submitted to the test OF the courts to
determine its constit utionality.
Uncle Tom Elliott went to Caldwell
recently to attend court. 1t is said
IL, - -, -. a
has seen the mining booms worthy of
note in Idaho and California, but this
was his first introd uction to war
nished car
The seventh annual session of the
State Teachers association convenes
in HALEY, December 2S-31. An excel
cellent programme has been prepared
and every possible effort of not only
the people of HALEY, but those of the
entire Wood River valley, will be
made to insure its success.
Daniel Grise, of the Union Pacific
railway land department with his son,
W. NJ. Grise, and William Caskey all
of Ellis, Kan, spent couple of days
last week looking over Payette valley.
These gentlemen belong to the
Society of Friends, whose committee
recently investigated and made a
favorable report on this locality, re.
commencing it to such of the people as
may contemplate finding homes in the
arid west
The supreme court has declared un-
constitutional important sections of
the sheep inspection law of 1865, as
amended by the last session of the
legislature. The question was raised
in the case of the state VS.. James
Duckworth, from southeastern Idaho,
who appealed from Judgment fning
him for violation of the act, he having
brought sheep into the state without
first having them dipped by the
deputy sheep inspector.
Harley Stephens, George Fields and
Andrew Whitworth recently have been
having some sport in trapping, near
the BigButtes, in Idaho county having
caught four coyotes two eagles They
have the eagles Gagged and they are n II
injured in any way. The largest
measures feet and inches from tip
to tip, and its claws cover.a space of 8
inches in diameter.
Sam Alderman, one of the employees
of the Sparks Herrel company was
slugged at Rock Creek, Cassia county,
few days ago by man named Fos-
ter. Alderman had drawn his wages
and had been drinking. He was called
to the door by Foster who struck him
with bludgeon of some kind 1t is
supposed that robbery was the object,
but, If SO, the plan was not successful.
Mrs. J. NJ. Aldrich, wife of Professor
Aldrich, of the state university at Mos
cow died at Helena last week.
Another delegation of Kansas Qua
lsers is looking over the Payette valley
with Daniel Grice of the Union Pacific
land depar tment.