Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-11-24
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IDAHO NEWS.
Measles and typhoid are epidemic al
Boise.
Grangeville reports great scarcity
of silver coin.
The school property of Latah county
is valued at sss, 100.
The Red Cross association proposes
to erect hospital at Pocatello.
George d. Stafford sold to the Cald-
well Butcher company recently two
hogs weighing 1,os5 pounds.
The Soldiers home at Boise has re.
ceived 200 volumes for it's library
They were purchased with the Carney
fund.
In quarrel over horse trade, near
Moscow, Lee Guy stabbed George Sho-
walter three times, inflictiug serious
injuries.
Masked robbers raided a laundry al
Pocatello last Wednesday morning
They secured 81. 80 and then held up
gambler, relieving him of S1O.5o.
The name of the postoffice at Fort
Hill, Kootenai county, has been
changed to ockonock, aud Joseph L.
Barnes commissioned postmaster.
Three of the four men who stole
eighty-two head of cattle from neal
Haley last summer, are now in the
penitentit ry. The fourth is still al
large.
Three winter radishes, each weigh
ing 104 pounds, and eight potatoes
weighing 30s pounds are on exhibition
in Grangeville, having been raised
within the incorporated limits of that
town.
Hon. A. j. Green of Moscow was ex-
hibiting black bear recently, which
he brought from the Klondike. The
animal is much larger than the same
species of bear found in the mountains
of this part OF the country.
John Reagan of Reagan Bros OF
shipped sixty carloads of cattle last
week to Nebraska for feeding pur-
poses. Mr.. Reagan says feed on the
range is poor and that as matter of
fact the time has arrived in these parts
when those who expect to make a sue.
cess of stock raising must be prepared
to feed the cheap hay that can be
readily raised here.
A little girl, aged IL, who resides in
Boise, was last week beaten and drag
ged in the mud by some hoodlum boys.
She was sent out on an errand by her
parents, and the boys pursued her and
maltreated her. She was so used ur
that she is confined to her bed. This
is only one of the long list of otfenses
committed by hoodlum boys recently.
Two weary veterans of the army OF
unemployed broke into n bridge gangs
car at Nampa recently and carried
away a quantity of plnnder. They
took a rifle, watch a number of ar
ticles of clothing, some dress goods
and other articles. The veterans en-
deavored to dispose of their pluneer,
even Offering to sell the watch to the
town marshal. The perpetrators of
the deed were soon run down, but the
plunder had been disposed of.
A. j. Sage, a well known rancher
living few miles west of Sand Point
was shot and instantly killed one day
last week while out hunting. An old
acquaintance named John Snyder, who
went out with him hunting, and who
became separated from him for a short
time, seeing what he supposed to be a
deer moving around the trees, fired at
it, and upon reaching the spot was
Mortified to find that he had shot his
friend dead.
James Riley was shot one night last
week at DeLamar and instantly killed
by J. b. Stewart. The shooting oc.
had some trouble with couple OF
gamblers and attempted TO shoot one
of them. His bullet went wild and
struck Riley. Riley was a miner aud
worked in the same property with
Stewart, the men being fast friends
The jury in the trial at Idaho City OF
II. C. St Clair for the murder of John
Decker brought in a verdict of murder
in the first degree. Before the reading
of instructions by Jude Stewart, the
prisoner showed signs of fainting and
was removed to the judges room where
he had a spell of vomiting, and it was
over an hour before he could again ap
pear.
The robbers who held up store a
Bruneau recently and compelled the
proprietors to give them $3.50 from th'
safe have been captured and held fol
trial The amount recovered was bu
$50. They evidently had lively tim'
previous to their arrest
A village southeast of the Tiptol
hoisting works, along the grade t.
Rock creek is being established. Their
are now completed bunk-house,
boarding-house, company office, a
assay office, a blacksmith shop, hote
and several dwelling houses.