Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-06-23
ELMORE BULLETIN.
@. M PAYNE. MABEL L. PAYNl
PAYNE g. PAYNE, Publishers.
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IDAHO STATE NEWS,

There was three inches of snow al
Soda Springs on the 18th inst.
The Chinese Masons have erected q
neat hall of modern design at Silver
City.
Joseph Bergier of Tikura reports
crickets are worse than ever in that
vicinity.
Pack trains are already being put on
the Wild Horse trail from Bonner's
Ferry for the Fort Steele country.
Boise City has just paid $3.50 to
Charles Owens for damage done his
cab by striking rock in the street.
The Star group of mines has been
attached by the j. o. Swift company
TO secure an Indebtedness of S11s4.59.
A c. Debold, a Pocatello citizen, was
postoffice and relieved of $17o and o
rifle.
John Noble sold $4,000 pounds Of
wool recently to an eastern buyer. 1t
is said that he received 91f cents per
pound.
Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho has ap
pointed twenty-eight delegates to the
Denver gold mining convention. The
list includes ex-Congressman Sweet
and ex-Gov. Mcconnell.
The prop osed sugar beet experiment
has been somewhat marred by the
cloudburst that occurred near Meri-
dian some weeks ago. A large tract
of five acres had just been seeded when
the flood occurred.
Two men were drowned at Leonia
while repairing rope cable across the
river at the new town. Their boat
swamped while holding to the rope.
One was Alex Larson. The bodies
have not been recovered.
Professor j. w. Faris, superintend,
ent of the Pocatello schools, has been
notified that he has been elected to the
chair of the commercial department oS
the Agricultural college at Logan,
Utah.
Joe Barnes of Salmon cut his left
arm quite seriously last week. He had
knife in his hand and horse kicked
him and drove it into his arm, sever
ing the main artery, and he nearly
bled to death. He is out again.
f. T. Perkins of the Typographical
department of the United States geo.
graphical survey has arrived in Ketch-
um from Washington city. Mr.. Per-
says they will expend between $40, 900
and $40, 600 in work in Idaho this sum
mer
John A. Wood, who was employed
by the Salmon Gold Mining company,
was precipitated into the big tlume Mt
Bohannon bar by the breaking of a
cap on which he stepped, and suffered
compound fracture of the left leg be-
tween the knee and ankle.
H. e. Hershey of Gibbon, Neb., has
driven 40, 900 head of sheep from EN-
nett Idaho, this season. The sheep
will be trailed through to the winter
feeding grounds and will not reach
their destination until late in the fall.
The price paid will average about 81
per head.
Frank Shuster, an old-time resident
of Lower Reynolds, owyhee county,
was attacked and seriously Injured by
vicious bull. He assaulted Mr.
Shuster with great violence, jamming
him against corral gate and breaking
three ribs The ribs were not only
broken, but apparently forced through
the lungs, creating frightful depres
sion in the right side.
Another fatal accident has occurred
In Cottonwood valley, near Oxford
As John Dees and his son, aged 21
were telling trees to make them load,
of dry logs, tree fell on the younl
man, killing him almost instantly
The deceased had come up with hi
father from Weston, Ida, where the,
reside, to get two loads of timber, witt
the result above stated
The regents of the State universit,
have issued statement to the publ
in which they say they have been un
able to find any evidence to substan
tiate the charge that the universit.
was conducted on political lines, to ad
vance the interests OF the Republican
party. 1.-The University of Idaho,
they declare, "cannot be made po
litical machine while we are in con
troll"
Henry Mesper, who works for Thom
as Davis on his ranch about two mile
below Boise, discovered the body of
man In the river near the ranch TIL
body had been in the water for som
time and If 1t is the corpse OF Georg
Green, as seems likely, it has been i
the water ever since the 10th day Q
April, the date the house is supposed
have been carried away.