Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-11-10
IDAHO NEWS.

sent from HALEY to the Blackfoot asy-
lum,
The forests of the state of Idaho. IL
is estimated, contain 80, 600, 900 feet of
timber.
Fifteen tons of machinery and
creamery supplies have arrived for the
Gentle valley creamery.
Word has been received of the death
of Richard Oliver, one of the oldest in
habitants of Glenn's Ferry and pi-
oneer.
According to the Kendrick Times,
farmers of the Potlatch have formed
pool and will fix the price for their
wheat.
President Mckinley has acknowl-
edged the receipt of box of Idaho APP
pies, shipped from the exhibits at the
Boise fair
The Gooding Brothers of Haley
shipped five carloads, containing about
1900 head of sheep direct to Chicago
last week.
Miss Effie E. Plummer of Joliet has
been appointed teacher in the Indian
school at Warm Springs, Ore, at 5000
| per annum.
Miss Jessie Baker won the premium
at the Potlatch fair for the Oldest
newspaper. She has kept a copy of
the Statesman since 1865
A wild hog which has inhabited one
OF the numerous islands down the
Snake river was run to earth by Wei
ser sports and pack of hounds.
A young rancher living between
Boise City and Nampa had forty acres
of his farm in potatoes this year He
has sold his crop and realized $50 an
acre from it.
The large hunting party, headed by
Mr.. Thompson of New York, who
went to Sawtooth mountains about a
month ago, succeeded in killing eight
goats, besides deer and other large
game.
One night recently nearly every sa-
loonNeeper in Murray was victimized
by a gang of counterfeiters, who went
from saloon to saloon and paid out
leaden dollars for drinks, getting good
change in return.
f. b. Thomas and J j. Cusiclx have To-
Gated 25o,00o inches, under four-inch
pressure, to be diverted at the wester-
ly side OF Snake river, at or near Amer
lean Falls, for irrigating, mining and
power purposes.
New grass in the vicinity of Jerusa-
lem is four inches high. Charles Him
rod has his sheep pasturing sixteen
miles from Boise, and reports fire
growth of new grass shat has sprung
up since the rains began.
The Farmers Alliance warehouse at
Genesse was burned last week with it's
contents of 1O0, 900 bushels of grain
The warehouse was full and co.
600 bushels were stored outside, con-
siderable of which will be saved c. E.
Wood is lessee. It is thought that
most of tha grain is insured. The
flames originated from the engine.
A sheep case has been begun at Boise
that is of more than local interest, as
it promises to test the validity of the
law. John Mcmillan, the well-known
owner of fiocks, is charged with hav,
ing driven band of sheep from Ada
into Elmore county without securing
a travelling permit, though he knew
the flock was infected with scab
Prunes were shipped this year from
the Potlatch country that did not pay
freight.eharges, and on top of this loss
is the cost of boxes and expenses of
picking and packing. Other shipments
were made that paid expenses, and
still others that netted small profit.
Some of the orchardists are cutting
down their prune trees with view of
replacing them with apple trees.
letter in the Evanston(Wyo.) Press
says ID. d. Alvord is now running pack
train out of Idaho City. A portion OF
the route is along steep mountain
side, with barely room for the passage
of a single wagon, while far below runs
a turbulent stream. BY msstep, d.
ID. IS horse tumbled over, and only a
handy bush and rare presence of mind
saved our ITlthth from lHe ldLe OF MS
horse, which had its neck broken and
the saddle torn into hundred pieces
by its precipitous fall.
A new and perfectly safe route has
been discovered from Kendrick to
Klondike. 1t leads, however, through
the grain fields of the POTASH with &
plow and binder as the chief mean,
of gaining the desired goal, says tn,
Kendriclt Citizen,
The Kendricl1 Gazette says seyera
families Of Dunkards from Iowa hav,
arrived at Juliaetta, to take home
steads on the reservation. No bette
; or more Industrious settlers could b,
found anywhere than members of thi
quaint religious order.
j. H. Hawley and Fremont Wood
representing the conflicting interest
in the litiuatiOn arising ont of th