Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-12-15
IDAHO NEWS.

ferng in the Salt Lake City wholesale
market They are plentiful at S1.25
and 81. so per bushel.
Upon recommendation of Senator
shoup, Theodore Simon of Boise has
been appointed superintendent of the
Boise public building.
There is talk of combination be-
tween the republicans and populists
to control the state senate Neither
party can organize the senate without
the aid of the populists.
The case of the state of Idaho VS.. j.
j. Byrne, charged upon oath of }. H.
Blair, local attorney for the Oregon
Short Line railroad, with manslaugh-
ter, the iury brought in verdict of
mot guilty" The case grew out Of
a wreck, head-end collision near
Grace on August 81, in which Victor
Kiellbery was killed.
A burgler, giving the name of Rob-
ert Manning, broke into j. f. Kane's
grocery store at Pocatello on Decem-
Der s. win and Temp Smith, who live
next door, heard the fellow and saw
him crawl in at back window. Temp
ran for gun, while VIII stood guard
at the window and called on the bur-
glar to come out. The fellow did, and
Smith beat him into a jelly with
board before the officers arrived
The fierce storm which swept parts
of this state last week was more Sc
we're in Utah. Near Salt Lake City
two loaded cars were blown out of
moving train and down an embank
ment. Old settlers tell of wind which
blew an entire freight train, engine
and all, over on its side, between Po-
catello and Blackfoot, in the early
days of the Utah & Northern, which
about the only storm more fierce than
this last one.
The coming Legislature will be one
of the most important in the history
of the state The supreme court has
decided in the fee law case that four
fifths of the laws of this state are in
valid on account OF technical non-com-
pliance with the provisions of the con-
stitution on part of the legislatures
Upon the next legislature will devolve
the responsibility of bringing order
ont of this legal chaos. A strong eff
fort win be made to secure authority
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laws, patching up the defective ones
and proposing new ones if necessary.
Warden Van Don of the Idaho PEN
itentiary, left Haley one day last week,
and had in custody Peter Caggie, sent
up for two years for burglary, and
young Columbus Weir, recently con-
victed for assault with deadly
weapon, whose sentence is one year.
Weir is not quite II, but this is not his
first experience. He has served term
in the Oregon pen for burglary. JUS
tice was not tardy in Weirs case. He
shot Frank Williams about o'clock
December 6, and within twenty -four
hours he was arrested, tried and con
victed, and was sentenced as soon
thereafter as the law would permit.
In passing sentence on young Weir,
Judge Stockslader stated that he took
into consideration the extreme youth
of the prisoner, and would be as lenient
with him as he consistently could be.
His honor also gave Columbus some
good advice, and it is to be hoped that
the young offender will profit thereby
A shooting affray occurred at Grange.
vile, December s, that may result ia
tally for j. Rigley, one of the owners
of the Big Buffalo, at Buffalo Hump
The other participant was ]. N. Rice
who claims grub-stake interest In
the property. This is the property fol
which it is alleged Captain De La Mar
through II. A. Cohen, recently offered
S50G 600. The trouble was due to the
disI ute as to the title to the big Buf
falo claim. Rice asserts that he staket
Ripley, and he therefore claims half o
the latter'ss ssinterest in the property
and QUARREL ensued, when Rigley
drew revolver and fired, but was too
excited to shoot straight, the bal
striking Rice in the leg, intlicting
slight wound, when Rice sprang upor
Rigley and wrested the revolver from
his grasp with which he used to bate
Rigley on the head, until the latte
fell unconscious 1t is feared that h,
may not recover.
Mrs. Martin Anderson of Idaho Falls
will probably come in for share o
the 500, 600 estate left by Peter
Christensen, the bachelor who die
February Il, last, at Stockton, Cal
She is one of three children of tn
deceased mans sister
A cave-in in the Bunker Hih an
Sullivan mine at Wardner caught sew
eral men. Only meager details hav
been received. Two men are know
to be dead and probably three. one G
the victims was John Luxton, VIII
leaves wife and three children.
During the week a number of pro.
pectors have returned from the nev
Salmon River strike, and they confirl
The previous reports and also tell c
the discovery of parallel lodges, san
pies from at least one of which al
enough to give even an old-timer tn