Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-07-28
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Is desirable and advocate fusion
Senator Tleitfeld is home from Wash
ington lie declares he is in favor of
holding the populist convention in
Moscow, as originally called, although
he is not opposed to fusion.
Daniel Fletcher, a hotel keeper at
Coeur d'Alene City was drowned July
. 20. Mr.. Fletcher was single man.
whose parents reside at Logan, Utah.
He was formerly Short Line con-
ductor.
Herman l.. Watkins of HALEY has
been convicted of murder in the Sec
oud degree for the killing of Matthew
Smitham at Muldoon, June ), and SEN
fenced by Judge Stockslager to TWEEN
ty years at hard labor in the peniten-
tiary.
An order has been received from Gen
eral Fitzhugh Lee, directing Lieuten-
ant Oracle. Fort Russell, to enlist
forty recruits Immediately for the
Torrey cavalry. Utah, Wyoming, Col
orado, Nevada and Idaho men will be
taken.
dispatch from Boise says the sill
yer republicans demand the governor
q and majority of the state officers,
& giving the democrats the congressman.
The populists will not receive the con-
4 sideration they would have had there
been no split in the party.
The Idaho board of pardons is con-
sidering the case of Frank Armstrong.
sentenced to life imprisonment for
shooting Paul Culbert in 1887. As the
crime is now looked upon as man
slaughter it is believed that Arm
y strong has been sufficiently punished
for it.
Senator Shoup has secured an APP
preparation for continuation of the
work of surveying the line between
F TINS state and Montana. The matter
Is OF great Importance, but has been
hanging fire. 1t will now be pushed TO
completion. The senator also says he
has been assured branch of the gov
lished here n August
Senator Shoup is home from Wash
ington. He says work ON the Boise
public building will be commenced at
once, all the funds being available now.
lie was assured by the department that
the building would be completed by
the first of next June. Senator Shoup
also states positively that the Fort
Hall treaty will be ratified at the win
ter session of congress.
A big strike has been made in the
Daisy mine, at Neal, owned by George
4 Bredehoft of Boise and w. J. Cham
berlain of Denver. From the 90O-foot
level drift was run which has en-
countered a ledge six to eight feet in
thickness that averages $50 to the ton.
is one Of the biggest and richest
bodies Of ore ever uncovered in this
section
The Silver Republican county central
committee of Hammock county has made
an order for the committee to meet in
convention at McCammon, August 10,
for the purpose of electing nine dele
gates to the state convention to be held
at Boise City, August "A Joseph a.
Brim, \, 2. Dolbeer and j j. Guhun
We're elected to fill vacancies in Marsh,
Bancroft and Pocatello precincts re-
spectively. The meeting was har-
monious.
Four prominent educators have made
application for the presidency OF
Idaho State University at Moscow.
They are Il. j. Davenport, Chicago
University; DR.. O. Clute, ex-president
Michigan Agricultural College; w. w.
Clendenin, University louisiana; Z. j.
McEwan, University of Utah No
selection has been made to fill the
position vacated by the rcsignatin of
President Gnult.
The body of J $ Reynolds, sheep
herder, was found July - concealed
in clump Of bushes, twenty-five miles
north of Helena, Reynolds was shot
Through the head with either rifle
or pistol by his partner, quarter
breed Indian, who escaped ON horse.
The body was robbed, and even some
of the dead mans clothes stolen. The
men came from Salmon City recently,
and were on their way to the Klon-
dixie 1t is supposed that the muir
derer made his why to the Canadian
line.
The pitchfork cattle outfit is buying
all of the hay and pastuse land in the
vicinity of Otto, Wyo, for winter feed
and range for their cattle. Several
Thousand of stock will be fed in this
immediate vicinity during the coming
winter.
Word comes from Colorado Springs
that, after 10 years of fighting be-
tween the owners and heirs OF the
Cave of the Winds aud the Grand Ca
verns at Manitou, the judgment of the
court is that the plaintiff is entitled
to s9?63.