Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-10-27

Henry H. Parrott, of the Soldiers
home, has been granted an original
pension of Sc.
Mrs. I. B. Lessiner has been ap-
pointed seamstress at the Lemhi In
dian school, at $500 per annum.
Original pensions of s6 per month
each have been granted to Herman
Dreehoss of Pocatello and Robert b.
Balwin of Emmett.
George X Marshall of Boise, Edward
y. Allen of Soda Springs and Reuben
E. Shaw of New Plymouth, have been
appointed clerks in the railway mail
service.
The Utah & Idaho branch of the
Rockey Mountain Bell Telephone com
pany will soon have reached Idaho
Falls. Men are engaged in setting the
poles and connection between Idaho
Falls and Salt Lake City, including all
intermediate points, will soon be es.
tsblished.
Conductor Frank Ball of the Oregon
Short Line, running between Hunting.
ton and Pocatello, while trying to
swing himself to the platform lost his
balance and fell, one leg being caught
by the wheels The leg was so badly
crushed that operation was necessary.
Ball was to have quit the road at the
end of his trip on which he was in.
jured
Judge Thomas j. Curtis, once a
prominent citizen of Boise, was found
dead In his room by policeman who
had heard him groaning while passing
by on duty. Heart trouble was the
immediate cause of death, though it is
suspected that the man starved to
death. His straitened circumstances
were not known to the community at
large.
Isaac w 3arrett, ex-secretary of
state, is dead, succumbing to compli-
cation of diseases. Mr.. Garret was
prominent in this state for many years.
He was twice elected to the legislature.
He was auditor and recorder of Alturas
county for two years by appoin tment,
and four years by election, and was
elected secretary of state in 1894.
John W. Kidder and his wife Han
nah have been convicted at Butte,
Mont, of stealing 81 900 worth of goods
from store where Mrs. Kidder was
employed as clerk, Kidder being
convicted as an accessory Kidder
was formerly a resident of Idaho and
has served five years in the Idaho state
penitentiary for horse stealing.
When Dan Connor, shift boss
at the Big Standard mine, near Wal
lace, came out to eat his midnight
lunch, he was met by four armed
masked men, who told him If he did
not leave the country within three days
he would be summarily disposed of.
Connor will comply with the request.
1t is thought he was ordered to leave
because he had discharged certain en-
ployes of the mine.
A report is current that contract
has been closed for the construction of
the proposed branch railroad into the
Seven Devils mining district in Idaho.
The story is that NJ H. Keere of Helena
and Messrs. Wintson and Parker of
Minnesota have secured the contract
and will place large force of men at
work In a very few days 1t is said
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east to raise the money to build the
road.
Governor Steunenberg, at the re-
quest of the state board of pardons,
has granted reprieve to Diamond
Jack" Davis, who was under sentence
to hang on the Goth, for the murder of
Cummings and Wilson, the sheepmen.
The reprieye is to last until December
10, and further consideration of the
case was postponed by the board until
December /, at which time the investi-
CATION will again be taken up, for the
purpose of ascertaining whether Davis
killed the sheepmen or jeff Gray and
James L. Bower, the latter of whom
filed an affidavit in support of Davis
plea for clemeney, that the shooting
was done in his presence by Gray in
self-defence, but that he allowed Da.
Wis to go to the foot of the scoffold be-
fore revealing the truth 1t is one OF
the most remarkable cases throughout
ever recorded in Idaho criminal an
nails.
At Weiser, Enos Smith was acquitted
of the murder of George Rice Kice
was a suitor for the hand of the wo-
man Smith afterward married. He
carried her picture around the country
on his horses bride This resulted in
the tragedy.
Isaac Williams, a miner employed at
Warren, met with peculiar accident
which resulted in his death. He was
working in the mill, and while he was
STOPPING over his pistol dropped from
his belt and exploded, sending a ball
through his brain.