Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-04-13
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IDAHO NEWS.
Miss Jessie Parker has been elected
mayor of Kendrick, Latah county.

above Stewart, and contracts have
been let for 900, 900 feet of saw logs.
The G. A. r. take great pride in their
hall and building at Boise, which they
have worked industriously to free
from debt. In the past four years
they have reduced the debt from S165
to $3.50.
b, r. Hershey, prominent attorney
of Dayton. Ohio, is in Boise. He is in
terested in the selection of large
body of land in southern Idaho for the
purpose of colonization, and repre-
sents large number of Dunkards and
and Qual1ers of Ohio who are anxious
to secure contiguous farms in this
state.
The recent snow is melting and the
Potlatch and Bear Creeks are on the
rise which will be appreciated by the
tiemen as we'll as sawmill men. There
are IS, 900 ties along Big Bear creek,
which will be foated down to Ken
drick as soon as there is water enough,
besides along the Potlatch river there
are about 10000 feet of logs to be sent
down.
Sebert Jordan, Pat Woods and Frank
Arnett, the three brakebe tourists
who were arrested at Pocatello recently
on charge of illegal voting, were
held to the district court in bonds of
$1,000 each, in default of which they
were remanded to Jail to await the ac-
Ion of the grand jury at the next term
of the district court, which meets May
Is.
At Denver last week a phenom email
atmospheric scene was witnessed
Three large rings, like those usually
around the moon before a storm, were
observed in the sky, like unto the Odd
Fellows links, but they were not
around the sun, just touching it.
Where the rings crossed each other,
rainbow crosses like sundogs were
visible. The sky was clear as crystal,
which makes it the more mysterious
and unexplainable.
went out on the Clearwater at Ken
drick, in small boat to kill fish with
explosives. They had five sticks of
dynamite. One had been exploded
successfully and Mr.. Jones was hold
Ing second, lighted and ready to cast
Into the water. He became excited
over the appearance of some large fish
and forgot to throw it, and it exploded
In his hand. The shock exploded the
remaining sticks, demolishing the
boat. James hand was blown off,
and he quickly sank A raft rescued
the other men.
Ex-Governor Connell, United States
Indian inspector, has recently return
ed from trip to the Payette to look
up small band of Indians living near
the mouth of Dry Buck He tells an
interesting story about them. 1t ap-
pears there are twenty Indians living
at that point. They have been there
twelve or fourteen years Two of them
are Snake River Indians, and the rest
are supposed to be Nez Perces. Just
why they located at that isolated point
Is not known. The Indians themselves
Will not explain the matter, but the
supposition is that their settling there
was result of some found Two OF
them named Charlie, father and son,
each had an eye punched out by the
tribe, supposedly for refusing to go on
the warpath at the time of the Joseph
outbreak The elder Charlie died last
winter, and the son is the head of the
settlement. There are several fami-
lies numbering all told about twenty.
These Indians have entered land. the
only case of the kind in the state.
They have several lots in the canvon.
less than section altogether. The
land was entered by Charlie The In.
dians cultivate their property, raising
grain and other crops. They have set
out fruit trees, and they have consid.
cradle stock, including horses, cattle
anu tillthtubs MT, mE1On19ll saws he
will ask the government TO purchase
for them small tract in the canyon
that they failed to secure. They are
better off, there, he says, than they
would be II they were with the tribe,
being the most comfortably fixed band
of Indians than he knows of.
The state pardon board has pardon.
ed Edward Mallory, sent up from sho.
shone county in 1898 for ten years for
robbery 1t also commuted the SEN
tenee of George Hamilton of Canyon
county 10 one year. Other applica.
tions were laid over.
Chinese row occurred at HALEY re.
Gently, in which one Chnaman re.
ceived knife wound in the right side
OF the neck, between the wiudpipe
and the large blood vessels, about tive
nches long and two and one-half
inches deep.