Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-12-22
IDAHO NEWS.

nointment of E. +. Garrett to be re-
.ceiver of public monies at Boise.
A slight earthquake shock was felt
at Soda Springs between and o'clock
on the morning of the 18th inst
There has been three wrecks on the
zoregon Short Line in thevicinity of
i Soda Springs recently, but fortunately
Z no one has been injured.
A. Soda Springs the snow is about
/ mime inches on the level, but as the
days are generally bright and clear the
country trade is still good.
Within the coming two months at
beast 2500 laborers will be employed in
Building the Snake River Valley line
5 Of the Oregon Railway 81 Navigation
company.
prominent wool buyer estimates
4 the wool crops of Idaho for 1898 at A.
*OOO, 900 pounds, and says the average
*price was 13 cents, double the amount
Sreceived the previous year.
The Bonanza Power company of Am
erican Falls proposes to furnish Poca-
Ktello with electric lights at the very
moderate price of 33H cents per incan-
descent, s-eandle power, per month.
q The following postmasters were ap-
*pointed December 16: Murray, Sho-
Nshone county, Winfield S. Erwin, vice
&Clarence C. lands, resigned; Russell,
Nez Perces county, Mary Il. Rosen,
vice John w. Rosen, resigned.
d r. S Carberry engineer of the Marys-
willie Power and Canal company, and
NF. S. Dietrich, attorney for the com
Apany, were in Boise last week confer
zring with the state land board with
reference to the withdrawal of some
10000 acres of land in the Idaho Falls
region for reclamation under the Ca
.rey act
N The statement is made by Boise par
les that Messrs. Aiken and Bates, who
are engineering the Seven Devils
foad from Weiser, Ida, have made
Zeal with the Oregon Short Line for
n 90 miles ofs6O- pound steel rails. The
name of this company is the Weiser,
idaho & Spokane. The Short Line, it
is further stated, viii deliver the rails
at Weiser.
II When J, p. Campbell takes office as
sheriff of Ada county next month, the
#county will for the first time have a
woman deputy She will be the sher-
siff's wife. Her duties will be mainly
clerical, but she will be clothed with
the full authority of a deputy. Mrs.
Campbell is not new to the duties of
the desk in sheriff's office, having
done the work for her husband when
he was sheriff on Wood river.
Il Mr.. Lecco, who lives about a mile
q from Hagerman, had his home burned
one day last week He went from the
sitting room into the dining room to
supper In n few minutes he heard
q fire cracking and on opening the door
q from the sitting room saw the ceiling
and walls all ablaze. He grabbed his
II
i in again. He lost everything else,
even his hat
Two teams, containing two families
with seven children, passed through
s Elmore one day last week on their way
from Kansas to Oregon. These unfor-
s Inmates had been overtaken on their
q journey by severe snowstorms and
billiards., and were detained thereby
SO long that they were out of food and
money. The citizens of Elmore sup
& phed them with food and money and
they went on their way rejoicing.
Senators Shoup and Heitfeldt called
q at the treasury department on the 18th
g inst to urge expedition in the payment
8 TO the Nez Perez Idians of the amount
due them on August 1st, under the
treaty. They were informed that, ow-
ing to the illness of clerks, it would be
month or six weeks before the matter
q would be settled. Both senators pro-
& tested vigorously against the delay and
offered to furnish clerks who would re-
tam their health and transact business
al the same time.
John Q. Packard is about ready to
start up his new mill on the Tip Tor
at HALEY. The plant is one with
s which no pains has been spared, and
# Will no doubt do much to stimulate in,
terest IN the Camas gold belt, on which
I 1t has been reared.
Ex-senator Dubois, who has just re,
turned home from an eastern visit, de
elares that in the east the cause of sill
yer Is growing, and says he belives
mat in 1900 vote beyond the greatest
81 expectations of its friends will be cas-
= Tor the white metal.
Inc Ramshorn, Utah Boy and the
ost boy mines, situated on the Rams
morn mountain, never looked better IL
snelr history than they do today. Thi.
stoup have been worked for nearly
s"ehty years, and have always beer
productive in silver, copper anc
"hlle the town of Bay Horse is mo-
nearly SO large as it was before tn,
3 iail IN the price of silver, there are {
lumber of the old stand-bys still dig
slhg the precious metals, and indica
anl e,ons are that the population of tha
prosperous camp will be NOR,