Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-05-12
IDAHO NEWS.

A man with bicycle effected the
capture of fugitive from justice in
Idaho Falls, one day last week.
The State Sunday School association
of Idaho will hold ITS second annual
convention in Boise the 25th-27th of
May.
Alfalfa and range grasses are doing
well, and stock is in good condition as
general thing throughout the entire
state.
suit has been commenced in the
federal court at Boise to foreclose
mortgage on the Pocatello opera house
for $4,000
Bingham and Fremont counties fur
nshed q company Of recruits, ut the
head of which w. r. Hammer of st.
Anthony was placed as captain.
In an oratorical contest at the Idaho
university for the Watkins medal
Jennie Hughes, the only colored stu
deaf in the institution, was the win
ner.
The adjutant general has directed
that one Of the troops for Colonel Mel
vim Griggsby's regiment of mounted
rifemen shall be recruited in this
state.
Wardner organized full company,
eighty-four men, in less than two days
and offered them for service. They
were accepted, and are now in camp
at Boise.
All fruits, with the exception of the
western portion Of the state, where
frost did some damage, are prospering
and and an abundance of fruit is ex-
pected in Idaho this year.
The weekly mail service from Grange
vile to Columbus, on Cottonwood
creek, is to be discontinued, owing to
the fact that there is no one to act as
postmaster at Columbus.
1t is reported that parties have re-
Gently captured and purchased about
200 of Dorseys wild donkeys running
on the Snake river bottom, and are
driving them to British Columbia.
Reverardo Diego, who died at Lees
burg recently, came to California in
1918. Boise basin in 1866, and came to
Lemhieounty in 1867, and had been
working on claim near where he
died since 1868.
A Shoshone wool buyer, representing
Boston firm, secured one consign-
ment of 80, 500 pounds, the clip of the
Gooding Bros. The buyer will ship
fifteen cars of wool by special train
from Shoshone.
Mrs. Caldwell, separated from her
husband recently at Boise, one night
last week took some friends to
see fair play and with an AK broke IN
The door of Caldwell's abode, sprang on
him like wounded animal, despera-
tion lending her strength, and soon
wrested her 2-year-old child from his
grasp and left with flying colors.
The supreme court has rendered an
opinion that establishes the status of
the Nez Perez Indians in the state
courts. An Indian brought suit &c
eject parties from land allotted to the
plaintiff. In the district court the de
fendants offered a demurrer, claiming
that the state court had no jurisdiction
The demurrer was oyerruled. Tha
decision is affirmed by the supreme
court.
The supreme court has handed dow
adeesien reversing the action of Judg'
Mayhem in the matter of the employ
ment of W. B. Hepburn by the com
missioners of Shoshone county. Mr.
Hepburn was retained to test tn
validity of certain bonds of the county
&. Scott Anderson appealed from tn
action of the board, on the ground tina
the work should be done by the distrie
attorney, and the appeal was sustaine
by the district court.
John Sparks, the cattle king Q
Idaho and Nevada, has sold 5000 hea
of yearlings and 2-year-old cattl
TO Nebraska parties. The purehas
price for this stock was S25 per head
Mr.. Sparks considers the price nov
paid for cattle as abnormally higf
He says there has been gradual din
mutton of the herds of the west for
number of years, and the present d'
mand Is enormous. The low price {
few years ago, he says, was respoI
sible for partial cessation in eattl
breeding on the western ranges.
Seven hundred strong, Idaho yolul
teers are camped on the Boise mil
tary reserve. The boys have con
menced drilling, and If they rema'
there couple of weeks longer, the
will be in fairly good condition to tai
the field.
Z. w Sweet reports that about s42
has been subscribed towards the e
tablishment of creamery at Galdwt
and that operations will soon begi
material for the construction of q
building having already been co
traeted for.