Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-01-19
IDAHO NEWS.

2lccS-AootSu qudui upSuS.
postotfice has been established at
Cup Run, Washington county, with
Edward P. Iall as postmaster.
In the npreme court at Boise a
decision IS been rendered against the
Stephens heirs in their case against
Perrault.
Thomas Post was killed by falling
rock in the Standard mine at Wallace,
last week. He was 36 years old and
unmarried.
# The o. S. L. comp; ny are building
an elegant ice house a short distance
south of the freight house at Pocatello
{ 1t will hold 900 TONS
4 One of the principal issues in the ap-
preaching campaign of Oneida county
will be the removal of the county seat
from Malad to Preston.
Sheriff Taylor of Caldwell has ar
rested c. j. Baker near Emmett, on
charge of rape, his own daughter be-
ing the victim and complaining wit
ness.
The third annual meeting of the
Idaho State Horticultural society will
4 be held in Boise on Jan. 25, 26, and 27.
The meeting will be held IN the G.. A.
r. hall.
n The school lands on the Nez Perce
reservation are about TO be appraised
by the state board of land commits
sioners, the tract embracing about 49,
900 acres.
The scaffold upon which James Ell
lington was hanged in Boise has been
removed to Idaho City, to be used in
the execution of ST. Clair, the condemn
ed murderer of John Decker.
The receips of bullion at the United
States assay office in Boise during the
year 1897 amounted to SLATE, lag. 2s,
an increase of sl2s, 1878 over the year
before. The number of deposits was
1855
u The state land board has appointed
James McGrane, sr., of Nez Perce
county and d. W. Hanah of Latah to
appraise the state lands within the
Nez Perce reservation, recently thrown
open 10 settlement.
The secretary of state has turned
over to the state treasurer 1921. 36,
fees for the last quarter of 1897 This
amount was never exceeded but once;
that was for the first quarter of 1898,
when the total was S955.59.
Captain Johnson, of the steamer
Defender, took a load of lumber from
Grants mill on the upper Coeur d
Alene river last week, no ice being on
the river to obstruct navigation of
steamers, which is remarkable for
this time of the year; usually the
river and upper portion of the lake is
frozen over before the first of January.
Senator shoup's strong protest
against certification of any one outside
the state of Idaho by the civil service
commission for appointment in the
surveyor gem ais office has been
productive of desired results. The
senator has been assured that federal
elerkships in Idaho will be filled only
by residents of that state.
The board of pardons has pardoned
Henry Capps, who was sent to the
FeAltentiary for three years on
March so, 1896. for the murder of w.
A. onweiler in Boise City. The two
men were farmers. They quarreled
over the water and Capps crushed
9 onweiler's skull with shovel. The
condition of the pardon is that Capps
leave the state within 80 days never
y to return.
Ihe report Of State Auditor Ander.
son shows that warrants on the gem
eFal luna were issued during the year
to the amount of S265, 1926. The de-
hciencies for which appropriations
were made are included, also the legis-
latiye expense. The former amounted
to S2s, ssl. 70 and the latter to $40, $50. 66,
a total OF $50, ,529.92, leaving the
amount issued for state government
Sl95, 5,572.6 60, to which the last quarters
expense is to be added.
The Boise Statesmen says delega.
tion of farmers from the vicinity of
the well known Joplin place, on the
south bench, recently visited the
Eounty Commissioners and entered
vehement protests against the conduct
OF Farmer DeMier who, they assert.
< has fenced in portion of the earth
to which he is not entitled, including
the main travelled road, used for the
past twenty-five years, and the little
Joplin cemetery where for years the
people of that vicinity have buried
d their dead.
Glorieux of Boise, received a
from Victoria announcing the
@e.eh OF Bishop Lootens The latter
was the first Catholic bishop of Idaho.
lie came to the state IN 1868 and re-
mained in charge until 1876, when he
resigned.
Emmett can beat any other town in
the county for long winded law suits.
says the Caldwell Record One last
week was over coffee mill estimated
to be worth S5. This will doubtless
cost the county many times IS, but we
must have justice,