Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-05-26
ELMORE BULLETIN.
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IDAHO NEWS.

Two young ladies', the Misses Pier
son. are soon to start drug store at
Teton.
Six new families have recently set
tied in Lund and the place is growing
rapidly.
r. e. Wood recently took a carload
of mules to Grand Junction, where he
sold them as pack animals.
The malpractice case against Soda
Springs doctor is attracting great in
terest throughout the state.
Warren limerick, prominent stock
man and rancher near Boise, dropped
dead of heart failure one day last week.
The past month has for the most part
been favorable for farming operations.
The season is about two weeks earlier
than last year.
John Smith. sent up from Ada coun-
ty in 1894 for eight years, for breaking
into saloon and stealing bogus
gold brick, has been pardoned.
Sixty-three mules were shipped from
Ketchum to the Kansas City yards for
government purposes last week. They
will be used in the Cuban campaign
bolt of lightning knocked two
cowboys senseless and killed several
head of stock on Burk's ranch, near
American Falls, one evening last
week.
In the case of Alonzo Heath and wife
against DIR. W. t. Wilson of Soda
Springs for malpractice, the jury rem
dered verdict of $500 damages for the
Heaths.
The shooting of Jack Smith at Burke,
near Wallace, by Joe Turner, is likely
to prove serious matter to the latter,
as the attending physician reports
there is no hope of the victims re-
covery.
1t is reported that a teacher in the
state normal school, c. r. Reaves by
name, has been rendered colonels
commission in the Cuban army by Gen
eral Gomez, and that he has gone to
the island to accept.
Work on the big Bear river dam,
near Hawley, Is about to begin.
Some trouble was experienced and
much time consumed in finding suit
able place for reservoir 1t is the
desire of the contractors to make 1t
second to none in the west.
The proprietor of gambling house
in Pocatello, while going from his
place of business to his room one night
last week, was held up by two masked
men and relieved of $500. The robber!
overlooked s35 which he had in his
pistol pocket
The men of Murray celebrated th'
victory at Manila by the explosion o
numerous sticks of dynamite, and nov
the housewives are indignant, claiming
that the embryotic life has been de
stroyed in every egg that was in tn
town when the shots were fred.
1t is the purpose of the governor AM
adjutant-general TO reorganize the Ma
tional Guard of the state at once. Th
enlistment of members of the guard i
the volunteers has wiped out all bu
two companies, those being compan
e. of Kellogg, and company Fl, c
Wardner 1t is desired to have th
guard recruited as quickly as possible
SO it may be uniformed and equippe
without unnecessary delay.
Perhaps the tallest man in the rank
of the Idaho volunteers is Ned Green,
private in the Grangeville compan.
his height being six feet six and on
half inches, military measurement. I
could not secure suit from the or
nance stores at Grangeville and Il
boys had quite time fitting him ou
He is anxious to measure himself wi
Spaniard and declared he would
to the front il he had to without al
clothes at all.
c. w. Hooper Of Caldwell, in conjur
ton with others, is preparing to dri
large herd of beef cattle over t
Dalton trail into the Klondike. Tn
will take 1,26o head from Yakim
Wash, shipping by rail to Seattle, a
thence by boat to the Lynn canal,
pecting TO land at the canal June
Their route will be over the Chilko
Pass and the Dalton trail They W
drive $50 miles to Fort Selkirk and th
raft down the river to Dawson.
Dan Dunwell has been released fr
the penitentiary where he was servi
seven years sentence for cattle ste
ing. The case is a peculiar one.
develops that Dunwell was piled W
liquor by another man and induced
drive six head of cattle away WI
he became sober he returned the I
tie and gave the owner two additi
al head to pay for any expense
latter may have been put to. He
arrested and plead guilty, He
served about Is months. The DO
thought his punishment was excess