Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-12-01
d. PAYNE MABEL L. PAYNE
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! Senator's Shoup and Heitfeld ex
!. bress themselves in favor of keeping
:, HE Philippines and the annexation of
Cuba
!. Portland and Boise papers now
assert that the extenson of the Oregon
:, Railway & Navigation company is to
be built across Idaho from Lewiston to
Billings, the latter being the western
terminus of the Burlington.
New steel rails for the Oregon Short
: Lines Idaho division arriving daily
- - and the work of laying them is being
sigorously prosecuted. The entire
" prder amounts to something like 1o, 900
tons and most of them will be used
Y west of Glenn's Ferry. The new rails
- that are being put down are much
II heavier than the old ones
Dr. Garrett, a well-known veterin-
~ ary surgeon is in Salt Lake City,
Itah, on a visit, and in recent
e. dnteryiew concerning Idaho, says
OF Idaho especially as regards stock and
~ agriculture, is fast coming to the front
OF Bnd is progressing at a rate consider
o. ably faster than most people are aware
a pfn He further says that the grain
p Shipments of Idaho this year will
Double those of any previous season.
< The Croesus group OF mines near
- 9lailey, is not sold, as many persons
ld suppose But company or syndicate
n, bf capitalists of Nebraska, Spokane
4n1 1tL hay pTf
ed IN the mining regions has taken an
ae option upon it, after a thorough exam
nation and sampling-that required
th weeks of time-and shipment of
,p carload of ore to Salt Lake for work
id ing test.
I'd Colonel j. s. Andrews, exUnited
le States Indian agent at Lemhi agency,
At idaho, was taken before United States
commissioner Gapron at Denver on the
II 25th inst, for preliminary examina-
tion on the charge of having embez-
zled Indian funds to the amount of
s322. He was bound over in the sum
Of S., 900 to appear for trial at the next
term of the federal court in Idaho.
:, Andrews was captured in Idaho
Springs.
a The United States assay Office at
4 Boise has t09 pounds of bullets and
shot taken out by gold mining dredges
working at Bannock City, Mont. The
e bullets are of every pattern known for
forty years. 1t is mystery how such
G mass of missiles could have collected
during a seasons work. Most of them
d are battered, but some of them retain
: their original shape. The mass of
. material is supposed to have a little
= gold in it and for that reason was sent
0 to Boise, but 1t will have to 60 to a
0 refinery.
A. W. Barber is in Boise from Wash
$ ington, d. c., on an important mission,
Il For number of years lands of Ida
0 hoans near the Canadian border have
le been inundated because of the dam
e ming OF rivers by Canadian corpora
Ii ton. The settlers filed claims, which
a have just been laid before the Ameri-
d can British joint commission, it having
n been decided it was an international
question. Mr. Barber was sent out by
J ter, The claims run up into the hun.
r. dreds of thousands
' Willie Hall, aged s, was killed by 6
+ locomotive at Nampa, on the 26th ult
e lhe engine passed over his body, roll
Ing 1T to shapeless mass. He, with
n two companions, was playing in a
A cloud of steam escaping from a locomo
/ i've on a siding track. Hearing an
1 other engine approaching, they
/. started to cross. and as they were, al
E claimed, enshrouded in the steam, tn,
engineer did not see them. Robert
blakely was knocked to one side sus
ealnlng bad scalp wound The
steam story is told by the railroad
nieh, but others say the accident wa
uue TO earelessness on the part of th'
engineer, and the coroner will make
Aearehlng investigation
interest in the Seven Devils railroad
project has again been revived by th
presence in Idaho of Thomas Hart
president of the company which Is t,
polid from Bridgeport to Helena, il
'ne Seven Devils country, and whicl
was Incorporated some time ago unde
s'e name of the Bridgeport & Helen
halfway company. The latter hal
@ on pleted surveys and announces tina
Inmates on the construction is nov
e'hg received Hart is heavily inter
.stea IN copper properties in the dis
- iis'et' and has good backing His roa
- - projected on the Idaho side of Snak
ua', iisef' opposite the projected line of tn
iauntlngton ! company, of which B1alx
mere are now exactly seven road
projected to the Seven Devils minin
ssion. suserstitous trainmen will n
1ouot refuse to run on car or engin
WIN the number in sight. Out Of tn
I've number it is reliably stated tha
Two will be constructed.