Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-09
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living picture exhibition with them
selves as the pictures.
Sol Barnett of Weiser has probably
made deal to sell his whole band o1
5000 sheep, at So. 25 all around, incl id
ing lambs.
The Snake steamer Mabel has been
placed in the water and the machinery
is being put in. The little 70-foot
craft is a beauty.
John f. Yost, chosen as temporary
secretary Of the Republican state
committee, is the editor of the Silver
Blade, paper which is published
at Rathdrum.
William X. Davis has entered suit at
Boise against the Idaho Mining and
Milling company for S3211, which
plaintiff alleges is due him for wages
at $3.50 per month.
c. II. olds of Weiser, to avoid paying
alimony, made an affidavit that he had
but $40 when he had 81, 500 in the bank.
lie was arrested for perjury, and re-
leased on bonds, and skipped out the
next day.
At meeting of the farmers at
Franklin, it was decided to erect beet
sugar factory on the cooperative plan
and If this is found impossible, a bo-
nus will be offered to outside capital
to establish such plant
There were ninety members of the
Boise Soldiers home on Feb. 2s. Two
applications entitled to admission are
waiting for vacant beds. The cost for
maintaining each inmate for the first
two months of the year was S23.34,
against S26. 81 in 1897 and SAC. Sc in the
year 1896.
The snow is from eight to twelve
feet deep in the timber surrounding
the Colwin on Sunset, while out on the
bare spots it is almost any depths a
man might ask for. AS yet there have
been no slides, though they have been
expected during these last rains. A
lot of large slides are looked for
NJ. ?. Doyle, head brakeman on
freight train, was killed at Rathdrum
March 6. He was about to uncouple
the engines, when the link broke. The
jar threw him to the ground, he fall
ing across the rail in front of the
trucks of car, which passed over his
body. Death was instantaneous. He
was married and his wife resides at
Moscow.
Chris Nelson, a prosperous farmer
living near Sucker Lake, Idaho, had
w. l.. Wiley, his brother-in-law and
neigh boring farmer arrested, charg-
ing him with rape on the person of
Dora Hite, sometime last August. Re-
alizing husband was needed for his
victim, Wiley selected Nelson, who
readily consented Dora was threat
ened with death if she told of Wiley's
guilt. She first accused a woodchopper
of the crime, but finally confessed the
truth.
The irrigation law passed at the
third session being declared unconsti-
tutional, suit has been filed at Boise
under the common law to determine
what is reasonable rate to pay for
water. 1t is claimed that under the
common law, courts of equity have
power to fix tolls not regulated by sta
ute, and that this matter comes under
that classification. The point is made
that il the canal owner can fix the
rate he could make it prohibitive if he
wished and thus destroy property de-
pendent upon the canal for water for
irrigation.
Ex-Gov. Mcconnell is in Boise, in
connection with the proposed opening
of the Fort Hall reservation. There
are number of the Indians at Bliss
and some at other localities that he
will endeavor to send back to the res
ervation, so that they will be entitled |
to the annuity in case the pending |
treaty with the Indians is ratified by |
the senate. The Bliss Indians. the |
Governor says, are the remnant of a |
tribe that was nearly all murdered at |
different times. On one occasion a
ndmber of men who had ferry
got into dispute about how many In
dians could be killed with large swi-
vel gun they had. To settle the dis
pute they got the Indians in bunch
under the bank, attracted by some
thing shown them, and then discharg-
ed the gun into the crowd Both bar
rels were loaded with pistol balls, and
the slaughter of the harmless tribe
was fearful.
Articles of incorporation of the Sill
yer City Electric Light company. capi-
tai stock $4,000, have been filed with
state Secretary Lewis. Directors are
John Crete, sr., John Torriff, John
Crete, jr., Fred Crete, jr., and G.. II.
Handy.
Quite extensive improvements at the
HALEY Hot Springs are planned 'or
this year. The hotel is to be enlarged
and the bathing rooms and gentlemen's
aud ladies plunges are to be thor ough
Iy oyerhauled, the whole establish
repainted and embellished. !