Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-09-29
FILLMORE BULLETIN.
q M PAYNE MABEL L. PAYNE
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IDAHO NEWS.

{ of Caldwell last week.
Joseph w. Henry and A. Green OF
Wallace, have been granted patents on
grain bagging machine.
A postoffice has been established at
Norton, Oneida county, Idaho, with
Charles A. Norton as postmaster
William McGover has been appointed
postmaster at Gilgore, Fremont county,
Idaho, vice Goodlib Rasmussen re
moved.
The famous Held's band of Salt Lake,
. Utah, composed of twenty-five pieces,
have been engaged to furnish music at
the state fair at Boise.
Miss Geneva Jennings, popular
mezzo and voice teacher of Salt Lake
City has been engaged to sing at the
state fair in Boise next month.
w. H. Blish, teacher at the Lemhi
Indian school, has been transferred to
a like position at the Hoopa valley
school, California, at 5000 per annum.
The Idaho Inter- Mountain fair will
open at Boise, Monday, October g.
Fifteen thousand visitors are expected
the first day. Race horses and exhibits
are arriving on every train.
81 Paul Lyons has been arrested at
Boise on a charge of robbing his en-
ployers, Hesse and Sturges jewellers.
He is supposed to have robbed the firm
6uf 5000 in money and jewelry. A
stolen pin was found in his room, and
it is expected more of the stolen
property will be recovered.
The trial of Charles Nelson, charged
with the murder of Thomas M. Kerr
has been commenced at Boise. There is
unprecedented interest in the case and
public sentiment is divided. Kerr was
quartermaster general of the Idaho
militia. Nelson is a miner and he
killed Kerr because the latter, accord
ing to the confession of Mrs. Nelson,
3 had seduced her.
At Silver City William Cooper shot
and severely wounded Bob Hamilton.
The men are deputies. They were
sent out after men for whom warrants
had been issued. When they ran
across each other in the hills Cooper
was beastly drunk. He pulled down
on Hamilton and fired. The ball
passed through Hamilton's jaw. Coop
er is under arrest. 1t is supposed he
mistoolS Hamilton for his prisoner.
The supreme court has handed down
an important decision, passing on the
constitutionality Of an irrigation act.
1t was in the case of Robert T. Wilson
s VS.. Joseph Perrault ct al, owners of
the Perrault canal. The decision is
for the defendants. Water from the
ditch had been taken by the plaintiff
to irrigate so acres The defendants
demanded 5000 for the water for the
1898 season. Wilson offered them
$62.5o for a flow of one cubic inch per
second, the maximum permitted under
the act approved March s, 1897. The
case came up on writ of mandate,
an alternative writ having been
issued.
Harry Caldwell of De La Mar took a
six-shooter from the shelf to show to a
5 prospective purchaser and broke it
down to extract the shells, throwing
/ as he supposed, all of them out. But
the fatal one remained, and when the
trigger was pulled to show that the
weapon was in perfect order, the ham
mer struck the remaining shell, the
report came, and Mr.. Caldwell was
horror struck on learning that he had
shot w. II. Calleck, who was sitting
just opposite and watching the work.
Y ing of the gun. Medical aid was
called for the unfortunate man, but
the wound was fatal one, and from
> which death resulted about thirty
hours later.
Nevada parties have under way an
enterprise to utilize the water of Snake
river for mining purposes in Nevada.
S. B. Miner, of Elko, in an interview
regarding the matter said "At a
Vi point two and .one-half miles above
Shoshone Falls l have patented the
ground contiguous to the stream
where the full flow of the stream
makes a sheer descent of 1856 feet. l
have already tunneled under the lip of
the falls to within few feet of where
any desired quantity of water can be
tapped. The only expense necessary
to obtain any desired quantity of pow
er will be the building of stand pipe
and the installation of the necessary
dynamos. The distance from this
point to Tuscarora in a direct line is
only lis miles, and 500, 900 is an am
pie fund for building line and plant
E which will deliver from / 900 to s, 200
horsepower at Tuscarora
An Idaho man is in possession of q
pair of nlooses horns that are regarded
as the finest in the west. The horns
have spread of SO inches, and there
are 20 prongs encircling a web which
measures l2 inches in width by %
inches in length.