Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-02-02
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halley mas tJllted Lovers club OF
twenty-three members
A boy 20 years of age, answering to
the name of George Cooper, is in Jail
at Lewiston, charged with stealing
eleven horses in Idaho county.
State Treasurer Storer has made a
call for 100000 of warrants. These
are of the 1897 issue, beginning with
No and running up to No. LOCI.
The Gum public library at Hager-
man will give rhetorical silver medal
contest on Feb. -, to which all pupils
of the public schools of the state are
invited
b. B. Lower, ,ex-state superintendent
of public instruction, has entered the
journalistic arena, having purchased
half interest in the Silver City Ava
lanche.
A comparison of the conditions exist
ing four years ago, when load of
wheat brought S6. and those of today,
when load brings $50. brings a smile
of satisfaction to the Kendrick farmer
Richard Ruddy, a Geneese farmer
has gone East feeling he can afford
the expense He raised 2s. 600 bushels
of wheat, 5000 bushels of barley, and
100 tons of hay this yeat, farming
1300 acres.
In HALEY few days ago at the
Hope mine, blast in the bottom of the
Iaft
that it made e hole in the roof of the
hosting works, The shaft is down
about ninety feet.
At Iona William Longhurst and
others were out shooting rabbits His
twelve-year old son with 22-caliber
shot at rabbit the bullet striking
ms rather on the tip of the nose coursed
downward lodging in the left lung.
At Blackfoot insane asylum there
now ls7 patients-129 males and 81
females, Six months ago there were
ia males and 80 females Since then
- males have been received and II fe-
males; - males and two females have
been discharged, and four males and
one female have died
Effort is being made.to have Boise
designated as one of the United States
railway terminals II this plan could
be carried out it would make Boise
the headquarters for IL to IA clerks,
each earning a salrry of 81, 200 a year
lu addition making it the turning
point for the clerks coming from Port
land
The Farmers Alliance Joint Stock
company, whose warehouse at Gene
see was burned last November, has
called meeting of stockholders for
the 18th inst, to decide whether or
not to rebuild the house. The loea-
ton for ware house is excellent
ana the warehouse capacity of the city
is insufficient
The Northern Pacific bridge crew Is
busy putting bridge across the Pot
iatch creek, to enable trains to carry
supplies to where the grading will
commence. This bridge is only
temporary one, as it is the eompany's
creek as soon as the water is low
enough to permit it. The graders and
their onttits are expected this week.
when the work will begin in earnest,
J. W. Cunningham, assayer in
charge OF the United States ASSAY
office at Boise, has returned from a
trip through the northernpart of the
state taken for the purpose of com
pletlng tue collection of statistics of
mineral production. He was in sno-
kane on the night of the recent fire
and was an eye witness of the disas-
ter.
One of the best known Indians in,
Idaho died few days ago at Glenns
ferry. Ills name was Beuneau John
and he won distinction for his services
as government scout during the Ban
mock war, The war department pre-.
ssnted him with silver medal in rec |
ognition of these services. and Brunean
John priced it above everything in the
world. John died of old age Some
say he was in the neEghborhood of 100
yrars old.
Mortgages aggregating about s65,-
900 have been filed in the office of the
county recorder, in which John Helm
OF Boise is the mortgager and Bunnen
y Emo Investment company the mort
gagee. 1t is not thought that any
one man ever before filed such heavy I
mortgage in the history of Ada county.
About sio,o of these mortgages were
to take up old mortgages held by the
Brnnnell=Eno company, the remainder
representing money just borrowed.
William Godd of Golfax is cutting
100000 feet of logs on the upper Pa.
louse river, 10 be delivered at the
river bank before the breakup next
spring. Parties at Eberton and Pa.
louise have contract d for 900, 900 feet,
the largest amount a1,4 Il, aua saae.r