Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-11-24
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u William Bernard has been appointed
& postmaster of Banner. Boise county,
& ice Mrs Mary Miller, resigned.
Il The appropriation made by the
81 Methodist missionary committee for
q he Idaho conference is announced as
q 900
John A. Denny has been notified of
d lis appointment as postmaster of
n 7uprum, Washington county, vice
q , Hail. resigned.
The secretary of the interior has
81 irdered patented to the Northern Pa
3 ,ifc Railroad company 11OoO acres of
q and in the Cpur d'Alene district.
Mrs b. H. jefferson, of Soldier, rode
q ixty miles through binding storm
IN election day to cast her vote.
u shortly before election she had moved,
q aking a registration transfer, but on
he morning of election it was dis
'overed She had neglected to register
a again, and in order to vote it was nee
81 ',sary for her to return to her old
# home.
"a Examination of the effects of j. Cur
~ is, who recently died at Boise in pow
81 ,rty, has resulted in number of inn
a oortant records of the probate judges
"a )flice being uncarthed. Curtis was
probate judge a number of years ago
81 After his term expired it was found
N Important record books were gone.
& These have been found among his be-
81 ongings. Several of them antedated
81 ais incumbency of the office. Why he
81 ,arried them away is mystery.
Isaac i. Blank of New York, presi-
# lent of the Northwest Railroad com
n pany, an organization allied with the
Northwest Copper company, which
81 owns all the best copper mines in the
a Seven Devils, says that within three
weeks the work of grading for the
railroad that is to run from Hunting
ton to the copper belt will be com
menced. All the arrangements for the
funds have been completed.
j. S. johnson, of La Grande, Ore, has
been on the trail of his abducted fam
4 lily since last June. His wife was lured
away from home by the Establishments
q Of c. o. Curtis during Johnson's alb
81 sence. She took her two boys and
81 nearly everything of value about the
place. johnson trailed them to Boise
one day last week. while Curtis was
away His wife fell repentant into his
arms and he bundled her and the
children into his wagon and started
back for home.
4 contract was let last week for the
immediate construction of the Lewis
a onNineland bridge across the Snake
81 river, the contract price being Sll0, 900.
81 The structure will be $40 feet long
81 and have fourteen long spans. The
n main span across the channel will be
3i7 feet long, and an arch will be fifty
# pix feet above high water. The piers
Twill be of masonry. This portion of
the work will be sublet to local COM
pany. The work of excayating will
begin in short time
j. NJ Edwards, a clothing salesman
Df Lewiston, has received authentic
jnformation that after years of litiga-
tion he has come into fortune amount
ing to nearly $1,000, 900. The story
Beads like romance, covering litiga-
tion over ii large tract of land lying in
The business heart of the city of New
ork dating back to the time of King
George III. The tract of land involved
IN the heirship embraces forty-fye
acres of land in the heart of New York
city. extending from Battery street to
Canal street. This tract includes all
of the promontory, which extends
from Canal street out into the bay.
The great business block on Wall street
and on Broadway. the government
Building, postoflice, custom houses and
mint are on this property.
Almost countless numbers of sheep
were shipped into the vicinity of Soda
Springs the past summer, from all
parts of the county, on account of the
good range in that section. Trainloads
came in from Oregon, California and
other places 200 or more miles away.
III is estimated that at one time at
least 400, 600 head of sheep were feed
Ing in that yicinity-a few months ago.
Now there arc probably goo, 900 scat
tered over those grounds. The others
have been shipped to various winter
ranges, while thousands have been
shipped east to Gil the capacious NAV
OF the every-hungy market The range
has been pretty thoroughly licked off,
30 that now the owners are hurrying
their tiocks to greener pastures. The
sheep business is great and growing
Industry in these parts.
The o. r. a n. company has let
the contract for building 14O miles of
railroad from Wallula junction up the
Snake river to Lewiston. The grading
Is now being actively pushed both east
and west by the contractors, Messrs
seims & Coykendahl