Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-02-09
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OI DOlSe are MelnOulSDS.
Lincoln county warrants have beer
selling like hot cakes for % cents.
Mrs. A. NJ Church has purchased
the Emmett Index from s. A. Patti
son.
The idea is abandoned of bringing
the legislature together in special ses
sion
Mark Price has been arrested al
Caldwell for robbing a Silver City man
of $3.50.
Owing to the heavy snow in the foot,
hills, it is feared that much damage
will be done at Boise by the floods
the coming spring.
o. Ii. Hazard, a horse raiser of May
field, was shot in the leg by the acci-
dental discharge of a shotgun, and
his leg was amputated above the knee.
Mart Patrie, chairman of the Silver
Republican state central committee,
the committee to meet in Boise some
time this month.
A committee of seventeen has been
appointed at Wallace TO take the pre-
liminary steps towards the removal of
the county seat from Murray to Wal
lace this fall if two-thirds of the
voters shall decide.
On Monday a special tourist car from
Boston went over t he Short Line with
Klondike passengers. Last week
there were thirteen dogs aboard be-
longing to passengers bound for the
north.
A Chinese company has been work.
ing placer ground on Moor creek, just
above the halfway house, between
Boise and Idaho City, for ten years
past. 1t is said they have made in that
period $42, 900.
The town of Juliaetta is overrun
with railroaders The contractors
have set their tents up two miles be-
low town. and are expecting 100 teams
this week. There are now thirty-five
carloads of material on the switches.
The application for an injunction to
restrain County Treasurer Northup
to w .. Hepburn as retaining fee
IN the attempt of the County Commits
sioners to prove part of Shoshone's
bond debt invalid, will come up in
the February term of court.
Joe Kaufman lost his life in the snow
on the summit on the Idaho City road
one night last week. Deceased was a
well-known miner. Recently. it seems,
he has been of unsound mind. At Ida
no City he was lately held in jail, the
doctor stating that he had softening
of the brain
The present soldiers home muddle in
Idaho serves to call attention to mat
ter that has been public knowledge for
some time This is the fact that an
Aeffort Is being made to oust Superin-
tendent Clark. The attorney general,
j 1t is understood, is very anxious to put
eiark out. The governor is credited
with being friendly to Clark
Lewiston and Moscow officials have
begun appraising school lands on the
Reservation. Only lands worth $40 per
Ehere will be appraised, and the
lapptaiseme 1t will be limited to apri-
|euttatai lands. The appraisers will
hasten the work as there is great de-
lnand for this land by farmers who
desire to farm it under lease.
The third Market Lake annual rab-
bit drive held recently was the most
successful ever held, fully 1000 people
participating. Three thousand rab-
bits were killed and captured. A del.
cation from Butte and Anaconda were
secured 200 live rabbits, which they
shipped to their homes and will use
them for their coursing next summer.
Boise Cinnamon were given permis-
sion to sound gongs and explode fire.
works last week, while conveying
their idol to the basin towns to afford
their countrymen an opportunity to
worship The idol is painting of the
chinese gods surrounded by retinue
OF attendants, and is priced above all
other possessions of the subjects of tn e
flowery Kingdom living in Boise.
Oscar and Ammi Joslyn, aged 0 and
L years, sons of Musician Joslyn of
the Sixteenth Infantry band, stationed
at Fort Sherman, were drowned while
skating on the lake. Two other boys
went through the ice with them but
were rescued. Oscar Joslyn was taken
out unconscious and removed to the
post hospital where all efforts to resus-
citate him proved unsuccessful. The
accident occurred near the mouth of
the river and the body of Ammi was
carried under the ice by the current
before assistance reached him.
The snow fall has been so light in
the vicinity of Haley that drouth is
anticipated.
About $4,000 sheep are being fed in
the vicinity of Emmett at present.
This calls for more than twenty-five
tons of hay a day.