Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-03-09
|ELMORE BULLETIN.
ON PAYNE MABEL L. PAYNE
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
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IDAHO NEWS.

Ada county has just paid $24, 900 to
the state treasurer
The county salary law will go into
effect on the second Monday of next
month.
III Captain George Stennenberg has sail
ed from San Francisco on his return TO
Manila.
The Oregon Short Line is casting
its eye over the Buffalo Hump country
with view of extending its road.
The business of the past month,
throughout the state. was much heavier
than for the same month last year.
pants of the state penitentiary, thirty
three men being laid up at one time.
The governor has appointed c. j.
4 Bassett to be commissioner of the bu-
4 reau of imm grafton. labor and statis-
4 ties
4 Oats are worth Sl.3o on the ranch in
/ Boise Valley. One buyer paid that
amount for l4o, 900 pounds one day last
week
II A herd of $50 cattle stampeded in
Cold Spring Valley last week and ran
n fifty miles before they were finally
captured
The bill to reimburse those who sub
scribcd money to make an exhibit at
the Omaha exposition failed to pass the
legislature
The mail service between Warren
and Hale has been temporarily aban-
doned, owing to the heavy snow and
cold weather
Fifty-two men have been discharged
rom troop f at the Boise barracks.
Many of them are re-enlisting for SER
vice in the Philippines
Private Charles +. Lamb, of company
IF, seriously wounded at Manila, was
born in DesMoines, Ia. and is 25 years
4 Of age. lie enlisted at Wardner.
There will be more miles of railroad
built in the state of Idaho this year
than ever before in the history of the
state, judging from newspaper gossip.
Postmaster Fenton, of Boise, has re-
ceived a dispatch from the department
instructing him to notify the public
building contractors to resume work.
The Buffalo Hump country is Just
now being watched by mining men all
over the county, owing to the recent
wonderfully rich strikes in the region
The Legislature failed to make an ap-
propriation to meet the expense that
will be incurred in carrying out the
law providing for executing the death
sentence in the penitentiary.
Articles of Incorporation of the
Pennsylvania Development company
have been fled with Secretary of State
Patrie. The capital stock is $500, 600
and the principal place of business
Boise
General Otis has cabled the secretary
OF war that the remains of Major Me-
Conyille of the Idaho infantry, had not
yet been forwarded to the United
States, but would be sent on the first
transport sailing from Manila to this
country.
The men employed on the Kootenai
valley railroad have gone on strike.
lheY demand raise from S175 to
@.2o, and agree to pay S4 per week for
board and so cents per month hospital
fees. About 500 men are engaged in
the strike.
young man named Moses Riddle
was drowned in the Payette river in
Garden Valley about eight miles above
the Wetzel bridge. He had gone out
hshing, and not returning his partner
went in search OF him, finding his
body in the river.
The code commission, as appointed
oy the governor and confirmed by the
senate, is composed of the following
gentlemen: Senator j. g. Watts, chair
man. Senator G. NJ. Hays, Senator +.
H. Fogg, Representative Philetus Ave
ritt and Frank Martin.
The governor has been advised of the
forwarding of a treasury draft for
a,73s.51 in favor of the state of Idaho,
representing 5 per cent of the net pro-
eeeds of public land sales in the state
uurlng the past year The money goes
INTO the permanent school fund
The question of transportation to
and from the Seven Devils copper re-
glon has been settled. The Northwest
hallway company have let the con-
tract for the building of their road,
and this road to Tramway Crossing, a
point on the Oregon side of Snake
fiEer' opposite the sevep Devils mines,
is 10 be completed by October 1, 1899.
The following gentlemen were nom
mated by the governor and confirmed
oy the senate as trustees of the Albion
normal school: Hugh E. Elroy of Ada
county, G. $. Mark, j. e. 1orroun, II.
=, Earnes of cassia county and Chester
eail OF Bannoek county.