Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-12-14
IDAHO NEWS.

oohOS LOuBf VINO STABBED CnarleA
Larrabee to death in saloon row
which occurred at Buffalo Hump on
August 22d, last, has been acquitted of
the charge of murder by jury in the
district court
Clifford Riggs of Mount Idaho who
n several weeks ago shot and killed
Charles Maughmer, and who was vim
dicated at the time by the coroner's
M jury, was eXhonorated at his prelimi-
E nary hearing last week
n tranload OF corn, twenty cars or
lOOo,oo0 pounds, arrived from Nebras,
ka last week to be fed to Idaho sheep.
This is the first time corn has been fed
to sheep in this state, and it is in the
nature of an experiment.
John Walsh of Boise was fined SOC
n at Boise for assaultiug one Rowe with
deadly weapon. Rowe met Walsh,
who was intoxicated. on the street.
He spoke to him. whereupon Walsh
II pulled a revolver and struck Rowe on
Il the head. Rowe ran and Walsh fired
shot after him.
A tract of ! 900 acres will be re.
claimed at Riverside, near Boise, this
II year, by the extension of the canal
81 All the land under the ditch has been
sold, and families are coming in rapid
IL ly from Minnesota and Illinois. There
are 100 Minnesota families already set
E tied there.
81 c. X. Bannister, c onsulting engineer
of the Payette dam apd electric power
project, says the surveys viii be com
III menced in few days The enterprise
involves the investment of about $780,
600 and is most meritorious and
feasible one, being one of the largest
Ia elecric power undertakings in the his
E tory of the west.
" The 5-stamp mill of the Checl1mate
IS mine at Pearl has been running twelve
days and has turned out 900 sacks of
concentrates besides a considerable
amount of free gold. They are badly
II hampered by the condition of the
8 roads Teams with thrty-eght
4 horses are on the road between the
81 railway and the camp, but they are
drawing only ten tons of freight.
State Auditor Sinclair has received a
rather interesting letter from his rep
resentative in the Coeur d'Alenes in
charge of the permit system. 1t states
that IL has been found that dummies
have been securing permits which have
L been sold TO dynamiters An invest-
II CATION has disclosed the fact that seven
permits have thus been secured by an
archists Steps have been taken which
will render further working of the
0 scheme impossible.
John W Harris, acting first sergeant
of Troop E, Sixth cavalry, at Wallace,
attempted snicide last week shooting
q himself through the breast with
b Krag Jorgensen rifle Harris went
N into his tent ostensibly to make some
II change in his clothing. 4 moment
IA later a shot was heard in the tent, and
soldiers rushed in there finding him
lying OH his bunk with the earbine at
81 his feet A few minutes later he said
if the gun had not slipped he would
have made better job of it. The ball
entered nearly the center of the breast
coming out at the right shoulder.
Andrew Gibson, chief of the North
ern Pacific constructing engineers,
owes his life to the interference of
squaw Up near kamiah the North
ern Pacific track runs through an old
Indian graveyard The Northern Pa
cihe company agreed to take up the
81 bones of the sacred departed dead and
deposit them in some good place. One
old Indian objected to the desecratiou
of the graves Of his ancestors. He lev
eled his rifle at Engineer Gibson's
head and was about to pull the trig-
ger, when a nmble squaw, exclaiming,
"You shall not shoot the white man."
pulled down the barrel of the gun.
Charles Crane has discovered a ledge
of phenomenal character in Custer, in
the viciniey OF the Bull Dog mine.
81 The ledge. he says, which is in very
inaccessible place, is eleven feet in
width and has remarkably rich
streak from 6 to IA inches wide The
grayels found in the gulch below the
ledge carry splendid values in placer
gold. One sample, described as black
quartz, carried lO35 ounces per ton in
gold and $3.50 ounces in silver, the
total value being s2s s43. As per ton.
sample of oxydized quartz returned
$50 ounces gold and $500 ounces silver,
its total value being SIC, ,3s1. so per ton.
Frank j. Gorbus died at his home in
Boise last week. Mr.. Corbus was
stricken with partial paralysis about
week before his death The deceased
was pioneer of this section, and one
OF the most extensive sheep raisers Of
the west.