Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-06-22
IDAHO NEWS.
The next Grand Army encampment
will be held at Weiser.

Chief Clerk Arney one day last week
sold school lands in Washing county
to the amount of SO, 500
Something over 81 600 will be ex-
pended by Boise citizens in an appro-
pirate celebration of the Fourth of
July
large piece of ore from the Trade
Dollar mine will be sent to the Paris
s exposition. The ore assays S5, 900 to
the ton.
The Idaho Falls Creamery company,
limited, capital SO, 900, has fled its ar
ticles of :Ecorporation with the sec
retary of state.
The authorities of Nampa have de-
termined to cure the Chinese of that
city of the use of opium, and have been
raiding the dens.
The -aontana Copper Mining com
pany, limited, of Wallace, capital $780,
900, has filed its articles of incorpora-
tion with tbs. secretary of state.
Articles of incorporation of the
Methodist Episcopal church of Corn
wall, Latah county, have been filed in
Secretary of State Patrie's office.
The Idaho Woman's Volun teer corps
has raised s1,326.6l during the past
eleven months, which has been for
warded to the Idaho soldier boys.
The Bunker Hill mine at Wardner is
now employing 12O men at the mine,
14O at the mill and 80 at the tunnel
The reconstruction of the mill is pro-
crossing rapidly.
The prisoners at the state peniten-
'iary are enjoying the choicest vege-
tables of the season, all grown in the
pententiary garden, under the super
vision Of Warden HALEY.
Free transportation has been secured
from Florence, Colo, for fifty barrels
of kerosene to be used in exterminat-
ing the grasshoppers about Market
lake. 1t will be applied with spray
pumps.
Idahos wool output for this year is
estimated at 1900, 900 pounds. The
10 to 14l4 cents per pound, the greater
portion Of it having already been dis.
posed of
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company is putting in a metallic cir
cult from Boise to Quartzberg, con-
Meeting all the Basin towns. New
poles are to be put in and two new
wires strung.
George White, a prospector, found
the body of man few days ago at
Wildhorse creek floating in the Snake
River. The body seemed to have foated
for several days before being found
and could not be identified
The grand jury at Wallace has re-
ported, finding true bills against all
the participants in the riots of April
29th A large number of participants,
whose names were unknown to the
jury, were indicted under ficticious
names
The Roman Catholics will in the
near future erect commodious new
CIlhlNI bui1Alllp dl hCiScI. l4ObS lot
this purpose have been owned by the
church for some years, and their oe-
cupancy by church building is now
an assured fact.
William Tweedy of Pomeroy was ac-
cidentally knocked off the Clearwater
ferry boat and drowned. He was help
ing some small boys to hold an unruly
team when he was knocked overheard,
aud before a boat could be sent to his
assistance he sank.
Passen gers on "A train near Toponis
witnessed peculiar sight last week, it
being the movement of swarm of the
black bugs called crickets, that some
times appear with mission to travel
undeviatngly in one direction while
life lasts. The swarm covered several
acre..
Retrenchment has been found nee
essary in the expenses of the Soldiers
Home, and number of the salaried
employees have been discharged, their
places to lie filled by details from mem
bers of the home. Recently the expen-
diture has been twice as much as the
appropriation warranted.
At the meeting of the GOA. r. at
Lewiston the following officers were
elected: Department commandr, S. L.
Thompson, of Lewiston senior vice
commander, G. A. Clark, of Boise; iu>
nior vice commander, G. ii. Murphy, of
Genesee; surgeon general r. II. Bar
ton, of Moscow; chaplain, George w.
Daggett, of Genesee.
Mrs Elizabeth Rambo, aged s4 years,
was killed at Weiser by being run
over by an engine She was walking
on the track and did not see or hear
the approaching engine. The pilot
struck her squarely, killing her almost
instantly.
The shipments from the United States
assay office at Boise during the year
promises to far exceed those of any
other year since the office was estab-
lished The total of the shipments
during May was s1o9, ,515.13. For May,
1s98, they amounted to s78, 4s6o1.