Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-01-05
IDAHO NEWS.

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D, First Idaho, died at Manila Novem-
Il ber 30, of exhaustion, following ty-
phoid fever
The following postmasters were ap-
pointed last week: Beeman, Nez
Perces county, Seth Clifford, vice Raeh-
el Phillips, resigned. Steele, Nez
Perces county, b. f, Basher, vice M. j.
Steele, resigned.
Senator Shoup succeeded, on the last
day Of the session, in passing his bill
to pension Flora Stanton kalk and her
children. Mrs. Kalk is the daughter of
General Thaddeus IL. Stanton, and
widow of Lieut.. Frank c. Kalk, Fifth
cavalry, killed in railroad accident
The civil service commission has
refused to certify for appointment as
superintendent of the Boise public
building, Mr.. Simon, chief draughts-
man in the surveyor generals office at
Boise, who was recommended by Sen
ator Shoup
1t is now positively asserted by those
in a position to know that before Sep
tember of next year the ores from the
Seven Devils country will be finding
outside markets by rail. When the
railroad has been finished the world
will hear from the Seven Devils coun-
try in a manner that will open the
eyes of the increduulous to the rich
ness of the country
The recent strike in the Checkmate
mine at Willow creek proves to be
much more rich than at first reported.
At a depth Of 25o feet from the surface,
the vein has been opened from the
shaft that is being sunk, and it shows
ore worth 500 in gold per ton. The
body is far better than found above,
though the mine has made large ship
ments of very high grade ore. The
nature of the discovery is such that
indicates that the district will develop
into one of the best in the state.
The committee that has been ap
pointed to examine tie laws passed
since statehood, has reported that 80
per cent of the states laws are uncon-
stitutional, and will not stand the
to railroad through the Legislature a
perfect avalanche of bills to correct
constitutional defects in the states
laws, and give Idaho legal status she
has not enjoyed in eight years, is
meeting much opposition Unless this
plan prevails, little will be accom-
plished outside of curative legislation
A company is being formed in Den
yer to work abandoned placer claims
on the Payette river from which sew
eral million dollars of gold have been
taken in the past by means of a
tunnel 200 feet in length, cut through
solid rock, it is proposed to drain the
bed of the Payette river for a distance
of two miles, leaving the gravel that
to the miners. Governor Adams of
Colorado, is one of the members of this
company, and the capital stock is
placed Mt S1OO, 900.
The Indian appropriation bill as 1t
finally passed the house of represent
atives carried with it the following
appropriations of interest to Idaho:
Pay of agent, Fort Hall, 81 500; pay of
agent Lemhi, 81 eco; pay of agent. Nez
Perces, 81 600; for Fort Hall Indians
annuity, $4,000; for civilization and
instruction of Fort Hall Indians, $780,
600; for civilization and instruction of
Indians at Lemhi agency, $4,000; for
support and civilization of keababs,
u S3,500 for support and civilization OF
Il Nez Perces, including physician, IS, 600
u Portable steam sawmill on Nez Perces
reservation.
81 Congressman James Gum, Governor
81 Frank Steunenberg, Colonel George A.
# Williams, b. r. IT, Poston and Martin
n Jacobs received the third payment on
~ their placer ground on Moore creek, be-
s. tween Cold Springs and the mouth of
81 Grimes creek. The payment was
*& very large one. The next will be the
& final payment. They have eighteen
z& and one-half claims, each 1500X600 feet,
# On the first of next March between
81 seventy-five and one hunered men will
NJ be put to work on a bedrock fume.
This is all good ground that pays with
z the old primitive method of working
S. by means of small sluices, and, with
Hume, the only way to work to Sc
& cure large profits, but which method,
however, requires capital, an immense
z fortune will be made by the pur-
al ehasers. The ground has been pretty
& thoroughly tested by member OF the
company that has just made the third
81 payment on the ground, and the aver
H age, without reaching bedrock, was
53 cents a cubic yard.
IL Objection has been made by the
civil service commission to the appoint
# ment of Blanford Robb, as chief clerk
'n the surveyor generals Office, but he
val be permitted to retain the Office
for year with the understanding that
3'<he shall be superseded at that time