Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-02-09
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IDAHO NEWS.

The plumbers are reaping harvest
roughout the state as a result of the
cent cold weather.
1.-The people of Idaho are justly proud
the spirit of bravery displayed by
soldier boys of this state in the
cent battle at Manila.
The better class of the people of
sho are very much pleased at the
tion of the state Legislature in pass
the anti-gambling bill.
LII is reported that the Oregon Short
ne has sold seventy-five miles of it's
scsrded steel rails to the company
bat has projected road from Hunt
kgton down the Snake river.
A movement is on foot for the Idaho
blons to pay the Oregon legislature a
Bsit 1t is expected an invitation will
bme FROM the Oregon lawmakers, and
be introduction of a joint resolution
a that body to this effect is looked for
by day.
Bert Jones, one of the representatives
kom Boise county, is being twitted
Fer the fact that he was elected by
Ehinese votes. Three Chinese voters
ere very anxious to cast their ballots
br Mr.. Jones, and did vote for him.
lr. Jones was elected by three votes.
Bear Lake county will ask the legis-
pture to make an appropriation of
500 to help in the construction of
canyon road to connect Bear Lake
d Oneida counties. Bear Lake has
|yer before asked for an appropri-
bon, and it is probable the request
ll be granted.
Nedora Clendenning, a 16-year-old
Frl and heiress to a fortune, COM
itted suicide at Lewiston on January
by deliberately walking into the
ver and drowning herself. She was
he heiress of her father, the pioneer,
Ohm A. Clendenning, and was worth
@O00 in her own right.
The second payment has just been
bade by the purchasers of the Camas
! 10. mine at HALEY, 81, 900 being the
sm paid. The full price to be paid
pr the property Is s5o,ooo, and the
Balance of the payments will now be
bsde promptly as they come due, the
Jew owners feeling that they have
|ecured a bonanza.
The supreme court has handed down
decision in the case brought by
Charles Sweeney and others against
eudge Mayhem for review of the lat
|ier's order appointing a receiver for
the Skookum mine. The receivership
|prder is set aside, and incidentally,
hhe title of Sweeney and associates to
the interests in dispute is practically
Confirmed.
Jack Hilton, alias Hill, has been ar
|fested at Boise for a postoffice robbery
committed at Lakeview, Or, December
pc, 1896. He and Albert Wilson broke
into the postoffice at night. They
were discovered by clerk and Wilson
was shot and wounded, falling into
the hands of the officers, Hilton has
admitted to the officers his participa
zion in the crime.
a Advices have been received from
Washington that a claim of $500 In
flavor of the late Perrin b. Whiteman
who was buried on January 2s, last, a
lewiston, had been allowed by the
government and only awaited the
Esignature for the amount to be paic
over. The claim has been pending fol
Etwenty years, and was for property o.
hr. Whiteman's that had been de
stroyed by the Indians at the massacre
OF his uncle, DIR. Marcus Whiteman
in lS47.
prominent citizen of this state wh'
mas just returned from trip through
oregon, Washington and California
saken for the special purpose OF max
ing an inspection of the fruit growing
industry in those states, makes tn
statement that he nowhere saw an.
orchard that would compare with Hon
Edgar Wilson's near Boise. The tree
IN California do not grow so vigorousl.
as here, and he did not find any orchar'
80 well kept and making so fine an sp
Pearance generally as the one referee
'o' Nor is the fruit in any of the thre
states comparable with that grown il
idaho. In California the prunes ar
only about half the size of those pre-
duced here.
The oSegon Railway and Navigation
statement for the six months endin
december 81, follows: Gross earnings
sS'5sS, ,467; increase, se13, AIS; operatin
expenses, 81, 1,193, ,01s; increase, S343, 76(
aetearnings, 1868, 449; decrease, $3.50
232.
In the suit of the Twin Placer Mir
ing company VS.. the Upper Boise Hy
uFaulic company, involving title to
tract of placer ground on the BoiI
tiVer, the court has rendered q d.
e'sion in favor of the first named con
pany.