Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-09-28
IDAHO NEWS.
A federal jury has been drawn to try
the Wardner dynamiters.

chosen queen of the state fair by q
voting contest.
The State Sunday School Association
will convene in Caldwell October II,
holding two days session.
thresher and 200 bushels of rain
were burned near Payette last week
The loss on the thresher was $1,000.
The mining exhibit at the state fair
from HALEY is exceptionally fine, in
keeping with the renewed activity that .
abounds there.
A. j. Ames was last week sentenced |
to two years in the Penitensary, from
lewiston for raising check to sl75 |.
from Sl.75.
Many Boise people are pledaing 10 |
per cent of the assessed valuation of
their property to have the main line of
the Short Line built through the city.
L. Newell, brother-in-law of Lieu
tenant-Colonel Higgins of the Idaho
volunteers, had his arm badly shat
tered last week by being thrown from
horse near Boise
not attend the Dewey reception in New
York on account of the Homecoming
of the volunteers, will be represented
by Major Fred r. Reed of Boise.
Portland gave the Idaho volunteers
a royal welcome as they passed through
en- route home. Many of the Oregon
volunteers who recently returned paid
their late comrades personal visits.
The first barge load of prunes shipped
from Emmett to Payette arrived at the
latter place last week. The trip was
made in seventeen hours. The fruit,
1000 crates, went through in fine CON
dition.
Joseph Metts, an old-time Idaho
miner, was accidentally killed at the
Silver Thread mine, near Windermere,
B. c., last week boulder swept
down the mountain side and struck
him on the head.
A trainload of ten or more cars of
green fruit will soon be shipped from
Boise by the Earl Fruit company. The
cars will be hammered and will be big
terests of the state
Judge Piper of Moscow, died in a
hospital at Seattle last week. He has
been in poor health since he retired
from the bench in January last. He
was first elected in 1890, and again
In 1894. He came to the state in the
early part of 1887.
Joe Jensen, the Jordan Valley rob-
Der, has admitted his guilt and ex-
pressed a desire to begin serving his
sentence as soon as possible Calamity
Jane and brother of Lawson, who
was killed, have been arrested for com
plicity in the Jordan Valley robbery
l.. johnson has been sentenced at
Boise to two years in the penitentiary
for the robbery of the post Office at
Bliss in 1896. lie confessed the deed
He has just finished sentence in Ore
gon for robbery, and was turned over
to the Idaho authorities when released.
The Boise Statesman says the long
talked-of tunnel project to open the
mines of War Eagle mountain has
for those now on the ground represent
ing the capitalists who expect to fur
nish the money for the enterprise to
do so.
Saturday carload of prunes was
shipped from Boise direct to Liverpool.
The shipment was made by the Earl
Fruit company. The Idaho prune has
been shown to have better keeping
qualities than any others and it is be-
lieved 1t can be sent across the ocean
and arrive in good condition.
John Smith, the man who is charged
with sending Internal machines to o.
w Powers of Salt Lake and Warden
Dow of the Utah penitentiary, was
once an inmate of the Idaho pen, and
threatened to kill Warden Campbell.
He was sent up from Bingham county
for robbery, under the name of Paul
Clifford.
A Montana man named King was
passing an orchard in Boise last week
He seemed fascinated by it, and he re-
turned to the house and offered the
lady 23 cents for the privilege Of pick
ing an apple, explaining that he had
not seen an apple on tree for thirty
five years. lie was granted the priyi-
lege without the fee.
Crawford Moore will move all his
cattle to Colorado. He will have in all
about fifty carloads. He loaded twenty
cars at Nampa last week. Mr.. Moore
1t is understood, was moved to make
the change on account of the price a,
which hay is held here during the
winter months. He has found a good
range in Colorado for both summer
ard