Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-04-27
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On April IA the Woman's Volunteer
corps sent 500 to DR.. Springer in Ma
nila for the sick and wounded.
The police report that in the neigh
borhood of 100 dogs have been poisoned
in Boise during the past week or ten
days.
Men just in from the Buffalo Hump
country say the snow in that section is
fourteen feet deep, and it will not be
off before June
Indications are that this season VIII
be prosperous one for the Basin, as
there will be great activity in both
placer and quartz mining.
The season of ice cream, soda and
fruit juice is with u.s. and now the
small boy is eagerly looking forward
to the coming of the circus and red
lemonade.
The Potlaeh creek was a raging tor
rent last week, four miles below
Juliaette two miles of railroad track
being washed out and three bridges
carried away. The melting of snow in
the mountains caused the rise of the
river.
News from Lewiston is to the effect
that u movement has been started
there, with the governor at its head,
to erect a monument in the capitol
grounds at Boise to Major McConville
and other Idaho volunteers who fell in
battle at the Philippines.
The superintendent of the Bitter
Root timber reserve, upon w-ich is To-
Gated the famous Buffalo Hump mining
camp, has given notice to all saloon
men that they must cease selling
liquors on the reserve. The saloon men
are given twenty days to vacate.
Frank Bonhio was terribly injured
at the Redbird mine near Clayton some
days ago. A hole he was loading went
off. One piece of rock penetrated his
lungs; another tore away a great
amount of flesh off one of his legs and
another penetrated one of his feet
Colonel Julius A. Andrews, formerly
government agent of the Lemhi Indian
agency, has been found guilty on three
counts charging embezzlement and
sentenced to pay fine of 81, 200 or
serve two years in prison. Andrews
was appointed firm Texas by exPresi-
dent Cleveland.
A shooting is reported from Nez
Peree, in which Levi Dixon shot son
of A Linke The Linke boy, who is 20
years old, lies at the point of death,
and Dixon Is under arrest. The trouble
arose over bitter contest which has
been waged between Dixon and the
elder Linke over piece of land.
Work on the Idaho Northern is to be
rushed with all speed. The right-of-
way arrangements have been COM
pleted, subject to the approval of the
government officials at Washington,
engineers are to take the field at once,
and it is expected active building oper-
ations will be under way 10 June
A couple appeared before Boise
judge recently to secure license to be
married, but as the girl was under age,
he refused. Not to be baked, the girl
applied for guardian, one was ap-
pointed, and in an incredibly short
time two loving hearts were united.
You can't get ahead OF an Idaho girl.
Boise man filed his will the other
day, and from the reading of the in
strument it would appear that he does
not care to have another man don his
old clothes when he joins the great
majority. In case of his widow marry
ing again after his death, all his prop
erty is to be taken from her and di-
vided among other relatives.
The new county salary law is to be
tested. The movement originates at
Lewiston where case is to be brought
in the supreme court. The points on
which the law will be tested are that
the legislation is not uniform that
liked salaries are not provided for in
the present law in the meaning of the
constitution; and that the Legislature
had no right to delegate authority to
county commissioners to fix salaries.
In speaking of the charge made by
the gallant Idaho soldier boys, under
the command of Major Higgins, the
Manila Freedom says: at was grand
IN its impetuosity - the spirit that
hlled the men-and if the imperial
shade of Mad Anthony Wayne could
have gazed down upon it from the low
tents of the deathless dead, his old ar
dent blood would probably have risen
10 speed that pretender to the spirit
OF that whirlwind charge"
The swelling of buds and the rise of
the river are not the only signs that
spring has come. The spring fights
are on, and the farmer is out with his
shovel likewise his sixshooter, and
ne Is looking for trouble along the line
Ot his irrigation ditch.