Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-08-03
Terms of Subserip.lon:
IDAHO NEWS.

gagged in the task of surveying the line
Fon west from Granger into Idaho.
The city council Of Lewiston has de-
|eided to license gambling, notwith
standing the state law prohibiting it.
A number of special premiums for
exhibits at the state fair are being
offered by business men throughout
the state.
The Idaho International Fair as
sociation has begun distributing ad
Avertising matter. The fair will be
Sheld September 25 to 80.
The Boise assay office shipped s39,
542 81 in gold to the mint on the 2end
The shipment for the same week last
year was only S35, PESOS.
Robert T. Walsh, captain of the
Ninth cavalry, stationed at Boise, has
been appointe major and assigned to
the Thirty fourth regiment
The scaffold is being erected upon
which the Chinaman who killed his
cousin at HALEY win be hanged. The
execution will take place August 25.
The cornerstone of the new building
I of the Rocky Mountain Telephone com
pany at Boise has been laid, and the
/ building will be erected as rapidly as
possible.
An eastern company is looking over
the Sinker creek tunnel project. 1t is
) intended by means of the proposed
A tunnel to tap and drain all the mines
on War Eagle mountain.
At the Carboo mines, fifty miles
north of Soda Springs, a premature
blast of giant powder severly injured
John Mccormick, his right arm being
blown off and his side injured.
This has been a bad year for crops on
dry farms in this state, owing to the
scarcity of rain and the excessive hot
y weather Bountiful yields have been
received from the irrigated lands, how
ever.
With the exception of few isolated
fields, the first crop of alfalfa has been
cut and stacked. 1t is an excellent
crop, fully up to the average of the
i first cutting of previous years, though
the harvest is later than usual.
Judge Steele of the district court at
Mt Idaho, has decided in favor of
Mallory and Rice, the two claimants
for half interest in the Big Buffalo
mine and two adjoining claims, and
each are given one-fourth in the
same.
Conviets attempting to escape from
the state penitentiary in the future
the law, which provides that they may
be sent back to prison for term equal
Y in length to that under the original
sentence.
Since April the total resources of
the ten national banks in Idaho have
increased from 81 05e, GRO to S4, POI ,972,
the individual deposits have increased
from s., IT'S, 324 to S3 ,077, ,523, while the
average reserve held decreased from
SO. 10 to 80 l. per cent.
Charles Ostner, the artist who carved
the equestrian statue of Washington
in the state house grounds, is remodel
ing the same, an appropriation having
been made by the last Legislature for
that purpose. Mr. Ostner donated the
81 statue to the state.
Mrs J. ". Gibson of Meridian saw a
maa enter her house, whereupon she
s went into the house through rear
door, secured gun and covered the
fellow, who was looting the house. lie
disgorged the stolen goods and was
promptly landed in Jail.
Charles Free and c. II. Cotes, Buffalo
Hump mines, left camp for three
Il days prospecting tour and have been
absent for over Il month Their friends
fear they have been caught in a snow
slide and killed All efforts to trace
them have proven futile.
Concerning potatoes, vegetables and
fruit the reports from all over the state
are favorable Fruit trees are in ex
cellent condition and the orchards are
clean and properly cultivated. Owing
to very warm weather and absence O
local storms, grass on the range il
parching, in consequence of which
stock is not in the best condition il
some sections.
]. $. Doran, who jumped his bond il
Lewiston about month ago, has beer
arrested in Seattle. and Goyerno
steunen berg has sent requision paper
for the return of the prisoner Dorar
was ont on bond with a charge o
grand larceny against him.
A new cell house is to be built at tn
state penitentiary. There are now Is
eonvicts and no accommodations 70
thirty of them, who are obliged to b
kept in a room not designated for tha
purpose, The new cell house will &C
4eommodate $50 prisoners.