Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-10-26
IDAHO NEWS.

The telephone line along the p. & l.
\. into the Seven Devils, will stop at
Council until spring.
A Philadelphia Syndicate has Sc
cured control of the famous Checl<mate
mine at Willow creek
The third annual convention of the
state Sunday school association was
held in Caldwell last week
A heavy. wet snowfall of six inches,
did great damage to orchards and
shade trees in the Palouse country last
week.
The body of r. y. Atkins, who
was drowned in Snake river near Lew
iston October :. was recovered last
week.
Elmer Halford of Houston was last
week convicted of horse stealing and
has been sentenced to serve four years
in the penitentiary.
A contract for l5O-foot shaft on the
Delhi, a promising property on Shaw
mountain. near Boise. has been let.
Indications are promising.
A dredgc is being erected by the
Florence Gold Mining company at
Florence. The number of dredges in
the state is increasing rapidly.
Governor Stennenberg visited Wash
ington last week in the interest of Sc
curing the establishment of perma-
nent military post at Wardner
contract for the completion Of
fourteen miles of the New York Ca
nal which will water a large tract OF
land south of Boise, was let last week.
A powder magazine in the Lucky
Boy mine at Challis exploded last week,
doing considerable damage TO the
shaft, hut fortunately no one was
killed.
Sergeant Crawford who was bribed
10 let number of prisoners escape at
Wardner has been tried by court
martial and convicted. Punishment
Z mas yet been announced.
The Magnolia group on Miller noun
n tain. has been bonded to Boston com
4 pauy for 500, 900, the company agree
Ing to extensively develop the prop
srtv this coming winter.
Len Parker one of the members of
Il company II. Idaho volunteer, has ar
3 rived in Boise from San Francisco. He
j was left in the hospital when the regi-
ment returned to the state
4 Supplies for the penitentiary have
baa -, fAl E1nrr
q 81, 80 per cwt; beef, 49g per ewt; hay,
8 50 per ton; ham II cents per pound;
81 bacon, at4 cents per pound.
The charge that miners were work
ing in the mines at Wardner without
permits has been proven erroneous.
q The state will nip in the bud any at
tempt to snuggle in bad men.
ii ?. P. Shelby of Parma. has sold his
hop crop to the schlitz Brewing com
& &pany of Milwaukee. On account of
#their excellent quality he received
"a cents pound more than the market
price
The order relieving the soldiers
81 ftationed in the Occur d'Aenes from
further guard duty has compelled the
state to look about for guards. The
ftate militia will be employed in pref
erence To hired guards.
So Postmaster barton of Moscow has
been Investigated by Inspector Brat
ION, on charges of ineivility to the
patrons. The papers have been for
Narded to Washington and decision
8Asill soon be reached.
81 Miss Defonda Turner, employed in
laundry at Boise. has been left $4,000
worth of Salt Lake real estate by +. Il.
ktamper, whom she nursed through
Severe sickness last summer. Miss
urner is 91 years of age.
Tuesday night last week suspi-
eons noise about the storeroom at the
pen at Wardner where 40 prisoners
are confined led to the discovery of a
French through which, during the
night, all the prisoners would have es-
eaped but for the timely discovery.
The trench was filled with water
horning the pr isCners filled the
! French under direction eff the author
ties. The trench was sixty sect long
hnd was all completed saw. breaking
an outlet through a thin crust of earth
Twenty-Five carloads of prunes were
Shipped from Payette this season. The
oars net from $500 to 5000 each, after
paying $500 freight aud allowing 5000
tpr putting the fruit on the cars.
about $50, o0o is the net proceeds for
this year.
There are now lao prisoners in the
ardner prison. Forty of these are to
oe tried at the term of the United
Oates court which convenes in Mos
Dw this week The remainder will be
aled at the next term of the district
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