Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-03-23
IDAHO NEWS.


for the Weiser-Sev Devils railroad.
Robert P. Chattin of Mountain Home
has been named as state sheep in
spector.
The governor has vetoed the bill pro-
viding for terms of the supreme court
at Pocatello.
Snyder, the postoffice robber who es-
capped last September from the Bear
Lake Jail, has been captured in Butte.
A handsome new building, costing
10000, will be erected at Boise by the
Bell Telephone company in the near
future.
The owner of the Tip Top mine, on
the HALEY gold belt, has just refused
an offer of million and half dollars
for that property.
Captain Edward Smith, of company
D, Idaho volunteers, was wounded in
the leg during a skirmish with the fol
lowers of Aguinaldo on the 13th inst.
Nv ~ uib BIONGIo pdlIlnR bhC
weather man on the back and hoping
for continuation of cold weather,
which prevents the buds from starting
prematurely.
The jury in the case against Ira
Harder for the murder of Sam Brun-
bridge, at Weiser, on December 12,
l.. n l..
the second degree.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company will commence the construc-
ton of line from Weiser to the Seven
Devils and the Buffalo Hump country,
just as soon as the weather will per-
NIT.
The district court clerk of Nez Perce
county has asked Attorney-General
Hays if a docket fee is to be collected
on cases appealed from lower courts.
The reply is that no fee is required in
such cases.
The various rooms in the capitol will
be supplied with new carpets. The
occupants have been having come of
the dirt cleaned out, but they will not
be rid of all of it until the old carpets
are taken away.
Attorney-General Hays has received
an inquiry as to the status of slot
machines under the anti-gambling law
He has replied that slot machine is
gambling device and comes under
the operation of the law
John lyman, brakeman on the
Northern Pacific Burke branch was
killed at Wallace last week while maxi
ing coupling. The draw-bars sprang
past each other and the unfortunate
man was crushed to death.
A Parma county farmer will this
year put in twenty acres of canta-
loupes, which he believes will find a
good market in the east. He expects
TO ship twenty-five to thirty carloads
of fruit from his ranch this season.
1t has been discovered that Johan
Kellner, the soldier who was found
dead in the garden shack at the Boise
barracks, died from strychnine poison
Ing. He had been using medicine con
tanning the drug, and probably took
an overdose.
There Is to be a meeting Of the coun
ty assessors of the state on the 27tl
inst, for the purpose of securing tbs
co-opertion of the assessors with tn,
view of raising and equalizing the as
sessment of property in harmony will
the spirit of the new law.
The Inland Empire Teachers asso
citation, composed of educators o
Washington, Idaho and Oregon, will
meet at Walla Walla this week Mis-
French, state superintendent, will at
tend and respond on behalf of Idah,
to the address of welcome.
The governor has appointed JAIME
X. Sovereign, formerly master work
man of the Knights of Labor, membe
OF the board of conciliation and arbg
aeiob' HIS hOhludllOh "db SSuJ L
the senate and rejected, and the goJ
ernor now names him in recess
William Abb, the Italian who lille
James HALEY in gambling hall
Spokane three weeks ago, was capture
In an Italians cabin near Priest rive
Idaho, last week. He resisted ARE,
with Winchester, but was fnall
persuaded by his countrymen to su
render
John H. Young, who has a ranc
near Boise, recently advertised for an
secured housekeeper. Young claim
the woman promised to marry hin
but she married the "otber fellow
and now Young is sueing his forme
housekeeper and her husband for So
money he claims he had advanced he
When the code commission called o
the members of the supreme court la
week to consult with them respectin
the work to be undertaken, they wei
Informed that It would not be prop,
Tor the justices to advise with them q
the subject,