Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-07-20
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IDAHO NEWS.

AuDert CroOk, OF bapWal, mas Deen
appoilsted Indian Farmer at Fort Lap
val.
the sth inst for home on the transport
Grant.
Payette had small fire last week
caused by a cigarette being thrown in
to wastebasllet.
The scrveyor general estimates that
the state has increased in population
daring the last year fully $4,000.
The copper output of the state of
Idaho for 1898, as reported by the geo.
logical survey, was 200, 92o pounds.
The Houston Ditch Com any, of
Houston. capital $40 900, has filed ar
ticles of Incorporation with the secre-
tary of state.
Articles of incorporation have been
fledwith the secretary of state by the
Evangelical Lutheran st. Johns Con-
gregation of tennessee.
The famous Noble wool clip in
Idaho, comprising over 100000
pounds, has been sold and will be
moved over the Missouri Pacific.
The Northern Pacific is to build up
the Potlatch river in Idaho. 1t is
still keeping up its contest with the
Oregon Railway & Navigation Com
pany.
Every boom brings to light few
bad men. Grangeville has been the
scene of two murders and Lewiston
= has suffered seven robberies and wit
d messed several shooting scrapes.
The jury selected in the first of the
Wardner cases consists of nine farm
ers, two timbermen, and one miner.
They all came from section far re-
moved from the scene of the trouble.
A. D. Green of Grangeville is dead
n as result Of the duel fought between
himself and Attorney Ailshie. Green
Il was the aggres sor in the trouble and
q it is not probable that Ailshie will be
II. prosecuted.
= >has been landed in the penitentiary.
IS Tea Wee was tried July 7th in HALEY
and found guilty of murder in the first
degree Judge Steckslager sentenced
1 him to beshanged on August 25th.
Surveys are now being executed in 1C
counties of the state as follows: Koote
mai, 6 townships; Shoshone, A; Latah
7; Idaho, 4; Washington, l6; Boise, Z
Fremont, III Bingham, I; Bannock, 3
Oneida, Q.
4 The Northern Pacific railroad has ap
piled for the survey of seven full ant
eight fractional townships in Kootena
county and has deposited S33, 1865 will
the surveyor general to cover the ex
pense Of the same.
Idaho has another Klondilte. 1t i
located on the Clearw ater river in wha
is known as the Cove country ,eighteei
miles from Buffalo Hump. 1t is sal,
to be one of the richest placer discov
cries ever made in the state.
Boise boy, while driving a COW t
pasture, tied the end of the rope al
tached to the COW around his waist
The animal took fright and dragge
Sf the lad over three blocks badly in
yurimg him Only the best of care vii
save his life.
Sixty-two whole and fractional towr
ships have been surveyed during tn
Il asst year. The whole embracing
J J7O, ,936.G9 acres. There is $4,000, ,Oo
acres in Idaho with only 17.429, 39
acres surveyed, leaving yet to be SUI
yeytt' 81, 7Js,76o acres.
United States Attorney Cozier say
the Federal government will push t
the utmost the prosecution of the rim,
leaders of the mob that went to Ward
4 nsr on. April Goth. There are fit
{ men named in the federal jury's fine
ings, and four counts against eac
man.
. d The outlook for fruit shipments frol
Southern Idaho is very fattering. {
Ia r. Martin, the northwestern agent
81 the Earl Fruit company, makes II
"A statement tndl lDcre VIII be Shlppe
this season from the Boise distri,
alone, about 100 cars of green pea
and prunes.
The body of a man presumed to ha'
been murdered was found in the Clea
water river six miles from Lewistol
lie was seen in Lewiston twenty for
hours previously with bag OF go
dust The body had three holes in Il
head
The waterma ster has shut and lock,
all the headRates Of the irrigatic
bitches along Silver creek and thl
part OF Little Wood river for some di
tanee north OF TilSura, and the settle
broke down the beadgates. Troub
V expected.
railrond man makes the statems
that The reports for the fiscal year er
lug Friday last wia show about 81
o11 900 as gross earnings for the Ul
mes aud the Oregon short Line I
latter Is Included, as an lis monies
handled IN Salt Lake city.