Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-05-04
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goth, is to be rebuilt at once.
Snow is about seven feet deep in the
mountains near Atlanta, and there is
crust on the snow sufficient to hold
horse
The governor has appointed State
Senator John l.. McMurrin of Oneida
county as commissioner to the Paris
exposition.
Five carloads of wool was shipped
from Boise to Boston last week, being
the first wool shipment of the seaBon
from that part of the state
Ex-senator Dubois and bride arrived
at their home in Black foot on Monday,
and received friendly welcome from
neighbors assembled at the depot
In addition to the old rail bought
from the Short Line, the Boise, Nam
pa & 0wyhee has ordered 5000 tons of
heavy new steel from the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company.
There is good deal of talk about
the old Oregon Pacific railroad again.
1t is said there is ptan to build it to
a connection with some other line
seeking western outlet.
Julius A. Andrews, the convicted
ex-agent of the Lemhi agency, has not
been placed in the penitentiary, and
it is probable his friends will pay his
fine and secure his release
Boise was visited by snow storm
Friday night, April 2l. Early risers
were treated to the unusual sight of
fruit tree limbs full of blossoms
weighted down with snow.
Phillip White and Robert Stevens,
the convicted burglars who escaped
from the Lewiston Jail, enjoyed only
few hours liberty, and have been safely
landed in the state penitentiary.
Weiser is enjoying a season of un-
precedented prosperity on account of
the railroad activity. A large force of
men are already at work and more are
coming. Weiser is also experiencing
quite building boom.
The text book commission has been
appointed by the governor. There
are four mem bers in addition to Miss
French, state superintendent. They
are: w. J. Boone, Caldwell; D. C. Van
Buren,, Pocatello; William Perkins,
Moscow; Miss Flora A. North, Salmon
City.
Business in Lewiston is very active
and the citizens are anticipating a SUBJ
stantial boom. 1t is impossible to
rent house there and a great many
people are living in tents, while some
lodging houses are canvas structures.
The hotels turn away great many
people every day
The five-year-old daughter of James
i. Miller, ranchman living near Soda
Springs, was burned to death last week.
She was playing near a small brush
fire when her clothes became ignited,
and before help could reach her she
was fatally burned, living only an hour
after the accident.
The sheriff of Kootenai county has
applied to the governor for extradition
papers for C. A. De Saussure, who has
been indicted on a charge of accepting
deposits at his bank at Coeur d'Alene
after be knew the institution was i'm
solvent. De Saussure is now under
arrest at Rossland.
Hah he -;
In Boise valley. A gang of seven
Weary Willies entered store one day
last week and demanded a quantity of
chewing tobacco without paying for it.
The proprietor walked behind the
counter, securing a shot gun, and he
says the hobos haven't stopped running
yet.
Mrs A. II. Boomer of San Francisco,
formerly resident of Idaho, and who
has taken such an interest in the Idaho
volunteers as to earn the title of
Mother of the Regiment has started
an endless chain of ten-cent subscrip-
tions for raising money for the erection
OF monument to Idaho's dead soldiers.
A shooting is reported from Weiser,
IN which a woman shot her former
husband. The couple had been divorced
and the husband given custody of their
ehlid. The woman abducted the child
and when her former husband came
aiter the little one she shot him in the
arm. No arrests have been made.
Two men lost their lives and four
others had a narrow escape at Bonanza
iofd, near American Falls, last week
me men attempted to cross the river
u a wagon, missed the ford and the
wagon was overturned. The current
was too swift for two of the men, who
sahk before the eyes of their COM
panions
wo men named Foster aud Brown
4aarreled at Caldwell one day last
:, meek' and in the mix-up that ensued,
toster was severely cut about the head
.na faee. As Foster appears to have
Seen the aggressor, no arrests have
been made