Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-12-13
ELMORE BULLETIN.
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PAYNE & PAYNE, Publilhsn.
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IDAHO NEWS.

ABOUT IHe SUln inst.
Secretary Gage has decided to rec
ommend an additional SIPS, 900 for the
construction of government building
at Boise
Colonel Dewey has been given an
electric light and water works fran
chise for Nampa, and is taking steps to
install the plants.
There was a complete ice famine in
Boise last week. The local ioe plant
was broken down, and not pound of
ice available for any purpose.
November had twenty-five sunshiny
days for Idaho. The temperature was
warmer than the average November,
although degrees colder than Novem-
Der last year.
Rural free delivery service will be
established at Weiser on the 18th with
one carrier, G. w. Pence, who is to
serve population of 500 on a route of
twenty-three miles.
Fred Brown, bookkeeper for the
Boise City National bank, was last
week relieved of $50 at the postoffice,
where he had cashed number of money
orders, by some unknown person.
b. Olden of Parma Friday night un.
dertook to fill n gasoline lamp with the
aid of lighted coal oil lamp, and the
result was that the gasoline lamp ex,
h,r linn l. Al.
hands and face.
In quarrel at the Dewey mine,
Grangeville, last week, Joe Smith was
stabbed by Andy Gilbert. After re-
ceiving the injury, Smith shot Gilbert
in the mouth, though not fatally.
Smith died in few hours
At the live stock show in Chicago
last week, in range cattle in carload
lots, there was fierce contest between
Frank Gooding of Shoshone and f. l..
Oswald of Salt Lake, Goodng winning
in one class and Oswald in another.
One of the richest strikes ever made
in Idaho is reported from Newsome,
near Grangeyille, in the Great I'm
known placer ground. In three hours
ss4 in gold was taken out by one man
with an old-fashioned Chinese rocker.
Governor Steunenberg left last week
for Washington, where he went to
attend the celebration Of the centen-
nial anniversary of the establishment
OF the national capitol in the District
of Columbia, on December 12th. The
governor is q member of the committee
on arrangements.
The people of Nampa are said to be
unable to provide houses and accommo-
dations for incoming settlers, who are
moving from other states now to get
ready for spring work. Twenty-Five
families, numbering fifty-fve people,
arrived from Oklahoma one day last
week and all had difficulty in securing
accommodations.
Frank Schuster, an aged man, is in
Boise hospital as the result of severe
burns. He was employed on a ranch
in Owyhee county, aad was burning
rubbish, which threatened to commun-
icate to several stacks of hay. In put
ting out the flames his right side was
fearfullv burned and his condition is
precarious.
John Russell, a veteran mining man,
has returned from short trip to the
HALEY section, where he investigated
the gold belt as thoroughly as time
would permit. He says he has seen no
such country as that since leaving Col
orado, and indeed does not now feel
disposed to put that state ahead of
Idaho The Tip Top mine, Mr.. Russell
says is working eight feet of chalcopy-
ritic ore which gives returns of 800
per ton gold and 80 per cent. copper
one of the prettiest sights and largest
ore bodies in the country. "A few
days ago." said Mr.. Russell, "they
made a strike in the Golden Star mine,
half a mile west of the Tip Top, of the
same kind of ore and the same values.
1t is on the 3oO-levei, while the Tip Top
is working on the 400. The ore in the
Star is five feet in width-solid An
old shaft had been sunk on this proper
ty, but the owners tapped the ledge in
barren spot and drifted 100 feet eacli
way on the vein without finding ore,
when they bonded it for $50, 900. The
new owners continued these drifts and
in short distance found the ore, as
stated, in both Gods of the drift
The 1o-stamp mill on the North Star
mine, located 12 miles from Boise,
started up for the first time on the last
day of November, and is now running
smoothly, and by the looks of the plates
and concentrators the plant is running
on the finest kind of ore.
John Sullivan, who lives in cabin
three miles from Idaho City, was found
Thursday suffering from a paralytic
stroke. He could move around with
trouble, but could not speak. He is o
e. A. r. man aud is being taken care
OF at Boise