Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-06-07
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Devils ore and part wool.
Postal service has been established at
Squirrel and Stanley, with william {.
Campbell postmaster at Squirrel and B.
+. Rapp postmaster at Stanley.
Work is being pushed on the Trade
Dollar Dam at Silver City. When the
7 lam is finished Silver City will have a
power service of 20, 900 horse power.
Judge Stewart recently passed on
very interesting question. in which he
holds that wife cannot enter into a
business partnership with her hus baud.
The Boise chamber of commerce gives
out the information that there are 67e
nauies on the list of subscribers for
Midland bonds, the amount subscribed
for being about sea, 900.
The Democrats of Blaine county in
structed their delegates to the state
convention TO favor the candidacy of
Fred L. Dubois for United States SEN
tor TO succeed Senator Shoup.
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building will not be finished for a year
or two, as congress will not pass any
public building bills. and the treasury
department has not sufficient money tG
erect public buildings.
There is a fight ON bet ween the 0. r.
q n. and the Hecla Mining company,
at Burke, an injunction having been
issued restraining the railway company
from laying track across land owned
by the mining company.
The convention of the Boise county
Sunday School as sociation, was held on
Sunday, May %, in "a large barn at
Marsh. rain having driven the deleea.
tion from the grove in which the exer-
cises were to have been held.
The monument erected by friends to
the memory of A. }. (Judy BoyalSin, the
pioneer printer and newspaper man,
was dedicated with solemn ceremony
tat Boise on the 21th ult,, Hon W. T.
Borah delivering the address.
BY u recent decision OF the supreme
court in "a Blaine county burglary case,
the rule is established that, in case
depending on circumstantial evidence,
it is not necessary for the prosecution
to prove each link of the chain.
Attorney General Hays has given an
opinion that all independent school
districts must use the books selected
by the text book commission. Some of
the districts have ignored the commits
sion's selection of books, and others
employed teachers without certificates.
Steps are being taken to enforce the
law.
Three internal machines, bearing
evidence of the handiwork of an ex-
pert, were found in an alley at Boise
last week. They were SO arranged as
to cause explosion, ON being opened,
by striking match. They were not
loaded, and what they were intended
for is a mystery.
Boise has furnished a right-of-way
through Ada county for the Midland
railroad. and subscribed for S2l6, 900 of
the company's bonds as an encourage
ment TO the road the building of
which means SO much for the develop
ment of the state.
Three colored boys found the body OF
Henry Wendt, who was private in
the First Idaho regiment during the
Spanish war, near the st. Elizabeth
asylum, of which Wendt was an inmate,
with his throat cut. he having suicid eli
Went had been insane for some time
For consideration of a subscription
tasts..Ss tass $50, 900 to the Midland railway by
the people of Caldwell, the road will
build from Boise to Caldwell at once
Most of the grading was done several
years ago, SO the expense will be COM
paratively light.
Senator Shoup has presented to the
secretary of war a petition signed by
members of the G. A. 4. and prominent
citizens of Coeur dAlene, asking that
thssix-pound gun and timber at Fort
Sherman be turned over to the G. A. r.
post of Coeur d'Alene.
BY an explosion in the Florida noun
tain tunnel of the Trade Dollar mine at
Silver City on the 26th u.t., Dan Joyce
was instantly killed and Asher Jessie
died few hours later, while Andy
Davis was badly injured. A missed shot
was the cause OF the trouble,
Fred Footner had three cars run over
him on the p & |. N. in Middle Valley
and still lives. He tripped aud the
cars passed over him as he lay between
the rails. His head was badly cut, but
he is getting along nicely aud his re-
covery is only matter of time.
j. II. Wallis, OF Paris. has success
fully passed the examination in the
supreme court for admission to the bar
and received his certificate Mr.. Wallis
graduated in 1850 from the law college
OF the Nebraska university, and was
htterward admitted in his district.