Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-08-23
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IDAHO NEWS.

pleted shows total of 2,o2s children
Of school age.
The report is current in Cambridge
that work will be resumed on the rail.
road September Is.
John Savidge. aged TO- is dead at his
Pioneerville home He came to Idaho
10 the early COS and has lived in this
section ever since.
Mrs. Smith, of New Plymouth, has
been bound over to the district court
on charge of bRaking bitches end
destroying headgafes.
Ex-Congressman James Gum has re-
turned from Washington, ID. c., to the
Wood River country, where he expects
to remain permanently.
One night last week burglars entered
four business houses in Moscow, secur-
ing S37 in cash. besides numerous
articles of merchandise.
Parties sreturning.from pleasure trips
to Long Valley and Payette lakes re-
port the weather cold enough there to
make ice during the nights.
The wheat yield in the vicinity o.
Genessee is claimed to be the best of
any section in the west, the average
being from 30 to As bushels per acre.
AS harvest progresses there is no
reason to reduce the estimate of 10, ,00O.-
900 bushels of grain as the product of
the Lewiston district for the year
1900.
1t is said that game was never more
plentiful than it is this season in the
neigh borhood of Silver City, four bears
having been seen near the city within
q week.
The first load of fax sold at Peek
brought S1.12 per bushel This is 20
|per cent more than the contract price
and is very favorable to the reservation.
farmer.
AS near as can be ascertained, the
total loss the state has undergone in
state school and timber lands by the
occupation of said lands by ''squatters,'
lis about 35, 900 acres.
Judge l. l. Lewis of Ketchum reports
that his son Clancey, who was in Cam
ton, China, when the Boxer outbreak
occurred, has left Canton and is in a
Portuguese settlement forty miles from
Hongkong.
\ Frank J. McGuinness, of Bellevue,
brother of Lieutenant j. r. McGuinness
bf the United States navy, was found
Head in his bed at Ketchum Hot Springs,
fyhere he had gone for his health. No
inquest will be held
The ninc-year-old son of Noah Nc
IGinnis, of Weiser, fell from loaded
|los wagon on which he was riding, the
wheels passing over him, crushing him
FROM his hips to his shoulders, his re-
|covery being extremely doubtful.
Judge j. c. Rich of the Fifth district
has recently undergone an operation
for cataract. The operation was
performed in Salt Lake and was very
successful. The judge is in fair way
to recover his sight, which had almost
failed.
Hot weather in July damaged the
crops somewhat in the vicinity of Lew
iston, but the yield is very good as 1t is,
the quality of the grain being hard,
plump and perfect. The farmers will
be enabled to get top prices for their
|erop this season.
The governor has received message
prom Moscow stating that it has rained
heavily in the timber belt and that the
hres have been quenched. 1t is the
oppression that the men in the timber
viii be able to stamp out all fire left
hfter the rain.
Il The Oregon Short Line depot build
Veg at Spencer was destroyed by fire
y ast week, together with all its con-
ents, the agent, Mrs. NJ. v. Roberts,
&Vho lived in the building, losing all
Per personal effects. The origin OF the
Ire is not known.
on the grade leading from Doniphan
Camas prairie an emigrant wagon
oppied over, injuring lady who was
the wagon seriously IL not fatally.
hree small children in the wagon,
besides another woman and the driver,
escaped without injury.
Forest fires have been raging in the
Ficlnity of HALEY for the past three
<{Veeks, much valuable timber having
Peen destroyed. 1t is alleged the fires
were started by careless picnic parties
fna campers, who left their fires with
ut extinguishing them.
As high as IA cents was refused last
week for clip Of wool ut weiser, but
he average wool men, are selling at
rom ia1< to 1sM cents. At the open,
ng OF the season the ruling price was
cents, but a number OF growers now