Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-02-08
ELMORE BULLETIN.
IT. N. PAYNE MApEL L. PAYNE
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
IDAHO NEWS.

delivery for Lewiston.
The New York canal, which is now
about completed, will provide irriga-
tion for 10000 acres Of fertile Idaho
soil
The governor has appointed f. J..
Clyde of Clayton as commissioner of
Custer county, vice S. H. Leigh, re-
signed.
Senator Shoup has recommended the
establishment of postoffice three miles
northwest of Liberty, to be called
Sharon.
The county commissioners of Ada
county will, it is expected, elect new
auditor this week to succeed George w.
Lamoreau.
The majority of the Idaho delegates
to the convention of the National Live
Stock association, held at Fort Worth,
Texas, have returned home
Those who are in position to know
declare there will be undoubtedly 49,
900 people added to the states popula-
ton during the current year.
The bodies of ten members of the
First Idaho volunteers have arrived in
San Francisco from Manila, and will
be brought to their homes for burial.
The postoffice department has been
asked to establish a railway mail SER
vice between Weiser and Cambridge,
and daily mail service between Conant
and Almo.
The governor has not yet appointed
n successor to commissioner Scott An
derson of Shoshone county. he having
not yet decided between the different
applicants
That the pressed brick plant will be
established in Boise is now an assured
fact, enough money having been sub
scribed to insure the success Of the
project.
A suit has been begun by the state in
the Ada county district court against
5. o. Tannahill, ex-auditor Of Nez Perce
county, for S735 stenographer's fees for
which he has not accounted
The city of Boise will purchase the
Table Rock farm and buildings, near
the townsite, which will be used as
place in which to care for city patients
afflicted with contagious disease.
George W. Lamoreau, auditor and re-
nf rba mi
msappropriation of public funds, after
n preliminary examination, was held
to the district court, his bond being
fixed at 1000.
A large number of sheep are being
wintered at Orchard. 1t is understood
plan is on foot among sheep men to
establish small store aud hotel and a
wool warehouse there, making the
place headquarters for their men and
for shearing purposes.
Sergeant.at-Arms Casson of the ma
tional house of Representatives has noti-
fed Governor Steunenberg by wire Of
the mailing of subpoenas for him and
Auditor Sinclair to appear on February
IA before the committee that is to In
vestigate the Occur d'Alene troubles
Williams Parks and E. Cox, of Rus
sell, and g. l.. Riggs, of Peck, have
filed on 240 acres OF land near Peck
which they say contains valuable de-
posits of coal, the ledge having been
traced for distance of 1870 feet and
showing width of forty feet.
Patrick 0'Boyle, George Buchanan
and William Hendricks are in Jail at
Boise, charged with passing counterfeit
money. 1t is believed they have dis
posed of nearly $500 of bogus S. gold
coins, made of lead and covered with
gold, presenting perfect appearance.
The body of Mike Smith was found
under the ice in about eight feet OF
water, in Wood river, near Bellevue.
He. had fallen in while intoxicated and
was swept under the ice. Blood stains
on the bank show that he had fallen in
and then scramb bled out, only to fall in
a second time, when he was drowned.
The supreme court has affirmed the
Judgment against Herman L. Watkins,
now serving twenty year sentence for
the murder of Matthew Smitthen in
Blaine county, June, 1858, the point in
the case being that the court amended
the record to show that the defendant
was present when the verdict was re-
turned, the clerk having made an error.
Richard S. Van Wagenen, of Boise,
an employee of the Independent Tele-
phone company, was instantly killed
while assisting in placing 3o-foot
pole, the pole falling upon his head and
shoulders, crushing his skull and break
ing his neck.
Frank Barnes was instantly killed
and Arthur Marstons seriously injured,
by an accidental explosion of dynamite
which they were thawing out, at their
mining claim twenty miles north of
Priest river. both Of the men being
terribly mutilated.