Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-05-03
NEWS SUMMARY.

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sweeping north and crossing the inter
national line. One life is reported
lost and forty homes destroyed.
passenger train struck and in
stantly killed two unknown men walk
ing on the track near Bloomsbury, n.
! y, late last night Each were well
dressed and about % years of age.
River beds in Hoklid,e island, Japan,
containing gold dust, is put at 1880
miles and the total production area at
l,750,oo0 acres. Nuggets weighing
over half pound have been found.
The Turbo- Americn dispute excites
much coment in the Austrian press. The
Vienna Neue Freie Presse remarks that
since the Spanish war the Americans
/ seem to have lost all respect for Europe
The Puget Sound Timbermeu's asso
citation has resolved upon a six weeks
shutdown of all logging camps in the
state within its jurisdiction. The shut
down will commence June1
The lsthmian canal commissioners
j have concluded that with all possible
expedition they cannot complete their
i report upon their examinations of the
various Isthmian routes for canal
before next December.
Ex-United States Muster A. w. Ter
rell, now residing in Austin, Tex, says:
Wallace in his estimate of the Sultan of
Turkey" Mr.. Terrell declares the Sui
tan to be an honest man
Railroad traffic in Texas is again
badly interrupted by washouts. Bra
EOS river is rising and the crops in the
lowlands arc in a deplorable condition.
Heavy windstorms and hailstorms
have done much damage
Forest fires are burning between
Nestoria and Saxon, Wis, along the
line of the South Shore railroad, the
most numerous being between Signaw
and Lake Gogebic, where trains are
rarely out of sight of the flames.
nent display in the most conspicuous
site in Paris, through concession
granted to John b. Caldwell, the Ameri-
can director of fine arts at the Paris
exposition by the French authorities.
The state department officials are
unwilling to accept as accurate the
statement attributed to some of the
German newspapers to the effect that
the North German Lloyd steamship
company had been enioined not to take
freshly-slanghtered meats or dairy
products to German ports.
The gain in deposits of the forty
four savings banks in California out
side of San Francisco in four months
amounted to about 81 100000. The
gain in the deposits of the city and the
country savings banks, fifty-three in
number, during that time was S4, rae
600.
Mrs, Nora Marvin and David Badders
have been arrested and lodged in jail
at Spokane on complaint of Mrs Mar
wins husband of Fostora, O. They
confess that they are an clipping couple.
Mrs. Marvin was caring tor the little
girl of Badders, who was widower,
ana the couple formed an attachment.
Mrs. Marvin says she would not be in
her present position if her husband had
treated her kindly
The death of A. S. Hallidle, builder
and inventor of the first cable car
system in the United States end which
was laid down in San Francisco, is an
nounced. Heart disease the cause. He
was 10 years old
San Francisco revenue officers have
seized LOCO pounds of tobacco sent
there by the Sparger Bros. company of |
Mt. Airy, n. G. The packages have.
it is claimed not the full amount of |
stamps on them and contain a quarter
of an ounce more tobacco than the /
stamps call for
The Lake Tahoe Water company has
submitted proposition to the super
intendent where1E Il will supply San
Francisco with 30, $50, 600 gallons of
water daily. The water would be
brought from Lake Tahoe, in the
Sierra Nevada range, and delivered in
San Francisco at point where the
main pipe could be connected with the
distributing mains. The system would
cost the municipality l76o9,Ooo.
The Blue group of mines, located
near Granite, Or, We're sold few DAYS
ago to /. J. Donohue, representing the
De La Mar interests, for $4,000 The
owners Of the property were Pendleton
parties The terms of the sale are
5000 in thirty days, Sa7, 600 in sixty
lays and $4,000 in ninety days The
embraces several claims some
IF which are largely developed.
The house committee on Indian
affairs directed favorable report on
he bill allowirg Indians in the Indian
Territory to emigrate to Mexico, the
to he under the direction
If the secretary of the interior and in
,ands of 800.
The house committee on foreign
fairs directed favorable report on