Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-10-25
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IDAHO NEWS.

A Woman's Relief corps has been or
ganized at Caldwell with eleven char.
ter members.
great scarcity is reported In rent
able houses in Caldwell, every house
being tenanted.
B. Ii. Roberts of Utah will probably
deliver number of speeches in this
state during the campaign.
The management of the 1900 fair was
more than pleaseds,st the attendance
on the 18th insSfhere were 1000 peo.
pie on the gY Sds.
W. Z. Spicef. grain dealer OF Mos.
COW, was last week indicted by the
grand jury of Multnomah county, Or,
for fraudulent transactions in wheat.
Senator Shoup has been advised that
in accordance with his request the mail
service has been increased to three
times week on route SO, ,125-Kelton,
Utah, to Stone. Idaho
The little daugher of l. N. Hall who
was run over by team at Boise
last week, was pretty well Jared up,
but beyond few contuslons. was not
seriously injured.
The Merchants National bank OF
New York. the First National bank OF
Chicago, and the Merchants National
bank of Portland, Ore, have been ap.
proved as reserve agents for the Idaho
National bank of Lewiston.
The friends of Z. w. Wilson, q former
Boise valley man, fear that he has met
with foul play, he having left San
Diego, Cal, with man whom he had
known but a short time, for short
fishing trip, and has not since been
heard from. 1t is feared he was MUIR
dered and robbed by his companion.
Directory publishers of Spokane have
entered into a contract with the city of
Boise to renumber all the streets in
that city, and to issue new city direc.
tory in accordance with the revision.
The work will involve no little labor
and trouble on the part of the directory
people, as at present the numbers are
very badly mixed up
The official announcement of the
officers and executive committee of the
1ntermountain fair concerning the bat
tie of San Juan fasco, says: The
much advertised entertainment was
moro than fasco-it was q disgrace.
The city has been disgraced, and the
officers of the fair, who have worked
SO hard and so effectively to make the
fair success, have been Inundated,
while the public has been outraged.
The new cell house at the peniten.
tiary is snearing completion and when
completed will be an immense struc.
ture of granite. 1t will be 1s2 feet
long, As feet wide in the wings, So feet
wide through the center, 20 feet from
the foundation to the gable peak on
the front elevation, while the whole
will be surmounted by a tower reach.
ing to height of 134 feet from the
foundation rock.
A great irrigation enterprise has re.
Gently been launched in the vicinity OF
Shoshone Falls which was heretofore
thought impossible. Water is to be
taken from the Snake river to irrigate
the many thousand acres Of barren
land on each side of the stream and
convert it into farms. There are 200.
900 acres that is arabic and of the
highest fertility and can be covered
from the canals projected.
The Grand lodge of Odd Fellows last
week elected the following officers;
Robert Mobley, Boise, grand master;
A. X. Steunen berg, Caldwell, deputy
grand master; Levi Magee, Grangeville,
grand warden; d. L. Badiey, Caldwell,
grand secretary; NJ. b. Gwynn, Boise,
grand treasurer; +. E. Cornwall, Mos.
cow, grand representative; NJ. b.
Gwinn, Boise, Frank Dekay, Black
foot, trustees of the Odd Fellows home.
The hay stacks and barn of George
w. Criteser at Caldwell were de.
stroyed by fire last week. This reprs-
sented the result of whole years hard
labor. Mr.. Criteser has skipped the
country and fed to parts unknown and
taking with him all the stage money,
he havirg the contract to drive the
stage between Caldwell and Enter
prise His family know nothing of his
whereabouts and are much gricved.
The Soldiers home insurance has
been adjusted and the state will receive
the entire amount It carried on the
building, s14 1000, the entire amount on
furniture, $3.50, and $500 of the
So, 900 on the heating apparatus. or a
total of s1s,55o.
Those who are laboring to raise funds
for the proposed building for the Young
Mems Christian Association, which 10
to be launched In Boise in the near
future, report that $4,000 has been
placed on the subscription books, and Q
number of subscriptions promised.