Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-11-29
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"eiser mas Wholesale grocery es-
tablishment.
The business of the Boise postoffice
will be 25 per cent greater this wear
than last.
Ihe-e is greater activity in the Seven
Devils mining district this fall than
ever before.
movement has been started for the
erection of quartz palace for the min
ing congress which will meet in Boise
next July.
The postoffice at Nampa, will be
raised to the presidential class Janu.
ary 1. The salary of the postmaster is
to be 81 200.
Ferdinand Alers has sold his interest
in the Red Ledge group of mines in
the Seven Devils district to a Boston
company for $4,000.
DIR. w. L. Thompson of Meridian,
died last week. He was one of the
pioneers of that section and practiced
his profession for many years.
4 rich strike Of gold is reported from
u Elk City in the Orc Quartz claim.
Pieces of free milling gold as large as
agold dollar are shown by the speci
mems, and the ore is very rich.
1t is stated that Charles II. Harvey
of HALEY will be appointed warden OF
the penitentiary to succeed John
HALEY. Mr. Harvey withdrew from
Il the Democratic state ticket to effect
4 fusion.
II Richard Adams was discharged last
week after preliminary hearing on
charge of numbering William Ken
nedy and Daniel Kilgee at Gem The
court held that Adams acted in self
defense.
f. w. Jones, state auditor elect, has
n selected Ed. Smith of Boise as his
deputy. He is familiar with every de-
4 tail of the office having held the posi-
tion as deputy in that off, for the
4 past two years.
N A find of native copper, said to be
n the first discovered in the district, is
VI reported from the Seven Devils. A
n large and well defined ledge was found
near Cuprum, adjoining placer claim,
where the float was discovered.
4 Warden Haley of Boise is preparing
his annual report, which will be pre-.
sented to the governor shortly. 1t
will show that while considerable OF
the maintenance fund appropriated by
the last legislature has been expended
for improvements there is still a bai-
ance of about SIS 900.
ii. L. West of Boise last week ship
ped carload of apples to Lincoln,
N Neb., wiere there is said to be a very
good market for the fruit. Nebraska
is quite an apple state, having the
largest apple orchard in the world, and
it is a triumph for Idaho fruit to Sc
cure foothold there.
/ Sam Gundaker, the well known
HALEY mining man, has struck it rich
n in the Elkhorn mine, which he has
been operating for the past year. The
a new strike is considerable depth, and
is a seam ten to twelve inches wide, of
very high grade galena ore, running
above 500 per ton in all values.
Some time ago Dan Burke arrived in
Boise with pack train, which he sold.
He gave out the information that his
partner, John Whalen, had been acci-
dentally drowned in Snake river. 1t
now develops that the pack animals
belonged to Mike Rock of Owyhee
a county, for whom Burke and Whalen
had been working. The men stole the
outfit, and it is believed Whalen was
murdered by Burke.
The Norwegian settlement north of
Genesee is wrought up over the at
tempted assassination of Ben Bergen
last week. He arose shortly before
daylight and went to the barn to do
his morning chores, and in opening the
barn door rifle was discharged, Al
saliber bullet passing across his throat,
making a severe but not necessarily
dangerous WOunu. "A Tine ndu oeen
ngeniously arranged on two pitch
forks, spring attached to the trigger
and then to the door, SO that when the
ioor was pulled open the rifle was dis
charged. The rifle belonging to Mr.
Bergen, but had been missing for sew
eral days.
The local Y NJ. C. A. of Boise have
decided to erect building of their
4 own. The association has been unable
to secure a suitable building for their
purpose and will build one the officers
thinking it best in every way to own
their own building.
1t is stated that several of the sold
iers who recently arrived at the Boise
barracks from the sunny south never
saw snow until the other day when
they witnessed the hills skirting the
valley mantled white. 1t was a source
OF delight to them.