Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-03-22
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in Boise fell off % per cent. with the
appearance of smallpox in the city.
The New York canal, near Boise, is
now employing over 300 men and the
work is being pushed hard along all
lines.
child of George Philips, who lives
on Crane creek, near Weiser. fell from
a bed last week and fractured its skull,
dying in short time.
The senate committee on public build
ings and grounds has reported favor
ably the bill to increase the limit OF
the cost of the public building at Boise
to $500, 600
a subscription has been started for
the purpose Of erecting $1,000 monu-
ment to the memory of George A. Hall,
the Idaho volunteer soldier whose
remains lie at Sweet.
The State Fair association is out of
debt and has nearly S400 in the bank to
turn over to the new board The asso-
citation started out two years ago with
a debt of over So 900
Hon. J. A Keat of Harrison, a prom.
inent man and II member of the legis.
lature of 1895, is dead. He was an old
soldier, having served in the war of the
Rebellion from Iowa.
The Republican convention to elect
delegates TO the national convention
will meet at Lewiston on May 8. The
state nominating convention will be
held in Boise. July II.
Deputy Sheriff C. E. Bradish of ORC
Fino, would like to hear from relatives
of James Sargent, a one-armed painter,
who expired there October %, 1899
He has relatives somewhere in the
state
Hammond c. Brown at Mount Idaho,
a pioneer resident of Idaho county
died last week, aged II years. He was
among the first to reach California in
1s49, and has lived in Idaho for thirty
eight years.
The state took Judgment last week
agaist Samuel o. Tannahill. ex-clerlx
fault Tannahill neglected to collect
as fees So from each person filing a
case, the money to be turned into the
state treasury. The defendant has
signifed his intention of paying up.
w. H. Dewey has sold his entire
stock holdings in the Trade Dollar
Consolidated Mining company at Silver
City, realizing therefor in the neigh.
borhood of ST., 900, 900. 1t was cash
transaction. The supposition is that
the purchase was made by other mem
bers of the company.
Three cases of smallpox appeared
simultaneously in Boise last week,
Charles Migar and j. L. Burrus at the
Crittenton Home, and William West at
his home Several people who were
exposed before the nature of the dis.
ease wns known are being closely
watched. 1t is not thought the disease
viii spread The Crittenton Home ha,
been turned into a pest house.
Engineers arc now locating the Idaho
Northern line beyond Emmett, ant
fall will see the road completed te
Horseshoe Bend or beyond, forty-twe
miles from Nampa. This taps tha
timber supply Of the headwaters o
Payette river. The logs will b,
floated down the river to that poin
and there cut into merchantable lum
ber Nampa will then be the distrih-
uting point for large quantities of the
best pine, fir and tamarac lumber in
the west.
John HERES proprietor of the Peck
ferry on the upper Clearwater river.
has some bitter enemies in that section
who have at various times injured his
ferry trade by cutting the wire cables,
shooting holes in his boat, etc. A few
days ago while walking through a
doorway In his home u bullet lodged in
the wall about seven inches from his
body. II was fired from the brush
about sixty feet away. He fears that
he will be assassinated
The wool men of Idaho have united
in an invitetion to Secretary of Agri-
culture Wilson asking him to spend
some time during the summer in visit.
ing the states that are interested in
the range leasing proposition. Woo
men are anxious to have him visit the
west and look over the ground thor
oughly that he may be in position t.
intelligently consider the physical a
well as the theoretical side of the rang,
question The secretary will com'
in June, and he is asked for time Il
be the guest of the Pacific Northwes
Wool Growers association.
General Charles King who praised
the Idaho boys so highly for thei
services in the Philippines, has wiret
President Blanton of the State upiver
sity that he will be present at the com
Inencamant axarcises IN .June I3th