Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-12-27
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IDAHO NEWS.

Boise is again free from smallpox.
All mail coming from sections affected
with the pest is fumigated before de-
livery.
The Oregon Short Line is systemati-
cally and energetically pushing coloni-
zation schemes to settle the land along |
its lines.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone |
company has crew of men improving |
the line from Boise to Silver City. A |
metallic circuit is being installed.
In the district court at Caldwell last |
week. the case of ex-Sheriff Taylor VS..
Canyon county for deputy hire was de-
cided in accordance with the decision
of the supreme court in favor of the
plaintiff
The big Sinker tunnel near Delamar
is now in about 5000 feet, and If
they have good luck they will make
the 3oo0-foot mark by January 1. The
ground is very hard drilling at the
present time.
Anent the general coal shortage
along the Short Line Railroad, General
Manager Eccles states it is not from a
lack of transportation equipment, but
that the demand is greater than the
coal companies can meet
The prizes won by f. l.. Oswald of
Utah on his Lincoln lambs at Chicago
were credited to Utah. Mr.. Oswald
writes that the lambs were raised near
Mountainhome. The credit, therefore,
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The Idaho Wool Growers association
has sent dispatch to Senator Heitfeld
at Washington to delay and oppose tho
passage of the Grout bill until after
the National Live Stock association
meeting at Salt Lake January Is.
c. S. Loveland, secretary of the In.
termountain Fair association, has re
turned from Portland where he at
tended a meeting of secretaries of asso
Citations throughout the west, the
meeting eliminating in the organiza.
tion of the Pacific Northwest Racing
association The next fair will be
held September 1921.
Louis Schnabel of Caldwell, was re-
Gently held up by two footpads and
relieved of the sum OF s2.25 The same
yalient highwaymen held up b. L.
Templeton and wife, but Temp eton,
dodging behind his wife, escaped with
out loss As Templeton was hunting
shelter shot was fired after him. Mrs.
Templeton was not moles ted.
Nampa is to have a public park. j.
S. Hickey, a capitalist of Anaconda.
Mont, and former resident of Nam
pa has promised to place at the dis.
posal OF the city a tract of land lying
in the neighborhood of the b. n. & o.
railroad yards, to be used as city
park. This land comprises four blocks
containing ten acres, and will be ar
admirable situation for the proposed
park.
The grading has been completed from
Nampa to Emmett on the Dewey road.
large force Of carpenters are at worl
on the trestles for the grade down vii
son hill to the Payette river. There
are three of these aggregating 1,6ot
feet in length, and from twenty tt
sixty feet in height. All the WOODWORK
is being made at the Nampa shops, u
be put on the cars and hauled directly
to the point of need.
There was shown at the Capital Stat'
bank at Boise last week, one of TIL
prettiest gold nuggets ever seen in tn
state. 1t was found on Hunker creek
in the Klondike, by E. S. Smith, beinl
from claim No below Discovery.
is almost as large as ones hand, hal
an inch thick. being rather smooth
worn from friction with the rocks c
the creek. 1t is fine gold, being wort
Sls per ounce. somewhat above tn
average of Klondike gold. 1t is tn
largest nugget ever found on Hunke
creek, weighing twelve and q hal
ounces and valued at S225.
The 10th was Judge Stockslager
last day on the district bench befor
taking up his position as justice {
the supreme court and the members {
the Blaine county bar, just before tt
close of the session, presented hi
with congratulatory resolutions.
T. w Bartley, state organizer II
the Modern Woodmen of America, hi
just returned from Rock Island, Ill
where he attended meeting of Il
state deputies of the order. He sa.
the showing was entirely favorable Il
the organization.
A reservoir to cover 500 acres OF Ian
Is to be constructed at Nampa. III
Ridenbaugh Canal company has char
of the enterprise and say it will
completed within five or six month
Many other improvement are conte'
plated in this vicinity.
George Darnell of Payette, had q
misfortune to have a small piece
rock hit him in the right eye VIII
chopping sagebrush recently, eansi
him great deal of pain. lie W
probably lose the sight of the iniur
eye.