Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-09-13
IDAHO NEWS.

The prospects for big attendance
ut the Lewiston fair are bright.
1t is estimated $500, 900 will be re
ceived by the farmers Of the Palouss
country this year.
George. the 17-year-old son of Prof
j. Fl. Miles, of Liberty, was drowned
while hunting last week
Malad Valley is soon to have a tele-
phone line connecting with Portage,
samaria, collinston and Corrinne.
The Utah Construction company OF
American Falls, has taken the con.
tract TO complete the Blackfoot ditch.
John Thompson of Moscow, lost
l.20O bushels of sacked grain by fire
communicated from the thresher en-
gine.
A. Lindquist, an employee of the
cyanide works at Haley. accidently
shot and killed himself one day last
week
Word reaches Silver City from Port
land that ex-sheriff John joyce had
died there. He went there for treat.
ment.
stage service, three times a week !,
has been started to Buffalo Hump from
Sites, the present terminus of the
Clearwater Short line.
Joseph Jones, son OF William Jones
of Almo, accidentally shot himself
with rifle last week, and was taken
to Salt Lake for treatment.
The 16-year-old son of G. c. Robin.
son of American Falls, was probably
fatally injured last week by being run
over by wagon loaded with timber.
Construction on the wagon road from
Grangeville TO the Hump has reached
the divide between Slate Creek and
Wind river, and is making good pro-
gress.
Gid g. Williams, a well known citi.
zen of Camas Prairie, is critically iii al
Buffalo Hump, the result of .car.
buncle, and is not expected to re.
cover.
Wilkerson d Thompson have started
gang of about 200 men and a number
of teams at work on the p. & /. N. ex.
tension, and work will be pushed as
rapidly as possible.
w. L. Brown of Lewiston. reports a
big strike in the Buffalo Belle, at Buff
falo Hump. There is vein four to
twelve inches wide, the ore assayinQ
$40 ounces silver to the ton.
Mrs. Adam Eutsier of Moscow, yonng
and handsome, but respondent, made
an unsuccessful attempt to kill herself
with rat poision last week. She was
married only few days ago.
The members Of the Weiser high
school have organized football team
They are practicing daily and intend
makingit interesting for all competi-
tors who may happen their way.
An Omaha man invested at Roswell
four years ago in a 20-acre prune or
chard. 1t proved such good thing
that he has added twenty i've acres of
pears and fifteen of wintet apples.
George M. Parsons and b. f. oliver
OF HALEY, have bonded two Smoky
mines until January, 1902, for $4,000
Ten per cent of the ores shipped will
be paid as royalty in the meantime.
j. A. Czizels, state mine inspector,
has returned from a trip into central
Idaho. He is of the opinion that that
is the coming mining section. He re-
ports some very rich strikes on Big
Creek.
United States Marshal James Shoup
OF Alaska, brother of senator Shoup,
is in Idaho from the frozen north.
Mr. Shoup has taken on something
like forty pounds of flesh aimee he left
Idaho.
A box of peaches which were raised
oy Mr.. Pointer, near Boise, have been
exhibited In the window of Pierce &
TO- They are very fine specimens,
none OF them weighing less than eleven
.ounces.
The old commissary building at
Weiser, used by wilkerson & Thomp-
|eon while working on the p. & /. N, |
mas been removed to Cambridge. The |
contractors will make their head |
quarters there.
oie Hop Chung, the Chinese boy who |
|has been attending the HALEY public |
|school for some years, and who was
porn in HALEY. has gone to Canton, |
'Dhlna, to take course at the univer-
pity there.
The Idaho Little Giant company at
|"arrens has purchased the five-stamp |
pniii which was formerly used on the
Poorman mine in Florence, and the
pun VIII be running in its new loca-
fion by October /.
Inc supreme court has decided that
counties do not have to settle with the
/ tate for its portion OF uncollectable
lakes The decision was made on a
'est case from Ada county, and is well
fomed by every county in the state.