Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-04-12
a NJ. PAYNE MABEL L. PAYNE
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
IDAHO NEWS.
Smallpox has broken out at Pearl.

A prisoner confined in the Canyon
county Jail is afflicted with the small
pox.
The new 35o-foot level in the Check
mate holds as good ore as the famous
mine has ever produced.
Walter Paxton of Boise and Cald-
well parties, are shipping three car
loads of cattle to Dawson
Judge j. H. Richards. OF Boise. has
been appointed chief counsel of the
Pacific and Idaho Northern.
The Petit mine, famous producer
at Atlanta, has been sold to Colorado
and Chicago parties for $3.50, 900.
Horsethicves who stole number of
horses in Boise Basin recently have
been captured near Vale, Oregon.
E. j. Faust, of Boise, appointed
storekeeper at the Puyallup Indian
reservation, will not accept the APP
pointment.
The South Clearwater Mining and
Milling company, with headquarters
at Grangeville, has filed articles of in.
corporation. Capital, $500, 900.
Fred Meyers and an old man from
Custer were driving near Salmon CITY,
last week, when the wagon was over
turned and the old gentleman instantly
killed.
The writ Of habeas corpus applied
for on behalf of Jack Davis has been
denied. An appeal will now be taken
to the supreme court of the United
States.
In the federal court at Boise, j. p.
Stew art, member of gang charged
with passing a large number of coun-
terfeit S. gold pieces in that city, has
been convicted.
Amas Nettleton died at the Soldiers
Home in Boise last week, and his body
was shipped to Illinois for interment.
He was II member of Company Z, First
Illinois light artillery, aged 20 years
Thomas McAlpin, better known as
Whispering Tom, and Benjamin c.,
Boise, entered pleas of guilty to the
charge of burglarizng the postoffices
at Clyde and Bliss, respectively.
Governor Steunenberg has arrived
home from Washington, He left the
national capital the 4th, after having
been on the witness stand for twelve
days. He stopped in New York and
Chicago a short time on his way home
Governor Steunenberg testified be-
fore the House investigating commit
tee at Washington that an OATH bound
inner circle existed in the miners union
In the Occur d'Alenes, which was re-
sponsible for the deviltry done there,
and that Ed Boyce was its founder.
The Prohibition state convention az
Boise last week made the following
nominations: Governor, Rev. w. j.
Boone, Caldwell; representative in
Congress, Miss Amanda Way, Boise;
lieutenp'dt governor, T. M. Hedges,
Ker SSck; secretary of state, Mrs
NeafB. Inman, Lewiston; treasurer,
James Ballantine of Clam; auditor, l.
7. Marcellus, Boise; superin ten dent of
X public instruction, James T. Smith,
Star; mine inspector George Clough,
Orofno; presidential electors-Mrs R.
MITCHELL Idaho Falls Moses Fowler,
Middletown; L. r. Hadley, Moscow.
The platform denounees the president
for the canteen evil and favors election
OF president, vice president and SEN
ators by direct vote
More than 300, 900 pounds of freight
hauled over the Owyhee noun
mountains into Silver City and De La
mar every month, by one freighting
outfit. Mining machinery and sup
plies comprise large share of the
tonage
The state land board has returned
# amount of Sal, $50, Sc These are to be
s returned to the makers, the land for
S The purchase of which they were par
M tlal payment having been forfeited to
the state.
rs Ex-Congressman Gum, who is an in
mate of the Soldiers Home at Wash
iagton, is much improved in health.
de has not entirely recovered from the
attack that laid him up two years ago,
H out his brain is clear and he Is stead
lily improving.
~ At a sale of school land near Boise
some choice pieces under the New
FORK canal brought $3.50 per acre. Fiv,
hundred acres realized over 50, 900, al
average of little more than SIS pc
acre The tract was divided into fv,
and ten acre lots.
IN the Red Bird mine, north of Sal
'noh City, ore with valuation of sew
e'ai hundred dollars ton has beer
M uncovered. There is very little doub
'a' that mill will be put up on tn
property this year, as there is larg
9oay Of milling ore.