Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-06-21
IDAHO NEWS.

Weiser gets next years convention
OF Christian Endeavorers.
More men are being employed to
work on the grade of the Midland
railway.
The Kootenai Kommercial Kompany
of Harrison, has filed arii52ses of incor-
poration.
Mahlon c. Harvey, of Boise, Span
isE war veteran, has been granted a
pension of $50 month.
Oregon Short Line surveyors have
been engaged in running a line from a
point near 0wyhee to Meridian.
The fruit crop around Payette is the
heaviest ever known there and grow
ers are afraid low prices will prevail
l.. L Ormsby of Boise has declined
to permit his name to GO before the
Republican state convention. He has
been prominently spoken OF as good
gubernatorial timber
Charles A. Clark of Boise was elected
commander of the G. A. X. at the Wei
ser encampment, The next encamp-
ment will be held at Coeur d'Alene
City the drst week in June next year
The encampment will last two days.
George A. Black, formerly of HALEY
but now of Spokane, Wash, who has
been mineral land commissioner in
northern Idaho the past three years, is
to be one of the commissioners to allot
the land in the Fort Hall reservation.
new dredge owned by Baker City
parties has been set to work in tho
Snake twelve miles above the mouth of
the Boise 1t Is claimed for this
boat that it saves s5 per cent of tho
values, while some save as little as %
per cent.
Reports from census enumeratora
are that more people are being found
than were anticipated, and numeroua
requests for help have been made by
enumerators in order to complete thu
work on time. The increase seems to
be general
General Charles King delivered y
lecture at Boise Saturday evening, hii
subject being, with the Volunteers
at Manila. In the battle of Santa
Ana the general was commander of tho
brigade of which the Idaho regiment
formed part.
Operations on the Snake River pla-
GERS throughout the state are being
ad nit !, taI x,ir
ually with good results The Difficult
ties encountered 10 saving the fine
gold are many but gradually they are
being overcome
One hundred teams, each from 4 TO 16
horses, are engaged in hauling ore
from the Seven Devils to Cambridge.
The cost of hauling is SIS per ton to
Cambridge, and the freight from there
east S16 so, so the character of the ore
must be excellent.
A shotgun dropped from a buggy in
Boise last week and was discharged. A
crowd ran to the scene on the strength
of statement that some one had been
killed. The story was circulated over
the city later in exaggerated form and
caused much excitement.
A hitch in negotiations between the
Boise chamber of commerce and the
promoters of the Midland railway has
occurred and all negotiations broken
off. New propositions have been ad-
vanced and new committee named to
reopen negotiations
r. Martin, the representative of the
Earl Fruit company. which last year
handled practically all the fruit Ar13wn
in western Idaho and sold in the eastern
markets, estimates that 25O cars of fruit
will be shipped from this section this
year. As showing the increase in thc
shipments, only forty-four ears were
shipped in 1898, while 12i cars were
sent out in 1899.
Ella Hanson, an invalid, wife of
John HANSON. committed suicide by
drowning in Harris creek, uear Horse
shoe bend Mrs. Hanson had been
married but three years, and for sew
eral months past had suffered greatly
from inflammatory rheumatism.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of the lower court in the case
of Con. Murphy, the Silver City saloon
keeper convicted of murder in the Sec
ond degree, for the killing of man
named Shields Murphy was given a
sentence of ten years.
Sheriff Campbell of Ada county was
arrested and fined SIS for contempt OF
court by Justice of the Peace Herricl,
for refusing to obey an order of the
justice to bring prisoner into court
The sheriff is fighting the case on a
writ of review.
The Nez Perce delegation to the Re
publican state convention will prese nj
the name of George W. Fletcher fol
governor. His candidacy will meet
with cordial Endorsement of the Re
prblicans of the north central part o.
the state.