Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-09-27

road bridge at Nampa have be en- com
pleted
Idaho fruit growers are preparing
several shipments of fruit for the Paris
exposition.
Parties coming from the Seven Dew.
lis report snow as having fall 10 there
Sunday the 10Th
Weiser fruit men are arranging for
the shipment of three cars of prunes
per week to eastern points.
There have been large shipments of
Boise valley apples to eastern points
during the past few days
William Courtney was injured in
runaway at Silver City, sustaining
fractured leg and two broken ribs.
The young ladies of Bellevue gave an
amateur minstrel performance on the
2lst, which proved grand success.
A carload of barbed wire has been
received at Nampa to be used in fenc.
ing the right Of way for the e Idahe
Northern.
postotiice has been established al
McLure, Blaine county, with specia
mail service from HALEY, four mile,
northeast and John II. Campbell ap
/ pointed postmaster.
1t is understood that the president
OF the P. & l. N. and party were in
Decorah vicinity for the purpose OF
looking over the ground pre- paratory
TO extending the railroad to that camp.
Carpenters are busy at the Inter-
mountain Fair grounds on an addition
to the main building. All the available
space in the building is taken and the
directors were compelled to M AXE this
addition.
J. T. Gill, who pleaded guilty to
manslaughter for the killing of John
Clancy at Boise, has been sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary. His age,
10 years, saved him from a more Sc
we're sentence
Z. E. Ambs, the Boise soldier who
was charged with stealing pillows and
arrested ou charge of burglary, was
sentenced to one year in the peniten-
tiary. Ambs contends he took the pill
lows simply as a joke, while intoxi.
Gated.
Fruit shipping continues active and
grapes have appeared in the markets.
The weather has been favorable for
maturing and shipping. Winter apples
have matured rapidly since the cool
nights and good harvest is antici-
pated
Six boxes of apples from the ranch
OF Congressman Edgar Wilson left
boise Tor the Paris exposition one day
last week. The boxes all had the
green and white label of the exposition
upon them and attracted cor siderable
attention.
There Is still some alfalfa to be cut.
some farmers permitted the Third crop
of alfalfa to make all possible growth |
before cutting and others cut early |
win view to securing fourth crop |
Much of tie fourth crop rem aims to be
harvested.
Harry Fitchman's dryer and evap-
orator at Payette,. the largest in Idaho,
having capacity of 12,od0 pounds
every twenty-four hours, commenced
work last week. The manager says
1T will require month or six weeks to
dry everything at that point
Pete Holden was accidentally killed
at Boise, on the 18th, by being thrown
under the wheels of big water cart,
the team having become U manage
aoie. The wheels passed over his
chest, crushing him so that he lived
only about an hour
Governor Steunenberg, who has re-
Gently returned from trip through
the northern wheat belt. gives il as his
opinion that that section will be one of
the richest of the country after it's de-
Velopment shall have been completed
and the people settled down to the con-
ditions that are to prevail.
star mail service has been estab-
Hshed from Fletcher by lilo to Morrow,
distance of thirteen miles and back,
'nree times week, on a schedule of
not to exceed four hours running time
each way. while the special service
from Fletcher to Ilo will be discon-
tinued.
In the election held at Weiser to
auehorize the issuance of bonds to the
9nonnt OF S45.o 900 for electri ic light and
waterworks plants, the bonds carried
oy a vote of l25 for TO 25 against. The
work of construction will be com
menced as soon as possible.
Charles Crowley, aged as, died. at a
hospital at Boise last week, where he
nad been brought from his farm near
'Neee' suffering from a broken leg
which he received while tacking hay,
part of the derrick fallink nm him.
blood poisoning resulting.