Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-02-01
ELMORE BULLETIN.
G. NJ PAYNE MABEL L. PAYNE
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IDAHO NEWS.

The Independent Telephone company
have force of men working on their
line from Boise to Pearl.
The search for tie eldest of the three
childI en- who were drowned in the flood
at kendrick has resulted fruitlessly.
Among the subscriptions to the Boise
railroad fund is one of $685. made by
nineteen Chinese in business in that
city.
Old settlers and weather profits claim
that if more snow does not fall soon
there will be scarcity of water next
summer.
A fire at Gem destroyed restaurant,
and the two year old son of A. Magnu-
son, the proprietor of the restaurant,
was burned to death.
William ~ Nichols, who came to
Silver City from Ohio in 1873, and has
been prominently identified with Silver
City ever since, is dead
The new pedestal for the statue of
Washington, which has long been the
pride Of Boise, has been finished and
The statue hoisted into position.
Fred Granholm of Boise has just paid
u $40 fine for selling liquor to minors,
and his prosecutors declare other saloon
men will be tried on like charge.
People coming out from Warren are
obliged to travel a long distance on
snow shoes, the snow being about seven
feet deep on the summit of the divide.
1t is expected that Willard White. of
Boston, ,promotorof the Payette railroad
and power project will arrive in Idaho
during the week to look after that
project.
Travelling Guard Hugh Fulton arrived
in Boise from the north last week with
six prisoners for the penitentiary, four
from Kootenai and two from Latah
counties
The experts report shows that g. W.
Lamoreau, ex-clerk of the district court
and auditor and recorder of Ada county,
s1,549.70
o. II. Reed, who was corporal in
company II, First Idaho volunteers
died at Florence, Colo, on the 18th inst,
from dyscutery, contracted while in
the Philippines.
The state has this month received
81 900 from leases in a section of Nez
Perce county from which no revenue
had formerly been received. The land
leased is about twelve miles east of
Lewiston.
Judge Stewart has overruled the
motion for new trial in the case of
Paul Corcoran, the Couer d'Alene dyna-
miter, serving seventeen year SEN
tence for murder. The defense had de-
clared the trial jury was prejudiced.
The executive committee OF the Demo-
cratic state committee will meet in
Boise March 3 and make arrangements
for holding the party state conventions
and apportioning the delegates to said
conventions to the various coun ties of
the state.
A plant for the manufacture of first
class pressed brick is to be established
at Boise by the Salt Lake, L tah, Pressed
Brick company, they deeming Idaho
good field for their business. The pro-
posed plant will have capacity of
10000 per day.
1t is estimated that it will require an
expenditure of S75, 900 to Sloo, 900 to re-
store the conditions that existed before
the flood at Kendrick. but the people
have evidently determined to do SO
without delay. Trains will be running
in week or ten days.
Articles of Incorporation of the Idaho
Mining & Development company have
been filed with the secretary of state,
the capital stock of the company being
placed at 81 900, O00 and the principal
place of business is Boise Secretary
of State Patrie is director.
NJ. Grandquist,a "A prominent Nez Perce
reservation farmer, residing ut Agatha,
was struck by the Orc Fino train while
walking on the track above the mouth
of the Potlatch and now lies in a crit
ical condition, having received terrible
injuries about the head and body
Governor Steunenberg has departed
for Wardner, where he will spend
week or ten days looking into the mat
ter of the appointment of county
commissioner of Shoshone county to
fill vacancy, and otherwise size up
the situation in that district
The state live stock quarantine law
has been upheld by the supreme court,
the case in question being that of
Utah sheep owner, X. Rasmussen, who
was fined for driving his sheep from
Utah into Oneida county in violation OF
the quarantine proclamation.
Some miscreant has been leaving bits
of meat and bologna saturated with
poison lying around the streets of Boise
and as a result over twenty-five dogs
have died of poisoning during the past
week, a number of the dogs thus killed
being considered very valuable.