Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-11-08
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IDAHO NEWS.

mail service from Bliss to Blanche will
be discontinued.
Hugh G. Wood has been appointed
81 postmaster at Clayton and Samuel r.
Libby at Cottonwood.
case OF smallpox has developed at
81 Nampa, but as the suspect has been re-
moved to the pesthouse, there Is no
danger of spread Of the disease.
II Archie Mcdonald, 80 years of age,
n committed suicide in Wallace, Ida,
" Thursday night by taking morphine.
81 His parents reside in Olympia, Wash.
II The Caldwell rural free delivery
service Is in operation. The route ex-
\ tends up one side OF the river from
Caldwell to Star and back on the other
side, and is daily ser vice.
The sixth annual convention of the
Boise District Epworth League closed
its labors at Caldwell the 2sth, after
one of the most enthusiastic, success
full and best attended meetings ever
held.
A pension OF Sc per month has been
granted to Charles II. Luther, of MUIR
ray, Shoshone county, dating from
February |, 1894. Mrs. James II. Will
son, of Weiser, has been granted a
pension OF So per month beginning
February B. 1894.
A Rat NJ RAta aA
row escape from being hit with bullet
last week at her home. The bullet
passed SO close to her head that she
was under the impression that it had
grazed her. No trace of the party who
fired tho shot was found.
The Twin Falls Land & Water COM
pany, projectors of the great irriga-
tion works on the Snake near Shoshone
Falls, has filed articles Of incorpora-
tion with the secretary of state. This
company is organized under the laws
of Utah, and its principal place of
business is Salt Lake.
George A. Nettleton, who was riding
with freighter near Boise, fell from
the wagon and broke couple of ribs.
He was lying drunk alongside the road
when the freighter came along and
helped him onto the top of his load.
He had not proceeded half q mile be-
fore the fellow rolled off.
L. r. Sanderson, who has been work.
ing a placer on the Snake in the west
ern part OF the state, says he cleaned
up from So to S. day with the crudest
of mining appliances, catching the
gold on burlap. He believes Snake
river will be lined with placer miners
next year
The magnificent bead-work shirt
which attracted SO much attention in
the curio department of the Inter-
mountain fair. has been donated to the
Crittenden home at Boise, and will be
disposed of for the purpose of adding to
the funds of that institution. The
shirt is remarkable as fine sample of
Indian bead work and for being deco
rated with haman hair 1t was at one |
time the property Of the famous chief,
Sitting Bull, and each strand OF hair
represents the scalp of human being |
whose life was taken by redskins.
Writing from Clayton, Custer coun'
ty, Idaho, Robert Bell says that Man
ager Lawrence Greene of the Clayton |
Mining and Smelling company will
close down the furnace on the 10th of
November, and on that date will have
on hand and in transit / ,700,0 pounds
of high grade lead-silver bullion, max
ing the most successful run In the his |
tory of the plant This little plant has
a capacity of fifty tons day, and has
been run for about one hundred days |
each year during the summer months
since 1894, during which period 1t has
turned out nearly 81 200, 900 worth of
bullion.
While hunting badgers with two
companions at Lapwai, Willie Warren,
IA years of age, was shot In the foot by
the accidental discharge of pistol
which he was holding. The wound is
severe and may make him cripple for
life.
Some boys at Cul do Sac found
giant cap last week and used 1t as
plaything. The ten-year-old son OF
R. A. Watson polsed a splinter into 1t,
when it exploded, tearing three fingers
from his hand. The other boys es-
capped injury.
change has been made at Caldwell
in the matter of employing men on the
Oregon Short Line railroad sections.
Heretofore the railroads has been hir-
ing Japs, but rs fast as the change can
be made, white men will be employed
in their stead.
There seems to be an.orgauized band
of crooks in Boise. II is believed they
have been attracted by the fact that at
this time of the year many miners.
sheepherders and others who spend the
summer In the mountains come TO Town
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