Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-04-05
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on Ninth street, Boise, for smallpox,
has been raised by Chief of Police
Francis
No jury cases will be tried aS the
spring term of court in Cassia couptv.
owing to the prevalence of SMALLPOX.
The only business Of the court NAV 10
the resentencng of Diamondficd jack
move is Oh foot to have big cele.
bration in Boise on May /, Dewey Day
The Columbian band has volunteered
its services for the occasion and ii is
hoped to make the celebration rous.
ing one.
Willis Evans, a i5-year-old Caldwell
boy, lost his life through an accident
with small rifle recently lie was
shot in the stomach by a gun in his
own hands, the gun having been dis,
charged by Jar.
carload of immigrants arrived at
Boise few days uGo to settle under
the Riverside canal. Mr. Tlurtt has
the western part of the state Each
year he gets about 1000 acres more
under ditch and has all the land occu-
pied before the season ends
Alex Boomer, a Boise boy, is now in
okohama. He spent the greater part
of the winter in Guam. W here he tried
to Sanupp CANA ,,.nr.,,.t, lnt ~, ..,;Ii
tary regulations precluded the posi-,
bility OF securing possession of any
thing of value at this time in the real
estate line.
Several Boise young men are going
to Cape Nome this year Passage for
some has been engaged on the first
steamer, and others will go later. The
fare from Seattle to Cape Nome is $50.
Reports brought back by two or three
Idaho people who were there last sea-
son has spread the gold craze.
The state prohibition convention will
be held in the g. \. K. hall, Boise, on
April 5, commencing at 10 a. m. The
national chairman of the organization
will be present and there will doubtless
he large attendance. The national
officer will give the convention his
ideas of campaigning for the anti.
saloon cause
Ada county is to vote on bonding
county for $4,000 to build bridge
Al.
bridge. There is a large settlement
cut off from quick communication with
foise for lack of bridge, and s. 900
~ voluntary subscriptions has been
raised toward building the bridge.
The state land board has leen ad.
vised that ". c. King, manager of the
Sand Point Lumber company, who was
fined $50 in the probate court for cut.
ting timber on state land. had paid the
fine. He had given notice of appeal.
The payment of the fine. though the
amount is small, is considered by the
department to be big victory for the
state
The lIagberg monument fund has
been closed and the monument will be
in place on the campus about June
/. An immense granite boulder will
form the main part of the Hagberg
monument. The character of the base
will not be decided upon until after
the boulder shall have been found. 1t
is desired to procure a boulder eight
feet high and six feet through at the
center, the whole to preserve in gen.
eral way the monument idea. brass
tablet will be set into one side of the
monument bearing suitable epitaph.
The Boise chamber of commerce has
made a proposition to the Idaho Mid
land through Thomas W. Bates and Z.
Il. Watson, The representatives of the
road. Tie chamber of commerce Of
fers the road right-of-way through
the city, equivalent TO the old right-of-
way, and also a right-of-way to the
Boise canyon. The chamber also
agrees to talie $3.50, 600 of the roads
bonds at the same figure that marks
their Introduction on the eastern mar
ket, which will probably be about S.
The Pacific 4 Idaho Northern will be
extended from Cambridge to Council
at once. The distance is about twenty
i've miles. The company will also
build the branch into the Seven Devils
mining district without delay. There
mas been one route surveyed through
friee Valley, but the engineers are now
10 the field running line on Hornet
creek 1t is hoped to find feasible
route that will he much shorter than
The other. The plan is To push this
branch through forthwith, and the
main line will be extended to the Mea
oows at the earliest possible date.
Edward Percy accompanied his moth.
er home to Boise from the BlaelSfoot
asylum last week, it being considered
ne was sufficiently recovered 10 war
faet his return home. On arriving at
noise, however, he insisted on return.
lng to the asylum,