Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-03-15
ELMORE BULLETIN.
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IDAHO NEWS.

AT meeting OF the Idaho state Wool
Growers association held iu Boise last
week it was decided not to incorporate.
John Suhlsen. aged 76 a pioneef,
died at his home in Boise last week.
The remains were taken to Idaho City
for interment
The auditor of Nez Perce county re.
fuses to make monthly reports to the
state auditor as required by the new
law and proceedings against him will
be instituted.
Ex-Auditor Lamoreau of Ada county
has entered upon sentence of seven
years. He pleaded guilty to embezzle-
ment. Lamoreau attributes his down
fall to gambling.
The following Idaho postmasters
were appointed last week: Leduc,
Blaine county, c. W, Castle, vice Peter
Leduc, dead; Mullan, Shoshone county,
P. l.. Orcutt; vice b. b. Pott, resigned
President Mellen of the Northern
Pacific railroad has written letter to
William $. Bracket of Grangeville un-
der date of February :, in which he
announces that his road will not be
extended to Grangeville this year
State Mine Inspector Czizel< is con-
ferriDg with Salt Lake ore buyers upon
the output of the Seven Devils country
and will endeayor to arrange for ship
ments. Mr.. Cziael is the selling agent
for the Boston & Seven Devils Mining
company and has been authorized to
contract it is said, for all the pro-
ducers in that region,
In the investigation of the Coeur
d'Alene riots by congress, miner
summoned as a witness said that
the trouble was caused by the in
science of the mine owners toward the
miners. The same aggravated condi-
tions would cause repetition of the
trouble, and in anticipation of it the
Bunker Hill company had butt "NIorro
castle" with loopholes for gatling
guns.
NJ J. Shilds of Moscow intends to
SOW 500 acres of his new cereal, corn
wheat, this year. It will be sown in
the same manner as wheat, and one
md one-half bushels to the acre will
be used The kernel is three-fourths
of an inch long and has the appearance
or rye and makes meal which resem-
bles that of corn. Its peculiar value in
that country is that it takes the place
of corn and will yield double the
amount that wheat yields.
The Idaho State Dairy and Pure Food
association was organized in Boise
last week. committee was appointed
to draft pure food bill to be presented
to the next Legislature. The following
are the officers elected President,
Professor IL. T. French of Moscow;
vice president. A. E. Gipson of Cald-
well; secretary, r. w. Sweet of Nampa;
treasurer. John L. Groome of Caldwell;
executive committee, John Graybill,
n. u. Carpenter and L. p. Maryatt.
P. l.. Mallory of Buffalo Hump fame,
has made discovery about four miles
from Snake river, that he thinks will
be the equal of Buffalo Hump. There
are four parallel lodges, ranging from
six to twenty feet wide, and one cross
ing these diagonally. They are in a
slate formation that appears to be
about a quarter of mile wide, No as
says have yet been secured, but Mr..
Mallory is confident he has struck it
rich and is very jubilaut over the pros
,,..+s pavalonrnant work will be com.
menced at once.
j. M. Bray has discovered valuable
copper ledge near the Ok Bow tunnel
on Snake river, below Huntington.
The close proximity of copper was evil
denced by the discoloration of the drills
used by the men in running the rail-
road tunnel. Mr. Bray has secured
some float which he has had assay,
ed. 1t returned S4O50 to the ton,
There was trace of gold, one and a
half ounces of silver and eleven per
cent copper, the value of the latter be.
ing $1,000.
A meeting of the Northwest Wool
Growers association was held at Boise
elected: President, Frank R. Gooding
Idaho; vice presidents, l.. l.. Ormsby,
Idaho; j. G. Edwards, Oregon; James
c Leary, Utah; 5. b. Callderhead,
Washington; Colonel Malone, Montana'
rim Kinney, Wyoming; secretary, j.
W. Bailey, Portland; treasurer, c. u.
Ladd, Portland; executive committee
j. NJ. johnson of Idaho, w. g. Ayres
Of Oregon, 5. A. Lagrove of Washing
ton, S. L. Larrabee of Montana, r. L.
Oswald of Utah, Colonel +. P Snow oi
Nyeming. Pendleton, Or, was selected
as the next meeting place, which vii
be held in March, 1901.
Samuel Weir, a blacksmith at the
Victor mine, twenty miles from the
town of White Bird, was mortally in
jured by an explosion of giant caps las'
week. Weir was sharpening some
drills at the forge and a spark fell inte
an open box Of caps exploding them.