Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-08-09
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u. L. NJ Nulson, aged 69, pioneer on
the Pacific coast, died at Weiser re-
gently.
= Thirty carloads of lambs were ship,
ped to the eastern market from HALEY
one day last week.
There has been change in the plan
Of the new hotel at Nampu which will
make it cost over 100000.
Preparations are being made for tho
unveiling of the Ole Hagberg monu-
ment at the state university.
Two boys wrestling on top of wagon
load of hay at Boise fell to the ground.
One of them, Roy Masters, sustained a
broken rib.
Herman Mulkenthin, aged so, has
been arrested at Coeur d'Alene city on
the charge of maintaining criminal
relations with his own daughter
Main street in Lewiston is to be ma,
cadamized. A Blake rock crusher has
been purchased and is on the ground.
The work is to be completed in ninety
days.
Reports from Little Smoky are to tho
effect that forest fires are raging all
bver that section. The smoke is 50
dense that on days when the air is still
it is almost suifocating.
The population within the corporate
limits of the city of Caldwell is 1927,
The population of Caldwell in 800 was
little less than 500, showing a gain
of about $50 in ten years.
DR.. Joyner of Nampa, has been mott.
fed by the governor that he is APP
of dental examiners, to succeed Ed
ward Beaudette, who has resigned.
Senator Shoup has recommended the
establishment of rural free delivery
'oute on the bench, to extend from
Boise to a point near Meridian. An
Inspector will be sent out soon to go
over the route.
Clyta Bradbury, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Henry Bradbury of Chalis, was
killed while horseback riding with
iome other children, the animal run
ning away and throwing her to the
ground, death being instantaneous.
JoeC Myers, the Boise photographer,
has taken the first prize for landscape
photography at the meeting of the
American association of photographers
at Milwaukee. Mr.. Myers has demon-
strated that he is great artist in that
line.
j. w. Kane, a freighter about GO
Lewiston by being run over by his own
wagon while just starting for his home
at Forest, on Craig's mountain. A
broken rib pierced his heart, causing
instant death.
Major D. W Higgins is at Ketchilsan,
Alaska. waiting for his commission as
United States commissioner of the
KetchilSan district. The major seems
to think that his new job is better
one than chasing Filpinos. lie says
1t is an excellent mining country.
One of the very interesting features
of the coming state fair will be the
bird-shooting contest. This part OF
the program has been placed in the
hands of an enthusiast on the subject
who has arranged very interesting
series, for which $500 in prizes will be
offered.
1t is quite probable that brewery
will be established at Nampa in the
near future. A large share of the stock
will be taken by X. W. Renshaw, If
competent parties will take hold, and
put up plant. During the month of
June thirteen carloads of beer were
shipped to Nampa.
Another big strike is reported at
Buffalo Hump. The strike was made
In the Dewey mine, located about two
and one-half miles south of the Hump.
Four feet Of ore has been exposed that
Is said to be the richest yet found in
the district and the report says the
ore is speckled with gold.
Utah parties, under the leadership OF
]. nj. Smith of Provo, are making SUR
yeys of the country from Weiser to a
point on the Snake river forty miles
above the Boise, for the purpose of con.
structing a canal which will take water
from the snake and distribute 1t over
the entire region from the point OF
diversion to Dead Ok Flat. near Weiser,
having covered in the mean time all
the valleys along the line. 1t is pro-
posed to make this canal build up Sec
ton in eastern Oregon and ad Joining in
Idaho equal to Utah, all the present
canals and bitches being used for dis
tributing canals.
Many fields of spring wheat at Mos
cow will not be worth cutting. Some
Of 1t began to head when only six
inches high. On Bear Creek and be-
tween there and Palouse City the spring
wheat is poor, bu | other parts of the
county 1t is little better.