Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-01-17
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Iudho uPples nnu d goo0 market in
n Salt Lake.
n Governor Hunt has appointed James
4 L. Kirtley, of Lemhi, as his private
n secretary.
The Idaho wool growers association
held largely attended meeting at
y Boise last week.
DIR. Chin Man Sui, of Boise. was last
week found guilty of running an opium
joint and fined 500.
7. Shelley Sutton, Boise printer,
recently fell heir to fortune of $s6,.
900, mostly in Indiana real estate.
The fuel supply of Lewiston is very
short and wood is selling at S. so per
cord, the highest in the history of the
city.
A memorial against the passage of
the ship subsidy bill was adopted by
the lower branch of the legislature last
week, by vote of 20 to &c.
Senator Shoup's bill which appropri-
ates $4,000 for establishing a fish cul-
ture station in Idaho has been favor
ably reported to the senate.
The first of the week less than five
miles of track remained TO be laid to
Council on the p. g. |. n. At Council
work will stop for the winter.
The senate organized in record
breaking time. Forty minutes after
the body was called to order it was or
ganized and ready for business.
When State Treasurer j. j. Plummer
took over the office last week the retir-
ing treasurer, Lucius c. Rice, turned
over the sum of S173,27o.o o4 of state
funds.
Miss Helen Hexter, Boise dress
maker, has received word that she has
fallen heir to fortune of $4,000 in
cash and property from the death of a
relative in England.
A bonus of 81 900 was recently paid
a Lewiston farmer on quarter section
of school land he had purchased. He
paid SO an acre for the land and near
ly doub bled his money.
Chief Justice Houston, who Eetired
last week from the supreme bench after
a service of ten years, has returned to
the practice of his profession. He has
opened offices in Boise.
The total receipts of the Office of Sec
retary of state during the past two
years amounted to So, 719.2s. The heav-
lest business for any previous similar
period amounted to 81, 993. 60.
The water committee of the Boise
city council has reported to that body
in favor of municipal ownership of
water works and electric light systems,
after having made thorough investi-
cation.
State Game Warden Arbuckle in his
biennial report recommends an in
creased appropriation for his office in
order 10 make the states laws effective.
Public sentiment, he says, is against
punishment of violators Of the laws.
Chickens have discovered gold on
farm near Boise, and the owners of the
land and of the chickens, Messrs. Leon
ard and Powers, are going to make
some Investigations to see whether or
not their feathered pets have unearthed
fortune for them. A few days ago
Mr.. Leonard killed chicken. In the
crop he found a nugget somewhat
smaller than pea. He thought first
it was piece of brass, but test proved
it to be gold. A day or SO afterward
he killed another chicken. In its crop
were found several pieces of gold,
amounting in value to Sl.25. The gold
had been found in freshly plowed
ground.
Thomas Hutchins, one of the most
widely known stockmen of the state,
died at Boise last week from an oper.
alton performed for appendicitis. He
was an old-timer, known to many of
the early settlers of the west.
At Nampa Wednesday night two
Cinnamon were cremated by the burn
ing of a wash house. Five others were
rescued with difficulty. One of the
Celestials had s., 900 in gold buried in
the ground underneath the floor of the
cabin.
X /. Perky of Mountain Home, chair
man of the Democratic state central
committee, has been appointed judge
of the Fourth district to succeed Judge
Stockslaager, elevated to the supreme
bench. Texas Angel of HALEY had
been mentioned for the place.
Judge Stewart at Boise last week
rendered decision of considerable i'm
portance. He eholds that city council
has no authority to act as board OF
equalization. Therefore, increases OF
valuation of property made by coun-
ell are illegal and void.
One of the discoverers of the Buffalo
Hump mine, named Ridgely, has been
paroled from the peuitentiary as long
as he abstains from liquor and the car
rying of concealed weapons. In a
drunken row in 1898 he assaulted a
man in Grangveille with revolver. :
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