Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-03-28
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has been asked from Montpelier.
A Spokane company has leased land
near Troy and will bore for oil.
W. 81. Van Lew intends putting in q
sawmill at Weippe, Nez Perce county.
Appropriation bills for roads and
bridges could not dodge the governors
Veto
Premium lists for the next state fair
will be ready for distribution next
week.
The question of bonding Montpelier
to establish system of water works ia
being agitated.
Troop H, Sixth cavalry, stationed at
Boise, has departed for San Francisco
to embark for the Philippines.
State Immigration Commissioner ].
8. Barrett estimates the increase in
population this year will at least be
10000.
Governor Hunt has signed the Clear
water county bill. He will not name
the officers until after he has personal,
ly visited the county.
There will be three premiums of
$1,000 erch for the race meet at the
Intermountain fair. This should se-
cure the best horses in the country.
A vein of coal said to be from four to
six feet thick, has been located near
Oakley, and is being opened up. The
coal is said to be of a splendid quality.
A test case is being brought in the
federal court at Boise to test the state
sheep quarantine law. The Utah
Sheepmen's association is the mover in
the case.
The mining exhibit which will be
collected for the mining congress at
Boise next July will be sent to the Pan
American exposition after the mining
congress adjourns.
G. Fl. Taylor, a farmer residing near
Nampa, was thrown from his buggy
last week, sustaining injuries which
may prove fatal. He alighted on his
head, fracturing his skull.
Washington county wool growers are
subscribing toward the building of
wool warehouse at Weiser. A site near
the P. g.. /. N. depot has been secured.
The building will be 5oxl5s, with a
cellar 50x1oo feet.
The bill creating the Sixth judicial
district was vetoed by Governor Hunt
last week on the ground that it is not
necessary. He also vetoed the bill
giving married women control OF their
separate property.
P. M. Davis of Lewiston, was last
week named by the governor for state
insurance commissioner, under the
new law passed by the recent legisla-
ture. N M. Ruiclx and A. A. Frasier
were named as code commissioners.
The state exhibit at the Pan-Ameri-
can exposition at Buffalo will be made
as good as the appropriation of Sis, 600
will admit Mining, agriculture and
horticulture will be the main features
of the exhibit. Except the mining,
the exhibits will be shipped next
month,
The commission having in charge
the free travelling library have been
named as follows: Mrs s. II. Hays,
Boise; Mrs. Z. J. Dockery, Boise;
Miss Eliza w. Kercheval, Rathdrum;
Mice int
tendent of public instructions; Profess
sor J. III. Mclean, president of the
university of Idaho.
In his veto of the pure food bill Gov
ernor Hunt says: This bill is too
loosely drawn, and its provisions too
conflicting to be placed on our statutes.
Section IL gives the dairy commission
er unlimited power to employ attor-
neys. Section Is provides for payment
of expenses of commissioners without
auditing or approval of accounts by
vides that one-half of all fines and
penalties shall be paid into the county
treasury, while section 2s provides
that they shall all be paid into the
state treasury.
Attorneys for Utah sheopmen, who
are testing the constitutionality of the
Idaho quarantine law, assert 1t is un-
constitutional for the following rea-
sons: 1.-The law allows proclama-
tion to issue at the will of the gov
ernor, and then the inspector is all
powerful. 1t does not in the least
matter If the sheep are scabby or not
they must go out, and the owner
must pay whatever cost the inspector
sees at to charge. 1t places penalty
upon persons refusing to assist the in
spector in deporting the sheep. 1t
amounts to naked confiscation of prop
erty, and is not in accord with the
principles of the government"
w. II. Taylor of Payette, has been
appointed assistant pan-American ex-
position commissioner. and Mrs. Mary
A. Wright of Kootenai county, has
been installed as chief clerk of the
commission.