Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-12-12
ELM0RE BULLETIN.
g. NJ PAYNE MABEL I. PAYNE
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
IDAHO STATE NEWS.

There is talk of organizing second
bank at Emmett
A strike Of $50 ore is reported in the
Julia mine at Atlanta.
tract of Si6o acres of land near
New Plymouth was last week sold for
$4,000.
South Boise schools were closed last
week, owing to the prevalence of diph-
iberia.
The Office of DR.. Koeh.er, at Nampa,
was burgarized of S1oo and gold
watch last week
About $4,000 of the Sa5, 900 required
for the state fair bond issue has been
subscribed by Boise people.
November averaged five degrees
warmer than any November since
record has been kept at Boise.
Weiser parties have located placer
grounds within four miles of town that
are said to be rich and easily worked.
Boise schools contributed S71 OF to
the Mckinley monument fund Nearly
all OF the l,700 children contributed
their mite.
While ] b. Coakley, Weiser hotel
man, was filing gasoline lamp last
week, he was badly burned about the
hands and face.
All the surveys of the ceded portion
OF Fort Hall reservation have been for
warded to the interior department by
the surveyor general.
Cassia county is settling up quite
rapidly, and the mines of the county
are developing satisfactorily, with
every hope of promise.
An eastern lumber company, repre-
sented by o. c. Rice of Spokane, is de-
sirous of purchasing eight townships
of timber in Kootenai and Shoshone
counties.
The number of inmates at the Sol
diers Home, Boise, the first of the
(. month was lol. The expense of the
home management for the month was
$l,l32.s6.
Ed Wood of Caldwell, who has been
In Alaska for several years, has re-
turned to Caldwell to pass the winter
lie likes tire frozen north and will re-
turn in the spring.
No lots are sold in the new town of
Mackay, the townsite company giving
ninety-nine year leases. No liquor is
sold in the town, which tends to keep
up Houston, three miles distant
Horses are cheap at Caldwell At an
adjusier's sale last week a band of
twenty-four was bid in for $50. the
highest offer being s35. The horses
were later sold at private sale for S67. .25.
ty, is booming. Every incoming train
carries nearly 100 people The White
Knob Copper company employs 500.
men and has monthly payroll of $780,
600
Some strange animal is playing havoc
with rabbit raisers of payette 1t
seems to gain entrance to what was
considered secure quarters, and in sew
eral instances has destroyed nearly 100
in night
q. w. Russell, pioneer and one of
the oldest business men of Boise. died
last week, aged II years. He came
west in 1852 and settled in Boise in
1864 and has been resident of that
section ever since.
"Adulteration of Wool" was the SUBJ
iect of L. G. Hagenbarth's address be-
fore the National livestock associa-
tion at Chicago. II was well received
and forceful presentation of the
stockmen's contentious
The new coal mines Mt Emmett,
opened about month since, are pro-
ducing about eight tons of good coal
per day. The coal finds ready sale at
the mines at So so per ton. seven
foot vein of coal is exposed
A coroners jury at Caldwell found
that Jess Baggs, a Missourian, came to
ms death by means of blow on the
head from the club of the town mar
shai, and that the marshal was at fault
In the use of excessive authority.
jury has awarded Gunder Kettle
son, Wallace miner, $4,000 damages
irom the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
o'mpany, where the plaintiff fell down
~, unprotected ninety-foot ore chute.
suit was brought for $4,000.
Idaho Investment company has
the group of claims of the
3y Ridge Mining and Development
hoiy h"pany at Pearl, the price to be paid
81 tbs sSo'ooo. Assays of ores from
@ onese claims have run as high as sl7s
60. Days a recent arrival from Mis-
sso souri' was killed by blow on the head
i the marshal's club at Caldwell.
week Bags was drinking and the
|, 'ai was endeavoripg TO persuade
;, IN 70 put away an open knife when
e ai'ercation happened.
sales of school land advertised =.
ht Idaho and Moscow have been
tos'poned until January. owing to the
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