Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-06-20
ELMORE BULLETIN.
G. M PAYNE MABEL L. PAYNE
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
IDAHO NEWS.

merous improvements.
Aa Odd Fellows lodge is being or
ganized at South Boise.
For running a poker game in Boise,
James T. More was fined 5000 and
costs.
A sturgeon, nine feet long and weigh
ing $50 pounds, was caught at Weiser
last week.
A call for non partisan convention
to nominate a municipal ticket for
Boise has been issued
postofiice has been established at
Fritz, Blaine county, Idaho, Cyrus W.
Courtney, postmaster
Two miles of rails, required for
tracks at the Weser smelter, have
been ordered by telegraph.
AS a result of saloon row at Silver
City, Peter Dempsey is in Jail for seri-
ously cutting Sam McGregor.
Eighteen hundred people witnessed
a ball game at Boise the 9th, between
The State Christian Endeavor soci-
ETY. held its annual meeting at Weser
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Pears appear to have been injured
but slightly by the freeze which cre-
ated such havoc with the prunes.
shipment of choice rawberries
has been sent from Payette for the ex-
hibition at the Pan American exposi-
tion.
Hiram Katz Boise peddler, was
held up on the road near Brunean post
office last week by tramps and relieved
OF about $40.
Two children of Mr.. and Mrs. George
A. Clark of Boise, were taken sick with
gastric stomach trouble. caused by
eating cherries, and one of them died,
Even Alaska has appointed delegates
to the Mining Congress, and Governor
Brady writes that he has appointed
several prominent men and urged them
to attend.
The Blue Jacket Mining company
will install 30-ton smelter near it's
property in the Seven Devils The
smelter will be located at the new
town of Landorne.
State Engineer Ross has returned
from the Blue Lakes where he started
the work of surveying for the Twin
Falls irrigation project, to determine
the cost of the undertaking.
The milling plant and other machin-
cry for Colonel Dewey's Thunder Noun
tain properties has been shipped from
the east, and will be en- route to the
mine by the end of the week.
Albert L. Church of Boise, stood
first in the examination for cadet to
West Point, his average being 9424
per cent. Robert Lee Ghormly, a
University student, was second.
Fifty-two foreign residents were
under arrest last week for violations
of the sheep inspection law. Forty
five of these were at Malad, five at
Montpelier and two at Bancroft.
The Boston & Seven DEVILS Copper
company expect to have 125 miners en-
ployed by July l. The mine expects
to furnish good part of the ore that
will be demanded by the Weiser
sInelter.
Idaho has twenty-nine deaf and
blind children attending schools for
their kind outside the state. The Utah
and Colorado institutions are attended
by twenty-six, and the Washington
school by three.
Boise merchants have been caught
by the June freeze with heavy stocks
Of fruit jars. 1t is said there are eight
carloads of fruit jars in the city at
this time, bought in anticipation of
heavy fruit crop.
Information reaching Boise is to the
effect that the Short Line company is
working LOO men on the Houston
branch from Blackfoot and that the
determination is TO complete the ninety
miles of road by October 1st
The government has filed suits
against the Northern Pacific Railway
company, the Clearwater Land, Log
aud Lumber company, Mclean Bros,
and Duroses Kimball, A. A. McPbee.
Cyrus A. Lundy, c. A. McCabe and
William Vicks, to recover 81, ,929. "a for
timber cut from government lands.
The supreme court has handed down
an opinion declaring the creation of
the county of Clearwater illegal and
void. The act creating this county was
passed by the last legislature The de-
Te'slon Is based on the omission of Lam
guage tsix words) specifically declaring
'ha' tne territory named shall consti-
tute new county.
ABOUT rs per cent ~ the Italian
prnnes near Boise were Isillea by,h..
recent freeze The French primes
were not damaged much, and tho
silver prunes will probably AVERAGE
three 'iourths of crop SO the DAMAGE
is not SO great as at FIRST supposed.
A. Burke, proprietor of a Mamma
orlckyard, became insane while al
Boise last week, and offered to inmn
from third-story window lust tn
prove that in v,at,1l -. =.