Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-11-28
ELMORE BULLETIN.
q. NJ PAYNE MABEL L. PAYrx
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
IDAHO STATE NEWS.

company OF militia is sool to be
recruited at Lewiston.
The town to be started in the Thun-
der Mountain country will be called
Roosevelt.
Weiser Knights of Pythias are pre-.
pairing TO build business block with
lodge rooms above.
supply of water has been secured
for the Weiser cemetery and 100 shade
trees has been set out.
At least three companies are desiroul
OF supplying Boise with additiona
electric power in the near future.
George Eby. who resides on the
bench near Boise. is suffering from a
broken jaw, resulting from the kick OF
horse.
Idaho prunes, by actual test, are
proven to be the best in the world
They are sweeter and compare with
any in size.
The supreme court has denied George
Levy, the man accused of killing David
Levy in Roise last month, a writ OF
habeas corpus.
The state fair directors have not
reached any conclusion regarding
grounds for the association, and it is
possible no fair will be held next
year.
Colonel w. r. Wallace, a prominent
factor in the opening of the Occur
d'Alene district and the founder of the
town of Wallace, died in California last
week.
Samuel Heidelberger, the oldest mer-
chant in Owyhee county, died at Silver
City last week. He had been engaged
In the mercantile business for the past
twenty-fv years.
The state has received a final pay
ment of $40, 756 on IL 900 acres of white
pine lands in the Ell. Creek district,
near Wallace. The Turrish syndicate
secured the timber.
Rev. Augustus G. Upton, formerly
president of Weiser Academy and for
y
churches in Ohio and Michigan, died
in Colorado last week.
A Portland firm has completed ar
rangements to erect large fruit evapo-
rating plants at Beatty and Caldwell,
which will be in operation by the
opening of the fruit season.
The bridge over Payette river, on
the Thunder Mountain route from
Boise. has been completed, and work
on the road beyond will be kept up as
long as the weather will permit.
It is hoped to make permanent ex-
hibit of Idaho's splendid Pan-American
display, at the state house in Boise.
For this purpose some of the best of
the -perishable material has been
set aside.
An effort is to be made to form a
union of all the colonization companies
and landed interests of Idaho. for the
purpose of originating a more system
attic method of attracting immigrants
to the state.
James Robb, farmer living three
miles from Meridian, committed sui
eide last week by jumping into his
cistern. Robb had been despondent
for several days and it is thought he
was temporarily deranged.
Indian agent Caldwell is inclined TO
the belief that the eeded portion of the
Fort Hall reservation will not ba
thrown open until next Spring al
though the interior department is
showing desire TO hurry matters.
The Indians of the Fort Hall agency
have drawn down over Sl5,o 900 as a
son as agriculturists. This sum repre-
q sents the price paid for $500 tons of
hay at S6.o7 ton.
The famous Gold Hill mine near
Quaftzburg, which has been idle for a
long time will soon be the scene of
renewed activity force of men is
now at work pumping out the mine
and new outfit of machinery has been
ordered to continue the work on more
u extensive scale.
# = W. Henry, a Denver man who was
accidently shot in the neck by little
n who was playing with a rifle, at
3: qua Springs last July, had a coughing
peil last week and coughed the bull
7 let up.
state land board last week re-
&C s1ol ,sse as anal payment for
aeres of white pine timber sold
.e'ai months ago to Wisconsin lum-
The timber sold embraces
sne states entire holdings in the Pot
feet. s'eeas he io''ooo'ooo
o.. superintendent of the Idaho
naaa, 'en Home Finding society warns
not TO make contributions to an
poster who is travelling through the
soliciting aid for Colorado home
Institution, who claims Idaho
nus no such society.
The Great Western Oil eomnan,
ian headquarters in Montpelier, has
a articles of incorporation. It's
eanized TO delve for oil and to bnild
!" fetneries, among other things. both
+oaho and Wyoming. The eomnanv