Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-02
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The Oregon Short Line has already
this spring brought over 300 settlers
into the Snake river valley.
A fire at Peck last week DESTROYED
the general merchandise stores of the
Peck Mercan title company and Skey
Bros Loss, 900, partially covered
by insurance
Governor Hunt has decided to escort
President Mckinley across the state.
He will probably meet the president
and his party at the Montana line and
escort them south to Utah.
A rich placer gold a nd has been made
near Eagle City, on ground that was
worked in the rush of 1885. Four mug
gets taken from the property are worth
$50 35. s42, SEQ. 80 and sl7.s5.
The Shoshone county commissioners
have ordered special tax Of 81 per
head on each taxa BILE inhabitant OF the
county for the care and maintenance
OF the INDECENT sick and injured, idiot
ic and insane persons.
A story comes from Delta that Reu-
ben Gilliland OF that place, who has a
garden on a portion Of his mining
claim, has been compelled to construct
deer-proof fence, in order to save his
garden truck from the animals.
1t has bee decided by the stock
holders of the Nampa Creamery to
enlarge the plant A number Of far
mers are endeavoring to secure a con-
trolling interest, in which event 1t
will become a Co operative enterprise.
Arnold Sterus, a farmer living near
Bonner's Ferry, was shot from ambush
by an unknown party and his recovery
Is doubtful. He had seated himself
on log when two shots were fred one
striking him ia the breast and one in
the arm. There is no clue to his
assailant.
The report OF the Matron of the
Florence Crittenden Home at Boise,
1t the annual meeting held last week
shows that the institution Is accom-
plishing much good, a number of wo-
men having been turned from lives Of
shame and numbers of orphans pro-
vided with comfortable homes.
special grand jury has been con.
vened at Wallace by order of District
Judge Maybe to inquire into the re-
cent trouble Is in Shoshone county.
Two men were killed recently and it
Is generally understood that the crimes
were the outgrowth of the miners
troubles which have existed in the
Occur d'Alenes region for many years.
Indications are that the Pacific &
Idaho Northern railroad, which has
been built from Weiser to Council, will
be continued on either to the Seven
Devils or directly north, with branch
line into the big copper district. Lewis
Hall OF New York, president of
the road and who has furnished all
the money for its construction out of
his own funds, 10 at present in the
Seven Devils looking over the situa-
tion His in Vestigation will determine
the question OF extension. There is an
impression that the Short Line Is now
back OF Mr.. Hall and that the road
will be push I'd ahead to open up all
the rich country to the northward of
the Seven Devils.
Jacob Lewis who was freighter at
Kelton and Corinne in this early sixties,
died at Montpelier, Idaho, last week,
and was buried at Salt Lake. He was
we'll known and esteemed throughout
the inter-mountain country.
There were at the last census be-
tween 300 and 1000 children enumer-
ated In the independent school district
of Boise. The number enumerated has
increased during the last three years
at the rate Of from 200. to 300 pupils Of
school age every year.
State horticulture Inspector Nc
Pherson declares that in short time
he will begin criminal action against
certain orch ardists who have been no.
titled that their trees are infected with
pest, but who have not attempted to
rid their trees of disease.
The contract for grading the entire
line of the Salmon River railroad from
Blackfoot I'd Houston, has been let to
the Utah Construction company
Work on the bridge across the Snake
will be prosecuted with night and day
shifts, until 1t is finished.
George Applegate, soldier stationed
At the Boise barracks, shot Charles
Irwin. ON the Goth inst, the wounded
man being in precarious condition.
Applegate claims Irwin had made
threats against his life, and that the
shooting was done in self-defense.
Namra Is in the throes of an oil ex-
element, IL is little over q month
now since the first discovery was made
In the neigh borhood, and for fully
twenty miles along the Snake river
there Is scarcely a foot of oil land in
sight that has not been taken up.