Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-01-24
ELMORE BULLETIN.
! y PAYER MABEL l. PAVE
1AYHE b PAYNE, Publishsn
IDAHO NEWS.


The report of the insane asylum
board shows improvements to the value
Of $1,000.
Mr. Lewis, publisher of the Capital
at Boise, has started an evening edition
of his paper.
Tuesday, Charles Allen, OF Roswell.
was kicked by horse, breaking his
leg just below the knee.
1t is said that the entire cost to the
state of the Shoshone county insurrec-
tion was abont $50, 900.
The framework for the Boise rail-
way bridge at Nampa is now completed
and will soon be placed in position
Adjutant General Weaver has issued
the commission making J. NJ. Pierce of
Cassia county lieutenant colonel on
Governor Hunts staff.
resolution proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution providing for
the initiative and referendum has been
introduced in the senate
Miss Dorcas J. Harvey of Fort Hall
assistant ma'r IN of the Fort Belnap,
Montana, Indian school.
A bill has been introduced in the
house to repeal the anti-gambling law.
The measure was introduced by Repre-
sentative Davis of Owyhee
1t is confidently expected there will
be large immigration to Camas prai,
rie from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and
Missouri during the coming summer.
The force in the state auditors Office
has figured up and found the total
represented by the issue of licenses re-
Gently made to the counties of she state
to be little over S259, 900
Plumbers working under the Over
land hotel building at Boise, last week,
found a human skull, almost intact
No other bones were near it. Whether
the bones OF an Indian or white man is
unknown.
President Bates, of the Midland Rail.
way, is again in the state Regarding
the road he says work will begin soon
and will be vigorously pushed, new
capital having been enlisted and a new
company formed.
Edward Kelley, who came TO Boise
from Silver City short time ago, was
last week sentenced to three months in
Jail for beating woman. He had re-
Gently served term at Silver City for
the same kind b.u tai ity.
The open winter has led to danger for
the orchards. The fields swarm with
mice that are girdlng the trees in many
places One remedy for the trouble il
to scatter wheat soaked in strychnine
about the trees. Another is to wash
the trees near the ground with solu-
lion of Paris green and lime.
At the South Boise school house
Professor Craig was beaten by several
of his scholars with poker last week
and the school board has commenced
an Investigation. 1t seems the teacher
whipped one Of the boys. He showed
fight, with reinforcements in sight,
when the teacher brandished poker.
The boys took the poker away from
him and beat him with it..
Ex-Treasurer C. A. Hastings of Nez
Perce has remitted all but about 81, BOG
of the money he owes the state. The
balance is expected shortly. The ex.
official was determined not to turn the
money over to his successor, prefer.
ring to remit direct to the state.
A communication was received by
the legislature Monday from the Ore
gon legislature asking the Idaho body
to protest against taking control of the
forest reserves from the interior de-
partment and placing it in the hands
of the agricultural department
The premium list of the Idaho State
Poultry and Pet Stock association has
been issued. giving the premiums to be
hung up at their first exhibition, in
Boise, February 5, and 7. 1t is an
extensive list, showing number Of
good premiums.
Governor Hunt, in replying to an in
quiry whether or not he would permit
the Jeffries-Ruhlin prize fight to be
pulled off in Idaho, said: 1.-The law
prohibiting prize fighting in this state
will be enforced under my administra-
tion."
Members of the legislature, especially
those from the panhandle, have been
receiving letters from some Washing
ton politicians regarding looping off
the northern part OF the state for the
benefit of Washington. Little attenI
tion is given the matter.
Stanley Currie, the inventor of the
chlorine gas process of extraction of
gold from ores, a plant with this hav-
ing been partially installed at the
Iowa mine at Quartzburg, has gone
east for the winter, but will return in
the spring to complete the plant.