Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-02-28
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Inc Sneepmen OF Franklin are feed
ing sugar beets which were raised
there a. an experiment last season.
Mrs. J. G. Mcdonald fell ON \ slip
perry sidewalk at Boise Friday, striking
on her head, inficting a very painful
wound.
A Washington special to the Salt
Lake Tribune says Senator Shoup is
being considered for the position of
assistant secretary Of war.
George viles, half breed Indian, at
Spaulding last week, while drunk shot
Frenchman, name unknown, inflict-
ing an ugly but not dangerous wound.
Extensive improvements is on the River
side canal, near Caldwell, are projected
which will increase its capacity. The
improvements, when completed, will
have cost $25, ,ooo
Herman Fifrig, Matchmaker, shot
and killed himself in the rear of a sa-
loon in Tacoma Sunday. Whisky and
gambling were the causes. He leaves
widow and four children.
Ah Fong, Chinese doctor of Boise,
sued the state board of medical ex-
aminers for a license to practice, which
was denied him, and won his case, the
medical board being ordered to issue
him certificate
Application was made to the superior
court, New Whatcom, Wash, by the
First National bank Of Seattle for the
appointment of a receiver for the Puget
Sound Packing company. Henry New
ton was appointed temporary receiver.
Col. Robert Pollock, u S. A. (retired),
died Sunday at Cornelius, Washington
county, Oregon, in his send year. He
was vetera of the Mexican and Civi
wars and engaged in many Indian cam
,paigns in the west.
A decree of divorce granted to Ruben
Weiser against Lavina Weiser at Boise
several months ago was set aside by
Judge Stewart at Boise last week, on
the ground that it was fraudulently
secured. Weiser has since married,
and finds himself the possessor of two
wives.
John Rasmussen was found dead in
his cabin neor the Haley Hot Springs
last week. A coroners jury returned
a verdict of death from heart failure
superinduced by excessive use of alco-
hol. A brother of the deceased died in
the same cabin four years ago in the
same manner.
Regarding sugar beet culture in
eastern Idaho, Bishop L. L. Hatch of
Franklin says: | am prone to believe
the best sugar industry is going to be-
come one of the greatest Importance In
southern Idaho. We raise beet there
which is eqal to any of whatever other
section. There is always a very good
profit In the industry. Last year
made an experiment on some land l
own, and at the end of the season,
found had paid all expenses of rails
ing the beets and had clear profit of
$40 per acre
The rain and wet snow last week
caused numerous snow slides, and Della
mountain, southwest OF HALEY, 10 rib
bed with places where slides have come
down. Four or Ave small
slides started at the top of the noun
tain and converged until, about the
middle of their rushing, precipitous
descent, they merged into one wild and
roaring mass of snow and Ice and
plunged hesdlong into the bed of Wood
river. The great mass of tightly
packed snow made an effectual dam
and the river was banked up for
quarter of a mile before, by its slow
tunnsling, a small rift was made and
the waters worked their way
through until the slide stands a natu-
raj bridge from forty to sevsnty-hve
feet high and 100 feet wide, com mpletely
spanning the river and as safe to cross
as any bridge of wood or iron.
James Graham was seriously injured
BY an accident at the Last Chance mine
ut Quartzburg. Graham was working
In the bottom of the shaft when stuu
slipped on top and fell down the shaft,
his left arm and badly bruis-
ing his head.
Governor Hunt last week received q
letter from Congressman Wilson enclos-
ing q communication from Bingsr Her
man, commissioner of the general land
ofice, announcing abandonment of the
scheme to establish national park at
shoshone Falls.
Work os the Thatcher canal In Gem
tile valley, eastern Bannock county,
will soon begin. The canal will be 90
miles long, carrying n stream 315 feet
ieep and Is feet wide at the bottom.
Il will take two years to complete the
itch at cost of $50, 900.
The free delivery service at Weiser
8 growing. More mail matter is re-
'eived and dispatched since the service
vas established than before, the In
'rease being marked. As high as 3Us
'ieces Of mail matter per day have bean
l&nt ~ . asz 70. s.t.