Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-09-19
ELMORE BULLETIN.
q. n PAYNE MAprI PAyr.
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
1IDAHO STATE NEWS.

heieosoA 'he Welser telephone ez
change will be open for business al
night.
The Chinese Masons of Boise ara I
build handsome new brick lodg,
room
Thirty-fve carloads of sheen wer,
shipped from Ketchum, and three from
HALEY. on the 10th.
Packing prunes has commenced a
Payette and the work will requir
about two weeks time.
Work on the p. & I. N. to the Sever
Devils is progressing rapidly, abou
300 men being at work along the line
The peach crop in the vicinity O
sweet, this year has been phenomena al
peaches averaging two to the pount
being common.
Companies f and Ii of the Twenty
eighth infantry have arrived at Boise
barracks from Vancouver, WASH, ts
take station there.
At . school election held at Caldwel
last week, IS votes were cast, on the
question of free text books, being 7s TO,
and seven against
Payette is to have Rocky Noun
tain Bell telephone exchange, which
will place that town In direct commu.
nication with the outside world.
Between 1,40o and 500 school child.
rem attended the Boise street fair In a
body on the llth, the children being
from thirty-three different rooms of the
city schools.
Recent rains have caused new grass
to start on some ranges, and stock is
generally finding sufficient grazing; in
some instances, late alfalfa is being
used for pasturage.
The thirty-fourth annual session OF
the Idaho grand lodge OF Masons was
held in Boise last week, it being a
most successful meeeing, the attend
ance being very large.
The county commissioners of Wash.
ington county gave the contract to
build steel bridge across the Weiser
river at Weiser to the American Steel
company of New York for SAFES.
A company is being organized for the
purpose of building railroad to run
from Boise to More creek and from
there to Grimes creek, a total distance
of forty miles, most Of the distance ip
the Boise basin.
q. j. Sinsel of Boise has seventy.
three people employed in picking and
packing fruit. On Friday Mr.. Sinsel
started carload for New York, while
this week he will dispatch carload
direct to London,
Corn is ripe in southern sections
where fair crops have been grown
without irrigation; this has been ac.
complished by thin planting and thor
ough cultivation. In western counties
the crop is light.
The corner stone of the Plymouth
Congregational church at New Plv-
mouth was laid Tuesday OF last week.
The structure, which will be brick.
will consist of an auditorium 32x46.
and class room lsx2o.
An indignation meeting was held in
the Opera House at Weiser to protest
against the freedom of speech allowed
anarchists in the United States. ad.
dresses being made by number %
men of local prominence.
While number of Weiser neon,e
were on their way to Middle VALLEY
one night recently on gasoline motor
car, they ran against rope stretched
across the track, tied to cattle guards.
They were going about fifteen miles
an hour, and that no one was hurt was
a miracle.
Idaho postu.asters appointed are: A.
M Eastman, Cameron, Nez Perce
'eounty, vice p. F. Speaker, resigned;
u l. Young, Centerville, Boise county,
vice N II. Young, resigned C. C.
Lauoes' Murray, Sboshone county, vice
minneid Erwin resigned; J. M. Hughes,
r'easant View, Oneida county, vice L.
H. wight, resigned; Thomas Pollock.
follock, Idaho county, vice A. C. Nc
Neill. dead.
mere is report to the effect that
'he Caldwell townsite COMPANY has
reorganized with Robert Noble at the
mead, and b. f, White of Dillon, Mont.
M ayor Sebree of that place and w. r
oeoree as principal owners of the Or
ganization.
people are taking lands in
lately surveyed in Washing
m un1y aud opened for settlement
ona Is largely in the Middle VAL |
.h.. ana is considered first-class
nlsntv as ot good water supply and
Thels-year-old son of @ A e,,
farmer living near Moscow was
playing with powder horn was
placed the small end OF the born I. l ~
mouth and then lighted a MAJ, - "'s
applied it to the powder, the h. na
ng instantly killed. oe
A. L. Sherman of Wei.a, ..,.
francis OF Boise, asking that a
'Arefui outlook be maintained for III
r Un' Charles Sherman, aged IA v..ra
~ ooy left Mountainbome for W.T..