Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-09
IDAHO NEWS.

A carload of oranges are used in
Boise a week.
A new dormitory is to be built at the
Albion Normal.
The new Bank of Commerce at Wal.
lace is open for business
A ten-stamp mill is to be installed a
the Jumbo mine, Buffalo Hump dis.
trict.
An electric lighting system is under
contemplation for the town of Ken
drick.
Mills are to be erected on the Ozark
and Democrat properties, Pierce City
district.
Plans for the new girls dormitory
at the state university have been
adopted.
Frost on the bench near Boise, last
week, lessened the prospect for nor
NAL prune crop.
The supreme court held, last week,
in north Idaho case, that woman
cannot sue to collect a community
property account
A new cross-cut tunnel has been
started in the Chloride Queen mine at
Wallace. The property has been idle
for number of years.
The price of this years wool clip is
estimated at from IL to 12 cents-about
two cents lower than the average
price paid Utah growers.
Merton limerick, a young man whose
home is at Boise, was shot in the thigh
at Neal last week by revolver which
he was carelessly loading.
Jack Davis has been sentenced to
hang again, but his attorneys are
preparing to take the case to the SUI
preme court on new issues.
More oil discoveries are reported
from near Boise. The exact location
is being kept secret until the discover
ers have all the land they wish.
A civil service examination will be
held at Salt Lake June Is to fill the po-
dian school, at salary of s42o year.
A four foot vein of coal is reported
from Pearl. Tests show 1t to burn
read lily, and to be of fair quality
Money has been secured to exploit the
find.
Boise printers defeated the BARRIERS
in hall rama tha scora hahn oa 4 n 10
The game was stopped at the end OF
the sixth inning, to keep from over
working the score-keeper.
A 2-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs
John Peterson of Troy, died last week
from the effects of swallowing carbolic
acid, which its mother had placed
within its reach while housecleaning.
Owing to a large inflow of water at
depth of fifty feet, work has been
suspended in the Queen mine in the
Seven Devils. AS soon as the water
ran be taken care of, the sinking OF
The shaft will be resumed.
The Frisco mine at Wallace closed
down last week. The shut down Is
due to the demoralized condition OF
mite period. The Frisco employed in
the neigh hborhood of three hundred
men.
Judge w. b. Hepburn has written
Governor Hunt, suggesting that State
recognition of President Mckinley and
his party be given in Kootenai county,
as the presidential party will pass
through the eastern part of the state
at night.
Governor Hunt has appointed e. Fl.
Dewey of Nampa, and George Chill
lingworth. member of the HALEY
miners union, state board of arbitra.
ton. Their duty is TO arbitrate
strikes and labor troubles when called
upon to do so.
President John M. Mcmillan Of the
Idaho Woolgrowers association says
Idaho Sheepmen are not opposed tc
sheep coming in from adjoining states
as they do not pretend to own all the
so'STnuiSub grass, Dub thcJ uo iusiss
that sheep coming into the state shall
be free from disease.
Montpelier business men have
formed company for the purpose OF
constructing a canal from the Bear
river along the foothills east of Mont
pelier to conduct water onto the bench
lands around Bennington. Construc
ton will soon begin.
DIR. ]. j. Plumer, state treasurer has
returned from a short visit to Sal
Lake and Ogden. While away he at
tended shooting tournament given by
the Ogden gun club, and brought bach
As trophy an elegant shotgun, wor
from the Utah marksmen.
The state uni versity will soon com,
into possession of the Sanborn eollec
ton of mineral specimens, the legisla
turs having authorized the payment o
$4,000 for it. Charges recently mad'
that this value is excessive, after in
vsatigation, were not sustained.