Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-08-01
ELMORE BULLETIN.
GM PAYNE. MABEL L. PAYNE
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
IDAHO NEWS.

sissipp Congress.
Peaches and cherries shipped from
Lewiston to Duluth this season netted
the shippers 80 cents box.
More grain has been grown in the
southwestern part of the state this
year than in any previous season.
Cantaloupes, the first of the season,
are being shipped from Payette, this
week, and many carloads will soon
follow
Idaho is the irst state TO make an
appropriation for the entertainment of
mining congress held within her
borders
ID. b. Levan. who discovered the
Willow Creek mining district, near
Boise, died at Caldwell last week of
brain fever.
The Utah exhibit at the mining con-
gress was among the finest made from
neighboring states. California also
had fiue display.
Joe Grill, rancher living near
Nampa, was badly injured last week,
sustaining several broken ribs and
other injuries in runaway.
The Lemp canal at Boise has been
sold to eastern parties for 10000
The main canal is ten mites in length
and there are 70 miles Of latcrals
The contract for rebuilding the
Soldiers Home has been let to Bryan
q Hilton of Boise, for Sl0,766 The
highest bid was Sl3,99o, and only one
was below Sill, 900.
company including Governor Hunt,
General Weaver, Judges Richards and
Quarles, has been organized to develop
water supply in Stanley Basin to
work the placer mines,
Mining experts who have been to
the Thunder Mountain district regard
it as one of extreme richness. The
district is l04 miles from Boise, and is
best reached by pack mules.
President Prince of the mining con-
gress was presented with a gavel made
from mountain mahogany from
Owyhee county, with bands of silver
from the famous Trade Dollar mine.
Christ. Hendrieksen of Payette, was
taken to Salt Lake last week to be
treated for bloodpoisoning which was
caused by his having smoked bad ci-
gar when he had a bad sore on his lip.
An Episcopal Mission is to be es-
tablished at the Lemh Indian agency,
Miss Ellen &. Stocldell, formerly vocal
instructor at st. Margarets College at
Boise, will have charge of the mission.
There were SOL manufacturing es-
Establishments reported for Idaho in
1900, employing an average of 1477
wage-earners and paying S752, ,oss in
wages, according to bulletin issued
by the census office.
Commissioner Rice says Idaho's
horticultural exhibit at the Pan Amer
lean exposition is the best of that class
on the ground, The agricultural dis
play is also superior to that of any
other state, and Immigration will
result.
Edgar and Parley Dalrymple, sons
] of Mr.. and Mrs. eliza Dalrymple of
Montpelier, were drowned in the Bear
river Thursday. Farley, aged II, got
beyond his depth and Edgar, aged 20,
went to his aid, both going down in
the struggle.
Men returning from Thunder noun
toin are reporting many very rich
strikes in that district. These are dis
tributed throughout the basin some
thirty-five miles in diameter, and they
indicate that it is one of the richest
parts of the state
Professor John c. Muerman of Mos
COW, ex-president of the state teachers
association and leader in educational
affairs, has decided to go to the Phil
lppines, accepting position there in
the school system which the govern
ment is establishing.
Boise county is one of the greatest in
the northwest, or the world, so far as
mines are concerned Since the dis
covery of the Boise Basin, which en-
braces only small portion of the
country it has produced more than
800, 600, 900 in gold
Leigh and Louis Mickey, aged Is and
{ o sons OF farmer living three miles
oh BOISE, were drowned in the Ri
zen oangh canal last week. While
crossing the canal ON narrow plank
''e younger one fell into the water
ana the Older one went to his rescue.
One of the first cabins mil. - po;sa
was erected by George A. Barry who
died at Park City, Utah, last veal
He went TO California in 1s,o Ia,a.
drifted to Idaho where he remaina
several years, but had resided in parl,
city the past twenty seven years.
Mrs. Wilmoth, Is year old wiz
attempted suicide at bellevue las,
week, by shooting She shot herself
twice with a 2s-ealibre rifle, both balls
passing through her body, but seems
- oe recovering. The Wilmoths re-
'en'iy came from Oregon.