Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-11-07
IDAHO STATE NEWS.

the Payette boys in football game
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Henry Wellop, agent for the British
government, shipped i25head of horses
from Payette last week.
The cyanide plant installed at the
Ford mine In Washington county, will
not be started until spring
Four feet of ore going from 500 to
$50 per ton has been opened up in the
Crown Point mine at Dixie.
Work on the hydraulic plant at Blue
Lakes has begun and will be pushed
forward with all possible speed.
large pack outfit left HALEY last
week for Thunder Mountain. 1t was
heavily loaded with supplies for the
great gold camp.
J. w. Pastel and son, of sheridan,
Mich, are entertaining a proposition
from Payette citizens to establish a
sawmil at that place.
John Conyers who met with an acci-
dent while hunting ut Van Wyck sew
eral weeks ago, by being accidentally
shot. will lose his arm.
The work on the new government
building at Boise is progressing very
satisfactorily. The foundat tions are
practically completed.
Five men visited the Chinese garden
ers on the Perkins place, near Weiser,
one night last week, kicking in the
celestial's doors and robbing them of a
sum of money.
Four masked men held up four
Chinese gardeners at Boise last week,
binding their victims and locking them
in the cabin after robbing them of SEES
and two watches.
Ed Market of Bellevue, in ft Of
dependency, shot himself through the
head with rife last week. He left
wife and six children, the oldest be-
ing 16 years of age.
Taking eighty acres as a basis, Fort
Hall Indian reservation will provide
homes for $500 families, and will
double the population of Bannock
county in short time.
Eight men were taken violently ill
at the Weiser smelter last week after
partaking of a can of salmon. A local
physician was called hurriedly and the
victims speedily recovered
Mice p,,th Andaren.. u foer,ar Pnina
girl, was so badly injured in an eleva-
tor at Portland that both legs may
have to be amputated, and grave fears
of blood poisoning are entertained.
DIR. John McBirney, United States
sheep inspector for Idaho, has received
orders to make an official trip TO Europe
10 study the contagious diseases Of ami
mails. His absence will be indefinite
Idahos railroad traffic, both passen-
ger and freight, was never before so
heavy as at present. This year will
be a record breaker, and indicates the
rapid advancement of the business in
terests of the state.
James B. Lattmer, Boise druggist,
while on his wedding trip, to Man.
chester, o., was attacked with appendi-
citis before the train reached Ogden,
and was taken to Salt Lake hospital,
where he was operated upon.
The Soldiers Home at Boise, which
was destroyed by fire several months
since, has been repaired and will soon
be ready for occupancy. 1t is better
building than the old one, having
more room and better conveniences.
-Four prisoners escaped from the
week, by saving hole through the
wall. Two of them were being held
for highway robbery, and two for
grand larceny. They were all recap
tured.
The adoption of the Oklahoma plan
Of allotting the Fort Hall reservation
will be discussed with the Washington
authorities as being the most satisfac-
tory. Making each tract eighty in
stead of 100 acres will also be dis
cussed.
A. T. Thomas OF Boise has returned
from Dawson, where he has been en-
gagged in mining for some time, where
he is operating a dredge. He is of the
opinion mining will be revolutionized
there by the installation of dredging
machinery.
Milsey Reynolds, Boise bartender,
was assaulted by dranken soldier last
week and received injuries that may
result in his death. He seems to be
partially paralyzed and but semi-con-
sc'ons, His assailant is in Jail in de-
fault of $4,000 bonds.
Ahe Salt Lake Tribune says the
Line is exerting every effort to
INTO Gibbonsville and the rich
q Lusry between that place and Mackay
VI possible rival in the North
= acme and that the road will be
np'e'ed next year.
90 - 5. Shepherd, who recently sank a
ooe well on his ranch near weiser,
-, "e water too oily for use for do
'es'lc purposes. As the last 80 feet
oorea was through black slate usually
WIN coal, local people believe a
soal deposit will ba davaIoned