Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-04-25
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Clearwater county is to be tested in
the courts.
Indications for a heavy yield OF
peaches in Boise valley are fatterinp.
1t is seldom that two good seasons
come together.
Colonel Dewey will build in Nampa
two large wool warehouses. Work on
one will be commenced at once. 1t will
be 100x240 feet in dimensions
The band of sheep quarantined near
Malad, belonging to President Smith
Of the Utah association, have been ad-
mitted as they were found to be free
from scab.
The Boise Knights of Pythias will
build a three-story lodge building,
brick and stone, with tifty-foot 'front.'
age. 1t will be especially equipped
for lodge purposes.
Nampa's image of woman, found
by NJ. A. Kurtz in 1889, while boring
well, at a depth of 800 feet below the
surface, will be exhibited at the Pan
American exposition.
Gem was the scene of much excite
ment the morning of the 18th, through
an attempt to shoot down Deputy
Sheriff Hicks in broad daylight, by a
man in an upper story of "a building.
The new town of Landore, in the
Seven Devils, is expecting boom this
season. Ore reduction works, machine
shops, brewery, bank and newspaper
are among the good things expected.
Patrick Rogers and BENJAMIN Smith
have been arrested at Mullan on sus.
picion of being in the party which
fired on Deputy Sheriffs Rose and Will
liams recently. Both are now in Jail
there.
AT the international Mining con-
gress, one of the chief topics of discus
sion will undoubtedly be the securing
of better representation for the min
Ing industry at the seat Of the federal
government.
Reports from several points indicate
that this years wool clip is of finer
grade than for several years The
wools are lighter and better grown.
The total clip is expected to show a
satisfactory increase over last year.
A saloon kept by Charles Rover at
Post Falls was wrecked during the
night of Thursday last by unknown
parties. At the recent election the
saloons were closed, and it is alleged
Rover was secretly operating There
has been friction between the factions
for several years.
An eighteen-foot ore body, says the
Lewiston Tribune, has been encoun-
tered in the tunnel of the Mckinley
mine in the Simpson district at a depth
Of 300 feet. Much of the ore carries
gold visible to the naked eye, while
the average of the eighteen feet shows
remarkably high values.
In the district court at Lewiston a
divorce was recently granted to full
blood Nez Perce Indian couple. The
woman was the former wife of Chief
Lawyer, who negotiated the treaty
which opened the reservation, and the
man was Samuel Tilden, named after
the famous New Yorker.
The New York canal at Boise, is the
basis of a new lighting and power
company projected for Boise. A site
for power house has been secured
bear the canal, and across the river
from the city, which will afford fall
OF l25 feet, and water will be piped
from the canal to the power house to
drive the generating machinery.
The Boise Statesman says the Big
Thunder mountain deal, whereby Col
onel w. II. Dewey pays 800, 900 for the
property of the Caswell brothers, is
about to be consumated. Reports
from the property indicate that it is
another Treadwell or Homestake, be-
ing apparently almost a mountain of
porphyritic material, going as high as
$50 per ton in gold.
Under a law passed at the recent
session Of the legislature the Guarantee
little & Trust company has been organ
lied in Boise The capital stock of the
corporation is S250,o0o and its op-
erations will extend all over the
state.
Captain Arrasmith the new COM
mander at Boise barracks, is an old
eampaigner, having seen service in
campaigns against the Indians and
having taken an active part in the
warfare in Cuba and in the Philip
pines.
An effort is being made to secure
pardon for Henry Meeks, convicted
some three years ago of completely in
The robbery of a Montpelier bank in
1886. There is a question as to his
guilt, and his petition is largely
signed,