Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-12-26
BULLETIN.
NJ PAYNE MABEL l. PArnE
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
IDAHO STATE NEWS.

the vicinity oi Welser.
The Idaho State Teachers assoca-
tion convenes at Moscow December 81,
for three days session.
A Christian church of twenty-eight
members was organized by Rev. S. G.
Clay at st. Anthony, last week.
The stockholders of the Boise electric
light company have given an option to
the Payett-River company for $50, 900.
A choice piece of Boise business
property sold for $40 front foot last
week. This is the highest price ever
realized for real estate in the state.
Friends of Thnnder Mountain min
Ing camp promise the largest gold
shipment the state has ever known
when the trail breaks up in the spring.
A new vault and cell house for the
Ada county court house are to be built
at cost of Sc, 769, 40. Three steel
cages are to be placed in the cell
house.
Notwithstanding the reported short
age of supplies in the Thunder Noun
tain, prospectors are still going in
though the last part of the trip must
be made on snowshoes.
Adjutant-General Weaver has re-
turned from an inspection of the na-
tional guard companies in Northern
Idaho, and finds every thing in a satis-
factory condition.
News reaches Boise that Colonel W.
H. Dewey is suffering from rheumatism
to such an extent that he will probably
go to Florida or outhern California for
several weeks stay.
James Coakley, the Weiser hotel
man, who was so badly burned recent
ly by an explosion of a gasoline lamp,
is recovering, but will not be able to
transact business for some time.
The Checkmate mine, the famous
producer of Pearl, has been sold to
eastern people represented by Cover
nor Hunt. The mine was owned by
Short Line Railroad officials
The last lot of wool in southwestern
Idaho from the last springs clip was
sold Saturday. 1t embraces 10000
pounds, and belonged to Robert Noble.
The price paid was about 10 cents a
pound.
The Dewey company is working an
upraise in it's Thunder Mountain mine
t.. ..in1 nht To raH
which gives gold values of $l4s per
ton. The ore body is proving to be
extensive.
Contracts for new bridge across
been let, The bridge is to be com
bined wood and iron structure, and the
lowest bid was s19,774 by the Pueblo
Bridge company.
Reports brought out from Thunder
Mountain last week indicate that the
Dewey mill will be started before the
end of the year. 1t was hoped, when
the messenger left, to start the mill
n Christmas day.
Boises $50, 600 issue refunding bonds
have been sold at premium of 81, 900.
The new bonds draw per cent inter-
est, while the old issues replaced by
the new, drew 6 per cent. The inter-
est saving amounts to 5000 annually.
Manuel Peterson, a Moscow farmer.
received an ugly wound in the right
check by the discharge of shotgun
"a
dent, but when neighbors, who were
attracted by the report, reached him
he was engaged in reloading the gun,
and attempted suicide is charged.
A bag of money, supposed to have
been hidden by Rice, the murderer OF
Matt Mailley, who was hanged re-
Gently, was found not long ago by a
number of Italians, working in an
abandoned tunnel at Wallace. The
drinking members of the Italian set.
tlement went on big spree with the
money.
Kate, daughter of L. W. Sabin, wa.
killed in runaway Saturday evening
at Emmett. She drove to town will
her brother, and sat in the buggy hold
ing the reins when he went into stor,
to make some purchases The hors,
became frightened and ran half a mile
The girls clothes caught in a whee
and she was dragged half the distance
She was years old.
D. B. Huntley, manager of the d.
Lamar company's property at ID
n Lamar. has accepted the Management
ofa property at Rhodesia, South Africa
aud with his family has departed fo
the field OF his new labor. He is on
of the best-known mining men in tn
state.
Boise Woodmen of the World ini
tiated 800 new candidates at a specia
meeting last week at the opera house
The initiatory services, which wer
public, was followed by banquet, an,
ball the following evening at tn
Natatorium.
Four young people of Starr, tw,
young men and their girls, were fine,
20 each last week for disturbing ser
vices at the M. Il. Church. The com
paints We're filed by the pastor, VIII,
aau oeen annoyed for months by dis
'uroances during the services.