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

holding street fair and carnival this
fall.
patent for an automatic ore sam
pier has been granted to George d
Potter OF Wallace.
The freight from Chicago to Boise on
ten-stamp mill destined for Thunder
Mountain was $47o, and from there on
s2,75o.
The assessment roll for 1901 shows
valuation of 1913, ASS for Ada county,
of which 81, 443, $50 is realty, and ST..
2e0,125 is personal.
Gold has been found while boring
for oil on the Snake river near Nam
pa, and the indications are that there
is large gold-bearing deposit in that
section.
The construction contract for the
extension of the p. & |. n. from
Council to Landore. in the Seven Dew
lis has been signed. The extension
will cost 81, 900, 900.
Notwithstanding there will be no
state fair this year, the directors are
going ahead and making arrange
ments for enlarged grounds in antici-
patton Of next years exhibition.
With the advertising Idaho is get
ting by reason of produce shipped to
the drought stricken district, the state
should receive heavy immigration of
class that will be most beneficial
r. Eckstein, a Weiser cigar-maker,
committed suicide the Goth by placing
the muzzle of revolver in his mouth
and pulling the trigger He owed $500
and was being crowded for the money.
A water case involving every con-
sumner of water from the Big Lost
river, involving over 300 claimants, has
been filled at Houston. 1t is the biggest
water case ever before the courts of
the state.
In run of eight days three men
took about $1s, 900 from placer claim
on Colonel Dewey's Thunder Mountain
property. They gathered snow water
arrived in Boise with it last week.
The average acreage of wheat in
Idaho for the past ten years is 103, ,s6s,
with yield of 2.366, o95 bushels, or
1913 bushels per acre. The average
value Of the wheat crop for the past
ten years is s1,34s, 724.
State Prison Warden c. E. Arney has
been visiting the state prisons of
neighboring states, studying the sys-
TENS of management and arrange
ment of prison plants, with view to
utilizing the best features in the Idaho
institution.
Information has been received at
Boise of the drowning in Portland re-
Gently, OF the youngest son of Rev. j,
V. Milligan, who was pastor of the
First Presby yterian church at Boise
a few years ago, from where he went
to Portland.
w. 7. Green was shot aud killed by
Constable Nevins, at a ranch six miles
from Weiser. the Goth. The officer
had warrant for Green's arrest, but
was fired on as soon as he appeared.
The officer returned the shot, killing
Green instantly.
A log drive containing 5000, 600 feet
of lumber came down the Boise river
recently, the passage of which neces-
sitatek the removal of the Riden baugh
canal dam, causing a temporary scar
city of water to farmers between
Nampa and Boise.
At ranch near Paris, last week, a
half-breed Indian named Stugo, was
shot and killed By John Stott. The
Indian attacked Stott with pitchfork
and the latter fred in self defence,
to save his own life.
State Insurance Commissioner P. NJ.
Davis, has filed report for the first
three months Of the operation of the
new insurance law. 1t shows the total
collections of the Office to be $40, ,763 13
for the quarter. Very satisfactory,
says Commissioner Davis.
A government expert has been maxi
ing an investigation of the section of
the Snake river bottoms embraced in
the recent oil excitement. He is said
70 De making very thorough investi-
ganon, but preserves dignifed ST.
renee regarding his labors.
large number of samples taken
-" ooi' Dewey's Thunder Mountain
nine' each representing a surface ten
sauare, show value of over So to
the ton' while IL is claimed. owing to
the size Of the ledge, that the ore can
De mined and milled for 81 a ton.
Ex-seeriff Rosen. OF Nez perce
county, has turned into the treasury
s466, being the amount rece,ved h.
him for 1899 and 1900 for bo.-d,r,.
federal prisoners, less the aetna, .r
penses of the food used. Suit vas "a
Gently brought against him for 81 ooo
Boise dispatch says this necessarv
financial backing has been secured for
the Twin Falls canal project, and that
actual work will soon begin. The
land to be reclaimed amounts to 25o.-
200 acres and has been segregated un.
der the Carey act.