Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-11-21
ELMORE BULLETIN.
q. NJ PAYNE MABEL L. PAYNE
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
IDAHO STATE NEWS.

Company f, Idaho National Guard,
was organized at Boise last week.
The number of enlisted men sent
from the Boise barracks to the Philip
pines is 2o6.
The Dewey road has reached Middle
ton, the bridge across the river having
been completed.
Frank Murphy, brother-in-law of
Governor Hunt. was elected governor
Of New Jersey at the recent election.
The Odd Fellows of Middleton have
just completed two-story frame lodge
building, ssxso feet, at a cost of 5000.
The Idaho Brewing company has
established a branch house at Weiser,
where it will put in cold storage
plant.
The Caldwell Milling company has
been incorporated, and will engage in
general milling and commission bus
mess in millstuffs.
A. Mcpherson of Boise has purchased
almost the entire dried prune crop of
the state, and has disposed of most of
1t to merchants of the state.
Charles Grimm was accidently shot
by Herman Besch while hunting deer
near Orc Fipo last week. The wound
is not considered dangerous.
Robert Schleisher Lewiston wine
maker, was awarded twentieth place
at the Pan American Exposition, in a
contest embracing 600 entries.
lillian Thurston, young man en-
ployed on the steamer Michigan on the
st. Joe river, fell overheard Thursday
of last week and was drowned.
Silver City will be lighted by elec-
tricity as soon as the old electric plant
can be overhauled. Current will be
furnished by the Swan Falls plant.
The Idaho Wool Growers Association
has decided to test the validity of the
two-mile limit law, taking it to the
highest court in the land If necessary.
About sixty men will winter in the
Thunder Mountain mining district,
most of whom are employed in devel-
opment work by the Dewey syndicate.
The survey for the Idaho Northern
from Conciul to Landore, distance of
forty-fv miles, has been completed.
There is very little heavy grading on
the line of the survey.
Preliminary steps toward the organi-
zation of the Touring mills of Utah and
southern Idaho, IL is said, have been
taken. The required capital will be
more than a million dollars.
Paul DAILY, one-armed sheep herder,
shot Leonard Wilson, another herder,
through the lungs during quarrel at
Three Creeks, 0wyhee county, last
week. Wilson's condition is serious.
There is wonderful piece of ore
from Thunder Mountain at the First
National bank, Boise. 1t weighs about
100 pounds and is so valuable that it is
placed in the vault at night for safe
keeping.
II Thunder Mountain proves to be
as great as at present estimated, the
Short Line ma: build down the Salmon
river from Salmon City into that
coutry instead of from some southern
point, is the latest rumor.
The sheepherder, Paul DAILY, who
shot Leonard Wilson in Owybee
county, and threatened others, was
arrested, and was found dead from
poison taken with suicidal intent, the
day after the shooting.
A contract has been let for the build
Ing of fume across Henry creek, in
Boise county, to convey water to the
placer mines between Siskiyou and
Fort gulches. The Hume is to be 95
feet high and 900 feet long.
Arrangements have been made to
open up coal mine fourteen miles
from Emmett. Not later than Decem.
Der /, good coal will be furnished at
the mine for So per ton, and it is ex-
pected this price will be reduced as
soon as development increases the out
put.
Eugene Klein, timekeeper for the
Standard mine at Mace, was deliber-
ately murdered in the company's office
Monday of last week by G. e. Shuff, u
miner, who was dissatisfied with his
pay check. Shuff fed to the mountains
but was followed by miners and cap
tured.
The Oregon Short Line has decided
:" use the various agencies in its
power to exploit the Thunder Noun
.'.n district. 1t will show its good
oy the building there as soon as
ieaslole route can be determined.
n0rai Manager Bancroft has turned
W 'eneral Passenger Agent Bur-
'he work of securing the general
information needed before sending a
corps of surveyors into the field.
one remarkable quartz discoveries
are reported from Marshall Lake
specimens of white quartz from there
aave reached Boise which are literally
iuii OF wire gold, and carry an esti-
mated value of $780, 600 to the ton.
Idaho Jared exceedingly we'll In the
matter of awards at the Pan-American
exposition, being awarded gold medals