Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-11-14
ELM0RE BULLETIN.
@. NJ PAYNE MABEL L. PAYNE
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
IDAHO NEWS.
The penitentiary has 1872 inmates

Chrlstlanlty.
The penitentiory has been equipped
with an electric light plant of the
most modern pattern.
Part of the troops stationed at Boise
barracks, companies D and 4, will sail
for the Philippines in December.
Fire, caused by defective hue, al
most destroyed the residence of e. j.
Jeffries, near Payette, last week.
At Moscow the football game be-
tween the Oregon eleven and the Uni
versity of Idaho resulted in tie,
neither side scoring
During the past month 7,5o5 acres of
land have been filed on and entered at
the Boise land office. 1t is divided
among forty-nine persons.
Mickey Reynolds, the Boise bar
tender who was assaulted by drunken
soldier from the barracks, died of his
injuries, and the soldier is held with
out bail.
The Idaho Wool Growers association
will hold special meeting in Boise
this week to discuss the shoddy goods
bill and the two-mile limit law passed
by the last legislature.
Work is progressing favorably on
what is known as the Railroad mine,
sixteen miles from Cambridge, Wash
ington county. Oregon Short Line
railroad employees own the property.
The bondsmen of ex Sheriff Pease of
Kootenai county have agreed to pay
$1,000 in payment of an original short
age of S400 Pease disappeared in 1898,
while sheriff, and has never since been
seen.
John w. Preslet,a Michigan lumber
man, will install large sawmill at
Emmett. 1t will have capacity of
$4,000 feet per day. A planer and box
factory will be established in ccnnec-
tion with the mill
Much excitement attended recent
attempt at lot jumping at Harrison.
Benjamin Thompson leveled cooked
rifle at C. A. Packer, who in turn
knocked him down and fight ensued,
neither being seriously injured.
Matthew Kinkaid an inmate of the
Soldiers Home, dropped dead Monday
Of last week while engaged in carry
ing coal. He was hale and apparently
hearty. He was member of the First
Kansas artillery during the war.
George playhouse, OF Boise, picked
gallon of nice, ripe raspberries from
his vines the third of this month. The
fruit was perfectly ripened and of ex-
cellent flavor. The only care taken of
the fruit was to protect it few cold
nights.
Bartlett Sinclair, ex-state auditor,
has been appointed treasurer of the
province of Risal and Morong, island
OF Luzon, with headquarters at Pasig,
eight miles from Manila. The appoint
ment was made by Governor Taft a
few days after Mr.. Sinclair's arrival in
the islands
The St. Maries mine at Pearl was
entered at night on two occasions last
week by parties who maliciously set
off charges of dynamite, wrecking
the shaft house and blowing out a set
of timbers. The damage Is quite
heavy. The mine was jumped several
years ago, but no contest was ever
begun.
After preliminary examination
lasting week, George Levy was held
without bail for the murder of Davis
Levy, Boise capitalists, on October 3.
The accused, brothel keeper, had
quarreled with the murdered man, and
at the instigation of the latter had
been ordered out of town, and the
Prosecution believes revenge prompted
the murder.
rich oil strike is reported by the
Paraffine company on the Snake river.
Oil was discovered in good quantities
at depth of 3i0 feet The location of
the And is at the old Hayes ranch.
The strike has caused considerable ex.
element.
Although the bond does not expire
Tor more than year yet. Colonel
Dewey and associates last week paid
oaswell brothers, the discoverers OF
eae mineral wealth Of Thunder Noun.
IAN the Anal payment of $4,000 for
u their propertv
colonel Dewey aud associates have
Y NJ n'racted for lOo-stamp mill for tho
uuer Mountain mine which they
n1y acquired from the Caswell
'o'ners. The mill will be one of the
equipped in the west, and it is to
DC delivered by May S.
u. b. Huntley, an experienced miner
DeLamar, has been chosen manager
VI the Consolidated Gold Fields com
pahy S mines at Witwatersrand. South
iiea' at a salary of $4,000 year
ne VIII leave shortly to assume man
asement of the property.
Examination OF the steel through
which the prisoners cut to escape from
me canyon county Jail indicates that
sne county was defrauded. The cage
vas sold to be Chrome chilled steel
burglar proof, but it seems that Ii can
oe cut with a pocketlxnifa