Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-16
ELMORE BULLETIN.
a NJ PAYNE MABEL L. PAYN
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
Terms of Subscriptioa:
IDAHO NEWS.

City, has been let.
number of oil filings have been
made on lands around the Kelley Hot
Springs, near Boise.
Walter S. Ship. of Visalia, Califor-
mia, has been appointed clerk in the
Boise land office, at a salary of 5000 a
year.
The Boise chamber of commerce is
steadily growing, eighteen certificates
to new members being issued one day
last week.
Over 100 delegates attended the third
annual convention of the Ada County
! Sunday School association, held last
week in Boise.
Peter Strehle is laid up at Boise with
an arm broken in three places and
fractured rib, sustained while hobbling
vicious horse
A shipment of very rich Couer d'Alene
ore was forwarded last week to the
PanAmercan exposition to be added
TO the Idaho exhibit.
An attempt will be made to procure
pardon for "Diamond6eld Jack
Davis, as well as to take the case be.
fore the supreme court.
For maintenance of the penitentiary
during the month of April S2904 35 wa,
expended. There were 124 prisoners
at the end of the month
George McGowan of Silver City, has
begun the serving of a six months
sentence in the penitentiary for cut
ting a man with IA knife at Silver City
last summer.
A little over $500 was turned into the
state treasury last week by Insurance
Commissioner Davis, this being tho 2
per cent tax on the net receipts of the
companies who have up to date for
warded their cash.
The last spike on the Swan Falls
dam was driven at 630 p. m. the 7th.
Although the machinery has been in
operation for several weeks, more than
125 men have been employed ever
Since III the WOTk.
Governor and Mrs. Hunt are in the
east, visiting the Pan-American expo.
sition, making critical examination
of display of the resources of the
state After visiting several eastern
cities, they will return about the first
of June.
Fra Il r1nG nj RNtQ
boy, picked up a small dynamite
cartridge on the street, and being ig-
norant of it's character carried 1t
home, where it exploded in his hands,
causing him the loss of thumb and
three fingers.
A New York dispatch says all the
silver and lead mines in the Occur d
Alenes are to be joined in a consolida-
agement. The consolidation promises
TO make the regulation of the lead
market an easier task.
Walter Paxton, Boise man, last
October loaned miner $50, and was
later given fourth interest in the
Mammoth mine at Atlanta to cancel
the debt. The property was sold last
week and brought a return of So, loo
for the 500 investment.
The Idaho Crude Oil Co., limited,
has filed it's articles OF incorporation
at Boise 1t is capitalized at $500, oo(
with shares of the par value of s.
each. 1t owns the Newell well and
large tract of land surrounding it.
which will be developed.
The United States has brought suit
against NJ H. Good win, a Boise lum
herman, for SlOs, ,s14.21, the value o
timber it is alleged the defendant un
lawfully cut from government land
from 1892 to 1901. The government
wants pay for 6,7l3, ,3ss feet.
An impressive display of the minera
resources of the state is being ar
ranged for the mining congress, whicl
meets at Boise in July. The display
will be made on the second floor of tn
Natatorium and the enterpiece will be
pyramid . 7x24x94 feet
M. Brockway, desperate who ha
served two terms in the pen, entere'
home of Half Moon, near Cul de Sac
last week, intimidated three Indian
and white man who were on tn
premises, took 5000 and 400 elk teet
valued at $500, and escaped.
w. j. Stoddard, formerly postmaste
at DeLamar, has been arrested on a
old charge of appropriating posta
money The shortage had been mad
up by his bondsmen and IL was though
the case would not be pressed. Stod
dard is out on SO, 600 bond.
Robert Harris was drowned in tn
Snake at Riverside last week, Will
fishing for sturgeon with net. hi
foot became tangled in the net, drag
ging him overheard, Ca psizins the boa
A companion was rescued. Harris
home was at Arcadia, Oregon.