Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-02-21
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zuo-looe iCNCi VI VIC Ddlsy mine IN tne
Neal district, twenty miles from Boise.
Caldwell is to have $40, 900 hotel.
Banker Sebree takes $4,000 of the
stock, other citizens furnishing tho re.
naming $1,000.
Senator Stephens of Idaho county,
who was compelled to go home early in
the session on account of sickness, Is
recovering and will soon be at his post.
ID The first annual session of the grand
lodge of Modern Woodmen of America
I'd jurisniction of Idaho, was in session at
Boise last week The next session will
be held at Lewiston.
q If Senator Donnelly's bill providing
b for the establishment of libraries be.
comes law, no city, village or hamlet
in the state need be without as fine a
Il library as they wish to maintain.
II The first measure passed by the pres
II ent legislature to become alaw, except
the legislative appropriation bills, was
the bill providing for the publication
n OF the decisions of the supreme court.
The legislature adjourned the 18th,
the ninety-seventh anniversary of
Abraham Lincoln's birth, as the reso-
luton recited, "to honor the greatest
president the United States ever had"
Z. A. Greene, representing New York
capitalists, is in the state investigating
the Midland railway project. He is an
old railroad man, and if he says the
road will pay, money to build it will
be forthcoming.
The state board of dental examiners
are urging an amendment to the pres
ent law, which will empower the board
to revoke certificates of dentists guilty
Of unprofessional conduct, drunken
ness, or other bad habits.
The bill to create the new county of
Clearwater from Idaho county, will
probably pass. Conflicting interests
have been harmonized by omitting the
Nez Perce City section and taking in
the Big Potlatch Prairie.
a
proclamation prohibiting the shipping
or driving into the state of sheep from
Cache and Box Elder counties, Utah, or
Elko county, Nevada, for a period of
ninety days, The object sought is to
prevent sheep affected with scab from
coming in.
On Thursday oflast week nan with
load of hides ferried the Snake river
at Montgomery's ferry and then stop
ped there for the night. The next
morning one of his horses was missing
and he started out bareback on the
other to find it. He has not been seen
or heard of since.
The eight hour bill passed by the
house makes it misdemeanor for any
one to work in a mine or smelter for
more than eight consecutive hours lex
cept in cases of emergency or for any
employer to permit anyone to work for
alonger time, under penalty of from
$50 to $500 fine, or imprisonment for
not more than six months, or both.
Thomas Doherty, of Joliet, ILL.,, lost
his life at the Swan Fall dam on the
Soake river Thursday of last week.
He was assistant hydraulic engineer,
assisting in the work of installing the
plant at the dam. He had been aiding
In launching one of the cribs with
which the main current Is being stop
ped. In some manner he made mis-
step and plunged into the rapids, not
being seen again.
most important strike has been
made in the Checkmate mine at Pearl.
For some time drift has been driving
to tap the vein on the 30o-level, which
has opened up the vein larger and
richer than ever. 1t tends to demon
strate the psrmanency of the vein, and
encourages the entire camp.
Goodings bounty bill for destruction
of wild animals provides for the pay
ment of 81. so each for the scalps OF
coyotes, wild cats and lynx, S5 each on
cougars, bears and timber wolves. To
pay the bounty sheep are to be taxed
cent head, which it is estimated
will raise yearly revenue Of $4,000.
Articles of incorporation Of the New
York Canal Extension company have
been filed, with a capitalization OF
5000, 900. 1t is the intention to extend
the New York canal, near Boise. to the
Snake, and reclaim a large section OF
land.
G. w. Bacon, Boise blacksmith, and
aman named Hoxie, of Nyssa, Oregon,
had fight at Nyssa last week, during
which Bacon was struck over the head
with light doubletree. Bacon was
taken to a Boise hospital. where he
died Monday.
band of daring thieves sold .
Weiser horse buyer carload of horses,
TO be delivered at Huntington. When
delivered 1t was found that every one
OF the animals had been stolen from
near Wsiser. The thieves escaped.