Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-02-14
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IDAHO NEWS.

The senate has taken favorable &C.
ton on Moore's divorce bill.
The Idaho State Bar association
held its annual meeting last week.
Wind last week demolished part Of
the superstructure of the new Dunkard
church at Nampa.
There will be three premiums of
$1,000 each hung up All the next state
fair for the three principal races.
There is every prospec. that Idaho
will lead all western states In the
matter of railroad building this year.
The state bar association has ap
pointed a committee to aid the leRis
lature in the preparation OF salts
factory code.
The Buffalo Hump Gold Mining COM
pany, capitalized at 81, ,oo0, 900, has
filed articles of incorporation with the
secretary of state.
Idaho Jonathan apples sold for 81
dozen in Chicago during, the holidays.
The price per box was 81, the commits
sion men charging Sc box for them.
A two-foot ledge of high grade ore
has been discovered at Pearl, by two
prospectors. The ledge has 4-inch
streak bearing values Of over $l1o to
the ton.
Attorney General Martin has rem
dered an opinion, that, in his judg-
ment, an official who rides on pass
Is not entitled under the law passed
two years ago, to collect mileage.
The legislature is to go on a junket.
The Oregon Short Line, Oregon Rail-
way & Navigation company and the
Southern Pacific have rendered a spec
ial train for the solons to visit the
Oregon legislature at Salem.
Peter Shear, an old-timer of Nicho-
liza, was found dead in his stable few
days ago. He was subject to heart
trouble and that was the cause of his
death. He was by profession, smelt-
erman, and had been shift boss at Coll
orado points, Sandy, Utah, and Nicho-
u lilo. Ida.
The bill appropriating s13, 600 for
i improvements for the Albion state nor,
NAL school, passed to third reading in
the House last week, after a heated
discussion, during which it was stated
the school should be abandoned.
There has been talk of an effort to
move ii to Pocat tello
Many boards of commissioners in the
state, before retiring, fixed the salar-
4 les of their successors. Attorney
General Martin in a decision contends
that decision of the state supreme
court annuls the law, and the commits
4 sioners are entitled to s6 per day while
actually engaged in county business.
& An examination of the assessment
roll of all the counties of the state re-
8 veals th,. fact that mines and mining
n improvements are assessed at only q
million and half dollars for 1900. II
is probable that most of the property
is assessed as personal, while a consid.
erable portion may escape taxation
at all.
concerned. was taken last week when
g the state land board closed the deal
with the American Falls Power and
Canal company, which means ulti-
mately the reclamation of tract OF
II about 10000 acres. OF this, 81 900
acres is part ofthe public domain, sub.
q ject to purchase under the provisions
OF the Cary act at SO cents an acre, the
remainder being state lands.
A compromise bill to tax mines has
been introduced in the legislature by
the committee on mining. 1t taxes
Il non-producing patented mines nj s5
per acre, and producing mines at net
proceeds, allowing cost of extraction
and reduction and marketing from
gross proceeds.
Walter LOCUS, who robbed Boise
saloon OF 5000 some three years ago,
using the money to make trip to Ger
B many to see his father. who was in
u feeble health, was last week sentenced
to three years term in the psniten
Il tiary.
q James Dowlen of Silver City, wa.
kicked on the head by horse last
week, the calk of the shoe cutting
q quito deep hole. He was assisting
In getting the horse up at the time oi
the accident, it having fallen. or
the ice,
The first Idaho Poultry and Pet STOCK
exhibition was made at Boise Febru
& ary 5-6-7. The association was organ
ized during the state fair, and made |
II creditable showing. Annual show
will be given, the next one occurring
at Lewiston.
The supreme court last week rem
dered an opinion holding that the con
tracts of the Western Loan & Saving
association of Salt Lake are usurious
and cannot be enforced; that such con
Il tracts can be satisfied by the paymen
OF the principal debt