Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-06
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IDAHO STATE NEWS.

at Meridian during the recent storms.
HALEY has been experiencing some
cold weather, the thermometer regis
tering 20 degrees below zero one day
last week.
Boise has been experiencing trouble
with electric lights recently, an ice
jam In the canal causing the streets to
remain In darkness.
The Caldwell council is considering
proposition for the erection of an
So0-light capacity electric light plant,
local parties having asked for fran
chise.
Boise parties were in Weiser last
week endeavoring to secure lease on
5,000-acre tract of land, on which
they propose to sink three test wells
for oil, gas or coal.
Frank Stickier, placer miner, aged
so years, residing at Warren, on the
trail to Thunder Mountain, is reported
missing and 1t is feared that he has
perished in the snow.
Governor Hunt has appointed Daniel
Needham OF Lewiston a trustee of the
Lewiston State normal school, vice
James w. Reid, deceased, Mr.. Need
ham is an attorney at Lewiston.
The residence of A. G. Floyd at HALEY
was destroyed by fire last week, the
loss being about $4,000. The water
mains were frozen up and the fire de-
partmeEt could render no assistance.
Sheriff Thorp of Caldwell and the
chief of police OF Weiser are searching
for Ollie Hunt, the individual who is
alleged to have passed fraudulent
checks on certain merchants in Cald-
well.
The Idaho Springs Mining company
Of Idaho county has filed articles OF
incorporation, the capital stock being
placed at $4,000, ,uaQ. This is one Of the
largest incorporations ever filed In the
state. @s
Mr.. Dubois has laid petition before
the senate asking for an appropriation
of $40, 900 to develop the artesian wells
In Camas prairie. The petition was
signed by Governor Hunt and other
state officials.
Jesse G. Fleharty, telegraph editor
of the Boise Statesman was attacked
and robbed by footpaus on the 27th,
he being struck terrible blow ON the
head with brick, causing injuries
which may prove fatal.
The present cold snap is being taken
advantage of by Warden Arney of the
penitentiary to pnt up a large supply
OF ice. A force of prisoners has been
on the work for several days and has
harvested about 300 tons.
The three days session of the county
assessors held at Boise last week, is
regarded as a success beyond expecta-
tons. and that their deliberations will
result in great amount of good to the
state during the coming year.
The Caldwell council has adopted
the plans and specifications submitted
by r. M. Faris of Boise for the water
works system and it has been ordered
that bids for contracts for the con-
strnction of the water works be opened
February 49,
Henry Meeks has been sentenced to
twelve years imprisonment for escap-
Ing from the penitentiary. He ID the
Montpelier bank robber who was
A.
whose sentence was recently reduced
to twelve years.
A tramp met with bad accident
while walking along the railroad track
near old's Ferry, when he fell and
broke his leg and was compelled to lie
alongside the track all night, he being
discovered the next morning in an al
most lifeless condition by the train
crew.
Two hundred Nez Pence Indians en-
gagged in a tribal dance near Lewiston
last week, the result of council called
for the purpose of discussing the pro-
posed abandonment of the Lapwai
agency and other matters delega-
tion of Indians has been appointed to
60 to Washington TO make their wishes
known.
Carmoroqui, fnll-blooded Indian of
the Lembi tribe, sent up for three
years from Custer county on charge
OF cattle stealing, has been paroled
from the penitentiary. Carmoroqui is
% years Of age and his term expires
April 7, 1893.
Inc Following Idaho postmasters
have recently been confirmed: Mullan,
Eiia A. Wade; coeur d'Alene, David f.
Mason, reappointed; st. Anthony, M.
s.eray, reappointed; Wardner, Aaron
:. Frost, reapponted; Salmon, Fred g.
haEeman; Rexburg, Dora clegg.
State Auditor Jones has sent out n
circular letter to all the sberiffs In the
e, hotlfying them of the supreme
courts decision relative TO the legality
y she bankers license law. and that
saeh county will be held responsible
Aor the collection of these licenses.
Inc county attorneys of the state
iast week effected an organization.
'ohn Migent Of Owyhee being chosen
president and Karl Paine OF Boise. Sec
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