Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-01-16
ELMORE BULLETIN.
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PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
IDAHO STATE NEWS.


her residents.
The new steel bridge over the Weiser
river at Weiser is completed.
Mayor Turner of Pocatello is cam
didate for United States marshal.
Rigid quarantine has eradicated the
epidemic Of diphtheria at Weiser.
The fall of snow throughout the
state this season is far below the aver
age.
Appoint is for United States mar.
shal and district attorney are expected
almost any day now.
1t is claimed that flour is worth SIS
to $40 sack in Thunder Mountain, with
little to sell at any price
There were 132 prisoners IN. the state
penitentiary January /, a net increase
of eleven during December.
Hon. Peter Pence last week sold ten
acres of land without water rights Just
north of Payette for $loo per acre.
A man named Brown, of Meadows, ia
fitting up twenty dogs at that place to
use in taking supplies to Thunder
Mountain.
Pocatello has freed herself from the
hobo nuisance by putting all such vis-
itors to work on the city rock pile for
their board
The great War Eagle or Sinker tun-
a 1va, -
year had reached point 1920 feet
from its mouth.
The monthly report of Warden Arney
shows an expenditure of S3,s19.5a for
maintenance of the state prison for the
month of December
The state board of pardons has de-
MED pardon to Alfred Roberto, an
inmate of the state pepitentiary sent
up from Ada county for four years.
Fine surface showings rave been
disclosed from fifteen to thirty miles
from Thunder Mountain, ana the min
eralized section is supposed to be quite
large.
A new ditch and reservoir, estimated
to cost $3.50. 900, are projected to re-
claim 10000 acres of land on the Oregon
side of the Snake river opposite Weiser
and Payette.
Charles j. Sinsel, formerly county
treasurer of Ada county, was appointed
city clerk of Boise last week by Mayor
Alexander, to fill the vacancy caused
by the removal of ex-Clerk Helfrich.
Idaho is shown in the activity of the
syndicates in securing the claims on
which final proofs have been made,
they being bought up as rapidly as
possible.
Specimens of shale that burn and
pieces of Ignite have been brought to
Weiser from the neighborhood of the
supposed OIL fields near there for sew
eral months past, but no locations of
any kind were made until quite re-
Gently.
The country for a distance of two
miles north of Eaton switch, eight
miles west of Weiser. has been staked
off recently by oil prospectors, and it is
SAID that arrangements are being made
To sink an experimental we'll. The we'll
known mud springs of that locality are
included within the located territory.
The court of claims to which Paul 7
Lehman, who was arbitrarily dismissed
by Surveyor General Perrault in 1897
appealed, has decided that he was inn
salary. The significance of this decis-
ion lies in the fact that judicial tri-
bunal has found that Perrault violated
the civil service rules in dismissing
Lehman.
The Chinese temple at Boise was
dedicated Thursday by elaborate cere-
monies. In the brief space of few
minutes about daylight 7,ooo 900 fire.
crackers were set off, and those living
near the temple were awakened by the
din. During the day as many more
crackers we're burned. Chinese band
of twenty-five pieces discoursed mel
odious Ito Chinese) music.
The Boise Chamber of Commerce and
Mining Exchange has issued folder
advertising Boise as the outfitting point
for Thunder Mountain, showing the To-
cation of this promising camp and the
route from the capital city to the gold
camp.
T. Richardson, who owns some valu-
able properties in the Thunder Noun
tain district, has on exhibition at the
Boise Mining Exchange a specimen
piece of ore taken from his property
thatis reported to go fully So, 900 to
the ton.
The Citizens Canal company has Just
closed a contract with the contracting
firm of Wilkerson 4 Thompson for
widening their canal and its extensions
distance of six miles from the head
gates. located at Boise, work to begin
at an early date.
Senator Shoup and National Com
mftteeman Standrod have departed for
washington. After aequainting Mr..
standrod with members of the national
com mittee from other states, Senator