Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-05-15
ELMORE BULLETIN.
. u RAYuA AA1R. L. PAYua
PAYIE & PAYNE, PublhAsu.
IDAHO STATE NEWS.

A brass band is being organized at
Caldwell.
Some talk is INDUCED In that Weiser
will organize base ball club and en-
deavor to get into the Boise league.
The new sawmill which is to be es- |
tablished at Emmett will be capable Of
turning out 10000 feet of lumber per
day.
The number Of prisoners now In the
state penitentiary is 122. During the
past month five were received and
eleven discharged.
Walter Percy came near being killed
at Boise last week by horse falling
upon him, when he received severe in
juries about the spine.
The four-club base ball league is
making hit with the Idaho fans. and
the boys are putting up an article Of
ball equal to professional teams.
A sheep man has been exhibiting
freak sheep in HALEY for two or three
DAYS. The sheep has horn about IL
inches long growing from its nose.
It is said that $500 of the 81 200
needed to run a telephone line from
Meadows to Council has been secured
and stock company is being formed.
c. b. Simpson of the chronological
bureau of the department of agricul-
ture has arrived from Washington and
will look into the grasshopper uisance
of Camas prairie.
Ulysses S. Charter. aged 33 years,
committed suicide at his home in South
Boise by taking strychnine. Deceased
was at one time a patient in the State
asylum for the insane.
The city council Of Weiser has ac-
cepted proposition from H. V. Gates
of Hillsboro, Ore, to put in system
of waterworks and electric lights to
cost not less than $25, 900,
At an election in Boise the voters
decided in favor of the city borrowing
S25, 900. The money will be used for
the library, fire department and other
municipal improvements.
Two Boise girls, aged II and Ia
years, attempted to run away with a
circus which was in the capital city
last week, but were captured by the
parents and returned home.
Mike Hyde, one day last week,
met with terrible accident at Bru.
neau. lie was handling giant powder
some OF which exploded unexpectedly
His hand and portion of his wrist
were taken off.
Last week skeleton was found
under pile of rocks on Scott creek
near Weiser. Old timers think it MAJ
be the bones of f. l.. Clark, ranch
man who mysteriously disappeared
about fifteen years ago.
II is reported that man name'
John Baxter has been lost on Strattol
mountain, between Middle and Dead
wood forks of the Payette river, and
k feared he has starved to death.
searching party is looking for him.
Three women and two men hav
been arrested at Rathdrum, charge
with attacking with Winchesters
81 rang of men engaged in logging
threatening to shoot any of the cre'
III who attempted to pass their place.
State Engineer Ross is in receipt c
4 letter from Professor Newell of th
United States geological survey assu
ing him that the survey will duplica'
any sum of money raised here for th
tnvestig alton of irrigation matters
this state.
# Information from Placerville is
the effect that the Garden valley pc
pie are making their arrangements
begin the first of the week on the col
struction of the first eight miles of II
De- Thunder Mountain road above the |
E Chambeau place.
A new mining district, the Rosett
has been created on the South Bois
with George M. Rogers as deputy |
corder for the district. The district
attracting a great deal of attention
present, and is being rapidly pro
pected and taken up.
1t appears that the arrest OF Geor
w. Walsen, who is accused of steali
&c, 900 OF the funds of Lemhi count
was brought about through the dir'
efforts of his wife, who is the cour
treasurer. She claims Walsen ST.
the money from the safe.
f. W. Martin, the man who has be
going about the county protesting
cure cancers and other diseases, v
arrested and tried for practicing me
tine without license. He pleat
MI guilty and is now serving sentel
in the Washington county Jail.
stephen sanse, employed at
\ scheloske sawmills, eighteen m
from Boise, was fatally injured Sal
nay. A trouser leg caught in a 81
and was twisted up quickly, the Il
: being torn off below the knee.
y ceased came from Boulder, Colo.
i The opening of tire Idaho North
, railway to Emmett was formally c,