Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-04-24
ELMORE BULLETIN.
q. M PAYnK MABEL L. PAYNH
PAYNE 4 PAYNE, Publisher.
IDAHO STATE NEWS.

damaged by hre to the amount OF s'oo
last week.
Fifteen men sheared 2,007 sheep by
hand one day last week at the Cleve-
land sheep ranch, six miles from Boise.
Lewis g. Tague's pack train left
Ketchum one day last week loaded
with 10000 pounds of flour for Thun-
der Mountain.
The new telephone line has now
been extended up the Payette valley
and is proving great convenience 10
the bench farmers.
A tennis club has been organized and
a court laid out, at HALEY, and the
members are now thinking OF chal-
lenging other towns for games.
The residence of Mrs. Taylor
Thompson, of Weiser, was destroyed
bv FIRE last week, the fire being the
work of an incendiary. Loss $4,000
The commissioners of Bear Lake
county have appropriated $1,000 for
the purpose of poisoning squirrels,
strychuine to be used for that purpose.
Oneida county has an assessed val
uation OF 2,20i, 1885, with total in
debtedness of s36, 600 The income for
the last year amounted to $50, 1929.
Boise county has an assessed valua-
tion of S943, 175 and total Indebtedness
of Sloo, 991. 6s. The receipts for the
last year were S57, 429.12 and expendi-
lures for the same time, $42, 363.53.
Word comes from Meadows that
Robert Herudon of Virginia has
bought 200 acres of ground at that
place. which will be laid out as town
site.
Superintendent of the state insane
asylum at Black foot has sent his ex-
pense bill for the first three months OF
the present year. The sum total OF
the expenditures for the quarter is
S9,3S3.22.
The Electric Power company, in en-
larging its ditch at Idaho City, cut a
tale ledge with veins of quartz running
through it, gold being seen with the
naked eye.
There is much excitement in Silver
CITY over recent strike made in the
RAMS Horn mine. A body of gold ore
was tapped at a depth of 800 feet
which shows value of a little over
Sl0o to the ton.
The report of the treasurer OF Cassia
county to the state auditor shows that
the county expenses for last year were
S14,2 ,29o67. The total Indebtedness
bonded and otherwise, on the hrst DAY
of January was $40, ,264.55.
IL is said that the delay in reaching
conclusion in the appointments te
the Blackfoot and Lewiston land offices
is due to crush OF business in the
office of the secretary of the interior
and has no other significance.
According to dispatch from Idaho
City, the Electric Power company neal
Horse Shoe Bend has so men employed
Three Teton dynamos Will be put IN
The company has 100000 pounds o
cement which will be used in the work
Honorable Edgar Wilson has sol'
his great apple orchard at Beatty t
the Wilson Fruit company for $4,000
This famous orchard consists of $50
Jonanthan apple trees, 500 Rome Beau
ties, 700 Ben Davis, and 300 winte
pears.
The body of Horace Rich was foun
on the railroad track near Ross forb
horribly mutilated, only being ident
fed by pieces of clothing. 1t is bt
lieved young Rich, who was we
known throughout the state, was mu
4 dered
Sol Petit, of Meridian, while ha
Messing a team of broncos, was qui'
seriously injured by one of the anima
stepping on his foot, turning it in sue
manner as to break several bones
the ankle and causing the bones to. pr
trude through the flesh.
p. L. Schick, the we,l-known ranc
man who was so terribly burned
his wagon while driving home fro
Boise with his wife, has succnmbed
Il his injuries. 1t is believed he W
stricken with paralysis while ridii
along aud did not feel the heat.
4 AT Bliss party of Greeks in
Il employ of the railroad company
# tempted TO take some coal from
pump house, when the pumpman
one of them on the head with ha
mer, inficting injuries that may pre-
fatal. The pumpman is under ARE
Milton Chevalier, the man who '
arrested on charge of being i'm,
Gated In the late ROBBERY at the de
in Rexburg, was found guilty !
given two-year sentence in the ST
prison. Chevalier's two accomnli
are still at large.
A. q. Smith, treasurer OF Elm
county, has sent in his report to
stste auditor. The report shows
total county expenses for the year !
were sci ,2s6.30. The total bonded
floating debt January /, II
amounted to si55, ,i7o.55.