Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-03-20
ELMORE BULLETIN.
MABEL L. PAYNE
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
IDAHO STATE NEWS.


work on the Nampa sewer system will
begin within thirty days.
Monumental creek, in the Thunder
Maintain district, is staked out for
distance of twenty-five miles.
About twenty families from
Nebraska arrived in Fayette last week
and will settle in that vicinity.
The Idaho Intermountain Fair asso-
citation has filed articles of incorpora-
ton. The capital stock is placed at
$l00,00U.
1t is reported that there 10 four or
Eve feet of snow on Thunder Mountain,
and that provisions can not be bought
for any price.
The safe in the store of Burns Bros.
&sFox, at Nampa, was blown open Fri
day night and $3.50 in cash and S11o in
checks taken.
1t now appears that there will be
two tickets in the field at the coming
city selection in Weiser. Last year
there was but one ticket.
The last trestle of the Idaho North
ern at Wilson's point is finished and
the tracklaying will be pushed along
lively from there into Emmett.
Tom Williams of Soda Springs is fig
uring on installing a $4,000 electric
light plant, he having been granted a
franchise by the city council of Soda
Springs.
Lewiston business men are figuring
on building an overhead tramway to
Par6ee from the head of Six Mile can
yon. The tram will have length OF
5000 feet and will cost $15, 900.
Riggs, the man accused of horse
stealing, was tried and convicted at
Weiser last week. A motion for new
trial has been made, and II that fails
an appeal will be taken to the supreme
court.
Quong Sing, the Chinese laundryman
Of Boise, who was arrested some time
ago on suspicion OF the theft of Mrs.
Or. Springer's diamonds from the fam
lily washing, has been discharged from
custody.
Senators Dubois Of Idaho and Gam.
BILE of South Dakota have been ap'
pointed a subcommittee to consider
the charges of former Governor Nc
Connell affecting the conduct of the
Indian bureau,
A gang of men in the employ of the
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone com
pany has begun work getting out poles
near Silver City, to be used for the ex-
tension of the line to the Thunder
Mountain country.
strike of remarkable richness |,
reported in the Riverview mine, il
Custer county, ledge Of lead-silvei
ore being encountered which measures
forty feet across, the whole body O
which will pay to smelt.
]. w. Scott, of Wallace, was killet
last week in peculiar way. A crew
was attempting to get an engine bacl
on the track when the cable attached
& to it slipped and struck Scott in tn,
head, breaking his neck.
81 DIX. McNcal of British Columbia
N was in Payette last week buying heav,
work horses. He would only bu
horses weighing 1900 pounds or more
for which he paid good big price
y over S10o per head for some.
It is reported that the Sunnysid
property at Thunder Mountain ha
been sold by the Caswell brothers t
III the Belle of Thunder Mountain con
pany for $125, 900. The terms of tn
n sale are $50, 900 down and the remain
der upon examination and approval {
title.
The frightful accident which occu
red in the Alpine drift of the Trad
Dollar group on February Is, cause
by the explosion of powder-thawir
magazine, has resulted in the adoptit
of an electrical thawer by the manag
ment, the device being invented
II Engineer Stewart OF the company.
Senators Clark and Gibson and Re
"a resentative Edwards of Montana a
agreed in the proposition to have b
Idaho-Montana boundary line survey
and it is probable an appropriation
$50, 900 will be made by congress
this purpose.
Frank j. Huntington of oaldwe
while unloading a revolver, discharg
the same, the ball entering the fo
through the ankle bone. Mr.. HUI
ington is seriously hurt and it is We
don btful If he will ever regain the {
- tire use of his foot.
The Mammoth Mining company, q
cording to a Wallace special, has ,
nounced that its men will hereafter
required to work 1o-hour shifts inste
! OF 10, giving the men the advantage
/ working 10-hour shift instead of 1.
ing them off one day each week.
There is now about six inches
snow throughout southeastern Idal
and the indications are that lar
supply is being stored away in I
mountains for future use. There b
been fears that the water for irrigati
purposes next summer would be sho