Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-03-06
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IDAHO STATE NEWS.
There is about twelve inches Of snow

Plans are being prepared for 9
modern up-to-date hotel at Lewiston.
Two bids to build the Caldwell
waterworks have SO far been received.
new forty-stamp mill is being
erected at the Big Camas mine, al
HALEY.
Oil and gas are still flowing from the
well near Payette. The well is down
B32 feet.
Eastern parties are contemplating
building large cheese factory al
Meridian.
Nampa baseball enthusiasts are pre-.
pairing to put in strong team for the
coming season.
Fourteen carloads of stock was ship.
ped from Caldwell to eastern points on
Tuesday of last week.
Work has been resumed on the
Newell oil well at Nampa, and will be
vigorously prosecuted.
Last week $50 acres OF state school
land in Fremont county was disposed
Of at valuation of So, 1926.
J. e. Arnold was stabbed during a
fight at Emmett and is now in the
hospital at Boise. His recovery is
assured.
The snowfall at Placerville this
winter up to the 22d was SO inches.
Up to the same date last winter the fall
was 155 inches
The death list of the fire at Mace,
Idaho, now numbers six, A. D Mccall
lum and John Bowhay having died as
q result of burns.
Lee Cilbourn, of Emmett, who last
week stabbed Lee Arnold, has been
placed under $1,000 bond, pending the
preliminary examination.
Jay Freeman, about 13 years of age,
while playing on the railroad turntable
at Boise, got his right leg caught in
the mechanism and was quite severly
cut.
During the recent heavy rains a
culvert on the Pacific g. Idaho North
ern below Cambridge was washed out
and some 80 yards of embankment
carried away.
Mrs. zoda Stubblefeld, of Pleasant
Ridge, while carrying bucket OF
water to the house, suddenly sank to
the ground and was dead before assis-
tance reached her.
Oliver Cooper, blind itinerant
preacher, attempted suicide on the
Idaho Northern train at Middleton by
shooting himself in the breast. His
chances for recovery are very small.
The town of Weiser is recovering
from the recent flood. Three blocks
Of the heart of the business section
was badly flooded. while many of the
residences were flooded on the first
floor.
George Froman, of Caldwell, will
start a shipment of about fifty fat cat
tie and 900 mutton sheep for the
Klondike market about May 1st. 1t
costs about $3.50 head TO ship steers
to Klondike.
The eastern syndicate, headed by
Charles Francis Adams of Boston.
which recently purchased the Lewis
ton Electric company's plant, are now
preparing to add extensive improve
ments to the plant.
In a private letter recently received
from Senator shoup, he announces the
appointment of w. L. Cuddy as post
master at Roosevelt, Thunder Noun
tain, and adds that a postoffie will also
be established at the Dewey mine.
The meeting of the Peoples party
state central committee at Boise last
week resulted in the committee en-
dorsing the chairman's action in re-
moving the committeeman from Bear
Lake, Canyon, Idaho, Lincoln and
Shoshone counties. The chairman
was authorized to call state conven.
ton to be held at the same time and
place as the Democratic state conven-
tion.
Two men by the name OF Benson.
farther and son, were killed by a cave
in at the Sherwin placer, on the
Salmon river. above White Bird, last
week. They were newcomers to
Idaho, having come in from the Black
Hills recently.
The conviction and sentencing of
George Levy for the murder OF Davis
Levy will bring up for adjustment and
payment the reward offered by the
heirs, and the state, for the apprehen-
sion of the murderer, The reward
amounts to 81, 100.
Tom Dillon shot and killed lin IA
vers in the Mint saloon at Silver city
They had quarreled over lease ON a
mine in which they were interested.
Devers was pulling off his overcoat IA
thrash Dillon when the latter shot him
through the heart.
Ihe Capital Commercial COMPANY
mas hied articles of Incorporation with
.he secretary of state, with the inten-
tion OF transacting a wholesale grocery
produce and merchandise business in
Inc capital stock OF the COM
pany Is sas2'ooo, all subscribed.