Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-01-02
IDAHO STATE NEWS.

A fire at Haley on Friday did damage
to the amount of So 900. The origin OF
the fire is unknown.
Ethel Olson, better known as the
"snake charmer, 'suicided at Boise Fri
day night by drinking carbolic acid
The football game between Payette
and Boise teams on Christmas day re-
suited in a tie, neither side scoring.
About 200 Japs are employed in bet
tering the roadbed and putting in ex-
ira sidings for the Short Line at Ca Id
well.
Ex-senator George L. Shoup, who
has been confined to his home for some
time on account of illness is able to be
about again.
Senator Duboise writes Governor
Hunt that the Boise barracks will not
be Abandoned, but if any change is
made they will be enlarged.
Preparations are being made to in
corporate the Canyon County Fair as
sociation, over $4,000 worth of stock
having already been spoken for.
A forest reserve, embracing 276, 900
acres of Idaho lard to be known as
the Kootenai reserve, is to be created
upon orders from the general land
Office.
The Wilenbuse case in which Wilen-
buse is charged with the murder of
md fria 81 a,
week, resulted in verdict of murder
in the second degree.
The Orc Fino coal fields are being
prospected to great depth by drills in
an endeavor to determine If possible,
the extent of deposits and the better
methods of reaching them.
Another important mining sale is re-
ported from the Thunder Mountain dis.
trict, Plttsburg parties purchasing two
groups of claims for which it is said
they paid the sum of 100000.
Lewiston sheepmen have engaged
attorneys to fight the two-mile limit
law passed by the last Legislature
They will receive the support eff the
Northwestern Wool Growers associa-
tion.
While Peter G. Daut, Boise optician,
was woelSing over an alcohol lamp, in
some manner the alcohol was blown
into his face, causing severe burns. He
regards it as a narrow escape from
death.
Republicans of Northern Idaho are
pushing the claims of Sheriff Angus
Sutherland of Shoshone county for
appointment to the United States
marshalship, to succeed Marshal Will
liam Ramsey.
Contracts for the structural iron
work for the mammoth Short Line
shops to be erected at Pocatele have
been signed, The shops will cost
800, 900 of which amount $400, 900 will
be expended during 1902.
The Bell of Thunder Mountain Min
ing company has been incorpor ated,
the capital stock being 81, 900, 600. The
incorporators are r. w Purdum, Nam
pa; Clinton d. Greenlee, Pittsburg,
Charles w. Culver, Reno, Pa.
Abig deal has just been consummated
whereby George A. Wheeler. the Chi
cago oil expert who has been investi-
eating the Owyhee oil fields, takes over
o4O acres of oil claims in that district.
Ihe amount paid has not been divulged.
kirkpatrick, the town marshal of
caldwell, has been held for trial in the
district court on the charge of mprder
In the first degree for killing Char,as
Bayes on December 4. Kirlnatr;ol,i
struck Bayes over the head with n cane
Governor Hunt has refused to issue a
requisition on the governor of Oregon
for the extradition of Paul Aveline.
held in Portland on the charge of re-
moving property from the state for the
purpose of defrauding creditors. The
charge was brought by Aveline's BROTH
er and is the outcome of family quar-
rel.
hundred miners employed in the,
Blaine mine at Silver City had narrow
excape from death Friday. At noon a
box of powder exploded in the tunnel,
but all the men were out at the time to
dinner and there was no one hurt. The
force of the explosion tore down door
800 feet away and flattened 500 or goo
feet of 8-inch pipe as though it had
been ran through roller.
Bob Weeks, the Montpelier bank
Erobber escaped from the pen the 23rd,
! by eluding the guards while at work
! in a quarry. He was captured the
next day in Highland Valley, thirty
miles distant, almost exhausted from
eold and hunger.
Pr ,minent Idahoans in the neigh
bornood of Lapwai Indian agency re-
port a well-deh fined rumor that said
agency is to be abandoned under a
Keneral order which may affect at
1east ten Indian agencies at various,
places throughout the United States.
An interesting fact which the Boisai
Postmaster gives is that the volume of
outgoing Christmas packages this wear
Showed a 25 per cent increase over that |
1or the same period in 1900. This is |
certainly good indication of the pros
[perOus condition of the aaonle