Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-09-22
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Missoula has voted to provide Se1oc
for additional school facilities; 227
ballots for, 73 against.
Wyoming cattlemen shipping to
market recently have received higher
prices than have been reported this
year.
Rev. Paul Muset, pastor Of the
Catholic church, who has worked
among Indians all over the west, died
at Missoula, Mont, recently.
Col. G. Ii. Burton has gone to Assin-
niboine, Mont, where he will inspect
six troops of cavalry and two compan-
les of infantry.
DIR. W. Ii. Patterson, of Reno, New,
has sold to an eastern buyer about 600
beef steers. The price paid was 6
cents pound.
Mrs. Rose Finn, vivacious Helena,
Mont, widow, has left her two chill
dren in care of her mother and gone
to the klondilIe.
James Hancock, prominent saw
mill man Of Fish Creek, jefferson
county, was struck in the side by
board being ripped, from the effects OF
which he died.
Owing to difference of opinion be-
tween Mayor Harrington and City
Engineer Il. w. Blackford of Butte,
Mont, on the manner of paving Main
street, the latter has resigned
VIC. Benham has returned to Butte,
Mont, from Alaska, via Greenland
and Nova Scotia. He encountered
cold wave on top of Chilkoot pass and
concluded not to tarry.
The survey of the Nevada boundary
line is a disappointment to the Cali.
fornians who fathered it, as they ex.
pected to gather in Lake Tahoe as a
result.
James II. Kinkead and Enoch Stroth-
er have been appointed by Governor
sadler to represent Nevada at the
TransMississippi and International
convention, to be held at Omaha.
Fred Opperman, miner, committed
suicide by blowing half of his head
away at the ranch of D. Il. Sperry,
near Bear Tooth, Mont, % miles
northwest of Helena.
Prairie fires at west Boulder,
Mont, destroyed the hay in stack of
George Mcknight and Charles Burris,
and all the latters buildings but the
residence. The loss deprives them OF
the winters feed for stock.
1t is understood that 20 cars of steel
pipe and material to be used in con.
structing the White Sulphur Springs
water system have been shipped, and
will begin to arrive in Dorsey in few
days.
The controversy between the city oil
Helena and the Helena Consolidated
Water company has been settled by an
agreement under which the water
company accepted an annual rental Of
$l3, 900.
The report comes from Lovelock
New, that the wheat crop in that val
ley is the heaviest ever produced there,
some of the land yielding as high as
siXty-seven bushels to the acre.
1t is said that Fremont county, Wyo.
demands that Big Horn county
assume "a per cent of its S110, 900 debt.
The matter will be settled at Sheridan
and at the same time a similar suit Of
Johnson county against Big Horn
county. The claim made by Sheridan
county has been settled without litiga
tion.
Clifford Baird, of Newcastle, Wyo
while riding the range near Gillett,
was seriously injured. The boy
horse stumbled and threw him from
the saddle. His boot caught in tn,
stirrup and he was dragged by tn,
frightened horse for three hundret
yards. His right arm and leg wer
broken and he was frightfully bruises
about the body.
Mrs. w. C. Ward, the mother of al
eleven-days-old infant, died on trail
No. 4, between Golconda and Winnie
mucca, New, recently The case is on
pitiful in the extreme The child wa
born in Laramie, Wyo, while Mr.. an
Mrs. Ward and twenty-five month
old daughter were on their way fror
Missouri to California. The iourne
was resumed at the time when th
poor woman should have been in be
and receiving the most careful nursing
Charles W. Taylor, Salt Lake Sa
loon keeper, attempted Suicide Will
in Provo last week, by cutting hi
throat. He will recover, but con
plains, quite naturally, of having
very troublesome sore throat.
Wild horsef are so plentiful In part
of Nevada as to amount almost to
plague. They are being slaughtere
by ranehers.
Mrs. E. P. Langan, highly esteeme
in Gold Hill, New, died on the 9th.
The last of the seasons wool clil
which will probably be sold at Bi
lings, Mont, this year, was shippe
one day last week to Silberman Bros
Chicago. 1t was the Rufus Thompso
clip of 67, 600 pounds and was bough