Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-10-20
NORTHWEST NOTES.

lhere are five cases of insanity in
the Butte Jail
1t is said the gambling law is being
violated at Butte.
The odd Fellows grand lodge will
meet at Butte this week.
The state authorities are taking a
sheep census in Montana
Work in the railroad shops at Evans
ton Is picking up, new men being e IN
ployed steadily.
{. j. Maitland, arrested at Garrison,
Mont, confessed to robbery at the Me-
Dermott hotel
a bar of gold worth $4,000 is on ex-
hibition at Boise 1t is from the gov
ernment assay office.
The country along Deep creek, Mon
tana' is infested with timber wolves
which prey upon stray cattle.
Orders are said to be booked at Bal
tic, Mont, for 600 cattle cars The
shipments the past week have been
heavy.
Elmer b. Carter, the Billings stock
broker, has purchased in Fergus
county some 10000 head of sheep. pay
ing an average of 81 per head
The paving dispute between Butte
city and the street railway company,
has been settled and the latter has
commenced to pave its portion of Main
street.
'Neno. the healer, in jail at Butte.
admits he acquired $1,000 there and
left because he feared lynching He
would like to return the money but
cannot
The telephone line from Lewiston to
Melville, Mont, which is only in oper-
alton from Lewiston to the Bower
ranch, near Okla, was sold at receivers
sale for SIS.
A stick of dynamite was malicously
placed in n wheat stack near Helena
and last week was fed into the thresh-
er. The machine was totally wrecked
but no one hurt
Col. w. II. Root, of Laramie, Wyo.,
has gone east and it is his purpose to
extend his trip to Norway in the in
terests Of some prominent eastern cap
italists to secure reindeer for the
klondike transportation business.
GOV. Richards, Of Montana, says
about 600 new buildings have been
| constructed in Butte this year: that
there are more employed and unem-
ployed men there than at any time in
the city's history. and that by 1900
Butte will have nearly 100, 900 popula-
ton
Wyoming State Fish Commissioner
Schnitger has been investigating the
local hatchery at Sundance and speaks
well of the work which has been done
4 during the past year. 100000 brook
eggs have been ordered from Massa-
chusetts, and will be placed in the
hatchery in December. 1t is expected
these will yield about 90, 900 fish which
will be distributed in Crook county
streams.
Great Falls, Mont, society is in
turmoil over the exposure of the dual
/ life led by former physician of that
4 place, who is now located at Shelby
Junction. He is Dir George Arthur
!ngs, son of a wealthy shipbuIlder of
I { a ~ lnt tnf In e
New Glasgow, n. s., where he left a
wife and three children some three
/ years ago and moved to Great Falls
with woman whom he claimed as his
wife but who in reality was Mrs Dun
can Grant of his former home, by
whom he has had two children. Wife
No is on the ground and the doctor
promises to right the wrong as far as
he is able, but just how does not APP
pear.
Alexander Gillian and james Gibson
were saloon partners at Libby, Mon
tana. and enamored of the same wo.
man. Two weeks ago Gillian took a
shot at Gibson but hit a bystander.
Peace reigned until Tuesday, when
Gillian steadied his revolver on the
bar and missed his partner three shots
when only five feet away. Gibson
seemed dazed for a moment but reach
ed for his revolver and fired three
shots all Of which passed through
Gillian's body below the heart and
none of them three inches apart Gill
liam had emptied his revolver by this
time and hit nothing He expired in
; few minutes.
The big concentrator at Golconda,
Nevada, is nearing completion. The
; building has been finished and the
machinery is being placed rapidly in
position. 1t is the biggest plant of
this kind in the state and it will not
be long before it is started up.
Fire destroyed the MacQueen house
at Miles City, Mont, entailing a loss
of nearly s75, 900. II was discovered
about o'clock and had gained such
headway when the fremen were
aroused that they could do but little.
All the guests escaped.
Thomas Tway, convicted of rape in
Fremont county, Wyoming, and for
whom a new trial was ordered by the