Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-12-08
NORTHWEST NOTES.

The Bozeman Street Railway COM
pany has filed articles of Incorporation
with a capital of $50, 900.
c. II. Auther, Helena, Montana,
butcher, will drive 25o head of cattle
to- Dawson City next spring.
The North Montana Roundup asso-
citation demands bounty of $40 on
gray wolves and 81 on coyotes.
A Southern Pacific passenger train
ran into a herd of cattle near Reno,
New, killing nine outright, and Grip
pling five others.
Governor Sadler has appointed Hon.
John Sparks to represent Nevada at
the national stoelS-growers' convention
to be held at Denver.
The Western Meat company has pur-
chased | 400 head of cattle from Ke-
ough Bros, and the stock will be
shipped from Reno, New.
Track laying win be commenced on
the Ruby Valley railroad Montana,
within ten days. Iron Rod will be the
terminus until spring
The grading on the Cottonwood
Conlee branch of the Montana Central
is nearly completed and track-laying
is progressing rapidly.
William Newton. Butte lawyer,
was arrested for stealing $4. Is from
desk in the county Jail. He failed to
appear for trial and disbarment pro-
ceedings will be instituted,
rested at Butte for attempting to kill
her child, aged thirteen months, by
stabbing it. She has served five years
in the penitentiary for killing another
child by sticking its body full of pins
and needles
The pioneers of jefferson county,
Mont. will meet at the Boulder hot
springs hotel December l2, for the pur-
pose of organizing an old settlers as
sociation. All those who were in def
ferson county or en- route December 81, /,
1864, are eligible to membership.
j. A. Trembley, coroner of Silver
Bow county, and John A, Cannon, two
of Butte's best known citizens, have
oeen arrested for stealing an elk, the
property of one of their friends. They
committed the larceny as a joke, but
.he magistrate placed them under S5,-
900 bonds.
A hunting party, consisting of j. C..
ButterielS of Brooklyn, Wyo., William
Mckinney and William Schrantz of
Sheridan. Wyo,, came in from two
weeks hunt in the Hole-in- the Wall
country and brought with them plenty
of deer and other game. Game seems
to be more plentiful this season than
for years past. Everybody gets a deer
/ or two.
/ North Montana stoclxmen for the
past week have been engaged in gath
ering up their cows and calves for
winter care. Last winter, it might
be said, was the first one in which this
was done to any great extent, and it
proved to be most successful Apart
from protecting themselves from losses
caused by hard winter on the range,
gives the COW and calf longer lives of
usefulness and greater ultimate profit
to the owner
Word has been received of the death
of Lem Hagle, a well-known cowboy
of Cheyenne, at the ranch of Thomas
Babbitt on Horse creek Hagle was
an expert and made point of riding
vicious horses. Two years ago he was
badly injured by horse while onthe
Two. Bar roundup Last summer he
was again injured while riding in an
amateur wild west show. He never
recovered from the latter njures and
had been an invilid from the time he
received them until his death.
Alvin Mortimer, range rider, In
Teton county, Mont, was found lying
on the prairie frozen abont the hands
and feet, near Sweet Grass. About two
miles from where he was found, about
o'clock in the forenoon he was
thrown from his horse and his knee
cap and hip joint badly injured. He
was unable to walk, but fearing thai
he would freeze to death, attempted te
crawl to shelter In five hours he had
crawled two miles. His horse arrived
at a house just before noon, and. fear
ing something had happened, two
friends started out to find him. They
tracked the horse in the snow and then
Mort,mers trail to where be was
found.
Willis G. Emerson and associates, in
terested IN the Grand Encampment
tWyomingl Townsite compa y, are
l.laking the final proof for patents on
some 200 acres of land, covered by
their townsite, and paying the gov,
ernment for this land.
A stranger named Bart was found
nearly frozen to death one night last
week, on lonely road leading into
Genoa. New He is an aged man, anc
had scarcely any clothing. One sid,
of his body. it is said, will be com