Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-08-11
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NORTH WEST NOTES.

The railroads in Montana protest
against an assessment of more than
$4, 600 per mile.
j. l.. Humble of Corvallis. Montana,
received the snug little sum of $45, ,O00
for his sheep and wool this spring,
The fruit crop of Colorado this year
will bring So, 600, 900. About half of
the product is from the western slope.
At Heppner Or, there is a band
composed entirely of women, which
furnishes music at celebration for
nearby places.
The Virginia & TrucIee railroad is
the victim of spite work at Reno. Nu-
merous fires have been started to de-
stroy its property.
The Spokane Fruit fair, claimed to be
the greatest of it's kind west of the
Mississippi and embracing exhibits
from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Mon
tana and British Columbia, opens Oc-
tober and lasting until the 10th.
A shooting contest at human targets
is reported to have taken place be-
tween some ranchmen living on Blue
Water creek, Red Lodge, Mont. last
week. Twelve shots were fred and
one man lost a finger.
Butte threatens to go crazy when
Bryan visits that city. There will be
parade from the city to the race
track, where Bryan will speak, and it
Is proposed that every ablebodied man
In the city join the procession
After broncho bucked him from the
saddle and kicked him in the head,
viii Calhoun ran half mile to over
take his wife and fell unconscious, re-
naming in that condition until con
veyed to Phillipsburg, Mont.
Three of the largest locomotives ever
made are being built at Schenectady,
for the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific hat
handles the ore traffic between Ana.
conda and Butte.
In Butte four children found what
they thought to be a Roman candle
and the boys drove nail into it. A
girl was filled with broken glass and
metal and Clarence Terrell may lose an
eye.
masked robber thrust gun in the
face of j. L. Eaton, telegraph operator
at Helena, and demanded his watch.
Eaton drew a revolv yer with his left
hand and fired two shots, but did not
hit the robber, who took to his heels
Idaho has an attack of Klondyliits.
The citizens of Mountainhome have
staked two men and the state mining
inspector will take his departure soon.
Several men have also gone from Cald-
we'll
The grain crop of Gallatin county,
Montana, this year is estimated at
5000, 900 bushels, which breaks the
record. The average wheat yield is
stated to be forty bushels, barley sixty
and some oat fields will run 100
bushels.
John Blue, a private in the Twenty
fifth infantry at Fort Missoula, Mont,
playfully pointed revolver at John
Spriggs, a civilian, and ordered him to
dance. The gun was discharged and
Spriggs was fatally wounded Blue
"didn't know it was loaded
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company at Gebo, Mont, are meeting
with some difficulty in obtaining the
right of way for their proposed eight
miles of railway by the Indians own
ing three allotments through which
their survey runs.
The receipts from state land rentals
in the office of the register of the state
board of land commissioners Of Wyo-
ming for the month of July amounted
tie SO. .352.52, which amount has been
credited to the various state funds in
terested.
William j Maber, a miner at the
Never Sweat mine of the Anaconda
company was fatally injured by the
explosion of a delayed blast on the
/ 300 level. The shot missed fire and
Maber anu J. J. Murray went back to
investigate. when it exploded. Murray
had two ribs broken.
Up on Powder river, Wyoming, a
cattle rustler captured at the muzze of
Winchester what proved TO be
woman dressed in blue jeans overalls
and flannel shirt She blushingly
thanked her gallant eaptors and they
politely tipped their som breros and
told her she could go.
Peter Reynolds, living near sheri-
dan, Wyo, has sold his ranch and
stock for Sc, 900 in order to go to the
Alaska gold fields Reynolds brother
in-law is already at the mines and has
made winning, and Mr. Reynolds
will go into partnership with him in
working properties secured in the ia
nous Klondyke.