Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-06-02
NORTHWEST NOTES.

ponce court at Butte in cne day.
Jessie Dilley, years old, fell into
canal at Billings, Montana, and was
drowned.
A party of homeseekers from Ne.
braska, rep presenting twenty families,
are making tour of the state.
Two electric cars tried to pass on the
same track at Butte. A motorman and
passenger were seriously injured and
both cars were wrecked.
An order for the Pasteur virus has
been sent for by the settlers around
Craig, Colorado, and will be given tc
the prairie dogs in that vicinity.
The annual convention of the Wyo,
ming Republican League will be held
at Cheyenne on Wednesday, June 30
1897.
A Union Pacific conductor says that
there are 500 hoboes and ex-convicts
scattered alone the line between Ogden
headed for Butte, Anaconda and other
towns are overrun with criminals.
Attempts to arouse Mrs. j. W. Sci
bert of Cheyenne, Wyoming, whose
home was on fire at 1:3o a. M recently
were fruitless, and neighbors broke in
the door and found her unconscious.
There is a sensation of no small
dimensions brewing in the Police de-
partment of Butte, Montana A pretty
dressmaker has complained to the
Chief of the assiduous attentions of an
enamored bluecoat, already married.
An effort is being made by the mem
bers of the A. o. Z. w. of Wyoming
to sever their district from the iuris-
diction of Wyoming, Idaho and Utah.
The Wyoming members think that
their assessment is too heavy, and as
the bulk of the mortality of the juris-
diction is in Utah, the Wyoming men
will petition the supreme lodge to set
Wyoming aside as special iurisdic.
ton.
Great fear is felt at Casper, Wyoming,
that the Platte river bridge will be
carried out by the high floods new
swelling the river. The water has
risen until it has flooded the south
butment of the bridge. 1t is extremely
dangerous for teams attempting to
cross.
While digging post holes on his pas
ture this week, II. Dutfin, of Paris,
Idaho, turned up part of an Indian
mill that must at some time have been
regular Indian camping ground,
little further away he has brought to
the surface bones and sundry portions
OF skeletons when he has been plough.
ing.
While the Sheriff of Lander and his
deputy were repairing sewer pipe In
the jail, Harry Dahl, prisoner, slipped
out and eluded pursuit for several
hours, being found in an irrigating
ditch under bridge. In the excite
ment of the chase the Jail was left
open, but the sheriff's wife was on
guard with Winchester when dep
uty realized the situation and returned.
l.. G.. Coleman, alias S. +. Dixon
who was arrested at Miles City, Mon
tana for bigamy, is accused of having
three wives and many children. Urba
Dixon. his wife, who arrived on the
scene suddenly Saturday morning, has
for years been court stenographer at
Bismark, is soon to be admitted to the
bar in Dakota, and is making things
very uncomfortable for her much
married husband, who suspects that he
Is being held for something graver
than the present complaint discloses.
A peculiar theft is reported by the
Lander transportation company OF
Casper. The company had stored in
its warehouse several barrels of whisky
for shipment to Lander. Some un.
known person or persons crawled
under the warehouse and with brace
and bit bored through the floor into
one of the barrels of whisky, empty,
ing 1T into reeeptaeles held underneath
to catch the precious fluid. As yet
there is no clue to the thieves.
| 'oAa - i1ICiNth II DuthhoH y I1DIt
that mass meeting of the citizens
held Saturday, adopted resolutions
declaring that mo saloon shall ever be
established or Intoxicating liquors sold
without the consent of the people OF
the voting precincts of Marysvale, and
that every moral support of the com
munity is hereby invoked against the
establishment of such saloon or
other place for the sale of liquor in
this region, and all persons are hereby
warned to take notice of this action
and govern themselves accordingly.
The People of Jachsons Hole have
decided to take necessary steps to keep
sheepmen from trailing their herds
across the Jackson's Hole country and
to keep non-residents from bringing in
stock cattle for the purpose of grazing
and evading taxes.
man in Duluth, Wyoming, has
written State Auditor Anderson max.
ing some remarkable inquiries about
State lands. He says they have plan
for taking 5000 acres of desert land
which they will colonize, reclaiming il
| by means of arfaSiau walls