Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-11-24
MORT INVEST NOTES.

A0i h"usFr Aof I~,VOU, were given
verdict for $4,000.
A reward of 800 is offered for the
arrest of John Thompson, an Elk
Mountain, Carbon county, Wy, COW,
boy, who is charged with killing range
cattle
Two NORTH harm Pacific freight train,
collided near Helena, Mont, recently
Both engines were demolished, but the
engineer and fireman saved their lives
by jumping
The secretary of the interior ha,
ordered pat ented to the state of Wyo
ming list pf lands embracing 1895
acres in the Evanston district, select
cd under the agricultural college land
grant.
Colonel Jo hn j. Donnelly, a well
known lawyer of northern Montana
was found ying in his bedroom at Ben
ton, with his throat cut He
bad attempted suicide, but will re-
cover.
Martin Brown, who several years
ago had his sentence doubled for
threatening to get even with the He.
ena, Mont, judge who sentenced him,
mas been sent to the Warm Springs
Montana) asylum.
Napoleon Broul, 20 years old. who
has been attending high school at
Greeley, Colb., has been arrested in
Cheyenne, charged with rape on the
person of Mary Haskell, aged 16 years.
The boy bea rs good reputation.
frightful accident occurred at the
ower smelte er on the 10th at Anaconda
which may result In two deaths Mi.
chael Crogan and a man named Kelly
we're at work in a pit under the caucine
furnaces. b some unknown man ner
torch holding gallon of oil was up.
yet and the men were badly burned
before they could be rescued.
The state board of land commission
srs has sold to William Mexican, a
well-known lum herman of Missoula,
Mont, about 5000, 900 feet of timber
standing on section of state land 10.
:ated in the northern part of Ravalli
county, Mon t., near the Bitter Root
river. Mr.. McKean's bid of 81. so q
thousand feet for the timber was the
only one received.
1t is reported that stock raisers in
Nevada are in good financial condi.
tion. They have sold their beef cat.
tie at high prices, paid their bills and
have money IN bank. Cattle raising is
great industry. The advance In
stock cattle since last year has been
about double Last years prices ruled
about $40 or $12, while this season it
is $50 to S25. A .splendid increase in
values.
A short time ago Reno, New, voted
to issue bonds for the erection OF
water works and electric light works
to be owned by the city. There was
warm contest between the adherents
of the old water company and the
friends of the new movement, but the
latter won by a large majority. A
petition has been presented to the su.
preme court with view to test the
constitutions ality of the election.
Hiram StoRer of Elko, New, after
feeling the stringency of hard times
and continued Indebtedness con-
cluded as last resort to settle uown
as an honest farmer in the Lovelocb
valley. He bought piece of land on
easy terms and moved his family and
belongings 10 his new abode. He
went through the ups and dows OF
farming work some hard years and
found his reward in the season of 1897
Mr.. Stoker raised 10000 bags of wheat
from 900 acres of land, the largest in
dividual wheat crop ever raised in
Nevada. This crop is worth $50, 900.
r. w. Rich of Cheyenne, Wyo., who
is state lecturer and organizer for Wy.
oming, |. o. o. +. will institute Re.
beka lodge in Casper with an encamp
ment OF patri iarchs at Douglas, Wyo
in the near future. Mr.. Rich has look
ed over the field at Glenroek, Their.
mopolis and Wheatland, Wyo., aud
finds at those places plenty of room
and timber for healthy lodges, The
Odd Fellows bt Wyoming are branch.
ing out with rapid strides, and is now
the strongest order, in point of mum.
bers and financial standing, in the
state.
Joseph Shafer was convicted of mur
der in the firbt degree, for killing Johr
Hawkins at Butte last August. This
is the second conviction for murder
that has ever been secured at Butte, al
though the k klllings have peen many
The Indian S around Genoa, New.
shipped ton of pine nuts to Sar
: Francisco during last week.
Blood hounds were used in the pur
suit of convict who escaped from
: Drumond, Mo htana, last week, but they
lost the trail
? The postoff ce at Neversweat Ere
@ mont county, Wyoming, has been dis
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