Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-10-13
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JOhn L. squire has been appointed
register of the land office at Glenwood
Springs, Colo.
1t is now believed that either the Ne
vada cavalry or the Wyoming artillery
will go on the nextexpedition to Manila.
Fred Pettigrew, a 19-year-old boy o.
Grand Junction, fell from a switch
engine and had both legs cut off above
the knee.
Upwards of $500, 900 worth of fine
sawlog timber has been destroyed in
Wyoming during the past six weeks by
forest fires.
Cuban bloodhounds have arrived in
Cheyenne and will be put on the track
Of persons who set fire to Ranchman
Jones hay stacks.
The preliminary trial of Frank Cra-
mer for the murder of George Harris
in a street fight at Cripple Creek, Colo
RADIO, resulted in the acquittal of Cra-
mer.
John Lucero, Mexican sheepherder,
has been arrested, charged with set
ting fire to the forests in the vicinity
of Saratoga, Wyo., by which several
hundred acres of valuable timber was
destroyed.
j. McCrey committed suicide at
Thermopolis, Wyo. He locked himself
in bathroom and took poison. He
left note saying he was tired of life.
Financial troubles caused him to COM
nit the deed.
The war department is recognizing
the curative properties of the Wyoming
climate and is sending a number of
sick and wounded soldiers from the
east to the hospital at Fort Russell for
medical treatment.
The Cheyenne city council has au-
thorized the city officers to accept the
proposition of New York financial
concern to refund the Cheyenne water
bonds, amounting to Sl27, 900, reducing
the interest from to per cent
The movement of sheep eastward has
been something remarkable this year.
1t is stated that upwards of 200,o
head have been delivered to rail points
in Nevada for shipment east. Prices
have averaged S2. % to So per head on
the range. An enormous clip of wool
will be marketed.
Postoffiee Inspector Waterbury ar
rived in Cheyenne recently after chase
of over / 900 miles in search of the out
laws who robbed the Big Piney post
office and store in August. Two otfi-
GERS who were assisting Mr.. Water
bury received slight wounds while in
the Jacksons Hole region.
Word has been received at Cheyenne
from Washington that the navy de-
partment had let the contracts for the
construction of four monitors, one to
be named Wyoming The new moni-
tors will each cost 81, 500, 900, will have
two turrets, and carry twelve-inch and
four-inch guns.
Thomas Zeimetz was assassinated in
stage at Dayton, Zeimetz met an Sac
quaintance by the name of Petagna,
and advanced toward him to extend a
friendly greeting, when, without any
warning of his murderous intent, Pc
tagna plunged dagger in Reimetz's
bowels, the wound proving fatal q few
minutes later.
A Shoshone Indian by the name of
Day Light has been lodged in Jail at
Cheyenne to await the action of the
grand jury, the charge against him
being the murder of his wife Day
Light admits that he killed the woman,
and states as a reason for his crime
that his wife was bad woman, lazy
and good for nothing and he killed her
to get rid of her.
Troop B of the Eighth United States
cavalry passed through Cheyenne Oc.
tober en- route from Fort Washakie
to Huntsville, Ala, from which place
they go to Cuba. The trip from Wash.
axle to the line of the Union Pacific al
Rawlins was a severe one. The men
camped IN six inches of snow every
night They left their horses at Raw
Inns, to be sent back to the post.
The citizens of Anaconda, Mont, are
excited over the report that another
big company, rival in magnitude OF
the Anaconda company, is to begir
operations soon This is the Washot
Mining company, which has for it,
principal owners Marcus DAILY and j.
B. Haggin, both principal owners il
the Anaconda Mining company, but
the Washoe company will be run dis
tinct from the Anaconda company.
William Cullum, a packer in the
Puerto Riean campaign, is in Cheyenne
on leave. He reports that Chief PaclSel
Tom Mooney, of Cheyenne, has re
ceiyed orders to reorganize two com
plete pack trains at Camp Carlin, Chey
enne.