Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-06-09
NORTHWEST NOTES.

nish troops under the second call.
Edward Duval of Cheyenne has been
sent to prison for FIVE years for grand
larceny
A number OF pickpokets were re-
Gently gathered in at Butte and Ana
conda by the police.
President Graves of Laramie, wyo.,
has accepted the presidency of the
university at Seattle.
The Union Pacific is about to begin
the construction of another round
house at Rawlins, Wyo.
cummins City, wyo., is no more. A
postotiice has been established at the
old camp and the name has been
changed to Jelm.
E. I. Payton, editor of the Big Horn
(Wyoming) Pilot. was taken back to
the asylum one day last week, his old
malady having returned.
Kenneth McRae, who has just been
acquitted at Cheyenne of the charge Of
murder, has had his third trial, one of
which resulted in conviction.
Water will be stored in dry lake
near Rawlins, Wyo., and the stream
from Bull canyon used to I'll it. This
will solve an important problem.
The rains in Wyoming during the
past week have done considerable
damage. At Casper the bridges over
the Platte have been washed out.
There are six militia companies ia
Nevada, well Gsilled and fairly we'll
equipped. The members are all eager
to respond to their eountry's call.
Friendly relations between the Union
Pacific and the Burlington have been
resumed. For the first time in five
years freight is being exchanged at
Cheyenne.
The Wyoming state land board has
leased 81 900 acres of state and school
land in tracts of not over GAO acres, for
a term of Ave years, at rental of from
21S to cents an acre
w. H. Justison, of Basin, Mont, who
was discharged from the regular army
In 1858, through the intercession of
Mrs. Cleveland, at the request of JUS
tison's wife, has re-enlisted as bugler
One of the largest single deals in
sheep made this season is reported from
Custer county, Wyo, r, r. Selway pur-
chased the entire band of 5000 sheep
formerly owned by Hon Reno Swift,
for sum aggregating in the neighbor.
hood of SEA 900.
w Lindsey an old resident of Lyon
county, New, who died suddenly o.
heart disease in Mason valley last week
was given a pauper burial by the eoro
ner. Indignant citizens exhumed thu
corpse and had it decently inferred a.
their expense.
A, II. Whitlock, from Sanpete valley
Utah, has purchased 100 head of fine
horses from Mrs. Biggs of Duck Creek
New. about thirty head from Mrs
Cameron, beside several smaller lots
which will be driven to the uintah res
ervation in Utah.
: Robert Thomas had a narrow es
! cape from death while at work in tn,
+ Blue Wing mine, Mont. While on hi
knees engaged in picking ore, i50i
/ pounds of loose ground fell and eaugh
; his left leg. The limb was broken il
three places
! Early in 1891 colony OF ten fami
= lies of Hollanders settled on the land
owned by the West Gallatin Irrigation
) company of Montana. This colon.
= has steadily increased until over fit.
i families are located on lands in tn
! Gallatin valley, engaged in the occu
patton of raiing barley. The success
which has attended this colony vii
; follow those who locate on these lands
Il A Butte convict named Hysmith, a
t the penitentiary at Deer Lodge, die
n recently from horrible self-inhicted II
It iuries Hysmith was suffering from
| delusion that he had a tumor in his a
4 domen, and the prison surgeon eoul
% not dissuade him from 1t. He secure
a small pen-lnife, and durnig Il
n. night opened his abdomen five inche
ee cutting a big V-shape hole, from whis
l. the bowels were protruding when Il
an fellow was discovered looking for b
Id imaginary tumor.
ge Eugene Amoretti jr., of Lande
Ic- Wy, has been awarded contract
i'll furnish 100000 pounds of beef to q
is Indians on the Fort Washakie reserv
ton during the coming year T
ar price to be paid is s4 "a per 100 pound
na- the highest rate paid by the Cover
lat ment in the past twenty years.
J is Joseph Tunney, native of the Co
in stock, New, is one of the bluejacks
,ry on the Bal timore, and was in the tig
at Manila, when that cruiser was
tor the thickest of the battle. The moth'
.he brother aud two sisters of Tunney
now in San Francisco.
Sol Willard. Butte saloon proprl
tor. was fined $500 by Justice Laura
hs dean for assaulting his wife. She
~ fused to appear against him, but =
ho man. when arrested, pleaded guilt
and claimed the right to thrash n
les whenever he pleased.
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