Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-02-02
NORTHWEST NOTES.


Canada, but he had leave of absence
Charles A. Richards Of Lander conn.
ty, New, is in the field as a candidate
for con gress.
The Butte authorities have inaupu.
rated a crusade against the dealers in
bogus butter
Helena. Mont, ministers have insti.
tuted n movement for the relief o,
starving Cubans
The estate of the late p. A. Larrev
the Butte banker who was murdered
is valued at $500. 900.
Insurance companies propose to pei
at the facts of the fire at the Boston
tore ut Butte before paying losses
ana have engaged Pinkertons
The parsonage, or living house. of a
clergyman is not exempt from taxation
In Montana, according to an opinion
rendered by Attorney-Genera Nolan.
Ruble Rivera, sheep inspector for
Carbon county, Wyo., reports that the
long continued cold weather is killing
large number of sheep, especially in
the bands of old ewes.
L. $. Davidson of Great Falls under
took to eat a gallon of oysters at one
sitting IN order to win wager. but
quit wheu he had devoured just
pint and a half
The committee appointed to raise
the subscription towards the Sisters,
hospital at Billings, Mont, report The
full amount of the sum of $4,000 sub
scribed and the offer of several eligible
sites free.
Under Gov. Smiths proclamation
against all Southern CATTLE" none
can be imported into Montana with
out nine days quarantine at the own
ers expense before being allowed to
go at large.
The little one mon tn old child of Mr..
and Mrs Al Davis of Laramie, was
given morphine tablet by mistake,
and n died last week, after two doc
tors lad 1abored in vain for many
hours &c ave it's life.
How ConISullivan got into St James
hospital is said by the Butte Miner to
be mystery, but he was found by a
Sister of Charit lying on the floor of
the waiting roor Alast week with his
skull crushed. He = still alive
j. j. Walk who has sbeen in camp in
Big Horn basin. Montana, for the past
three months. reports the basin ranges
in fairly good condition, a nd says that
the winter thus far has beea EXTREMITY
favorable to stock interests There
are in the neighborhood OF 100, 900
head of sheep being wintered IN the
basin.
H. l.. Halliday of Galvestine, Tex
has made a proposition to Herman w
kraus of Great Falls by which the
latter is to put in thirty sheep sheaiv-
ing machines at Pondera, with all the
requisite sheds and like. while Hail
day is to furnish the machines The
condition required by Halliday is that
he be given a guarantee of SO, 600
sheep to shear.
A few years ago the Umatilla In
dams wealth in Nevada was reclxoned
by the number of cayuses he possessed.
When short of cash he was ALWAYS
able to turn off some of those small
but sturdy little animals at fair prices.
but with the advent of the white man,
however, his range has decreased and
50 has his herds. Now he must live on
the rent of his land. and the few
eayuses left will bring him about So
a head
Shortly after the passage of
freight train last week, the Northern
Pacific bridge across the Boulder river.
about a mile below Big Timber, was
discovered to be on fire by the watch
man. The bridge is about 300 feet
long and one of the most important
on the road. A alarm was given and
wagon load of men with ropes and
buckets was hurried to the sceue be
fore much damage was done.
L b. Filter, who is serving two
years in the penitenttiary for bounty
frauds committed in Beaverhead
county offers, upon promise of inn
munity from further imprisonment, to
make some disclosures that may be
decidedly sensational and rather un-
pleasant for certain county clerks and
recorders in Montana in reguard to
bounty frauds perpetrated in several
counties.
The fact that the Butte reduction
works is now building new stalls for
roasting ore in the open air is unwe1-
come news to the people of Butte.
signifying that this company has no
Intention of giving up the barbarous
method of roasting ores. The Parrot
will soon remove to its new
shelters at Gaylord, but the Butte re-
iuction works will remain in Butte,
and its plan seems to be to keep on IN
the old way aud let the people of Butte
cough get out, as they choose.
Patrick A. Largely. who fell the
yictim of the assassin's bullet at Butte
eft no will His estate is estimated
1t from $4,000 to 81, 500, 900 of
which 500. 600 is in cash The deceased
lso carried life insurances TO the