Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-02-09
NORTHWEST NOTES.

enlluren.
Dark dungeons and bread and water
diet are to be prohibited at the indus
trial school for girls at Denver.
During 1897 about 1000 brands were
placed on the record. making in all
about $4,000 brands recorded in the
Montana state recorders office.
Fifteen Anaconda miners will soon
start for Klendile. Each man con-
tributes his share of years supplies
and 81 900 in cash, and the profits are
to be divided.
The county assessors held a state
convention at Helena Mont, last week
for the purpose of adopting uniform
schedule of values. Live stock valua-
tions were increased.
Recently, when Ralf and Dick Pc
terson of Ruby Montana went to look
after their traps, they found they had
captured mountain lion that measued
nine feet from tip to tip.
John W. Kelley, an old timer in
Butte, died last week at the Sisters
hospital. He was in the neighborhood
pf so years old, and was among the
earliest comers to the camp.
The Montana Land and improvement
company's irrigation canal is being inn
proved by the substitution of a culvert
for the tlume across Valley creek
near Park City. The expense of the
Improvement will be about So, 1000.
Mrs. Rose Sehlattman, who has
lived in Cheyenne for three years,
has departed for Dawson City. Mrs.
Sehlattman is the first woman from
Wyomining to go to the Klondike.
She has no definite plans but is con-
tident she can win fortune in the
land of snow.
The Wyoming oil sydnicate is nego-
tating for well drilling outfit and
proposes to put down test well on its
property, near Douglas. The Wyo-
ming Oil company has reached depth
of 400 feet with it's we'll but is having
considerable difficulty by reason of the
caviug in of the shale through which
the well is being driven.
Twelve sticks of powder exploded
in the house of Alfonso Massucci at
Basin, Mont, completely wrecking
the whole house. Massucci sustained
injuries which in all probably will
prove fatal, His right leg was com
pletely shattered, being broken in
number of places, while his entire
body is covered with cuts and bruises.
suit to test the law under which
the Montana state arid land commits
sioners proposes to build the Billings
Canal has begun in the supreme court
by Attorney General Nolan. The
action is a friendly one instituted
to determine the authority of the arid
land commission, which desires to
know its position before entering up-
on the construction of the canal
man whose name is thought to be
John Oleson was brought to the hos
pital suffering from terrible injuries
received while thawing powder out at
the tlume tunnel north of Anaconda,
Mont. II is supposed that a stick of
giant powder exploded while he was
holding it in his hand, as his right
hand and arm was terribly shattered,
so that the bones are all broken and
laid bare
The Gallatin valley, Montana, is
to have new industry. Lyman Wal
ton one of the prosperous farmers of
the valley, is going to change his grain
ranch into skunk ranch and raise the
animals for the purpose of making
oil from their bodies. As the skins
are worth from rs cents to 81, and the
increase of each female is from six to
twelve every year, and as the cost of
feeding them is small. the new enter
prove may be success.
| Frank Swanson of Rock Springs has
returned from Dawson City. He has
an interest in number of Klondike
claims, besides having brought out q
4 fair-sized roll, the result of years
cleanup. He will return to Klond!ke
| during the present winter Thomas
Hartney of Rock Springs sends letter
from Dawson City to the Miner, in
which he states that there is corner
on nearly every article in Dawson. Beer
sells at 81 80 gallon, whisky at $40
/ gallon, candles, 81 each. There is
/ plenty of meat in the town, but it is
held at a high figure, mutton being
sf25 and beef s1.50 per pound. All of
the Rock Springs men who went into
the gold fields this winter are doing
well, one of them, William Forudran,
having already cleaned up $4,000.
The first locomotive ever used In
Minnesota is now switching in the
Kalispell yards of the Great Northern.
Large numbers of elk are being
slaughtered on the north fork of the
sun river in Montana, in violation OF
the game law.
During the progress of the Franey
murder trial at Butte, Mont, Attor-
new Baldwin, special prosecutor,
winked at the reporters and Judge
elaneev fined him SO for ontempt of