Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-12-01
NORTHWEST NOTES.

| spector in charge at Denver, to be
chief inspector of the postoffice depart
ment.
Simon Goggenheim, Denver man,
was married at noon on Thanksgiving
day, and to celebrate the occasion he
gave a turkey dinner to 1000 children
of that city.
Andy Johnson and r. A. Smiley of
Rawlins, Wyo., have purchased be-
tween 5000 and 5000 head of ewes
from Utah parties, which win be
shipped iu within the next few days.
The committee in charge of arrange
ments for the coming convention of
the National Livestock association in
Denver, has rejected the proposition to
make bull-fghting feature of the
outdoor sports on that occasion.
G. f. Pardon, "ten-year man." who
had been treated as trusty, escaped
from the state penitentary at Laramie
last week A reward of 500 is offered
for his capture Pardon is believed to
have gone south into Colorado
In Denver a highwayman walked
into the jewelry store of S. Tobias at
Fortieth and Market streets, and with
revolver, forced the proprietor to
give him thirty-four gold watches,
worth about $500, and made his escape.
Wagner Hurlburt, aged "a, was cleo
trocuted at Spokane, while attempting
to fix an electric light. The lights in
the barn failed to work, and Hurlburt
thought he could make the repairs
without assistance He accidentally
got hold of live wire, with fatal re-
suits.
Mrs. Nettie r. Craven has petitioned
for family allowance of SIS 900 per
month from the estate of the late
James G. Fair, the allowance to COM
mence at the date of his death. This
would mean $24O,000 back allowance
Mrs. Craven claims to be Fairs surviv-
ing widow.
Next week the water will, for the
I first time, be turned into the fumes
and tunnels of the Southern California
Power company in the Santa Ana can
yon. The plant has been two years in
building, and has cost $500 600 Elec-
tricity of a voltage of 80, 900 is sent
over copper wire to Los Angeles, over
eighty miles ayav
Emmett Loucb, aged IS, of Cheyenne
was fatally injured by being run over
by Union Pacific freight train near
Cheyenne. Louck was stealing ride
on westbound freight train to Lara
mic and fell beneath the wheels. He
was found on the track, having lain
eight hours after the accident. His
right leg was injured so that amputa-
ton near the hip was necessary.
Gus Carl has been convicted. in the
district court at Cheyenne of the crime
of attempted murder. Carl was en-
ploYed as foreman of a sheep camp. He
became messed at a sheepherder named
Glib Clark, who he thought was trying
to supplant him as foreman, and delib-
erately shot him, inflicting serious
wound. The penalty is imprisonment
from one to fourteen years.
Forty-eight four horse teams, engi-
neered by Shoshone bucks, squaws and
papooses, came into Casper, Wyo, last
week after freight. Uncle Sam not
only feeds and clothes his wards but
pays them well to haul the supplies to
the reservation. Their stock and wag-
ons are probably better than that of
their white brothers in central Wyo-
ming, and they are well supplied with
money.
A private letter from Washington
says the war department is preparing
TO wage war on northern Wyoming
bandits, having acceded to the de-
mands of the postofiice department for
aid in discriminating the robbers. The
letter says large force of armed men
will be sent to the "Hole-in-the- Wall"
country and hunt down to the death
the desperadoes and all abettors who
have been assisting the lawless men.
The coroner's inquest over the re-
mains of Lillian Brands, the 13-year-
old girl of Oakland, Cal, who was sup
posed to have committed suicide by
hanging at Berkeley last Saturday, re-
suited in verdict charging her father
with the murder and naming her step
mother as accessory. The evidence
tended to show that the child had been
beaten to death and hanged to a bed
post by those responsible for her death.
The body of r. T. Rombauer, MEM
Der Of United States mineral land com
mission of Missoula district, Montana.
was found near Swan Lake. Mr. Rom
bauer left Missoula November 12 for T
Commissioners camp, 1870 miles from
Missoula He died of heart disease.
Jess Lennon of Douglas, Wyo., was
shot and almost instantly killed at
Glen Rock by Pete Matson while irving
to separate Matson and John Farrell.
who were engaged in drunken brawl
Matson is now in Jail on a charge of
murder
Two Osecola Indians, Shoshone Bill