Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-05-12
NORTHWEST NOTES.

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year was 10 per 1000 inhabitants.
The state of Wyoming contains
1900, 900 acres of school land now sub
ject TO lease.
All the male students of the Wyo-
ming University have enlisted. Only
the girls are left.
Norman Mcmillan, pioneer OF north
ern Wyoming, died at Buffalo, Wyo.,
one day last week, aged 60.
Tracklaying ON the railroad branch
from Whitehall, Mont, is proceeding
at the rate of a mile per day.
The Merchants and Miners bank of
Phillipsburg, Mont, has declared an
other dividend Of 40 per cent.
At Casper, Wyo., it showed for three
days last week, and 1t is said that
stock has suffered in consequence.
John Pierce of South Pass, Wyo., was
killed one day last week near Crook
sons ranch, by falling from wagon.
Charles Cunningham, alias John
Walker, Bozeman, Mont, horsethief,
was captured at Butte one day last
week,
The insulators are in place between
East Helena and Canyon Ferry, Mont,
and the stretching of wire has COM
menced.
Frank Borg was stabbed in the back
at Butte as the result of a war discus
sion with two Austrians, who took the
Spanish side.
An oil syndicate is prospecting in
the vicinity of Douglas, Wyo., with
gratifying results Ten wells are to
be sunk at once.
Edward Infanger, miner employed
at the Bald Mountain mines at Marys-
Vile, Mont, was fatally injured by fall
ing down shaft recently.
Phillipsburg Mont, is overrun with
men seeking employment, they hav-
ing heard of the proposed resumption
of work at the silver mines there.
Under the new orders from the war
department for four troops of cavalry,
one to be made up exclusively of rough
riders is being organized in Butte.
The second victim of the runaway on
Waltons grade, Bozeman, Mont,
James O'Brien, died and the brothers
were buried together one day last
week.
Governor Sadler shipped thirty-one
carloads of cattle from Elko, New, to
Omaha one day last week. The cattle
are from the governors ranch in Hun
| tington valley.
An insane man attacked Frank Ger
main, manager of the Lafayette hotel
at Winnemucca, New, and inflicted
sixteen dangerous knife'wounds before
he was frightened away.
Earl Wilson, a son of the county
commissioner of Lyon county, Nevada,
was dragged over half mile by a
horse lately, over sagebrush and rocks,
without being seriously injured.
The Wyoming general hospital at
Rock Springs has been completed and
accepted by the state board of chart
ties and reform. The patients and
other property are being removed
from the city hall to the new build
ing.
Colonel Torrey has made a call on
Sweetwater county, Wyo., for volun-
teers for his regiment of cavalry A
number of riders have already enlist
ed, and doubtless the country will fur
nish full company within a week or
ten days.
The death of w. G. Hyde, formerly
of the Comst took, has been announced.
He was one of the most popular edu-
Gators of Nevada up to ten years ago,
when he removed to the coast, An
other Comstocker has also crossed the
divide. Hugh Reese was known to all
the old-timers, having come west as a
soldier and taken up the business of
running hotel.
The case of the county of Laramie,
| Wyo, against ex-Treasurer John Rob-
erts and his bondsmen to recover coun-
ty funds lost by the failure of the Kent
bank of Cheyenne, resulted in finding
a verdict of SIG, 900 for the county. In
like suit recently brought by the
state of Wyoming against ex-State
| Treasurer Otto Gramm and his bonds
men to recover S45 900 lost by the same
| failure, the suit was decided in favor
of the bondsmen
The farmers of Washoe county, Ne
vada, have commenced the agitation
of proposition to save the water now
running to waste In that section. and
have appointed committee to devise
ways and means to bring the scheme
| to success.
Walter Lakes, 9years old son of Prof
Arthur Lakes, the eminent mineralo-
gist, was accidentally shot and killed
recently by his 13-year-old brother at
Denver. The two brothers, with other
boys in the neighborhood, were play
ing soldiers
During this season there have been
shipped from Dayton, New, seventy
six carloads of potatoes, or nearly 1900
tons, to California. The potatoes av-