Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-09-22
NORTHWEST NOTES.

miles north OF Cheyenne.
The members of the Stockgrowers
association of Western Wyoming will
make application for membership to
the national stockgrowers association.
Mrs. Matilda Bartine, mother of ex-
Congressman Bartine, died at Carson,
New, September Q, at the advanced
age OF 81 years, Her father wns a
soldier in the Continental army.
The contract for the construction of
the new state capitol building at
! Helena, Mont, has been let to Jacob
Soss, of Butte, for $500, 900. There
were ten bids in all, running up to
\ sio4 900
The task Of moving 100000 sheep off
the summer range in the Big Horn
mountains, in Wyoming,is is now in pro
/ gress The first snow of the season
! fell last week. The early winter will
cause much suffering among the focks.
John J. Neary was instantly killed
and his cousin, j. f. Neary, received
injuries from which he died in a few
hours later, by a blast in the Green
Mountain mine at Butte. The men
were preparing a round of II holes
which exploded before they could get
out of the way
Work Is to commence at once on the
Big Hole dam of the Montana Power
company IT was suspended June 1st
by heavy rise of water which threat
ened the new structure. The dam is
500 feet wide and is to supply electric
power for Butte and vicinity. 1t will
be the biggest in the west.
The big forest fires which have been
raging in the Laramie Peak region,
in Wyoming, have been extinguished
A large force of men, aided by the re-
cent damp weather, were enabled to
extinguish the flames, but not until
they had burned over five square
miles of valuable timber.
The Wyoming petroleum industry is
to be enlarged by the introduction Of
new capital into that field. An Eng
lish syndicate and the Burlington &
Missouri railroad company are buying
up all the available oil land in the
Casper district, and the principal re-
finery at Casper is soon to be enlarged
to a capacity of 500 barrels per day
Forty men are at work in the pre-
liminary construction of a railway
from White Cloud district, Humboldt
county, New, to connect with the Cen
tral Pacific at Lovelock or some con-
yenient point on that line for the pur-
pose of shipping iron and other ores.
The Union iron works of San Fran
cisco is said to be interested in the
project.
w. p Campbell, superintendent of
the Wind River Indian school, Wyom-
ing, at 81 400, has been transferred to
a similar position at the Warm Springs
school, Oregon, at $1,000, in place of
Eugene c, Nardin, transferred to Wind
River. Mrs Nardin has been trans
ferred from matron at Warm Springs
to matron at Wind River at 5000 per
annum.
Quite large number of sheepmen,
Of Humboldt county, New, are dispos-
ing of their bands of sheep as rapidly
as possible, principally to Utah buy
ers. They give as their reason for so
, doing the fact that this season has
} been SO exceedingly dry in this country
haf e., /. Al
to carry them through the winter, as
the hot dry weather has left no grass
for them to feed upon.
/ One of the interesting features of the
Trans Mississippi exposition is Ne
: braska sod house, constructed under the
. direction of Mrs. ). Bowser of Norfolk
o Neb. 1t is an exact imitation of the
h house in which Mrs. Bowser lived
= when she first took up her residence il
e the state, many years ago In this
4 primitive structure the mistress serve,
i coffee and biscuits to several hundred
S visitors every day.
y Daniel Palette, an Italian mine
Il about 40 years of age, was killed by
fall of earth in the Original mine, a
Butte. The accident occurred be
e tween the fifth and sixth floors owe
Z the 1000 level Palette was workini
with several other men mining on tn
fifth floor, when the pressure of cart
on the timbers forced cave, an
q though all the other men got away
, the poor fellow was caught in the faI
e of earth and his life crushed out.
; The York block, three-story brio
~ structure on West Park street. Butt,
= Mont, collapsed, Sept, 10, carryin
down sixteen people, burying some {
> them, but so far as can be Learned
= killed no one. The fire departmer
= and citizens went to work on th
= wrecked building at once and ever
available team was pressed into servic
~ to take care of the debris as fast as
was moved. OF the fourteen workmeI
eight were injured, their hurts consis
ing principally of bruises and cuts
=, Game is plentiful on the mountain
in Wyoming, and especially SO in tn
90 famous Powder River canyon. A ban
- of elk make that place their HON
o are often seen by sheepherders an