Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-01-19
NO. 33.
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Twenty gamblers left Butte within
a week for the Klondike.
Wolf hunting with hounds is active
in the Saratoga valley, Wyo.
Fort Steele ice is being put up for
Medicine Bow and Carbon, Wyo.
county bridge is to be constructed
over Rocky Ford creek, Crook county,
Wyo.
The new seven-day mail service
for Hanna, Wyo., went into effect on
the 18th instant.
Natrona county, Wyo., stockmen
report that sheep and cattle are doing
good in that section.
The shaft house and upper works of
the Leopard mine, east of Tuscarora,
were destroyed by fire last week.
AT the annual meeting of the Mon
tana State Bar association at Helena,
Charles r. Leonard of Butte, was elect
ed presid ent.
Editor ?. A. Gatchell of the Sher-
idan Journal is slated for register of
Buffalo Wyo., land office. The change
will be made about March /.
Charles Wilson of Sheridan ounty,
Wyo has been bound over in the sum
OF 8 900 to appear before the district
court on charge OF criminal assault, the
victim being IL year old girl.
Laramie eounty's (Wyo.) share, 81, 300
has been raised for county and state
exhibit at the Omaha exposition. The
full amount was pledged by leading
citizens in few hours,
Hay and Grain shipments from
Missoula, Mont, and the Bitter Root
are heavy this month much of the
stuff going to the Occur d. Alene
country.
The Carson Appeal, the Lyon County
Times and the Tust arora Times
Review have placed the name of
William j. Bryan for president in 1900
at the head of their editorial columns.
The coming Grand Army fair at
Cheyenne is now an assured success.
Presents have been donated for distri-
button to ticket holders amounting to
III, 900, and will reach the So, 900 fig
ure before the fair opens.
The offscouring Of some of the neigh
boring towns have centered in Reno.
Several of the business men have
talked the situation over and unless
certain individuals "move on within
reasonable time something will drop,
The Butte Ministerial association
which started in short time ago to
wage war on Sunday places of amuse.
ment has not by any means given up
the fight, and from what is said by
| some of the members there will likely
be some interesting developments in
the next few weeks.
at Dixon, Wyo., John Jones, Demo.
cratic candidate for county COM
missioner, who conte It'd the seat OF
w. A Clark to that position, and by
decision of the supreme court was en-
titled to same under the educational
qualification clause of the state consti.
tuition, secured his bonds during the
past week.
At Laramie recently several cases of
diphtheria developed in various parts
of the city and the school board decided
to close the public schools till further
notice. The disease is not of a ma.
lignant type and there is little ap-
prehension in consequence. One of
the cases is that of Miss Mary Wright,
a teacher in the high school.
A railroad will be built from the
tunnel at Whitewood to the coal banks
at Sundance, Wyo. Ore will be hauled
from the mines at Deadwood, and
Lead City, and treated at the mills
which will be erected on Sand creek.
and ore, coal and cattle will be hauled
from the country around Sundance,
making it paying road both ways.
The working force in the Union Paci-
tic shops at Cheyenne, has been reduced
by laying off 40 men, The force i.
now smaller in the shops than for
some years past. Such reduction ot
the working force is especially felt b,
merchants of the city, and is not
bright outlook for 1898 In picking
out the men to be laid off in the shops
superintendent O'Hearne selected, a
nearly as possible single men. who
were for the most part young men.
George Brown, the insane man who
created such an excitement in the
Missoula (Montana) hospital the other
, day, chasing out all the inmates and
= taking possession until the police
? arrived, was brought up in the distric
! court and inquiry made as to his sanity
: During the trial Brown was not quie
for an instant. He kept talking first
to one and then to another, occa
, sionally creating a disturbance by try
, ing to tear off his clothes. He told
, the jury that he knew they were his
brothers, and wished them to so con.
, tinue, and at the end of the trial he
! insisted upon shaking hands with
Judge Leslie.
A corps of Burlington & Missouri
railway surveyors is at work locating