Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-09-01
NORTHWEST NOTES.

ground, breaking his wrist.
At Aspen, Colorado, Henry Mofit,
charged with shooting f. G. Jalxeman
about two weeks ago, was bound over
to the district court in $500 bonds.
e. II. Bradshaw and party of Salt
Lake passed through Kemmerer the
first Of the week on their return from
an extended hunting trip to the Piney
country and Jackson's Hole.
George Lathrop, the veteran stage
driver and scout, is in Cheyenne to take
part in the frontier exercises, to drive
the old stage coach bought and brought
in from Deadwood for the great day.
Three hundred Seventh Day Advent
lists, representing the 1000 members OF
the faith in Colorado and New Mexico,
have gathered ct Pueblo, Colo in tents
for the annual conference of the church.
At Rawlius, Wyo., DR. Magee fshed
bone from the throat of William
Burst, who suffered very severely from
eating too much sage chicken and
swallowed too many bones.
The two girls, Mary and Margaret
Sanders, who have been hunted for the
past two weeks by relatives, who bring
news that they have fallen heir to
large sum of money, have been located
RADIO.
A stranger arrived in Truckee, New,
the other day and claimed he could
drink all the whisky in the town.
After swallowing 13 big horns, he be-
came unconscious and narrowly escap.
ed furnishing the subject for
coroner's inquest
The sheep industry in and around
Rawlins, Wyo., is showing up wonder
fully of late, Ernest Sundin of Raw
Inns recently disposed of his entire
flock, numbe ring 1900 head. Numer-
GUS other large sales are reported from
different sections
The body of an unknown boy, about
is years old, was found by section
foreman of the b. & NJ railway, lying
down the side of the embanxment near
Fort Morgan, Colo. lie was shockingly
mutilated, one arm and leg being
entirely servered from the body.
The Mountain Valley Sheep company
has been organized at Douglas, Wyo,,
with capital of s2O,O 900 President,
G. f Woodwin; vice president, 0. p.
Witt; secretary and treasurer. George
II. Cross. The company has just pur-
chased 1000 head of lambs from the
Platte Valley Sheep company at $50
per head.
A broad sword contest between two
of the best swordsmen in America, ex-
Sergeant J. J. Pascoe of the English
army, and ex-Lieutenant s. w. Vidler
of the kings First Dragoon guards,
will occur at Victor, Colo, September
/ ?, the occasion of the Elks' benefit testi.
monial to Frank Leary. Both men
will fight in armor so all chances oi
injury will be provided against.
George A. Consentine, Cripple
Creek, Colo. } miner, aged 43, commit
ted suicide in his cabin the Other
evening. He cut his jugular vein will
a clasp knife and also attempted tc
beat out his brains with hatchet
The deceased has been living in tn,
cabin with his brother, and has worlxe,
in the district for some time. He wa
a member of the Cripple Creek Miners
union.
A letter received at Cheyenne by TIL
secretary of the Frontier Day con-
mittee from the agent at the shoshon,
Indian reservation says that twenty
five of the Arapahoes and Shoshones
virile bucks, are busily engaged re
vamping their ancient war and festi
val toggery and practicing for tn
sham battle with Buffalo Bills Indi
ans on Frontier Day at Cheyenne
They will be in attendance in ful
feather.
a The Wyoming petroleum industry i
about to be enlarged by the introdu,
tion of new capital into that fielC
Wealthy capitalists from Pennsylvani
have invested large amounts in til
Wyoming oil country. An Englis
syndicate and the Burlington g. Mi
a souri, Railway company are buying U
: all the available oil land in the Gasp,
: district. The principal refinery,
Casper, is soon to be enlarged to
: capacity of 500 barrels per day.
o The big reservoir on the Larami
Il Wyo., plains, 40 miles west of Whea
Q land, for the storage of the waters
o the Laramie river, to supplements Il
: supply required for the Wheatla1
II colony and taken by the tunnel fro
the Laramie river into the Blue Ora
II during the irrigation season, is to
ID built soon. This great enterprise WI
a, put the finishing stroke to the wat
Z facilities for that agricultural pride
Laramie county, the Wheatland colon
T. w. Bartels, who is working son
mining property on Engineer Mon
as tain, Colo, reports the finding of
w human skeleton near the site of an o
w stable on the road about two mil
N from Mineral Point, in San Jua
u county.