Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-07-27
NORTHWEST NOTES.

ard shaft at Butte, Matt Hohts was In
stantly killed and Ben Wilson badly
injured.
Elwood Mead has resigned his posi-
tion as state engineer Of Wyoming to
devote his entire time TO his new posi-
tion of irrigating expert.
President A. L. Mohler Of the Ore
gon Railway & Navigation company
has been asked to take the presidency
of the Big Four at salary OF s35, ,ooe
a year.
Indian Agent Clapp of the Pine
Ridge agency denies the reported bat
tie between cowboys and Indians on
the Cheyenne river, which was re-
Gently sent out.
Charles W. Rymen of Cheyenne has
been recommended to the president
for supervisor of the census for the
district of Wyoming, by both Senators
Warren and Clark.
The old fountain geyser in the Vel
lowstone National park has broken out
in another portion of the crater The
eruptions, which are enormous,
throw out rocks and pieces of wood.
According to the Reno Journal, or
ders have been received from Wash
ington for all the silver at the Carson
mint. There are eight or ten carloads
of dollars and bullion in storage
there.
Near Pine Grove, Wyoming, Gus
Smith was engaged in hauling wood
when the wagon tongue broke, his
team ran away, the wagon was upset
and Smith landed underneath the load,
killing him instantly
Another big shipment Of cattle from
White Pine county, Nevada. was sent
out last week. The herd was composed
of all kinds of range cattle, having
quite per cent of cows and calves.
They were shipped to the eastern mar
ket.
Montana authorities are looking for
Frank Boyle, former Salt Laker, who
is accused of swindling Montana men
by representing himself as an agent of
Jh6 NtSLGIh i1ouh ~ pafihBS SoAPpAJ
of Salt Lake and selling stock, pock-
citing the proceeds.
The steam shearing plant of Messrs
Shurtliff & Houtz at Hilliard, Wyo.,
was destroyed by fire Sunday. The
loss is g., 900 with no insurance, and
includes thirty shearing machines,
engine boiler and buildings. The fire
is believed to have been accidental.
Senator Warren in response to an
inquiry made by him to the war de-
partment, received the following re-
ply from the adjutant-general: "Wyo-
ming troops will leave Manila as soon
as Grant can be coaled Delay has
been caused by heavy rains and de-
struetive typhoons"
The barbed-wire on ranch fences in
9 Mercedes county, Gala, is being utilized
: with success for telephoning between
D towns r. c. Dickinson of Stockton,
9 put in batteries and boxes and tried
the novel system. 1t was about four
d miles over the line and he claims that
:. the sound was carried better than by
L the regular system.
II There are now a hundred men EN-.
IL ployed on the site of the new town
near Truckee, New, where the pulI
n plant will be built. These are prin
n cipally engaged at present in building
e. dwellings for the employees of th'
'r company. Excavations have also beef
" made prepatory to building the dan
to divert the water from the river
r. Thirty carloads of brick for the build
at ing have been ordered.
lie The supreme court of Colorado ha
1T affirmed the validity of the law estab
S, fishing the new county of Teller
which embraces the Cripple Creek dis
" trict. The county was formed from
ID portions of El Paso and Fremont couu
j. ties by the last Legislature and citizen
IL of the latter county resisted the actio
Id on the ground that il was contrary I
the constitution of the state.
te Fred Harvey, 10 years old, was gore
IN to death by bull on farm abou
Ill eleven miles from Spokane. The boy
G. body was found in clump of bushe
k. by his father. The lad had crawle
1p to tree, pulled himself to a half-rt
clining position and died In that att
tude No one saw the bulls savae
e. attack and young Harvey was NJ
no missed until supper time.
or The supreme court of GoloraC
en- las unanimously decided that Il
IS, eight-hour law is demonstrations
er The eight-hour law, which was enaC
ed at the late session of the legislator
ON applies only to mines, smelters and +
1t the reduction of the ores. The refus
TT of the American Smelling and Refinil
al company to pay the same wages
- eight hours as had been paid for I
Ter and twelve hours caused its smelte
on to be closed on June Is, when the M
law became operative.
-, Governor Richards has called the
90 tention of the authorities at Washir
- ton to the fact that Indians are L
nj lawfully killing game in Wyomir
"a. Last week an Indian was arrested