Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-03-23
NORTHWEST NOTES.


west of the Rocky mountains is an
nounced.
The Grand Junction foundry at
Grand Junction, Colorado, was destroy
ed by fire on the 14th inst. Loss S4,-
600, with insurance OF 1000.
d. c. Corbin, of Spokane, and asso-
cistes, will establish a beet-sugar fac
tory near Fairfield. Wash. One thou
sand acres of land have been secured
for site.
Frank r. Pellet, a Great Northern
freight conductor, was killed at Adrian,
| twenty miles west of Spokane. He
was on the caboose into which light
locomotive crashed.
A huge avalanche of ice and snow on
the Great Northern railway near We'll
lington has done such damage that traf.
fic between Seattle and Spokane was
suspended for several days last week.
Mrs. Eichstad, of Olympia, Wash,
threw herself under Port Townsend
Southern train near Tumwater and
was instantly killed. She was about
go years of age and Of unsound mind.
At Grand Junctian, Colorado, two
non-partisan tickets are in the field
for the voters to choose from at the
municipal election and the Democrats
are contemplating putting up ticket
The first train to reach Como, Colo. +,
from Denver since February 81, steam
ed into that city on March 10, and was
enthusiastically received by the citi-
zens Of Como. The train had been an
entire week coming from Grant, a dis
lance of 23 miles.
The train that has been snow bound
on the Cayenne & Northern railroad
for the past four weeks, was aband-
were taken in wagons from A.tus to
Horse Creek, where they were trans
ferred to a train and taken to Chey-
enne.
Railroad men report that fasteners
are coming to the northwest in greater
numbers than ever before, even than in
the boom days of 1882 They have
been coming for thirty days, though
the stream has not been particularly
notable till within the past week oY
ten days.
Red" Pipkin, leader of the gang
which held up a Santa Fe Pacific train a,
CIRCUITS Station, New Mexico on March
30, 1898, has been lodged in Jail at Win.
nemucca, Nevada. Pipkin admits his
requisition. He will be taken to New
Mexico for trial
Residents of the mining town OF
Hayden Hill, Lassen county, Gala, In
the extreme northeastern portion Of
the state, are greatly excited over ar
exceedingly rich strike of gold ore
The vein is about IS inches wide at q
feet from the surface, and 1t is said
prospects from So, 900 to $4,000 pei
ton.
Messrs. Keefe & Bradley, OF Chey.
ment building, have been given a con
tract to repair and rebuild the govern
ment palace in Havana, which is K
be used as a United States government
from Cheyenne to Havana at once Il
work on the proposed changes.
Serious range troubles are imminen
in eastern Laramie county on the rang
between Salem and Horse creek be
tween Mark Goad and G. j. Heysham
large stockmen, who recently placed
large number of cattle in this district
and q number of small ranchmen VIII
occupied the range for several years
The small ranchmen have given tn
newcomers notice to vacate, or prepar
for trouble.
Robert Pillson, noted character O
the Platte valley, died at Saratoga
Wyo., last week aged S. Pillson wa
an old-time freighter and India
fighter. Lately he has been in part
nership with Lord Rolli, a wealth
Englishman, in the stock business
PiIlson weighed over 300 pounds, an
nine years ago, under his personal d.
rection he had an immense coffin TO
himself made which weighed 20
pounds, and in which he was buried.
The Wyoming state board of equal
zation has raised the valuation upo
live stock for purposes of taxation 3
per cent over last years rates Rang
cattle are raised from Sl5 to $40 pc
head; range sheep from ST. rs to So. %
and other classes of stock, excepting
horses, which are unchanged, ar
raised in the same proportion Tn
raise In Shese valuations will incr cas-
the assessed valuation Of the state O
Wyoming 81, 900, 900.
At Cripple Creek last week, job
Buzanez, aGreek miner, shot and kille
Robert Shaw, another miner. SHAY
fred the irst shot, when Buzanez re
turned The fire, the bullet cutting al
artery IN Shaw's leg, from which h
bled to death before physicians arrived
Andrew A. Grome, the Democratic
nominee for mayor Of Victor, Colo, i
dead from the result of an explosion
n 4.