Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-07-06
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Swan Nelson, miner, was killed in
the No. mine at Rock Springs, Wyo.,
on the goth ult He was struck by
runaway empty cars.
1t is stated that German capitalists
intend to soon build great smelter in
Shasta county, CAL The new smelter
viii double the copper output of Shasta
county
Vincent Ryan, prominent newspa-
per man of the Pacific coast and editor
Of the Tacoma News, dropped dead
Thursday morning in a Tacoma restau-
rant.
Paul Reuther, a stone mason, com
mitted suicide at Spokane by jumping
into the river. He had acted queerly
for several days, and it is supposed he
became insane over financial Difficult
4 ties.
The Bimetallic smelters at Leadville
have resumed operations, employing
about eighty men. The Arkansas Val
ley and Union smelters, employing 800
men, have made no effort as yet to re-
sumo.
Clarence T. Johnson of Cheyenne,
has been appointed an assistant in ir-
rigation, agricultural department, at
1900 per annum, The appointment
was made through the civil service
commission.
The company of the Twenty fourth
infantry which has been stationed at
Fort Russell has departed for the Phil
lppines. A troop of the First United
States cavalry has taken their places
at Fort Russell
Soldiers of companies L and NJ Twen-
ty-fourth infantry, raided a saloon at
Winnemucca, New, while their train
was passing through there en- route
for the Philippines, stole what liquor
there was in sight and shot the bar
tender, inflicting a painful wound.
The train was searched but the cul-
prits we're not identified
The sum of 81, 903, ,095.o7, or 32.e per
cent is the gain in net receipts at the
United States branch mint in Denver,
for the fiscal year ending June 80, over
that of 1898. For the last twelve
months the gold received and paid for
at this mint was S2l IA, 2i7, as against
16,240, ,44l.o3 for the year ending June
80, 1898 About 81 per cent of the bull
lion received at the mint is credited to
, Colorado mines
The manager of the Fountain hotel,
Yellowstone park, says that ON the
p6th inst, and continuing until 1880
, without intermission, there was an
eruption from crater about fifty feet
, north of the Fountain geyser, which
has always been considered 70 be eeth-
ing more than pool The size of the
opening is about the same as the
famous Fountain geyser. The erup-
tion played from 200 to $50 feet high.
The San Francisco eoroner's jury
! which investigated the killing of
Charles Kopp by his wife, found that
, the shooting was case of justifiable
, homicide. Kopp was attentive to an
other woman, to whom he had decided
| most Of his property The wife, who
, is consumptive, was goaded to her
murderons act by Kopp deiantly tell
ing her that she no longer had place
> in his affections and admitting her ac-
!. eusations against him.
The Colorado Paris exposition COM
= mission has made contract with +.
d. Higbee, representative of the
largest statue-casting firm in the
: country, for solid gold statue for ex-
hibition at the Paris exposition. The
= design represents an .'up-to-date'
6 girl, the figure of life-size being cast
. in solid gold, IS karats fine, the cast
with its base being six feet four inches
/ in height. It is estimated that mil
u lion dollars worth of gold will be used.
. A party of recruits from Cleveland,
D o., en- route to the Philippines, started
= a riot in the railroad yards at Denver
on the 3oth ult., by assaulting car
W rcpairer with a razor. In the fight
ID which ensued, large number of rail
T. road men took hand and one soldier
g had three ribs broken and several
n others received severe wounds. Two
of the soldiers, named j. J. Posey and
J. H. Masterson, were arrested by the
IS police and held for disturbance.
- David Doty, a rauchman of uint'
=. county, Wyoming, had an encounter
{. with bears last week that came nea
Is costing him his life. The old man
who is So years old, ran up agains
N three bears. He shot one, the secon,
g fought him to finish and the thir
r ran away. Bear No. got on top o
le him after shooting bear No. | befor
le he could reload his rifle, and there wa
r a lively hugging match. Doty cam
out victorious, but he will stay IN tn
- hospital awhile.
Al A Union Pacific fireman named Emi
n Anderson, fell from the running boar
he of his engine coming down sherma
II hill, in Wyoming, and was run over b
III the entire train of fifty cars, his bod
being terribly mangled. The decease
:. was single man.
Lightning struck a house in Spokan