Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-03-16
NORTHWEST NOTES.


the bill permitting physicians to prar-
tice pharmacy in that state without
examination.
During the recent snow biockades
number of telegraph lines were broken
near Laramie by the snow thrown 10y
rotary plows.
The losses to sheep in the vicinity OF
Carbon, Wyo are much less than re.
ported last week The loss Is only
about 10 per cent.
Two miners, Edward Chase and Will
liam Scadden were killed in the Three
Star mine at Auburn, Gala, by the ex-
plosion OF a missed shot.
A passenger train on the Cheyenne &
Northern, containing forty-two pas
sengers, was snow-bound for over two
weeks near Iron Noun tain, Wyo.
A fire at Denver destroyed the Hun
garian elevators, rendering valueless
800, 900 bushels of wheat stored there.
The loss is estimated at about $50, 900.
The secretary OF the interior has ap-
proved for patent to the state OF Wyo-
ming a list of lands selected under the
| grant to aid the State Agricultural
college, embracing %, 2,44s acres in the
| Buffalo district.
Governor Smith has vetoed the bill
passed by the Montana legislature per.
mitting twenty-round glove contests.
In his veto message he says This
law would be an advertisement to our
state that would do us no good.
There is a strong belief in Nevada
that the Carson 4 Colorado will soon
be extended as far as Darwin. ltwould
open up country which contains vast
quantities of low grade shipping ore.
which cannot be handled proftably
under existing conditions. 1t would
mean the employment of great num-
ber of men, with all the attendant
benefits.
Cheyenne is experiencing a building
boom. Old mansions which were built
and occupied by cattle barons in early
into two and three tenement houses.
Many new houses are also going up.
The unusual activity in building is
caused by the increased forces in the
Union Pacific shops.
The purchase by the organization
committee of the Union Pacific Rail-
road company of the company lands
sold in Wyoming under foreclosure of
mortgage last week will prove bene-
fetal to all of the counties along the
line of the road, as upwards of $40, 900
of unpaid taxes is due the various
counties upon these lands.
} Communication has been established
, with Charles Reuss and Bert Frenn,
, imprisoned in the Bon Air mine at
7 Leadville, through the caving of the
) shaft, by ripping asunder the water
: pipe by charge of dynamite lowered
J to the proper depth Provisions were
: lowered through the pipe. new shaft
J will have to be sunk seventy-hve feet
; before the men can be reached.
A Denver & Rio Grande engine blew
, up at the crossing of the Rio Grande
and Santa Fe tracks south of Denver
March 10, injuring one man fatally and
two seriously. Engineer White and
: Fireman Harvey Payne we're badly
sealded The head brakeman was Sc
: riously hurt. The engine was pulling
y stock train and slipped off the track
: 1t is thought the explosion was caused
5 by the jar.
!. One of the worst storms of the sea
= = SON ragged In Cheyenne and vicinity
y March 9. stoctmen say this blizzar,
j following the extremely severe weathe
t of the past six weeks will undoub btedl
cause heavy losses in cattle and sheeI
Il For range stock some estimate the los
n as high as SO per cent, but with stock
q growers who still have hay to feed an
shelter for their herds the loss will nc
exceed 10 per cent.
" Very heavy losses are reported /
Y bands of Sleeps ranging i;i the yicinit
4 of Lusk. The various sheep camps al
N showed in at low points where th
r sheep were gathered and held for pr'
IL lection The herders are short O
"a rations and in many cases have bee
T. obliged to abandon the herds to reac
n the settlement. Losses in that part c
q Wyoming are estimatsd at from so
so per cent.
Ed Dugan of Phoenix, Ariz., WI
a shot man some time ago, was ca
~ tured by Billy Moore, deputy sheriff
I'd Phoenix, one day last week, but whi
at arresting him shots were exchange
Q, in which Dugan received wound
-. the leg, which may cause its amput
st ton Kid Dugan is only 10 years oil
to and was born on ranch in the Ton
n Basin, but was nipped in his career
r. an outlaw by being captured in tn
his first attempt.
:. Three men were badly scalded
~ the breaking in two of rotary snt
n plow at Dale Creek, twenty-five mi
,rt east of Laramie. One of the men,
se J. stovers, was terribly burned abe
.se the face and his injuries will probal
.p- prove fatal
of Owing to the rapid increase of ira