Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-05-18
NORTHWEST NOTES.

A postoffice has been established at
Hamilton, shendon county, Wyoming,
and Dwight g. Hamilton commissioned
postmaster.
There is little likelihood that the
mine and smelter owners and opera
tors will attack the validity Of the new
eight-hour law for Colorado.
Ex-senator Blair. of Black Buttes,
Wyo, has just finished supervising the
shearing Of over 5000 of his flock Of
sheep at that place The clip was
good.
The trial of Mrs. Jane Fish, accused
of having murdered her husband, Gay
lord Fish, by chloroforming him while
he slept, has ended in her acquittal at
Georgetown, Colo.
The Manitou Park hotel and Casino,
at Colorado Springs, Colo, which were
to have opened for the season June list,
have been destroyed by fire. The loss
is estimated at $4,000
Minnie Brown a dressmaker, and
Fireman Percy and Ball we're severely
burned at Leadville. Colo. as the re-
suit of a gasoline explosion in Miss
Browns place of business.
The copper excitement is begins
ming to made itself felt in Nevada,
Humboldt county being the scene OF
operations, and where new develop
ments promise good things.
Mrs. Emma J. Smith, postmaster at
Dallas, Colo, has been arrested on the
charge of defalcation. Her accounts
are $4,000 short The defalcation
covers a period of nine years.
Dennis Thomas, colored, was shot at
Rock Springs, Wyo., on the sth inst. !,
by George Landers, a colored miner,
and has since succumbed to his. in
iuries. Landers escaped, but his cap
ture is certain.
The big copper mines in Montana
are down for dividends this month. The
Anaconda paid a semi-annual dividend
of 81, 800, 900 on the Bird making $9,750,
900 to date. The Boston & Montan,
will pay dividend of 100000 on thu
Goth, making 81 $50 900 this year, ant
StO,750, 900 in all from the start.
Governor Richards of Wyoming anC
associates, owners of the Osceola mine
have purchased the Olive d. claim
which adjoins the Osceola and Rude
feha mines in the Battle Lake district
Development work on the Osceola anC
Olive D. claims viii be commenced a
soon as the season opens.
An unknown man was killed May 1
near Dana station, Wyo,, on the Union
Pacific by being struck by the engin
of fast freight No. 81. The man ha
apparently been sleeping on the track
There was nothing ON his person t
disclose his identity. The body wa
turned over to the authorities of Car
bon county for burial.
Commissioner Hermann of the gen
eral land office, has directed the super
vision Of al the forest groves in Cole
RADIO, except the South Platte reserv
to warn threatened invaders tina
sheep found within the limits of an
of the reserves would be put off an
the herders sub jected to full penalty {
the law for trespass.
The wool sales at Rawlins, Wyo
for the past week have aggregate
$4,000 pounds as against COS, 0t
pounds for the preceding week. Son
of the larger individual sales are
follows; William Daley. $1,000 pound
; K. A. and Myron Smiley, 21o,0t
pounds; Johnson & Co., no, 900 pound
A. NJ. startzell $4,000 pounds.
W. B. Cowan, prominent STOCKING
of Saratoga, Wyo., died after an illne
= OF ten days, the immediate cause
death being septic peritonitis. III
deceased was 40 years of age. He HI
been connected with the lye-sto,
= business Of Wyoming since 1884. |
IA was a member of Rawlins Comman
4 cry, Knights Templar, and leaves
III wife and three children.
% Six hundred and five thousal
pounds Of woods have been sold
, local sheepmen at Rawlins, Wyo., dr
ing the past week at prices rangil
from 10 to f. cents per pound. T
practice OF consigning the product
Boston and other eastern houses
storage and subsequent sale, is bel
abandoned, the producers preferri
the certainty of a direct sale to t
uncertainty of future prices.
A beet-sugar factory is to be erect
near Salinas, Santa Clara county, Ca
by Claus Spreckles, costing 81, 500
1t will be an immense plant, consu
ing 5000 tons Of beets per day duri
j the operating season. 1t will tt
out forty-fve tons of sugar eve
r twenty-four hours and distribute 81
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