Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-10-12
NORTHWEST NOTES,

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have been more than 100 years old.
died at Oakland, Cal, last week. He
came to California from Hawaii more
than fifty years ago
Norman Wines, pioneer stage OPP
orator, with mail contracts in Idaho,
Montana, Wyoming L tah and Nevada,
dropped dead in Los Angeles last
while talking over the telephone.
Ed Towse, editor of the Honolulu
Commercial Advertiser, and Miss Ka-
tie Bohn. daughter of the late stephen
Bohn OF Cheyenne, were married last
week They will reside in honolulu.
On account Of an increase Of business
which necessitates the enlargement of
the plant. the Colorado Fuel & Iron
company at Pueblo has decided to in
crease its stock from Sl3, ,0oo, 900 to S25-
900, 00G.
freight train consisting of eight
cars of fruit, one carload of sheep
car of whisky aud an oil tank, were
burned up at Crows Landing, CAL,
last week, in wreck caused by mis-
placed switch.
The North Beach, Wash, lfe-saying
station was almost totally destroyed
by lightning last week The entire
upper story of the house was badly
shattered No one was injured by
the bolt, but the escape of the crew
was miraculous.
Two masked men stopped the stage
one mile from the Camp Bird mills,
near Onray, Colo, last week. They
were looking for the daily shipment of
4 bullion from the Camp Bird mine, but
overlooked the box, which contained
e12, 900, representing two days run.
! The passengers and mail were not dis
turbed.
The Union Pacific broke q local
record last week. 1t made the run
from Evanston to Ogden, seventy-six
miles, in eighty minutes, with train
OF nine cars, being the delayed Over
land Limited OF the distance covered
eleven miles from Evanston to Wasatch
was on a steep, up grade, which made
the run a remarkable one.
Commercial men who travel over the
Oregon Short Line for Salt Lake and
Ogden jobbing houses, says the HALEY
Times, say that some of their princi-
pals have more orders than they can
fill in the next six weeks, even by
working night and day Some of the
houses have withdrawn their agents
until they can catch up
Spokane mining circles are excited
over sensational developments in Re
public camp. Samples taken from tn Q
richer portion of the Republic ledge at
the bottom of the fifty-foot winze be-
ing sunk from the 400-foot level give
an assay value of sl,744. The Surprise
is drifting ON five feet of solid ore,
which runs SOS per ton. Recent assays
across the face of this drift have run
as high as stG5.
The body Of an unknown girl, about
II years of age, was found in the foot
hills near Laramie last week. The
flesh seemed to have beeu gnawed by
wild animals, the head aud arms being
severed from the body, good paii
: of slippers were on the feet A blue
macintosh and we'll preserved hat
were found near the body, but moth
j ing that tended TO establish the ident
2 ity of the unfortunate girl.
Three of the Union Pacific train rob
y bers who in July last held up the east
~ bound express near Rock Springs, Wyo.
and relieved the Pacific express mes
senge of his iron box, containing Owe
1925, 900 in cash, have been located Ii
" Seattle. dozen detectives are in thu
city, some of them ranking with tn
=" best known aud cleyerest in the conn
try. They are scattered about at tn
: different hotels under assumed names
: and quietly deyoting their time to tn
- hunting down of the gang.
- The gap in the telephone line cor
Meeting Utah With Montana wa
. closed up Saturday The line is con
i, neeted at Missoula with one extend
;, ing TO Puget Sound. 50 that Salt Lal
I, ers may now talk to people in the Pi
>, cifie northwest at the rate of Sl.s0 fc
half minute, or $40 for Eve minute
or at the rate of about cents a wore
In few months connections will
: made in Wyoming with lines frol
Salt Lake and Denver. Then Pugs
Sound can talk with residents of P
nobscott Maine
Great Falls, Mont, is experiencir
y smallpox epidemic. Twenty-eigl
he patients are now in the pesthous
-al which is crowded. The people a
Gu greatly alarmed. The rapid spread
eo the disease is due to the fact that fol
long time physicians were in doubt
me ignorance as to the nature of the
lsh sease, and called it chickenpox. I
ar truth was not discovered until aft
vs. several persons had died and hundre
he had been exposed. Among the victi
at the pesthouse is Rev. Henry v
led Engelen Of the Baptist church.
-er, Two weeks ago j. Reeder, memb
Of of Van Engelen's church, died of WI
md was termed diabetis, but which n