Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-06-15
NORTHWEST NOTES.

has already been paid.
While leading a horse at Great Falls.
Mont, Guy Steffey was caught in the
rope and dragged to death before his
fathers eyes The boy was years
old.
The machine and blacksmith shops
of the Western Iron Works at Butte
Mont, together with all the valuable
patterns, were destroyed by fire last
week. Loss, S75, 900.
The locomotive Lion, the first engine
owned by the Virginia q Trutlsee rail-
road company, is being reGtted and
changed to a narrow gauge to do duty
in the Carson & Colorado yard at
Keller, Nevada.
f. E. Parker, formerly quarterma,ter
sergeant of GrigsJy's rough riders.
and who enlisted il South Dakota with
company G, was instantly killed in tine
West Colusa mine at Butte. hs failing
down the shaft.
A. Kennel of Milwaukee was rnu
oyer by Union Pacific freight train
az Cheyenne receiving injuries which
win likely prove fatal. His right leg
was crushe I, rendering an4qulation
necessary. and skull fractured.
Rev. J. N. h. Goss, OF San Francisco,
rs been appointed customs iuspec-
tor by Collie tor jackson. His name
was taken from the eligible list He
is an Episcopal minister, originally
from Ouray, Colo, and win abandon
the pulpit to enter the government
service.
Bert Philips, a sheepherder en-
ployed on one of the Pole creek ranches
o. the WARREN livestock company
n ear Cheyenne was killed by lightning
last week. Ills hat and one shoe were
torn in pieces but there were no marks
on him except on the back OF the head
upon which the bolt descended.
A mortgage on the n. c. & o. rail
way in Nevada has been recorded in
the sum of S 100000 TO Moran Bros. of
New York. The revenue stamps on the
document an ounted to S74950, which
represents what Uncle Sam will get on
the transaction. Tie money will be
used to improve and extend the road.
Prof. f. j. Van Wrinkle, hypnotist
and formerly teacher in the normal
school at Weston, Or, is lying in the
hospital with his skull crushed the
result of an encounter with his brother
iu-law, Fran McGhee The men quar-
relied over family matters, and McGthee
struck his opponent on the head with
hammer, intlicting probable fatal
injuries.
A fire in IL { shaft house of the Park
Regent mine at Aspen, Colo, caused
the death Of p. A. Geadman, who was
working in a drift, of the mine a
number of miners were overcome by
smoke and gus and taken out in an un-
conscious condition. All recovered
but Headmau who leaves a wife and
five children.
The Union Pacific coal company has
purchased the buildings at Camp Pilot
Butte, near Rock Springs, Wyo., which
were occupied by United States troops
until quite recently, when the post was
a oandoned The company will rebuild
the structure and make small dwell
/ ing houses O. them for the employees
! OF the coal ines.
There has been a second attempt to
/ burn the Episcopal church in Carson,
i Nevada The prompt action of the
+ Il re department saved the building, in
which lindling and ceal oil had been
i strewn. An investigation showed that
4 an attempt was made to set fire to the
/ Catholic church and public school
/ Buildings y reward has been offered
for the capture of The unknown incen-
diary. There is talk of lynching him
i if caught.
A locomotive, when taking water at
/ a tank near Hickman, Colo, on the
I Colorado Micl land, broke away from It's
1 crew and started on n wild run down
grade. Near Buena Vista the runaway
crashed into the eastbound passenger
/ train. Both were totally wrecked.
Fireman George Boswicll was killed
and Enginee Arthur Laloud received
ia tai injuries. The express and bag
gage cars were badly damaged No
/ passengers were hurt.
A stabbing aifray occurred at a
81 eep-sheariI & camp sixty miles west
OF Casper, Wvo., a few days ago. a
hcrder named William Quinn went Ia
Il camp fro another camp nearby,
and asked the cool, fellow named
Sam Smith, Tor something to eat, both
men being il the employ Of Patricl,
sullivan. Smith refused and aquarrel
er sued, during which Quinn was stab
bed in the back with butcher knife
in the hands of SIN ii.
Advices fir I'm Buffalo, Wyo., state
IL at Jay Moore, wel known citizen
living on era " Woman river, near that
place, was drowned while attempting
to ford the stream on horseback.
Moore and the horse were swept down
stream.
Mrs. Rosint de Cleo, who recently
arrived in Sat Franc SEQ from Portland