Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-07-13
NORTHWEST NOTES.

Washington for 1898 is estimated at
364l3, 794 bushels.
Fire broke out in Reno, Nevada, on
the night of the 4th, and number OF
buildings were destroyed.
At Oakland, Ore, fire destroyed two
entire blocks OF store buildings. The
loss is estimated at $40, 600.
Collector of In nternal Revenue Lynch
announces the total receipts for the
Firat district of California for the fiscal
year ending June 3o at 50, 724,47s.
George Hyde was held up by two
men near Lakeview, Wash. He re-
sisted and one OF the robbers shot him
in the hip, indicting serious but not
fatal wound.
The main building at the White Sui
phur Springs, near Ellto, New, was
destroyed by fire last week. This is
the second time the place has been de-
stroyed by fire.
Emile Anderson a fireman, fell from
his engine between Borie and Chey-
enne, Wyo., and was horribly mangled.
He was not missed until the train ar
rived in Cheyenne.
The Burlington surveying corps
operating in Wyoming has now reached
4 the Elk Mountain coal fields, where
the company is interested to the ex-
tent of $4,000 patented acres.
At Victor, Colo, five tons Of dyna-
mite was exploded on the Fourth, In
blasts of 200 pounds each, the last
charge consisting Of 500 pounds. The
shock was felt at Pueblo eighty miles
away
About 100000 pounds Of Nevada wool
was shipped to St. Louis last week.
This is the first Nevada wool to go to
the eastern city, the greater portion
heretofore being sold to San Francisco
merchants.
According to reports received at the
adjutant generals office, fifty nine
members of the Second Oregon volun-
teers have been killed in battle or
died of disease since the regiment
left, on May 10, 1898.
The officials of Winnemucca, New,
have brought to the notice of the war
department the outrages committed by
soldiers of the Twenty Fourth while
en- route to the Philippines, and the
guilty parties will probably be appre-
hended and punished
While workmen were preparing to
solder leaky kerosene can at the
Continental oil works, Butte, case
of gasoline exploded, burning Robert
l.. Langstaff, one of the employees, SO
badly that he died. John Gillston
was badly burned. The other men
say there was no fire near the stuff at
the time.
The old wagon road from Lake Ia
hoe to Sacramento is to be put In hrst-
class repair ut a cost of $50. 900 to the
state of California. 1t is one of the
most beautiful roads in California,
winding, as it does, through the higher
Sierras, along canyons OF great depth,
and commanding views OF surprising
grandeur.
A relief expedition is being organized
to search for Messrs. Henry Neleigh,
John Hanna and Hanson, who left
Virginia City, Nevada, nearly three
months ago on prospecting trip. The
last heard from the party was in the
early part of May, when they were
camped in the vicinity of Pine Grove,
Esmeralda county Henry Neleigh,
the captain of the party, is an expert.
enoed backwoodsman.
Dan Lucey has been convicted al
Butte, Mont, of numbering Patrick
} Reagan. Lucey and Reagan left Butte
on September last to 60 to British
. Columbia for work. Reagan had con-
siderable money with him. His body
} was found next day some distance from
the railroad track in the canyon. The
/ head had been smashed with a rock
: and the pockets rifed. Lucey was
, caught later in Victor, Colo.
The Nebraska, Wyoming & Western
: railroad has filed articles of incorpora-
tion with the secretary of state of
Wyoming. This company is engaged
: in building line of railroad south
from Alliance Neb., to the main line
Of the burlington, which enters Dem
+ yer. From Camp Clark, on the Platte
river, and about forty miles south OF
J Alliance, line is now being built to
the Hartville iron mines and on west
through Wyoming.
/ Near Bozeman, Mont, on the night
of the 4th, bicyclist, supposed to be
, w. f. Rhoada of Sparta, Wis. was
shot and killed. He was attempting
. to enter the cabin of William Adams
and had just pried open the shutter To
a the window, when trap gun was dis.
a charged and he received the full forcs
of its contents In the left side. Ths
!, cabin had been robbed several times
u and Adams had taken this means te
i protect his property from tramps, will
S the above fatal results.
Since July / The Oregon Short Lin.
J. has moved over /, 900 ears of sheep anc
d cattle east from near the Oregon line
b and the rush Is as heavy at present o