Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-05-25
N NORTHWEST NOTES.

In Olympia, Wash, DIR. and Mira Belle
Howard have been arrested on war;
rant from Peoria, H., charging them
with malpractice.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron company
has closed its coal mine at Crested
Blu tie indefinitely, throwing 500 men
out OF employment.
All the great wheat producing coun-
tier OF California expect that the yield
will be up to the average. and in somo
sections will be exceptionally heavy.
The copper product of the state of
Montana for the year 1893 was Se7 7,6o4,-
600, while Arizona produced sla,56o,-
oo0. California 81, $50, 900, and Colorado
81 100000.
Secretary Hitchcock has approved
for patent to the state of Wyoming
list of lands selected under the school
grant aggregating ,s72 acres in the
Cheyenne district
A union of smelter employees has
been organized in Denver for the ex-
press purpose of resisting efforts by
the smelters to reduce wages when the
lew eight-hour law goes into effect.
! A match has been made between
Kid Mccoy and Joe Choynski by the
Colorado Athletic club, to be pulled Off
as soon as the new prize fight law
takes effect, for purse of $4,000.
| 1t has just developed that the regis
tered mail pouch which was stolen on
the morning of May IL, contained four
teen jefferson county bonds of s., 900
each, numbered 100 to 113 inclusive.
/ 1t is expected by the officials of the
Cheyenne & Northern that 100, 900 head
pf cattle will move north over their
line during the present season. II will
require more than 100 trains to move
this business and many extra men.
| Ralph Coates Of the First California
volunteers, reported to be missing from
his command in the Philippines, is q
native of Humbolt county, CAL, aged
90 years. He was one of the crack
football players OF Stanford university.
Henry Rice,a Nevada, man, has
returned from Manila trip. He went
there to bring home his son, who Is q
private Of battery B, Utah light artil-
lery, but the young soldier declined to
return, as he preferred to remain and
see the thing out, as he expressed IL.
Former Senator Cannon of Utah and
Senator Teller of Colorado were In
conference for several hours in Denver
one day last week. Both refuse to give
the object or the result OF their meet
ing, but admitted that they were to-
gether to talk "some politics.
Ad Utah
u Snow fighters are still at work with
r dynamite and shovel on the mountain
e system of the Colorado & Southern
4 road. without the aid of dynamite IL
4 Is claimed the banks will soon dis
q appear, before the 9th of July. The
j line between Como and Gunnison may
\ be open this week.
! j. w. Edwards and associates are
! engaged In completing the contract for
furnishing 400, 900 ties to the Oregon
Short Line Railway company at Green
River. The ties are being cut and
? banked on the headwaters of the Green
7 river and will be run down to Green
= River station when the high water SUBJ
y sides sufficiently to enable this TO be
= done with security.
o The past week was favorable one
v for farm work in Wyoming, and seed
"a ing is now nearing completion in the
p more backward sections of the state.
II Some of the early -sown grain is up In
,t the eastern counties. Grass Is sup
porting stock in most portions OF the
state, but il is in need of more rain.
In the vicinity of Cheyenne the range
n. grass is backward, and is not far
r. enough advanced ut present for the
he stock.
!" A couple OF Nevada men have re-
Nv Gently come into possession OF Curl
g osity in a petrifed body. The men
" found the body in Death valley in south
aa ern California, while they were en-.
~ gagged in mining, and by careful work
ne were enabled to remove it from the
eh earth without breaking any of the
I" members The body is five feet eight
inches long and it was evidently thai
of man of strong physique, for 1t now
n. weighs approximately 800 pounds.
la, The estimated wool clip of Casper
led Wyoming, and vicinity for this year Il
icy s,7ooo, 900 pounds, which is about 100.
gh 900 pounds short of last years clip
~. The shortage is accounted for by thu
thy fact that this years wool is muci
ng cleaner than that of last year. Ths
ng quality of the wool put on the marxe
est this spring has never been better
mp With but few exceptions 1t Is very
ng clean, and is long in texture and sta
Pile. Prices have ranged from II 70 Il
cents.
RS. The oheyennes on the reservation
the are again becoming restless and ugly
mas News has just been brought from Miles
80 City that while q stepdaugnter OF
snt Rancher Hanson was riding along on
or the prairie she was overtaken py an