Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-09-07
NORTH WEST NOTES.

The strike at the capitol building AZ
Helena, Mont, is believed to be at an
end
The state OF Wyoming has 27e PEN
sioners, and they drew S39,05s last
year.
Fighty-five thousand young trout
have been distributed in the streams
Of Northern Laramie county, Wyo.
From Reno, Nevada, comes the news
that the water is so low in the Truckee
river that the electric light works are
unable to run
The Colorado regiment will probably
be mustered out on September s and
leave San Francisco for home on the
| following day by the special train.
The total output of Cripple Creek
for the month of August, according to
the most careful estimates, is 53,e5o
tons of ore, having value of 81. 900.
The mine owners and business men
of Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek,
will send to the Paris exposition in
1900 pyramid of gold worth si,ooo,-
600.
A young hobo robbed M. j, King, a
Keystone, S. D., prospector, of s27o
and gold watch at Rawlins, Wyo.,
and made his escape on one of the
westbound soldier trains
A report is current that the Wyo-
ming Southern will soon be built, all
reports to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. A large amount Of capital is said
TO be interested in the line.
Civil service examination will be held
at Carson, New. October Z, to establish
an eligible list from which appoint
ments may be made to positions in the
mint and assay office at that place
Two Wyoming volunteers, Sergeant
Benjamin Moore, company Fl, and Cor
poral Thomas Olsen, company f, died
on the voyage home of dysentery.
Moore was buried at sea and Olsen at
Nagasaki, Japan.
The following Wyoming postoffices
have been lately ordered discontinued:
Cheeseman, Big Horn county, mail to
Sunshine; Davidson, Laramie county,
mail to Mountain; Omstead, Crook
county, mail to Morse
Governor Thomas of Colorado in
letter praises the action of the depart
ment OF the Pacific for the manner in
which Colorado soldiers were treated.
Secretary Root has thanked the gov.
ernor for his communication.
John Tooker Henderson. who died at
Denver recently, was at one time cap
tain of the famous vigilantes at Vir-
, ginia City, Mont, and at several
periods in his life he helped make the
stirring history of the Rocky mountain
region by subdueing lawless elements.
i At Billings, Mont, Alonzo Testers,
|. a fish vender, attempted to criminally
assault tie young daughter of ]. A.
Morley Upon the fact becoming
!, known warrant was issued for Tee
ters arrest Whea the sheriff entered
: the house he found Teeters dead and
on the floor an empty bottle which had
contained strychnine.
. Long-distance telephone service be-
- tween Denver and Cheyenne was estab-
"a lished last week. when the line was
formally opened to the public. Cover
nor Thomas of Colorado, and Chief
Justice Potter of Wyoming, exchanged
. congratulatory messages in behalf OF
two states over the completion of the
line and establishment of telephone
service.
G. Through the arrest at Butte, Mont.
e of Mayer, an assayer of Butte; John +
10 Boyd, brother of Mayor Boyd of Phil
Il ipsbnrg, and James Mcdonald, an EN-
ployee of the Granite Bimetallic mine
el the disclosures of wholesale thefts oi
of silver bullion from the Bimetallie
n company have just been made. Al
n. least $50, 900 worth of bullion has beer
ty made away with.
Advices from Biaghamton, N. Y,
al state that company of New York
es mi1lionaires recently acquired title t.
be large tract of oil land in Wyoming
III and. under the name of the Union Oh
a company, will sink SELLS and deyelol
the properties Three prominent mem
: bers of the firm, accompanied by oi
"a
oo experts, are now en- route to Cheyenn
i, to complete the arrangements for stari
= ing work at once. Machinery was pun
- chased some time ago.
The battery of the Wyoming ligh
a. artillery came back with three officer
a. and fifty-seven men. Captain Clark.
- the commander of the battery was lei
- behind in Yokohama. 1t is presume
a. he missed the transport. First Lie,
tenant j. NJ Gilmore is in command
aided by Lieutenant C. A. Bristol. Th
'ry only deaths recorded in that comman
wo was that of Frank H. Sinex, who dis
icy in San Francisco of typhoid fever. ar
10 that of Pat Sullivan, who I'D in Hon
'ne lulu of pneumonia.
AS result of quarrel about fami
7eu affairs, Oliver Holmes. an elderly res
dent of Liyermore, CAL, was choked
~ death by his brother George In roo
.sH ad djoiuing that in which their rant