Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-05-04
NORTHWEST NOTES.

IN Denver l4O,OO cigars bearing
counterfeit revenue stamps. They all
came from factories in Lancaster, Pa.
About 1000 head of horses are to be
driven from El<o, Nevada, to Salt
Lake City, in the near future, from
which place they will be thrown upon
the market.
A dry kiln and store house of the st.
Paul and Tacoma Lumber company's
mills burned at Tacoma last week. and
Cal Trosper, q fireman, was seriously
injured by falling wall
A deputy revenue collector is maxi
ing the rounds of Wyoming, in search
of cigars sent out from Lancaster, Pa,
with counterfeit stamps. An agent of
the Lancaster. firm recently passed
through the state selling goods.
Ten thousand ties belonging to the
government, and which had been re-
plevined from j. G. Teller on the claim
that they were illegally cut on gov
ernment land, were washed down the
river from Saratoga, Wyo, last week.
While quarreling about some trivial
matter at Helmville, Mont, w. b.
Woolford was shot and killed by his
business partner, W. r. Conn. The
bullet took instant effect and the
murderer gave himself up. Both men
are well known in Montana business
circles.
The owners OF the Reno, Nevada, re-
duction works, having made arrange
ments for the transportation of ore
from Orena to Reno, will begin
operations in the near future. This
will mean great deal for Reno, as it
will make that city the principal and
almost the only point for the reduction
of custom ore in the state.
The county attorney of Albany
county, Wyoming, has succeeded in
making a settlement with the Union
Pacific railroad in the matter OF claim
for delinquent taxes. The amount due
the county was $4,000. Several other
counties along the line have similar
claims, and the success OF Albany
county will be cheering news to her
neighbors.
Rudolph +. Glover, the well known
eatteman of Wyoming, died in Denver
last week. r. +. Glover was one of
the best known cattle kings of the
northwest. For the past thirty years
l., al.
with f. o. Adams, and throughout
Montana and Wyoming the two have
extensive herds and ranches. Mr..
Glover was 81 years of age
A suit which has been pending in the
federal courts for several years between
the Central Wyoming Land company
and the Union Pacific Railway COM
pany, has been settled. BY the settle-
ment, the railway company regains
possession of $3.50, 900 acres of land in
Albany county, heretofore held by the
land company. The land will be put
on the market for sale or lease imme.
] diately.
Many home-seekers have already
arrived in Durango, en- route to the
Ute reservation, which is to be thrown
open for settlement on May 4. The
reservation is of such extent and the
opportunities of securing water SO
favorable that many are at a loss to
know just where to cast their lot. AL
ready parties have had surveys for irri-
/ cation enterprises, and il is claimed
that plenty of water will be furnised
those who take up lands.
The body of Otto Goette, sheep
ranchman who was murdered on his
ranch near Byes, Colo, September 80,
1898, has been discovered The body of
Goette had been buried near a stream
on his ranch, and the spring rains had
unearthed it. A large hole in the
skull eorroborated the murder theory.
Goette disappeared and his 200 sheep
were afterward sold in Omaha by one
r. II. Beeler, whom 1t is believed
murdered him. Beeler has never been
captured.
Perry Davis and Jaeko'Brien fought
a duel with pistols on the main street
of Ophir, Colo, on the 26th u1t. Trou-
BILE of long standing between the men
led to the fight. Davis met o,Brien
and told him to heel himself, O'Brien
complied Davis fred but one shot. his
trigger refusing to work, 0'Brien ad-
yanced. fired several shots. one poin0
through both legs and another shat.
tering the collar-bone Davis will re.
cover, and now says he is willing to
consider the trouble settled.
Governor Thomas of Colorado has
vetoed the bill regulating the practice
of medicine. The bill practically
limited the practice of medicine to three
schools, allopathetie, homeopathic and
eclectic. He holds it would form ply.
sicians' trust.
James b. Lee, wealthy Wyoming
eattleman, committed suicide at Casper
ON the 2sth nlt, by shooting himself
! in the head. He had been drinking
for about month and it is believed he
was temporarily insane when he com.
, mitted the deed.
In San Francisco, Police Judge Ora
ham convicted three soldiers. Charles
Leiske, P. Simmons aud Arthur Bill