Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-02-23
NORTHWEST NOTES.

10th inst.
The Wyoming legislature has passed
a bill prohibiting the wearing of hats
in opera houses and other places Of
amusement
Oregon celebrated the fortieth ami
versary of her admission to the Union
by appropriate exercises at the state
capitol last week.
The senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of w. A. Richards of Wyoming
to be assistant commissioner of the
general land office.
Wyoming and New Mexico stockmen
have lost thousands of range cattle and
sheep on account of heavy SHOWS and
unusually cold weather.
Word has been received in Laramie
from North Park of the finding OF the
body of Fritz Levietson, German
peddler. who had been frozen to death.
The owners of a group of copper
mines near Sherman hill, thirty-fve
miles west of Cheyenne, have sold the
same to Denver company for $40, 600.
The Wyoming legislature has mem
orialized congress to pass the bill now
pending before it to create the Tenth
judicial circuit, to include Utah, Col
orado, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.
The California Red Cross society has
decided to continue the maintenance of
its hospital station in Manila as long
as the California volunteers remain In
the Orient.
William Taylor, colored, and Wallie
Shepherd, woman and also colored,
have been arrested charged with hold
ing up man at Fort Steele and rob-
bling him of sl06.
James w. Reeves, an employee of
Fairfax railroad, near Tacoma, was
found dead from the effects of drink
ing a quart of lemon extract in topping
off whisky spree
An inmate of the Nevada state in
sane asylum escaped last week and has
not since been heard from. 1t Is feared
he has been frozen to death while
wandering in the hills.
S. 7. Wyman was killed by the acci-
dental discharge of gun at Bishops,
Nevada. He was attempting to open
a gate with the gun in his hand, when
it was accidentally discharged.
Attorney-General Ford of California
has submitted to the railroad commits
sioners an opinion, in which he says
that the commission has no jurisdic-
tion to adjust rates of the Pullman
Car company.
The snowfall at Aspen, Colo, this
winter, has been the heaviest known
for fifteen years. People continue
moving out from under the frowning
peaks of Aspen mountains, being in
fear of snowslides.
j. Il. Atkinson who stood in British
Columbia last summer and shot Will
liam Patterson, who was on the Amer
lean side at Blaine, Wash, has been
sentenced to seven years at hard labor
in the state penitentiary.
J. E. Fisher, the clever young crook
who was arrested at Cheyenne recent
ly, charged with forging checks drawn
on Governor Richards, waived his pre-
liminary examination and will plead
guilty at the next term of court.
The unusually heavy SHOWS and ex-
eessively cold weather have destroyed
1850 head of range cattle and 1900
head of range sheep in Colorado. At
S24 a head the money loss through the
destruction of the range cattle will ag
sheep at So. so per head, low estimate,
will reach $50, $50
Barney Carr was found dead in Lead
vile, his body being covered with
knife wounds Robert Strickland was
arrested on suspicion of being the
murderer, and has confessed to the
crime, but declines to state his motive.
The two men were the best of friends,
and it is believed that a we man was
the cause of the tragedy.
The house of the Montana legisla.
ture, by vote of sc to 20, killed Tooles
woman suffrage bill, which gave the
right of suffrage to women under GER
tain conditions. The woman suffrag-
lists of the state made no fight for the
bill, as it provided a property qualifi-
cation upon woman voters There is
no probability that an equal suffrage
bill will be introduced this session.
Two months ago some subterranean
action caused the water in the Sinking
Water Hot Springs, in Wyoming to en-
tirely disappear. The water has again
made its appearance and the citizens
of the Big Horn basin are rejoicing
over the fact, as hundreds of people
journey to the place annually and
battle in the waters, which have ale
Waited many of rheumatism and kim
dred diseases.
The California Raisin-Growers asso-
citation has issued an address to all the
growers in the state who are in the
combine, calling for mass meeting on
March L. The directors will then re-
sign, conceding that the attempt to
combine this year is a failure.