Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-09-14
NORTHWEST NOTES.

III tuC W. SShooht oAS6oht
at 5000 per annum
The log drive OF the Rock Springs
Lumber company down Green river,
includes 25o,o 900 railroad ties for the
Oregon Short Line 200, 900 ties for the
Union Pacific Railroad company, and
zoo, 900 props for the Rock Springs coal
mines.
A plan is on foot to construct sub
stantial dam in the bed of the Truckee
river at or near the foot of Virginia
street Reno, to impound the water SO
as to make lake for bathing, fishing
| and boating in the summer; skating
and ice yachting in the winter.
! William Duncan was killed and
| Charles Olds seriously injured by the
explosion OF threshing machine boil
er at Yerington, Nevada, last week.
Duncan was formerly employed as
engineer of the steam saving machine
at the V. & L. railroad woodward in
Carson.
DIR. A. NJ. Webster a young dentist,
supposedly because of love unrequited,
shot himself through the heart at Twin
Bridges last week, dying instantly.
Webster was about 2s years of age,
and had been in Twin Bridges three
months, coming to that place from
Salt Lake City.
An effort is being made by residents
Of Sierra county to induce Captain J.
b. overton to extend the line of his
railroad from Truckee Gala, to Over
ton to Sierraville, only four miles dis
tant, thus giving the traffic Of that
fertile valley railway connection with
the Central Pacific.
A bad freight wreck occurred at Pine
Bluffs station last week on the main
line of the Union Pacific, fifty miles
east OF Cheyenne, caused by an east
= bound gravel train on the main line
being run into California freight
special. Two wrecking trains worked
for hours to clear the track.
Dorothy K. Holiday, an 1i-months'-
old Salt Lake child, treated by Chris
: tian Scientists, died last week and was
: buried without permit Investiga-
tion revealed that the child had been
sick three weeks without medical at
a tention, and Mrs. C. f. Johnson, the
r scientist is to be prosecuted.
William j. Bryan, who delivered q
speech at Carson last week, was given
the largest reception ever rendered a.
Il public man in that section. The mines
|, of Virginia City were closed down
& and all the western part of Nevada
q en- fete. From Lake Tahoe Mr.. and
Mrs, Bryan were brought to Carson in
Il the historical coach occupied by Horace
J, Greeley on his trip to that city and in
Il which U. s. Grant was also driven.
d Michael Klapak. a Slavonian coal
miner who was crushed by Union
81 Pacific freight train in the yards at
4. Rock Springs recently, died at the
ii Wyoming general hospital. One arm
W was mashed to pulp and the head and
body badly cut and torn. Klapak had
:. over 5000 on his person at the time OF
). the accident. The coroner's jury re-
!, turned verdict exonerating the CON-
:. pany from any blame in the matter.
n. Joseph w. O'Neil, secretary of the
J. Cheyenne fire department, has been
!. arrested charged with incendiarism
= He confessed to having started two
- hres during the past month. He had
., no motive, he said, but simply could
not withstand the impulse to set tn.
buildings on fire. During the past tws
- years there have been fifty incendiar,
:, fires here. He used bicycle to GO
- :, ont of the vicinity of the fires afte
- starting them. He has been an activ
fireman for two years and II is believe,
during that time have started most 0
laa the incendiary fires.
'u' The Nevada Power company la
'ns been organized at Reno, Nevada, an
'"' proposes to transmit power from tn
." canyon east of Reno to the comstocl
for pumping and other operations, a
te well as distribute power to Reno an
IN vicinity. The canyon is eleven mile
or nearer to the Comstock than is Floris
err ton, the point from which simila
all plant has been proposed. The con-
pany is capitalized for $500, 900, and
shs backed by eastern capitalists. Article
on OF incorporation have been dled an
eu officers elected.
The sentence of death imposed upo
~ Thomas MacVeach, the Wyoming vo
unteer, who assaulted his captain
ghf Manila, has been commuted to life In
the prisonment by the president Befoi
"a leaving the Presidio, year ago,
yai assaulted comrade William Ferris wit
enc a knife. Because a companion vi
not released from the guardhouse
;.,. lay In wait for his captain. D.
osa Wright of company G, First Wyomin
,o.. with knife. The captain drew q /
ori. volver and marched him off to pris'
T.. again. He was taken TO Alcatr
island last week to begin his senten'
~. A tremendous rush of cattle FRI
tad shipping points In Colorado, Wyomir
,na Utah and other cattle-raising stat
,,n. has begun, and the railroads have
M. much as they can do to handle