Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-06-08
NORTHWEST NOTES.

attempting to ford the river.
A. w. Rynearson, one of the wealth
lest rapchers in Oregon, was drowned
In the Grand Ronde river on the 23rd'
The rivers all over Wyoming, and
especially the North Platte and Big
Laramie rivers, are rising rapidly. All
streams are higher than for many Year,
past.
Notice has been given of general
increase of 10 per cent in wages at the
Bessemer Steel works of the Colorado
Fuel & Iron company at Pueblo. About
l,700 men are benefited
Engineer Stridley, who is in charge
Of the large party of Union Pacific sur
veyors engaged in the work of survey
ing the Athol hill cut off, south OF
Cheyenne, has issued instructions to
rush the work as rapidly as possible.
Pete Horn, the colored soldier who
has been on trial at Denver for the
murder of his comrade, Private Albert
Pemberton, at Fort Logan on April 10,
was found guilty of manslaughter.
The extreme penalty for manslaughter
is three years imprisonment.
During the past few weeks a number
of cars of inf1ammable merchandise
have been destroyed by fire while pass
ing over the Wyoming division OF the
| TTptA a. fria have
been issued to all conductors to haul
cars of infiammable freight in the rear
end of trains
At session of the Cumberland
Presbyterian assembly, speech was
delivered by the Rev. Chalmers Bourne
of Texas, denouncing the Roman Cath
olic church. He stated that it was
very difficult for Professionals to do
successful PROSECUTING where the Cath
Ollie church had established missions.
Solomon Bachart, young man liv-
ing near Marks Prairie, Oregon, was
found in the woods last week having
shot himself. Miss Hilton, aged II.
L
saulted and dragged from her horse by
Bachart She reported that Bachart
tried to kill her. Bachart belongs to
a respectable family.
The Butte trades and labor organ.
izations have adopted resolutions in
sympathy with the Wardner miners,
and in which they declare that "a
reign of terror prevails in the town
and vicinity of Wardner, Ida, brought
about by un-American, tyrannical and
outrageous mandates promulgated by
General Merriam"
Charles W. Whitney and Frank
Whitney, brothers, were drowned at
Palouse rapids, about three miles be.
: low Grange, Wash, on the construc'
ton line of the Snake River Valley
railroad. They were shooting the
rapids in a canoe, when it struck a
. rock and capsized. Both men were
, carried down by the strong current.
The order for the abandonment OF
, Fort Washable, Wyo., has caused con-
sternation among the people of Ian
ders, which is in close proximity to the
Wind River reservation, upon which
are located some 1000 Arapahoe and
Shoshope Indians. 1t is feared the re.
: moval OIL the troops will be the signal
: for an outbreak between the two
: tribes, who are not on very friendly
terms.
, The uuwatering of seven great silver
) mines of Creed Colo, was begun I'M
} expectedly when diamond drill,
, which was being operated in the Mel
son tunnel. tapped the bottom of the
: Chance shaft. Seven big mines will be
drained by the Nelson tunnel, includ-
, ing the Chance, Commodore, Amethyst
and New York. The lower workings
! of these mines were all abandoned
. some time ago on account of the water
4 which was hundreds of feet deep.
An attempt was made upon the life
of Captain William c. Brown, com
, mander of Fort Washable, by one Of
his men, Private James R. Workman
i Workman imagined that the captain
had not treated him right, and, filling
himself up on beer, went after the cap
tain. He was discovered by the guarC
:, before he had done any damage anc
!, disarmed and thrown into the guard
! house Workman subsequently suf
: fered from a severe attack of deliriun
tremens.
q While fording stream near Lusk
3 Wyo., Elliot w. Brown foreman of the
New York Livestock company and ont
:. of the best known men of the stat,
met death in very peculiar manner
The current was very swift and carried
the horse which Brown was riding
off its feet. The animal was rollet
!. over, throwing Brown against rock
o knocking him senseless The men o
a his outfit got him out of the strean
e after he had gone down three times
e An attempt was made to resucitate him
n but without avail.
The remains of man were found OF
+ the 22nd ult., near Tie Siding, Wyo
A Deceased had evidently been lost in