Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-08-09
NORTHWEST NOTES.

thirty years ago.
There will be no peaches or prunes
exported from the region about Los
Angeles this year. according to state
ments of prominent fruit growers.
Nearly all the teamstcrs of the trans
Ter companies of Portland, Ore, have
struck for an increase In wages. The
men are now receiving Sc per day, but
they demand $3.50.
The Democratic state committee Of
Colorado has decided to call the state
convention for the purpose of nomin-
ating state officers and electors to meet
in Denver on September IL.
Sheriff Lane. of Buffalo. Wyo., has
returned from Weston county, where
he captured Eli Smith after an exciting
chase across three counties Smith is
charged with horse stealing.
Officers are | o!.ing for two men who
are charged with borrowing horses and
saddles in Saratoga, Wyoming, and
riding the animals TO Rawlins, where
Application for one of the largest
tracts of timber ever sold by the state
of Washington has been made to the
board of state land commissioners 1t
includes timber of 2 900 acres OF land.
situated partly in Ventura and Los
Angeles counties, CAL, the property of
David c. Cook, the Chicago publisher,
has been purchased by syndicate Of
Los Angeles oil men
William e. Phillips, railway postal
clerk of San Francisco has been or
dered to Nagasalxi to take charge of
the United States mails at that point,
in connection with the new postal SER
vice for our troops in China.
About 1000 range horses were sold
at Dillon, Mont, there being fierce
competition between purchasers from
all over the country, the horses bring,
ing fair price. The most of the hor ses
will be shipped TO eastern points.
Walter Green, aged %, committed
suicide at La Grande, Or, last week by
shooting himself with a revolver On
his keyring was tag with the
words: "5o7 Main street. Buffalo, N.
Y" Green had been on protracted
jag.
At La Grande, Or, fire destroyed
Bolton & Bodman's large implement
warehouse a warehouse belonging ia
the Oregon Railroad & Navigation
company, and seventeen freight cars
The total loss is estimated at about
$40, 900.
"A cloudburst along the Verde rtker,
in Arizona, resulted in the drowning of
j. III. jacobson and NJ Williams, pros.
| pectors from Iowa, while many other
campers along the banks of the river
were caught unawares and their outfits
washed away.
n. S. Ford, laborer on the tunnel al
Dale creek, Wyo., was killed while
ascending the shaft. He was taking a
number of drills up in the cage, plain
steel platform for hosting cars, when
one of the ten-foot drills caught on one
the timbers, doubled over Ford and
crushed him to death.
Attorney d. A. Reaville, Of Rock
Springs, Wyo., who has returned from
Browns Park, where he has been in
vestigating circumstances surrounding
the murder of Matt Rash, a wealthy
cattleman of that section, says that
three or four prominent citizens OF
Browns Park will be arrested for COM
plieitv in the murder.
A landslide occurred at Monument,
Colo, which damaged the reservoir
dam, small stream is now running
through it aud it is feared the dam may
go ont The reservoir covers seventy
acres, is ten to forty feet deep and is
now bankfull. Monument is on high
ground, but should the dam go out,
Colorado Springs would suffer, and the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad would
sustain injury to its tracks.
w. II. Rowe, of Laramie. and part
ner named Wheeler, were murdered by
outlaws while on a hunting trip near
Morenci, Arizona. The bodies of the
two men were found buried in hole
formed by the upturning of the roots
of tree. Each had a bullet wound in
the head, having been shot from tho
rear. The theory for the shooting is
that they were taken for prospectors
with money by the band of Mexican
outlaws operating in the vicinity OF
Eagle river, near which the bodies
were discovered.
A lively prize fight took place at
Rock Springs, Wyo., last week in
which Jack Stelzner and Dummy Row
an were the participants After six
teen hard-fought rounds the referee
awarded the light to Jack Stelzner on
points.
Wyoming officers have returned from
Horton, Kans,, where they went with
requisition papers for two men who
were accused of buying q band OF
horses from Sheehan Bros, of Rongis,
Wyo., and paying for the same with
wor shless money