Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-07-05
NORTHW EST NOTES.

positions of postoflice clerk and carrier
will be hela at Reno, New, August 4.
! The electrical works and machine
shop of Flint Il Lomax, Denver. Colo.
were damaged by fire Sunday after
noon to the extent of s75, 900.
a discovery of gold paying gravel,
paying $50 day with the dry wash
ing process, is reported to have been
made in Esmeralda county, New, about
thirty miles east of Silver Peak.
f. Garden of Seattle manager for
the >. q. Adams company system Of
warehouses along the Great Northern,
estimates Washingtons wheat crop,
barring bad luck at 80, 900 900 bushels.
The steamer Aberdeen reports the
suicide at Nome Of Ben King said to
be a member of a prominent Montana
family. He shot himself with a revol-
yer because of Quarrel with woman
with whom he lived.
The safe OF Cos grtf Bros. at Medi-
cine Bow, was blPwn open Wednesday
night by unknown burglars and the
contents of the safe were carried off.
No trace of the burglars has been
found
Investigation S shows that there is no
truth in the story sent out from Boise
that Wood Riv er boy has leprosy.
The 'son of ah Episcopal clergy
man mentioned evidently means a
young man who has no symptoms of
the disease
The Pacific Coast Borax works, con-
trolled by "BoraX King Smith have
been shut down Indefinitely, throwing
100 men out of employment. The shut
down is attributed to heavy advance
in the freight rate on crude borax
from Death valley.
| In Tacoma, Wash., fire DESTROYED the
warehouse of the Puget Sound Lounge
and Mattress Factory, the buildings of
the Union stoclEyards, and damaged
Northern Pacific property in the COM
pany freight yards. Loss, $4,000.
| Two iremen We're hurt
The Florston paper mills of Nevada
are now employing about so men. The
mills are at prese nt making only brown
wrapping paper but when the ma
chinery gets in good running order all
kinds of paper will be manufactured
and about 400 men employed.
The reduction works of the Detroit
| Copper company at Morenci, Ariz., has
been destroyed by fire. The works
consisted of a l50-ton concentrator.
smelter, furnaces and converters. The
fire will throw large number of men
temporarily out Of employment.
Night Foreman Jack Corkish of the
April Fool mine at De Lamar, Nevada.
was fatally injured by premature
blast he was standing directly over
the loaded hole when it exploded.
Corkish was to have been married on
the Sunday following the accident.
The Southern Pacific has authorized
the employment agencies in Ogden to
furnish 700 men for work on that road.
From fifty to 100 men are being sen,
out of Ogden to work on the various
! lines of railway running out of this
city, and yet tn demand cannot be
met.
Smallpox has broken out in the
family OF the postmaster at Alpha,
Wash, and young man handled the
| mails at the time he had the eruption.
case in Chehali is is the result, and
other cases have been traced to Alphs
postotiiee. FUN cation of mails pass.
ing through Alpha Office has been or.
dered
1t the solicitations of Senator War.
rem the supervising architect will at
once advertise for bids for completion
of the United States public building al
Cheyenne. There is available for com.
pleting the building S175,0oo, and ii
bids not exceeding this amount are se-
cured, work will commence on the
building within Ehree months.
General John Pierce, a pioneer and
prominent railrohd engineer and sur
veyor of Denver, Colo, died last week.
He surveyed several great railway
lines and was the first surveyor-Pen-
cral of Colorado. He was first presi-
dent of the Denver & Pacific railroad
with the CONSTRUCTION of which he was
prominently identified.
Attorney Patrick Reddy of San Fran
cisco, is dead Mr.. Reddy was well
known throughput the northwest
When the mining unions of the Occur
d'Alene country Idaho, became in
volved with state and federal author-
ties during their great strike Reddy
was the man chosen to defend their in
terests In the courts and he distin-
guished himself against the best lega
talent of the northwest in the numer-
Gus cases which grew out of these
labor troubles
The jury which tried Harry w.
Peters of Butte, Mont, for the murder
of e. T. Colby, an advertising solicitor,
has been discharged after being out
three days and failing to reach an
agreement. The jury stood eight to