Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-06-07
NORTHWEST NOTES.

for farming.
A new paper, the Capital, has beei
launched at Santa Fe, N. NJ, its mis-
sion being to work for statehood.
St. Louis wool buyers last week pur
chased of a Grand Junction, Colo, firm
1880 pounds of wool, being the eli
from one flock.
Fred Bartlett, of Butte, was convicted
Of perjury in connection with his bank
ruptcy and sentenced to ten months In
jail. 1t is the first case of the kind ir
Butte
The attorneys for Robert f. Lee OF
Cheyenne, Wyo., sentenced to the state
penitentiary for ten years for train
robbery, state that the case will not be
appealed.
Among the American missionaries in
the district at present threatened by
Boxers in Pekin are the Rev Edward
X. Lowry and wife and Rev. George
Lowry aud wife of Denver, Colo.
Judge Knowles has handed down his
decision in the celebrated mining case
of the Calusa-Parrot company, owned
by ex-senator Clark, and the Anaconda
company, controlled by Marcus DAILY.
The decision is in favor of the Anaconda
company
A monument to the memory of the
late Rev. Myron Reed was unveiled in
Fremont cemetery, Colo. last week
under the auspices of the organized
labor unions. A great throng of peo-
pie gathered to witness the unwilling
and appropriate addresses were deliv-
cred
An incendiary attempted last week
to burn the Piedmont dipping and
shearing corral of Piedmont, Wyo. A
few shearing pens were destroyed.
Several of the wool racks were satu.
rated with kerosene, but the fire was
extinguished before all of them were
burned.
The will of the late Nathaniel p.
Hill, formerly United States senator
from Colorado, has been filed for pro-
bate. His great estate is bequeathed
to his wife and three children and is to
be equally divided among them. 1t is
believed the share of each will amount
to more than 81 900, 900.
The Northern Express company's
Office at Miles City, Mont, was robbed
last week of 81, 900 package and $500
received for the sale of tickets. The
robbery occurred during the station
agents absence. Two suspicious look
ing characters who had been lurking
about the station during the day are
There is not much new light on the
Red Canyon robbery which occurred at
Evanston, Wyo., last week The
theory of Mr.. Putnam, the bookkeeper,
is that someone was secreted in the
room and struck him in the back of the
head as he was putting the money in
the safe. checking up of the cash
shows that 81 ,6sl is missing.
A miner named Dillon, late-comer
to Rock Springs, Wyo., shot miner
named McDaniels in the forehead last
week. Dillon gave himself up and is
Ia Jail, He claims self-defense, aud
from what informatio can be gathered
McDaniels was the aggressor The
wound is not fatal, the bullet having
glanced upward without penetrating
The skull
The mud volcanoes situated in Lay
tonville, Cal, have bursted into alarm
ing activity. The disturbance is so
violent that great redwood trees are
'wayed when the mud and vapor shoots
nigh over the rims of the craters and
lows down the hillside like lava
stream. The murky craters are filed
with blush mud of about the CON
'istency of boiling tar and is icy cold
The roar of the volcanoes can be heard
Tor miles around.
Chairman Mclaughlin of the Popu-
list state committee of Washington,
nas issued a call for two con ferences of
he party leaders. One will be held of
eastern Washington populists at Spo-
Kane, June II, and at Tacoma the same
lay the western Washington leaders
will meet. Many regard the move as
aimed at Governor Rogers, who is said
20 be opposed by faction of his party
with which Chairman Mclaughlin is
allied
James Strickland was arrested at
Rawlins last week and taken to Oregon
where he is charged with killing
nan in 1892, whom he charged with
'educing his wife. He lived in Rock
springs before coming to Rawlins
Three years ago he married Anna
Rhines. Strickland returned to Oregon
without requisition papers. He adj
nitted the killing but claimed he did
t in self defense
The senate bill granting homestead.
ers on the abandoned Fort Fetterman
reservation in Wyoming the
right to enter one quarter section of
public land on said reservation as pas
lure has been reported favorsbly to
the house
The Colorado Philadelphia Republi-
can club was organized at Denver last