Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-09-20
NORTHWEST NOTES.


$577.
J. $. Petty, u tool-sharpener, shot
and killed his wife and then killed
himself at Harrison Gulch, California.
Jealously was the cause.
Thomas Kelly and James Murray
were killed in the Stewart mine at
Butte on the l4th by an explosion of
powder in the magazine on one of the
lower levels
wreck on the Nevada, California
| \ Oregon extension, near Reuo, New,
derailed fourteen cars of beef cattle,
reducing the cars to kindling wood
and killing twenty head of fat steers.
Over $50 men employed in the Leary
coal mines in King county, WASH,
went on strike because of the COM
pany's refusal to accede to demand
for 10 cents per car increase in wages
and an additional 25 cents per day hire
for the common laborers.
The price of this seasons walnut
crop in California will be 10 cents per
pound for soft shell and 016 cents for
standards, these figures having been
established at meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the Southern Cali
fornia Walnut-Growers' association.
For the last ten days numerous heavy
rains have visited the section about
Wilcox, Ariz., and the drought is COM
pletely broken. The water holes all
over the country are filled and the
grass is about four inches tall. The
season promises we'll for cattlemen.
Albert NJ. Cook, young man from
Steel City, New, was killed at ] lie Sid
ing, Wyo, Monday by falling from his
wagon, one Of the wheels striking him
a heavy blow on the chest. He lost
his balance while trying to free his
reins from a pile OF rock and dirt
Otto GREENWOOD, a well-known news
paper reporter of Portland, Or, COM
mitted suicide recently in the toll
et-room of the Hotel Portland by
shooting himself with revolver. Des-
pondency due TO ill-health the cause.
lie was well known in Carson City,
New.
The police of Seattle were notified
of the finding of the body of L. 1.
Stanley, formerly of Seattle, along
the railroad tracks at Wenatchee,
Wash. The body was badly decom-
posed, death having occurred two
weeks ago. The body plainly indicat-
ed that the man had been murdered.
The Union Pacific has opened two
new telegraph stations on the division
between Ogden and Evanston. One is
at Croydon and the other at Emery.
| The general heavy business, together
with the policy of improving this end
| of the system, is responsible for the
opening of these and other offices.
At Rock Creek, Mont, Frank Forest,
a ranch hand, aged 90, shot and killed
| Willis Howard, well-to-do rancher,
aged 30; fatally wounded Miss Laura
Linn, aged 16, and then committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the heart Forrest was In love with
Miss Linn and was apparently in favor
until Howard became an aspirnnt for
the girls hand.
The annual report of ]. II. Calde-
head, commissioner of labor and in
dustry of Montana, will show that
nearly 1000 japanese are employed as
laborers by the railroads in Montana.
The Great Northern employs 1865, the
Northern Pacific SOS and the Oregon
Short Line 1876. The commissioner
says that the little brown men are
in this state. He will urge the legis-
lature TO prevent, II possible, the i'm
portation of more japanese into Mon
| tana.
Four men held up an outfit of grad
ers at Tie Siding, Wyo., securing but
SIS and a watch. The graders were
loading two cars with their outfit pre-
paratory to going to Green River, aud
were sleeping in the cars at the time.
| The robbers were armed with VIM
! chesters and revolvers. In the dark
ness many of the men threw their
money and watches among the horses
| and mules in the car and the robbers
consequently secured little booty. One
of the men has been captured
Daniel Lucey was hanged in the jail
yard at Butte on the 18th for the muir
der of Patrick L. Reagan, on Septem-
Der 2, 1895 The two men had started
for the Coeur d'Alencs together, and
Reagan's body was found in the cam
yon the next day. Lucey was caught
at Victor, Colo, brought back and con-
victed on circumstantial evidence.
The execution was successful the neck
being broken. 1t was the first legal
hanging in Butte in twelve years,
Lucey protested his innocence to the
last
Marcus DAILY of Montana, who has
been i'll in the Hotel Netherlands, New
York city, since the 9Th of this month,
is improving. He is said to be suffer.
ing from heart failure. He is able to
be about his room, but not to leave it.