Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-09-13
NORTHW EST NOTES.

Fort Bridger, Wyo., the necessity hav.
Ing arisen for direct communication
between the stores.
A team pulling wagonload Of pio,
niclsers ran away and dashed into 1t
livery stable at Deer Lodge, Mont. Lee
Montgomery, Mrs. Winscott and daugh-
ter and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Miller, of
Butte, were all seriously injured.
Officers of the Central Navigation g.
Construction company (Mohr- Portage
rad confirm tho report that the work
OF construction has been suspended,
but say negotiat ions are under way to
secure money to complete the construe-
tion and start operations.
An eastern syndicate has secured an
option on the pr Pperty of the Nevada
Mining company at Galena, Nevada,
for which they agree to pay 500, 900.
The proposition has for some time been
marketing high grade silver and lead
ore.
4. c. Harris, formerly superintendent
of the Wyoming division of the Union
Pacific, stationed at Cheyenne. has
purchased controlling interest in the
First National bank of Chadron, Neb.
and will resign his position with the
railroad.
Mrs. p. ii. leslie died at Helena,
Mont, on the 3rd, at an advanced age.
She was the wife of Governor Leslie,
who had the unique distinction of being
governor Of two states, Kentucky and
Montana, and who survives her at the
age of SO.
The Puget So onnd salmon pack will
tall 10000 cases short of last year. The
catch was only e5 per cent of 1899, but
cold storage m en- have taken larger
share than usual. Gamers estimate the
seasons pack at 225, 900 cases as against
900, 900 last year.
The Democratic and Silver parties of
Nevada have effected fusion and nom.
mated g. G. n ewlands for congress.
The Silver party passed resolution
denouncing United States Senator w.
M. Stewart, who recently announced
that he would upport the Republican
national ticket, and demanding his
resignation as United States senator.
Fire was discovered in the roof of the
Good Samaritan hospital at Portland,
Ore. on the mo ming of the 5th, and
for a time there threatened to be a
serious loss of life, but owing to the
courage displayed by the employees
and nurses the inmates were rescued
without accident while the fremen
subdued the ahes, the property loss
being nominal.
John Mcdonald, an old prospector
and miner of Basin, Mont, who resided
In the Cataractldistrict for more than
twenty years, lied on the End, leaving
fortune of S60,D00. Mcdonald was an
eccentric character, and for twenty
years had lived alone in cabin, maxi
ing occasional visits TO Basin for sup
plies. About week before his death
he was taken sick at his cabin and was
taken to Basin for medical treatment.
lie was between rs and 80 years of age
and his death " as largely due to failure
to take proper care of himself
Reports from bharpsdale, in southern
Colorado, say that the feud over the
use OF the range, which has long ex-
listed between ctttlemen and sheepmen,
reached a climax recently when the
cattlemen drove 5000 sheep over a
high precipice, the maddened animals
being driven over the brink by COW.
boys. Some of the last who fell on the
bodies of the first were not killed, but
the majority we're killed 1t is stated
thR serious tro nble is likely to result,
the entire country having taken up
arms.
Perhaps the $traugest case that has
arisen in the courts of Wyoming for
some time Is now before the distris
court at Cheyenne. man, who does
not want his name known, is suing for
divorce from his wife, who, he be.
llevcs, has beer dead for fifteen years
lie has no positive evidence of the death
OF his wife, but to make matters sure
he has brought suit for divorce.
A number of small bands of sheep
L.. 4 -. La
nave been slaughtered in the ntains
near hawlins, Wyo., recently. The
perpetrators in one instance were found
out, and being threatened with arrest,
they settled with the owners for all
sheep killed. The sheepmen are in
dignant and will have the killing in
vestigated and the persons committing
the depredatish hs punished
'FRONT.' aetlon on the part OF Superin-
tendent swin~ er of the DsLamar IN
Nevada has overcome the effect of the
recent fire at the pump station in
Meadow valley, and the mill is again
running, while the town is getting the
usual volume df water
Farmers from Fort Bridger, Wyo.,
say that number of sheep owners |
have been in that vicinity recently,
buying up all the available hay aud
contracting for this years crop, one
purchaser having secured over 600 tons /
within the past fortnight
The secretary of war has instructed