Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-02-15
NORTHWEST NOTES.

gold strike is reported from Elk
City Idaho from which the discoverer,
Ira X. Lemon, pounded out $4,000 in
two days in a hand mortar.
George f. Half, proprietor of small
grocery store on First avenue, Seattle,
of dependency. Death was instanta.
neous
The California Legislature has intro
huced u resolution protesting against
the ratification of the proposed treaty
with Great Britain relative to the |
Nicaragua canal.
Sparks from graders camp started |
a forest fire last week in the mountain
between Colorado Springs and Cripple
Creek which did considerable damage
to timber in that vicinity.
George Frederick Trabing one OF
the pioneer residents of Laramie, Wyo..
died last week at the age of 30 years.
He was at one time very wealthy and
paper maker by trade.
During the big fire in Dawson re.
Gently, Robert B. Switzer, clerk of the
court, was assaulted and robbed OF
81 ,545 court funds. No clue has been
found to the perpetrator.
A quarter interest in group of
twentyfour claims on Nome and Snake
rivers, tributaries to the Cape Nome
district, have been sold in Seattle to
Philadelphia capitalists for $50, 900.
Ira MamereauX, miner, reports
a fs bilious strike on his quartz claim
in Idaho. In few minutes he NOR
tared out $3.50. He has now one ton of
ore on the dump that is said to be
worth 100000,
In Rossland, b. c., what the physi-
clans pronounce to be genuine case
of smallpox has developed in the
family of p. Nyslum. The family
came from Colville. The patient is
boy six years old.
The remains of the man found in the
river bottom three miles below River
SIDE Cal, in December, 1897, has been
identified. C. b. Barnes of Elmonte
has identified photograph of the dead
man as that of Ira Hodson of Manlato,
Kansas. Barnes had known Hodson
since boyhood.
An unknown man was found dead in
cabin at Kent, near Seattle last week.
A bullet hole through the stomach told
how he died The cabin is known to
have been the rendezvous for a band
of crooks Two of the gang were seen
drinking with the victim at a Kent
saloon about twelve hours before the
discovery of the body.
Berish Brown, probably the oldest
newspaper man in the West, died at
Anaconda last week at the advanced
age of "a years. Death was due to old
age, superinduced dy an attack of la
grippe. Mr.. Brown was born in New
York State in 1914. He was an intimate
friend of Horace Greedy, and the two
were roommates and fellow workmen
for long period of time.
At meeting of the Board of Alder
man to consider a bill for fran
chise for the Denver, Boulder &
Northern railway, Alderman Currigan
who favored the bill, chokcd Alderman
Colder, president of the board, and
pistols are said to have been drawn.
Trouble was temporarily averted by
interference of other members No
action was taken on the franchise.
Frank Conl1ling, an attendant at the
Denver smallpox hospital, while under
the influence of liquor attacked the
other attendants with poker. Five
of the patients of the hospital became
frightened and fed attired only in
their bed garments. The ground is
covered with snow and it is feared the
exposure will prove fatal to the
patients. Among the number is the
wife of Con<lng.
B. f. Royce, a well known farmer
residing about twelve miles from Walla
Walla, Wash, was shot and killed by
his grandson, Frank Royce, last week
while the later was under the influence
Of liquor. Young Royce had quarreled
with man by the name of Rufus
Wood, and in the fight bit his nose
nearly off. Woods followed him to his
grandfather's house where the quarrel
was renewed Royce shot at Woods
with rifle missing him and taking
effect on the elder Royce.
The Boise chamber of commerce and
the city council have sent assurances
to T. W, Bates, promoter of the Idaho
Midland railroad, who is now in Bos-
ton, that Boise would give the road
free right Of way through the city and
to the Boise river canon. The right of
way through the city was promised by
the council and the other by the cham
Der of commerce.
The legislature of California will not
comply with Governor Cages request
to enact laws granting him power to
remove from office those whose terms
are not fixed by the constitution, and
TO enable him to suspend at will the
sale of state lands.
A requisition has been issued on the