Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-07-25
NORTHWEST NOTES.

san francisco Board OF Supervisors
has adopted resolution formally ac-
cepting Andrew Carnegie's offer OF
$3.50, 900 to that city for public library
buildings
Fred Wolf, Jr., son of the proprietor
Of the Wolf hotel ut Saratoga, Wyo., was
drowned In that place last week while
swimming The body was recovered.
Young Wolf was member Of Torreys
rough riders during the Spanish war,
Superior Judge Cook of San Francisco
has denied the application for writ of
habeas corpus in the case Of Mrs. Cor
della Botkin, charged with murder.
He held that the jurisdiction of the
California courts in the matter was
well established.
Ned II. Copeland, charged with the
murder Of A. c. Rogers on a train near
Rawlins last week, was given his pre-
liminary hearing at Green River
Thursday. He refused to engage an
attorney and would make no state
ment. He was held to the district
court on the charge OF murder in the
first degree.
Confirmation has been received of
the report that the Radcliffe hotel,
cabins and other buildings belonging
to the proprietor of the Grand Mesa
lakes, were burned by mob of sew.
enty five men, all residents of Delta
county, Colo. The indendierism was
intended to avenge the killing of w.
A. Womack by Game Warden McHapey
recently.
The colors OF the battlesbip Oregon
were presented to Governor Geer last
week in behalf of the state by q com.
! mittee from the ship, which is now at
Bremerton naval station on Puget
Sound. The governor and his STAFF.
the national guard and many civic or
ganizations were in attendance at the
presentation, which took place at the
capitol.
Judge Hanford in the United States
, court at Seattle has rendered two inn
portant decisions effectipg title to
lands under the Northern Pacific grant
between 1Scoma and Portland. Both
Of the suits were instituted by the at
torney-general in the name of the
United States to the railroad company.
In both cases Judge Hapford decides
in favor of the Northern Pacific.
The coroners jury which investi-
gated the killing of w. A. Womack at
Grand Mesa, Colo, by Game Warden
Frank McHaney, found that the act
was felonious. Testimony was given
to the effect that the warden did not
attempt to arrest Womack and his COM
panion, but shot them because they
did not leave the lake where they were
fishing when he ordered them to.
Judge Bellinger in the United States
court at Portland has decided that the
Jesse ID. Carr Land and Live Stock
company has illegally fenced In "a 900
acres of government land in southern
Oregon and northern California. The
decree Of the court directs the United
States Marshall to tear down the
fences. An appeal will probably be
taken by the land company.
A new agreement has been signed
between tn e railway right-of- way trus-
tees and the Idaho Midland Railway
company, by the terms of which the
company is to deposit a S25, 900 bond,
begin work within four months, and
have thirty miles of railway completed
out of Boise within eighteen months,
and If all these things are accomplish
ed within the time specified deeds TO
the right of way will be given it.
| A. R. Goldstein of Vancouver, Wash,
accompanied party recently who
made a trip to Mount ST. Helens. Gold
stein became separated from the party
and was lost. Word was received from
). f. Murray, a mountaineer living
near Trout lake, that he had traced
| Goldstein's footprints to the brink ofa
| glacier on the mountain. Murray
thinks that Goldstein fell over the
| precipice and that he will never be
| found alive.
Joe Felix an Indian in Jail at wen-
atchee, Wash, charged with attempted
murder of another Siwash, hanged
himself sometime Thursday night of
| last week in his cell with a wooden
/ scarf He tied both ends of the scarf
to the grating of the cage, placed his
| head in the loop, then rested his
weight until strangulation ended his
life. When found in the morning the
body was resting on the floor and pre-
sented horrible appearance.
The striking hod carriers and NOR
tar r-lnixers of Denver, returned to work
Monday at the same wages paid before
they struck for an increase. The state
board of arbitration after hearing both
sides to the controversy decided that
the contractors could not afford to pay
higher wages under existing contracts,
but recommended that an increase be
granted on January LIST next. The
hod-carriers are getting So. so and the
mortar-mixers se.75. They asked for
50 and 50 so respectively.
The Union Pacific will build water
| purifying plant at Riner station, Wyo.
The water has been working great
havoc to the locomotives Boilers using