Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-12-26
NORTHWEST NOTES


Levi Davis has been appointed re-
ceiver of public moneys at the land Of
fee at Sundance, Wyoming.
Fred W. Daniels has been appointed
register and Eugene B. Mather receiv-
er of the Buffalo, Wyoming, land Office.
John w. Proud6t, the noted mining
man of Colorado Springs, was injured
by being thrown out of a carriage last
Thursday.
Fire did $2500 damage to the still
house of the Florence Oil company's
refinery east of Florence, Colorado,
Thursday last.
An unknown Austrian was instantly
killed at Cumberland, Wyoming, being
crushed in a horrible manner by fall
of coal in mine.
Charles Gordon, sheep herder, was
killed at Dillon, Montana, Thursday
last by the discharge of revolver
which fell from his pocket.
Reports from Esmerelda county, Ne
vada, say that a rich strike has been
made eighteen miles south of Silver
Peak, in the Palmetto district.
G. w. Morton, for many years train
dispatcher of the Colorado and South
ern at Trinidad committed suicide
Friday by shooting himself through
the head.
John c. Duff, who was reported to
have committed suicide at Cripple
Creek last week has been heard from.
He telegraphs from Colorado Springs
that he is well and happy.
Lowell Spence, Pinkerton detective,
has positively identified the man under
arrest in Knoxville, Tennessee, as
Harvey Logan, one of the alleged
Great Northern express robbers.
Honorable Horace Plunkett, of Dub
lin, Ireland, lately defeated for Parlia-
ment, is in Cheyenne on business con-
nected with the Wheatland irrigation
colony, in which he is interested.
c. Brossemer, of Bullion, Nevada,
states that the Raine copper mine at
Bullion has been bonded to Senator
Clark of Montana, aud that extensive
operations will be commenced on it in
the spring.
| Reports have reached Salt Lake that
George Loomis, who decamped several
years ago with S26, 900 belonging to
the Utah Central railway, of which he
was receiver, died recently in South
America.
1t is alleged that the Great Northern
train wreck at Essex, Montana, recent
ly, in which one person was killed and
eight injured, was deliberately planned
by some one, and not accidental as at
first announced.
A matter involving loss of about
$3.50, and which resulted from the mix
ing of two lots of ore at the HALEY
sampling works, may eliminate in a
lawsuit. that will go to the United
States supreme court.
The Sowell copper mine of the Wal
do district, Oregon, was purchased
last week by San Francisco capitalists.
The consideration was $4,000. This
mine will be opened up and developed
for business on a big scale.
Nineteen-y year-old Roy Piddell, of
Anaconda, Thursday of last week was
killed by the accidental discharge of a
revolver which the young man was
carrying. The gun dropped out of his
overcoat and was discharged.
1t is proposed to resurrect the ole
Carson River Placer Mining company
and expend SEQ, 900 in new barges anc
dredging equipment by means of which
the tailings from Comstock ores de
posted along the river bottom are tc
be recovered and treated by the eva
nide process.
Bert Cummings, Union Pacific call
boy at Laramie, had half of his left eal
cut off, one cut over the temple three
inches long and another back of tht
ear, triangular in shape, five inches
long, and his left shoulder badly
crushed y'being struck by car. He
is II years old.
Fort Lupton, Colorado, will have a
beet-sugar factory soon. Negotiations
are being carried on with Charles Boe tt.
cher of the Great Western Sugar com.
pany, with view of having a local
company organized and work started
on the factory as soon after the first oi
the year as possible.
The boiler of a sawmill at Sundance
Wyo., exploded with terrific force last
week, practically wrecling the plant.
The engine, which stood within few
feet of the boiler-room, was not dam
aged. Three mill hands were slightly
I injured.
: An expert from the east is in Roch
: Springs experimenting the work o
: putting in coke oven to test Rocl
: Springs coal for its coking qualities
S In the event of the tests being success
: full colling plant will be put in b.
the Union Pacific
Charles yetal, an ex-saloonkeeper, I
I dead in Sheridan Wye, from a self-in
3 flicted wound. He quarrefed with hi
wife and few minutes later retired t
his room and shot himself through th,
Z breast with rifle. He would give M