Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-23
NORTH WEST NOTES.

N. 2. Hodgson has been arrested by
United States officials as leader of the
opium ring unearthed last week in
Seattle.
Representatives OF the newly discov-
cred oil wells in Wyoming are in the
east securing capital for the develop
ment of the same.
Eugene Wolroy, an employee Of the
Wind River Live Stock company, near
Fort Washable, Wyoming, shot him.
self while handling a revolver last
week. and will be laid up for some
time.
The prospects for anything like
successful fishing season on the Co
lumbia river are not at all bright, and
cannery men are feeling gloomy. Very
few salmon are being taken at any
place.
A discovery Of very rich ore was
made by two prospeetors near Atlantic
City, Fremont county, Wyo., last week,
ore taken but a short distance from
the grass roots showing values of S25,
900 per ton, there being a fortune in
sight.
Suit has been filed against the Mar.
Gus DAILY estate, the Anaconda company
and Bitter Root Development company
to recover 1870, 900 alleged to be due for
timber illegally cut in Ravalli county,
Mont, during the years 1895, 1896 and
1897.
1t is stated that neither the Butte &
Boston nor Colorado smelter at Butte,
recently closed down, will be reopened
until the companies have written as
surances that the demands of the men
for eight hours for outside labor will
not be renewed.
After lying unconscious for seventy
hours from the effect of blow re-
ceived during an alteration with
Charles Anderson, John c. Films, pro-
prietor of the Chicago saloon, Seattle,
is dead. Anderson is under arrest and
Will 10 bIltd lol
The statement is made that the As
toria & Columbia River railroad has
been leased to the Southern Pacific
company for ninety-nine years The
Astoria & Columbia River railroad is
about 100 miles in length and runs be-
tween Portland and Astoria.
Every gambling house in Montana
was closed the l4th, by order of the
attorney general, who threatened to
proceed against any county attorney
who failed to enforce the law. This
is the first time since gold was discov-
cred that faro has not been played in
the state.
Two prominent Montana newspaper
men have recently accepted positions
in the east, Hon. Ii. L. Bartlne, former
associate editor of the Anaconda Stan
dard taking editorial charge of the
Washington Times, while +. b. Moore,
formerly editor of the Montana Daily
Record of Helena, has accepted an edi-
torial position on the Commercial Ad-
vertiser of New York.
A double suicide occurred at La Con-
ner, Wash, on the 18th. John Fay
chastised his 15-year-old son for some
trivial offense. This wounded the boys
feelings so deeply that he stole out of
the room, secured gun and shot him
self in the head. Hearing the report
the father fastened to the scene and
saw his son writhing in the agonies of
death, when he seized the weapon and
blew out his own brains.
Samuel d. Horebaugh, former state
horticultural inspector of Utah, fred
five shots at his brotber-in-law, Ralph
A. Pideock, at Fairfield, Wash. on the
10th, three of the shots taking effect,
there bing little chance of Pidcock's
recovery Family troubles was the
motive. Horebaugh being intoxicated
at the time and since his arrest has
feigned insanity. Pidcoek was a post
Office clerk at Ogden for many years.
The report comes from the Sweet.
water country, Wyoming, that band
of mounted men is patrolling that sec.
ton, and it is believed they are in the
employ OF the flockmasters, who have
been warned by the cattlemen to keep
off certain range, the sheepmen hav.
ing sent word to the cattle barons that
they would protect their foeks at all
hazards. The rangers are well armed.
mounted on fast horses and seem to be
prepared to fight at a moments notice.
The trial of Letson Ballet, of Baker
City, Ore, indicted on the charge of
using the United States mail for the
purpose OF fraud by making alleged
untrue statements regarding his min.
ing property in Oregon, has been post
poned until the September term
The ninth annual session of the
grand court of Washington, Foresters
of America, was held in Seattle last
"ESh, hhithn was ehoscH Us tile next |
place of meeting, the date being fixed
for the second Tuesday in May of next
year.
The capital of the sugar company
projected for Greeley, Colo, has been
placed at 81 900, 600 The plant will
cost half million. Stock holders OF
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nently identified with the company,