Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-30
NO. 50
NORTHWEST NOTES.

1t is believed the building of the
smelter at Weiser assures the extern
sion OF the p. & l. N. into the Seven
Devils.
big timber deal has been consum-
mated by which c. f. White of Cosm-
polls, transfers land in tho vicinity Of
Elma, WASH, for 500, 900.
The Western Federation of Miners
convention Is in session this week at
Denver. The session opened Monday
and is expected to last ten days.
A. l.. Snyder, ex-postmaster at Tus-
carora, Nevada, charged with embez.
zling postal funds, is in Jail in default
OF $4,000 bonds. His shortage 10 al
legged to be Ss,o46.
syndicate has been formed among
Boston capitalists to build an electric
railway in the state of Washington be.
tween Seattle and Tacoma, a distance
OF thirty-three miles.
At the North Pole mine, near Baker
City, Ore, Ira Jenson was assaulted
and beaten into insensibility. He will
probably die. A negro named Miller
Is under arrest, charged with commit
ting the crime.
Trees and brush floating down Wood
river lodged against the railroad bridge
at Gimlet, Idaho, raising the water
about five feet, endangering the bridge
and required large crew of men two
or three days to clear the obstruc.
tions.
Seattle police have In custody . man
giving the name OF Drummond, whom
1t is believed is w. Abbott Lewis, .
Spokane lawyer who is wanted on q
charge of embezzling si.soo. and for
whose apprehension reward of $3.50
Is offered.
Engineer Crummy, milling expert
and sup.rintandent, from Chicago, has
arrived in Pueblo. Colo, to make plans
for the great wire and tin plants which
are to be added by the Colorado Fuel
d Iron company to it's present steel
and iron works.
At Waverly. Oregon, Friday night,
DIR. w. I. Wallace engaged In duel
with four robbers and saved the First
National bank and postoffice from he
ing burglarized. A large number of
shots were dred In the darkness, but
none took effect.
The Short Line has lined tunnel No.
1, below Uvada, with heavy CORFU
gated iron, as protection against Are.
The timbers In the tunnel, which were
placed ten years ago, look like new.
owing. probably, to the extreme dry
ness of the climate
The Indian Rights association of
New York has addressed q letter to
Governor Toole of Montana, protest.
ing against the imprisonment of Lit
tie Whirlwind, young Northern
Cheyenne Indian, undergoing q life
sen ntence for murder.
The large factory and warehouse of
the Eaton Ritchell company, manu-
facturers of tinware, at Denver, was
destroyed by FIRE last wesL. Several
fremen we're slightly injured and one
severely burned. The loss is sl25, 900,
covered by insurance.
The loss is reported of the Northern
Pacific company's warehouse at Glen
dive, Mont, by fire communicated by
spark from locomotive. Fifty
thousand pounds of wool aud = large
amount of tools and supplies was de-
stroyed. Loss, 100000.
Vice President Roosevelt will visit
the Cripple Creek district ths latter
part OF June, according to = statement
given out by one of his friends. He
will be at the annual meeting Of the
rough riders, which is to be held in
Colorado Springs June 1926.
A Short Line surveying party Is out
between Tooele and bennington,
Utah, surveying what is supposed to
be a route for the main line south.
The proposed line will touch Stockton.
West Dip, ophir. Tintic and strike the
present rout" at bennington.
The tunnel into the War Eagle
mountain, Idaho, is now in Also feet,
and is being driven about nine feet .
day. When completed, the tunnel will
be 6,5oO feet long. At about 5000
feet the tunnel is expected to cut some
of the big wealth-producing ledges.
The Denver board of aldermen last
week unseated Theodore McGuirs and
Adolph Siebold, Democrats. and seated
John ID. Ross and Andrew Horan, Re-
publicans. Election frauds were al
legged. The board now stands foui
Democrats and twelve Republicans.
In attempting to extinguish drs
which broke out in the tender of
locomotive in the Nevada. California b
Oregon round-house at Reno. Joseph
Krauss, the nightwatchman, was 30
severely burned that he died in the
county hospital few hours afterward.
Recent rains have swollen the Cache
La Poudre river, which runs through
Larimer county, Colorado, higher
than 1t has been for twenty years.
Scarcely bridge is left spanning the
river, and damSge done to irrigation
canals amounts to thousands of dollars.
Near Joseph, Utah, last week, the
skeleton OF man was found, and the
surroundings indicated that the owner
nf tha FRA me had haau mt ont ont ~