Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-11-28
NORTHWEST NOTES

varieties of fruit last year
Utah millers predict that wheat will
be worth dollar bushel in Utah be-
fore spring.
| The Consolidated Oil and Develop
ment company of Douglas, Wyo., win
soon begin sinking well in Dry Creek,
near Fetterman.
Duffy Cochran Of Leadville, COM
mitted suicide in Telluride, Colo, last
week, after first attempting the MUIR
der of Grace Wright
Mrs. Marcus Daily, widow of Marcus
DAILY, the copper king, has been elected
a member of the board of lady mana
| gers of the Worlds fair.
George Dunlas, who is accused of
having set fire to the house he occupied
at Victor, Colo, few days ago, will
be tried on the charge of arson.
Judge s. NJ. Breath, Colorado pio-
neer, is dead in Boulder, having passed
in October his saith year. lie came to
Colorado In 1853, and settled in Boul-
der.
The total election expense in El Paso
county, Colo, will be close to S12, 900
or an average of ST. vote for the
1896 votes, the total cast by the two
parties.
The smallpox epidemic starting at
Lowell, Wyo., has spread to Slack, and
a number of people in that community
are down with the disease. All cases
have been quarantined
George Pierce, a miner about 35 years
of age, was found wandering in dazed
condition on the streets of Victor, Colo,
| with his eyes gouged out. He refused
to give the name of his assailant.
The 125 survivors of the original
Union colony, with their children and
| grandchildren, assembled at Masonic
hall Tuesday of last week to commem-
crate the settlement of Greedy, Colo.
thirty-one years ago.
The Loveland Colo, sugar factory
last week sent to farmers checks to the
amount of $4,000 as payment for the
1 pNOb5 'CliNG8til dh IiiC INQUIRY uuTlnR
October, which represents less than
one-half of the entire crop
The Denver Times gives currency to
the report that former Senator Edward
o. Wolcott has been rendered the port
folio of postmaster-general by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, vice Charles Emory
Smith, who is to resign.
The Multnomah county court. Ore
gon, has offered reward of $500 for
the arrest and conviction of the muir
derer of James b. Morrow, the young
man who was found dead on the side
walk near his home in Portland.
swan was shot on a small lake
near Wheatland, Wyo., recently which
measured nine feet from tip to tip of
wings, and four and one-half feet from
the tip of bill to the tip of the tail.
ever seen in that vicinity.
A good quality of natural gas has
been encountered at a depth of l,04o
feet in the oil well being bored in the
SIby iihAlLS VI oibhI1os oI6Rou Hc
well is full of water and in order for
the gas to rise to the surface it must
overcome $50 pounds of water pressure
| per square inch.
1t Is said that the Smuggler-u union
mine at Telluride will be closed for
about thirty days, during which time
the workings, which were damaged to
the extent of more than $50, 600 in the
recent disaster, will be repaired, and
will then be reopened with force of
between roo and ZOO men.
While on visit to Chicago last week,
/ Mrs. Becker of Denver went TO the
stockyards to see the daily killing.
| Now she Is in a hospital, and her
nerves are so shattered that the physi-
clans in the case have been utterly un-
able to provide the least remedy. What
the result will be, no one can tell
Last week Commissioner Clark of the
Tacoma board of public works awarded
a contract for light md power for the
city to the highest bidder Friday the
council, after an exciting session, in
which sensational speeches were made,
appointed committee to investigate
the conduct of the mayor, commissioner
and city electrician.
C. Mossland, ranehman of Pied
mont, Wyo., has purchased the big
snowshed of the Union Pacific on
Piedmont hill and will dismantle 1t
and build huge corral for his cattle.
This shed, which is over mile in
length, is the last of number that
were built by the Union Pacific thirty
years ago, The others were burned
and abandoned.
An old gray-haired man stepped in
front of a Union Pacific train at Rock
Springs last week and was instantly
killed, the body being badly mangled.
1t is believed that the man, who has
not been identified. deliberately sui
cided.
Hammond Mclean. aged about 26
years, who disappeared from his home
in Victor, Colo, six weeks ago under
mysterious conditions, has not vet