Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-01-17
NORTHWEST NOTES.

George Compton, formerly OF Ogden,
was killed in smelter at Anaconda,
Mont. Saturday by being caught in
a revolving shaft.
General II. c. Merriam, commanding
the department OF Colorado, who is
investigating the abandoned post at
Fort Whipple, Arizona, will recon-
mend that the post be re-established.
C. L. yawter, United States marshal
at Nome, Alaska, has sent his resig.
nation to the president. He is from
Montana. +. L. Richards of Washing
ton, was recommended, for.the vacancy.
Measures are being taken to intro
duce a bill in the Washington legisla-
ture to submit to a vote of the people
an amendment to the constitution
designating Tacoma as the state
capital instead of Olympia.
Theodore Colwell, employed at the
Tacoma smelter, was terribly burned
about the face, hands, arms and neck,
by falling into pot of boiling Stag
while at work last week. Although
badly burned, it is thought Colwell
will recover.
Andrew Carnegie, the iron and steel
magnate, has promised Seattle dona-
ton of $500, 900 to be expended in the
construction of a new public library.
Mr.. Carnegie conditions his offer by
requiring a yearly guarantee of $50, 900
maintenance and improvement.
Six out of nine citizens of South
! Bend, Wash, who were charged with
| perjury in the Federal court for prov
| ing up valuable timber lands as home
s,eads and then selling the timber to
mill companies, were discharged by
| Judge Hanford in Seattle and the
other three were released on bonds.
The first news from Rampant this
winter shows that district to be BOOM
! ing. All of the creeks are looking
well and Big Manools is coming to the
front with a rush, according to the
| Forum. On Ruby creek near Big
Manook, John Folger PANIED $50 in
three days last August.
Owing to the demand of the imperial
! authorities that all mounted police re-
| cruited in British Colombia for South
Africa must pay their fare to Capetown
and submit to inspection for fitness by
English officers, all ideas of raising a
corps in British Columbia have been
| abandoned.
The Navy department has been in
| formed that the citizens of Seattle
have pledged themselves to raise a
| fund of 100000 to be paid Moran
Brothers, the local shipbuilding con-
Germ, to enable them to accept proposal
of the Navy department to build a
battleship at the figure named in the
act of Congress.
Thomas Nancy, a fisherman of
South Seattle, was struck by North
! ern Pacific passenger train shortly
after noon Monday about1oo yards south
! of the brewery at Georgetown, Wash.
The man was walking in the track at
| the time and did not seem to heed the
whistle. The body was terribly mutt
| lated.
DIR. Robert Lawrence, young dem
fist, of Denver shot himself in the
head Tuesday, while lying on q
couch beside his wife. Death resulted
instantly. The doctors suicide is
attributed to dependency and despair
over the condition of his wife Mrs.
Lawrence had enjoyed good health
previous to being vaccinated on the
thigh about year and half ago
The vaccine virus, it is said, produced
atrophy and paralysis followed,
X. Niohkara, an Official of the Jap
anese government, arrived in Butte
last week from Vancouver to look into
the trouble between the labor unions
and the Japanese laborers on the rail-
roads. Complaints have reached the
Japanese government of assaults and
outrages on the Japanese by members
vi AiohLuhd ldbOE anu OInGtS.
Niohkara says his government will
demand protection for it's citizens in
this country, but that no more laborers
would be allowed to come to the
United States.
p. H. Nolan, editor of the Onsland,
the principal Afrikander newspaper in
Capetown, has been arrested on the
charge of seditious libel, consisting of
reflections upon the conduct of
General French and his troops. He is
member q the Cape Parliament.
Glassware manufacturers of Penn
sylvania and the Eastern states have
held daily meetings in Philadelphia
the past week looking to combination
in the trade. Twenty of the largest
concerns are said to have signed an
agreement regulating the business.
The body of the late. Lieutenant
George IL. Barber, paymaster in the
navy and nephew of President McKin-
ley, has been taken from the transport
Grant to the Mare Island navy yard.
1t will be transported to the east for
burial.
In the commercial treaty to be nepo-
tiated by the powers with China a pro-
vision will be inserted il the United
States government can compass it for