Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-07-04
NORTHWEST NOTES.

refused an offer of 500. 900 for a fourth
interest in his Ben Lomond gold pros
pect at Cooke. Mont.
A ledge of ore showing a width of
four feet and assaying very high in
copper has recently been discovered
In Bliss Creek canyon, Humboldt
county, Nevada.
Albert Bell, a young rancher from
Tooele county, while visiting in Salt
Lake, fell from street car and was
struck by the steps, receiving injuries
that will lay him up for some time.
The American Cattle Growers asso-
citation has been organized at Denver,
Colo, with an object TO secure fair rates
of transportation for cattle and legis-
lation beneficial to the cattle indus
try.
The supreme court at Helena, Mont,
has directed the clerk to deposit the
$350,000 cash bond furnished by the
Montana Ore Purchasing company in
the Pennsylvania case in four Butte
banks.
United States Senator Frederick L.
Dubois of Idaho, who is being treated
for sciatica at Hunters Hot Springs,
Mont, is not in as serious condition as
dispatches indicated, and his physician
says he will be cured in two weeks.
Charles Griffin who attempted to a..
sault woman at Denver, Colo, last
week has been arrested. The screams
of the woman attracted the attention
of two men who pursued Griffin. He
was shot In the leg before he was cap
tured.
Charles M. Webster, who has been
succeeded by Z. ii Callister as reve.
nue. collector, has received the ap-
pointment of collector of customs for
the district of Idaho and Montana,
succeeding DIR. Browne of Great
Falls.
Harry Lombard, we'll known book
keeper of Helena, Mont, was shot
through the body by Mrs. Piret, .
dressmaker, last week. He will re-
cover Both Lom bard and the woman
claim that the shooting was acci-
dental.
Osa Bodhaifie and Eugen De Launoy,
coal miners of Marshal, Colo, were
drowned in Schewin's lake last week
while seining for trout. De Launoy
was taken with cramp and grabbed
Bodhaine around the neck, pulling
him under
Policeman Albert Bateman was at
tackled by crowd of soldiers on Main
street in Vancouver, Wash, and sol
dier whom he had arrested for creating
a disturbance in a saloon was forcibly
taken from him. He was not danger
ously hurt
Two men, named Rocker and Combs,
were burned to death last week in .
mine 6re at Grand Encampment. Wyo.
Rocker lived at Loveland, Colo, and
Combs at Laramie, Wyo. The shaft
house and portion of the mine were
destroyed.
The large coal chutes of the Union
Pacific at Medicine Bow, Wyo., was
entirely destroyed by fire last week. 1t
is supposed the fire was started by
sparks from an engine. A large amount
of storage coal was consumed, also two
steel coal cars
Mayor Davey of Butte, Mont, has
closed all poolroom at that place. II
is claimed the closing of the rooms
was brought about by the gamblers,
who were not allowed to run their
business and who agitated the doctrine
of "all or none"
I. p. Hodgson and William Wilson
were declared guilty in the Federal
court at seattle of smuggling 500
pounds of opium from Canada TO the
United States. This concludes one of
the most important cases tried in that
court for years.
Chairman Burton and the eleven
members of the river and harbor COM
mittee, after their return from Alaska,
expect to visit the finland empire"
They will inspect the Columbia and
Snake river from Portland, Or, to
Lewiston, Ida.
A clash between sheepmen and cat
tleraisers in the Sweetwater country,
Wyo., has been reported. The ranges
are greatly overstocked with sheep
and the flocks have been threatening
to invade territory hitherto held ex-
clusively to cattle.
James A. Murray. the millionaire
mine owner of Butte, Mont, has
brought suit against the estate of the
late Patrick A. Largey to recover S2,-
Ooo, 900, the value of ore alleged to have
been extracted from the workings of
the Spectator mine.
Two masked men entered the Fashion
saloon at Republic, Wash, covered the
men with their guns and took every
thing in sight, about s75 in cash and
$3.50 in jewelry. They overlooked the
bank roll of $500, which was covered
over with towel.
In Rosaiie, Wash, FIRE destroyed the
hardware store of d. Il. Adamson Il
Son. Loss on the building $1,000; ON
the stock 5000; insurance $500.