Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-06
NORTHWEST NOTES.


According to the school census, there
are 10000 persons in Montana under
81 years OF age.
spokane will be the next place Of
meeting of the Northwest Fruit-Grow-
ers' association.
Geo. kea, who died at Glen Rea, Ida
no, last week, was on three occasions
retained by President Roosevelt as
guide on his hunting trips
Mrs. Matte Caldwell is suing the
city Of Trinidad, Colo. for s5o5o dam
ages, on account of breaking her arm
by falling into gutter.
Sumner Thompson, coal miner at
Rugby, Colo, while drunk. struck
crippled Italian with chair, fractur-
ing his skull. Thompson is in jail.
The gross output of gold ore from
the Cripple Creek district for the month
OF January amounts to $4,000 tons,
yielding gross value of So, ,121 ,25o
The Ute land settlers in southern
Colorado have petitioned congess to
allow them the use of government
bitches to irrigate the Indian lands.
Joseph Hammer, for twenty-five
years citizen of Laramie. Wyo., COM
mitted suicide Sunday while in a de-
lirium from attack of typhoid fever.
Sam Flood, aged 10 years, employed
| as car-checker by the Northern Pa
cific at Laurel. Mont, was run oyar by
car, the wheels cutting his left foot
| off at the ankle.
Both hands of May Garrick, the little
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel GAR
rick of West Missoula, Mont, were
quite severely frozen while the little
one was on her way TO school
Mike Balitzki, Polander, was
caught beneath a fall of coal and was
probably fatally crushed at the Sheri-
dan, Wyo., colliery Friday. He has
submitted to the amputation of one
leg.
hack driven by William Reedy was
struck by freight engine and demol-
ished at the Santa Fe crossing in Trim
idad, Saturday and the driver SO badly
injured that physicians have little hope
OF his recovery,
Range troubles have again broken
out near Luska, Wyo. Last week the
wire fences of several ranchmen were
cut between every post. The fences
were four-strand, and nearly twelve
miles of wire was destroyed.
After searching third of century
for their sister, Mrs. Mollie Kirk and
Mrs. Leonia Baird of Geuessee, KAN,
nieces of Senator Blackburn of KEN
lucky, believe they have got trace of
the missing woman in Pueblo.
r. Augustus Heinze of Butte, Mont,
when interviewed as to rumor that
he had sold out his mining possessions
to the Amalgamated Copper Mining
company, refuses to give any informa-
tion whatever upon the subject.
Ed Humphrey, a ranehman living
pear Humphrey, Colo, is dead from
the effects of gunshot wound, the
result of the accidental discharge of
/, Colts revolver. The revolver was
discharged by slipping from his pocket.
Martin Golden is lying at the county
hospital in Leadville suffering intense
agony and with prospect of having
his feet amputated. Golden was
caught In the awful storm that ragged
in the mountains in that vicinity Sat
urday.
In Cripple Creek a crusade against
the vagrants and men without visible
means of support was begun Monday
morning of last week by the police
force, and as result twenty-seven
| rough characters were compelled to
leave town.
Casper, Wyo. is quiet and there is
little talk of lynehing Charles Wood
ward, the murderer of Sheriff Kicker.
Woodward is carefully guarded in the
county Jail, and any effort to reach
him by would-be lynchers will be met
with determined resistance.
The water situation in the Cripple
Creek district Is SO serious as to be
alarming. Not town in the district
except Cripple Creek has drop of
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water. Nearly every big producing
mine, except the cold Coin, Portland,
Stratton's Independence and the Strong
Is closed.
| An unknown person fred through
the dining room window in the home
of James Kay at Pueblo with a rifle
while the family were at dinner Sum
day. The bullet passed over the head
of Mr. Kar's mother and lodged In the
wall Mr.. Kay believes that someone
attempted to assassinate him.
The celebrated murder case of Lucy
S. Black is up for trial at Bozeman,
Mont 1t is alleged that Mrs. Black
placed poison in the food Of her hus-
band. The trial viii be one of the
most interesting murder cases in the
history OF the state.
The appointment of John Yost as
register of the land office at Coeur
d'Alene, is to be held up until the
charges which are being prepared by
residents of that district can reach
Washington. Yost is recommended by
| Shoup and Standrod.
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