Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-20
NORTHWEST NOTES.

John Ducllett of Victor, Colo, may
lose his right hand as the result, as he
alleges, of being bitten on the flyer in
fight with Dan Dougherty.
As the result of drunken quarrel,
R. NJ. McDrake was shot and probably
fatally wounded by C. f. Coon BIS in
the latter's saloon at Grant, Colo.
The Union Pacific is running special
freight trains of 1900 tons each
over the Wyoming division for the
purpose of studying hotbox phenom-
ena.
The threatened trouble between
Wyoming and Utah sheepmen in the
Red desert has been averted by the
Utah herders driving their flocks off
leased land.
large eagle, measuring four feet
and six inches from tip to tip of its
wings, flew into the union depot at
Denver recently and was killed by
some of the depot boys.
Stockmen in the vicinity of the Wind
River reservation are suffering from
the depredations of Araphoe Indians.
The reds are alleged to have stolen
several bands of sheep.
Judge Holloway of Bozeman SEN
fenced Mrs. Lucy Black to ten years in
the state penitentiary for the crime of
killing her husband by poison. A new
trial will be asked for.
Fifteen Northern Pacific switchmen
are on a strike at Mssoula, Mont, and
the trouble threatens to become gem
eral. The men refused to use road
engine for n switch engine.
V. b. Peterson, a ranchman of the
La Prele country, has disappeared
completely. He was last seen on Feb
ruary 3rd in Douglas, Wyo., and since
that time has not been at home.
Aspen, Colo, business men have been
raking in spurious dollars, half and
quarters for over two weeks. A
mystery surrounds the manner in
which the were placed in circulation.
Walter Morgan, aged Is, was killed
by loaded coal cars running over him
| 10 mine No / of the Central Coal g.
Coke company at Rock Springs on the
10th. The boy probably fell from the
cars
Gillis d. Shautz, brakeman on the
Central Pacific, fell between two
freight cars at Reno, New, while
attempting to couple them and was so
badly hurt that he died on the way to
the hospital.
Joseph Thomas, who escaped from
the penitentiary at Canon City re-
Gently, was captured by two boys on
Beaver creek and returned to the
penitentiary The boys received $50
each as "a reward.
John r. Rradley, one of the best
known cattlemen of Nevada, died of
| apopleXy at the home of his son-in-
law, Jay I elloms, of Reno, last week.
He formerly had large cattle interests
in eastern Nevada.
The Riverside Touring mill, one of
the largest structures in Reno, New,
has been destroyed 10y fire. The iremen
succeeded in saving the annex, in
which was stored several carloads of
flour and 40, 900 bushels of grain. The
loss is placed at between $50, 900 and
100000.
Eran Pisop, Jew, aged 25 years,
was killed about mile east of Rock
Springs by falling under train. He
train crew ordered him and two
companions off. When jumping he
held on to the side of the car and was
dragged underneath.
James Moormen, well known about
Livingston, Mont, committed suicide
by shooting himself thu iough the head
with small 22-caliber rifle. The body
was discovered by friend, who get
ting no response to his knocks at the
cabin, looked through the window and
discovered the body on the bed,
| ueorRe Eooler, Single udH anu
expert horse trainer, cut his throa /
with a razor at Laramie, Wyo., and
died instantly. No cause ia given. He
was preparing to go to the ranch when
his companions heard him fall to the
floor in the room above, where he had
gone presumably for a few moments.
The foreign commerce of Puget
Sound for January, 1902, according tC
the report of the collector of customs
puts all previous records in the shade
The exports from all ports amounted
to S., 14t, PAS, of which 81 ner cent. VI
SO, ,152 ,24s, was shipped from Tacoma
The total imports for the month were
Sl,t91 ,697.
There is agrowing a feeling at Carbon
Wyo., that the Union Pacific will
shortly abandon its coal mines at thii
place. Only small force of men ha
been employed for some time, and 1t il
alleged that the quality of the coal il
unsatisfactory and expensive to mine
John HORT, the only prisoner that
was left in the old penitentiary a
Laramie when the convicts were move
to Rawlins last December has bee
pardoned by Acting Governor Chatter
ton. Hjorth had served three years 70