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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
Northwestern Wooigrowers Ccnsure Public
Oficlals.

Ofclals.
The orthwestern woolgrowers
Thursday in resolution, addressed to
President Roosevelt and congress, at
tackled S. n. d. North, statstician of
the department of manufactures, under
census. Mr.. North as secretary of the
National Association of Wool Manu-
facturers is leading the fight at Wash
ington against the tariff on wool.
The wool growers resolved, that the
Pacific Northwest Wool Growers as
socation is of the opinion that as a
public official the activity of Mr.. $. N
D. North in antagonizing the desires
of the wool growers and stockmen of
the country is taking advantage of his
official position and that his personal
opposition is in bad taste, to say the
least, considering the fact that he is to
certain extent the servant of the
people whose manifest desire he is
now seeking to circnmyent.
The selection OF officers for the year
was as follows.
President Jesse M. Smith of Salt
Lake.
Secretary-treasurer j. w. Bailey OF
Portland, Ore.
ice-presdents, Richard Scott,
Oregon; A. Il. Lawgrow, Washington;
Frank Hagen barth, Idaho; w. K.
Flowerre, Montana; g. S. Hickox,
Utah; Patrick Sullivan, Wyoming.
Executive committee, }. N. William.
son, Oregon; S. j. Cameron, Wash.
ington; Frank Gooding, Idaho; o. P
Hatch, Utah; Timothy Kianey, Wyom
ing, and H. II. Nelson, Montana.
Salt Lake was chosen aa the mex
| place of meeting.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
$4,000. 900 FIRE
AT PATTERSON, N. J.
Business Part of Town Mass of Ruins
Factories Escaped Fire.

Factories Escaped Fire.
A great fire swept through Patterson,
N. j., Sunday. and in it's desolate wake
are the embers and ashes of property
valued at $40, ,oo0, 900.
It burned its way through the busi-
ness section OF the city, and claimed as
its own majority of the finer strue-
lures devoted to commercial, civic, edu-
cational and religious use, as well as
scores of houses.
and injury to the conflagration, but
hundreds were left homeless and thou
sands without employment
A relief movement for the care of
those unsheltered and unprovieed for
was at once organized, and Mayor John
Hinchcliffe said Sunday night that
Patterson would be able to care for her
own without appealing to the charity
of other communities and states.
The great manufacturing plants of
the place are safe, and the community,
temporarily dazed by the calamity,
has already commenced the work of re-
organization and restoration.
The fire came at midnight, and was
only checked after desperate fight
that lasted until late Sunday after
noon. Every city and town within
reach of Patterson sent fremen and
apparatus to the aid of the city, and it
took the united efforts of them all to
win the battle.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
NORTHWEST WOOL GROWERS
I'M SESSfONAT HELENA.

President Powers Advocates Closer Orrsni-
xation In Order to Secure Better Prices.
The fifth annual meeting OF the Pa
cifc Northwest Wool Growers associa-
tion was opened at Helena, Mont,
Tuesday afternoon. Delegates from
five states, included within the asso-
citation, Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Utah and Wyoming, were present, but
the attendance is not so large as was
anticipated.
Gov. Joseph K. Toole, on behalf of
the state, welcomed the association to
Helena. He was followed by Mayor
Frank J. Edwards, who welcomed the
delegates to the city. Il. D. Weed of
Henela responded on behalf OF the
visitors.
President Powers said he favored
closer organization because such a one
could handle the output of the growers,
sustain weak market and carry 1t
until prices were better. He quoted
the copper, sugar, Tobacco and other
staples as examples of his idea for the
wool growers to follow.
Secretary j. w. Bailey, in his annual
report, called attention to the necessity
for closer organization and working as
an organized body. He advocate the
wool growers indorsing the Grosvenor
shoddy bill, and scarrying the contest
for pure woolen goods and stamped
shoddy ones along the same lines as
the dairy men in their fight for the
oleomargarins law.
Several interesting papers were read.
State Labor Commissioner j. A. Fer
guson spoke on 1.-The Possibilities of
Wool Manufactured in the Northwest"
and Professor Emil Startz delivered an
illustrated lecture on ''Sheep Scab."
President Powers named as the exe-
cutive committee j. f. Hickok of Utah,
r. G. Judson of Oregon, g. 8. Blythe
of Washington, P. B. Moss OF Montana
and Joseph Cans of Wyoming. The
committee on resolutions is composed
of r. G. Judson, r. A. Selway, III. III.
Nelson, William Lindsay and J. d.
Holiday.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13

The president has approved, with
one notable exception, all the recon-
mendations made by the army brevet
board. of which General Macarthur
was president, for the bestowal of bre-
vet rank on all the officers of the army
who rendered especially meritorious
services during the war with Spain
and In the subsequent campaigns in the
Philippines and China.
The exception noted is the case of
Theodore Roosevelt, who was awarded
the brevets of Colonel and Brigadier-
General for distinguished services at
San Jnan, Santiago.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
Eleven People Meet Death In st. Louis
Fire

An early morning fire, which de-
stroyed the Empire hotel, a large
three-story dwelling-house at 27oo and
2702 Olive street, st. Louis, Mo-, occu-
pied by men exclusively, caused the
death of eleven persous-ten men and
one woman-and dangerously injured
seven others. A dozen or more who
had narrow escapes from death re-
ceived less serious injuries or were
frost-bitten. 1t is estimated that there
were between thirty-fve or forty per-
sons in the building that night, and it
is believed all have been accounted for.
The financial loss is nominal. It is
thought that $4,000 will cover the
damage to building and contents.
which were totally destroyed.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
A SECOND DURRANT CASE.
A Murder Mystery In San Francisco which
Resembles That Famous Case.

>-ses
A mysterious murder resembling in
some of its features the noted Durrant
case is now puzzling the police depart
ment of San Francisco. The body of
Nora Fuller, a sixteen-year-old girl,
who disappeared from her home Jam
uary 18th, was found lying naked on a
bed in the upstairs back bedroom of
an unfurnished house at 22I1 Sutter
street Sunday afternoon. The girl had
been dead some time, as decomposition
had begun.
There was nothing in the house to
indicate the means used to take her
life, but the posture of the body and
it's condition, together with the dis
order of the room indicated that the
girl was murdered.
An autopsy discovered that death
was not due to natural causes. All the
organs of the body are in a normal
condition. The general theory is that
the girl was either strangled or pois-
oned. On both sides of the neck are
two discolorations which may have
been made by finger tips. The city
chemist is examining the stomach for
evidence of poison.
Nora Fuller disappeared January
11th and met a man known as John
Bennett in response to an advertise
ment for agirl to take care of a baby.
She met the man at q restaurant and
thereafter all knowledge of her was
lost. On January 9Th the house in
which the body of the girl was found
was rented by man giving the name
of c. B. Hawkins. The general de-
scriptions of Bennett and Hawkins
tally, and it is thought the two names
were aliases for the same man.
A possible motive for the murder is
found in the suggestion that the murd-
erer either quarreled with the girl or
feared that his relations with her were
about to become public.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
Wyoming Cowboy Calls a FakIrs, Bluff.

Wyoming Cowboy Calls Fakirs' Bluff.
Professor Moxie, mesmerist, gave a
show at Casper, Wyo., Saturday night
and wanted somebody to shoot at him
and he would catch the bullets in his
mouth and eat them. A man jumped
up, and whipping out six-shooter,
prepared to accept the professors invi-
tation. Moxie had arranged for con-
federate to do the shooting witt, a
pistol loaded with blank cartridges.
When he saw the Cow pun cher" aim
ing his howitzer at him he promptly
jumped through window. Moxie sus-
tanned sprained ankle, and the cow
boy was arrested on the charge of
carrying concealed weapons.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
Ignorant Workmen Tamper with Battery
and Bury Companions Under Tons
of Earth,

A fatal blasting accident occurred
on the new cutoff on the Bessemer s.
Lake Erie railroad near Osgood, two
miles east Of Greenville, Pa, Saturday
One man is missing and probably lead,
four are fatally injured and seven are
suffering from fractured limbs, ribs
and internal injuries. Superinten-
dent Thomas McCanville of Scran-
ton, Pa, sustained fractured skull
and double fracture of the left leg.
All the other injured are Italians, and
their names could not be learned, as
they are known to the contracting
firm only by numbers.
The scene of the accident was 25-
foot cut. The men had entered the
cut with Superintendent McConville
and were preparing to make blast.
The charge had just been connected
with the electrical apparatus, when
some one tampered with the battery
and set the blast off The men were
buried beneath tons of earth and rock.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
Ministers Protest Against Russia Chinese

Ministers Protest Against Russia Chinese
Treaty.
The British, American and japanese
ministers at Pekin have renewed their
opposition to the Manchurian arrange
ments between China and Russia. 1t
is probable that this action will result
n the further postponement of the
consummation of this treaty.
The powers opposing the Manchurian
treaty are now beginning to recognize
the force of tho representations of the
Chinese lenipotentiaries and that
China is making the bes, terms pos
sible for herself, and incidentally for
the equal rights of the other nations
in China.
The envoys are shifting their pro.
tests to Russia as the responsible party.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
Greater Control Over Railroads RECON-
mended by Industrial Comn,ission.

Greater Control Over Railroads RECON-
mended by Industrial Comnission.
The industrial commission has SUBJ
mitted its final report to congress. ID
is document of more than 1000
printed pages. The first part, which
has been made public, deals with the
progress of the nation, agriculture,
mining and transportation. Recon-
mendations are made on the subjects
OF transportation and agriculture.
The commission tavises us to trans
portation:
That the policy Of governmental
supervision and control OF railroads.,
as originally laid down in the ser ate
committee report of 1896, and embod-
led the following year in tie interstate
commerce act, be revived aud strength
ened; that the authority of the inter-
state commerce commission, necessary
for the adequate protection of ship
pers, and clearly intended by the
trainers of the laws, be restored, and
that the powers ana functions OF the
commission be enlarged practically as
contemplated in the so-called Cullom
bill of 1900, except as TO authority to
prepare and enforce uniform classi-
fcation.
Such legislation should provide:
For more stringent regulation OF the
conditions under which freight and
passenger tariffs are published and
filed
No rate of classification ought to be
changed without at least sixty days
notice to shippers, unless specifically
authorized by the interstate commerce
commission.
That strict adherence to published
tariffs be required and rebates or dis
elimination prevented by an increase
OF the penalties.
That the long and short haul clause
in section four of the Act of 1887 be
strengthened and rigidly enforced, un-
less the carriers shall be released by
special order of the interstate COM
merce commission.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13

General Miles Protests Against Location
of Now Army Posts Near Large Cities.
The army post board, which has
been in session in Washington inter
mittently since November 25th last,
has concluded its labors and adjourned
sine die.
1t is understood that there has been
considerable divergence of views
among members of the board as to the
location of new posts. Lieutenant
General Miles, the president of the
board, has taken strong position
against the location of new posts In
The vicinity of great cities, on the
ground that it can only be construed
as intended to menace organized labor,
and he has gone SO far as to enter a
formal protest with Secretary Root
against such locations.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
Philippine Provinces Covered With Litera-
ture From Hongkong Junta.

The provinces under civil rule, as
we'll as Manila, have been flooded with
a quantity of pamphlets printed in
Hongkong by the Filipino junta.
These pamphlets are copies Of me-
mortal by the junta which has been
forwarded to President Roosevelt.
The memorial expresses sympathy at
the death of Mr.. Mckinley and assures
the American people that sooner or
later the Filipinos are bound to have
independence. The junta says it has
reliable information that most of the
pacified provinces are only held in
check by superior military forces.
The pamphlets say that the educated
Filipinos appreciate American govern
mental ideas, but when the bread of
national life is asked for it does not
suffice to offer a stone, even though
that stone be diamond.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
Japan WIN Hold Great Exposition in 1908

The great national industrial exhibi-
tion which the imperial government of
Japan will hold at Osaka in 1908 lie
attracting much attention. II is re-
ported that although the limit within
which applications for space must be
filled has officially been set at Jnne 30,
1902, the applications from the United
States and Europe already aggregate
more than the estimated space allotted,
and private individuals have offered to
put up their own buildings in order to
exhibit machinery. The occasion will
be made the most of by foreign nations
to introduce modern methods among
the Japanese, who are just at the stage
when they are ready to adopt new
ideas. The competition will be keen
between the United States and Great
Britain.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
Colorado Supreme Court uPhoids Stock
Inspection Law.

The supreme court of Colorado
Tuesday handed down a decision up
holding the livestock inspection law
passed by the legislature of the state.
The decision was rendered in the case
of Ed. II. Reid, who rushed cattle into
the state from Texas for the purpose
of testing the law. The sentence of
six months in the county Jail against
Reid was also affirmed. Reid was
backed by leading livestock organiza-
tions of the county, who claimed that
the Federal inspection laws super
ceded those of state.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
London Paper Censures Foreigners for At
tending Reception of Dowager Empress

tending Reception OF Dowager Empress
Commenting on the recent reception
of the wives and children of the MEM
bers of the diplomatic corps at Pekin
by the dowager empress, the emperor
and the empress, the London Globe
wrathfully remarks thatit was humili-
ating to every European and American
and expresses Indignation at the fact
that the ministers permitted their
wives and children to be degraded by
bowling to the infamous woman and
receiving decorations from her blood
stained hands" The newspaper asserts
the dowager will make use of the Incl
dent to convince Chinese the foreigners
ko-towed to her. Trouble is predicted
to arise from the circumstance.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
Ogden r,remen Injured by Gas.Explosion

ObNNfh
An explosion during fire in the
Pintsch gas plant at Ogden Tuesday,
wrecked the, plant and injured four
men, one possibly fatally. The in
jured are:
Alonzo Rogers, assistant chief of the
are department, very bad burns about
the head, neck, breast, arms and
hands.
Zeb A. Low, driver of chemical
wagon, burned not serious.
George Lockhead, 721 Twenty-sixth
street. burned, hot serious.
]. w. Chatfin. 1864 Quincy avenue;
burned not serious.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
BRITAIN WILL NOT ARBiTR ATE.
Hollands Effort to secure Peace In South
Africa Falls.

The British government Tuesday
replied to DIR. Kuyper, the Dutch pre-
mier, that If the Beers IN the field de-
sire to negotiate for peace, negotia-
tions can be entered into, but only in
South Africa. The British government
adheres to its intention of any foreign
power. This action was a disappoint-
ment to Holland and other Boer SYM
pathizers on the continent
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13

1t is expected that New York will
appropriate s75o,ooo and the Old Bay
state at least $500, 900 for the st. Louis
Worlds fair.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey arrived at
Fort Lauderdale, Fla, Monday from
Palm beach, and will spend several
days hunting and fishing on New
river.
In Boyertown, Pa, fonr persons
were killed aud one probably fatally
injured Monday by the explosion oil
gasoline in the bakery of George
Carver.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
Power to Make Commercial Treaties Rests
With President and Senate.

WlUh FTssIutnt and SenAtss
The esub-committe of the senate COM
mittee on foreign relations which had
been giving special attention to the
legal aspect of the reciprocity treaties
has reported its findings to the full
committee, and Senator Spooner is
authorized to prepare written report
of the subject The committee con-
cludes that the power to make COM
mercial treaties rests with the presi-
dent and the senate and that the fact
that they involve questions of tariff
does not render it necessary that the
house of representatives should have
equal opportunity to consider them.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
Presidents Daughter VIII Attend Corona
tion of King Edward.

Wihtelaw Reid has invited Miss Alice
Roosevelt, eldest daughter of the pres
ident, to accompany him to London
as his guest when he goes to attend
the coronation of King Edward 1t is
the present expectation of Miss Roose-
welt to avail herself of this opportunity
to see London, but If she does SO she
will have no status save that of a
young American girl, and will not
figure in the coronation ceremonies in
any manner.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13

At Clarksville, johnson county.
Arkansas, bold and successful bank
robbery occurred about o'clock We'd
nesday morning. Sheriff John IL.
Powers was shot and killed by the
robbers. The exact amount secured
by the thieves is not known, bnt 1t is
supposed to be between 81 900 and
So, 900.
Sheriff Powers who roomed in g
building adjoining that of the bank of
Clarksville, was awakened shortly be-
fore o'clock by terrific explosion in
the bank.
The robbers who numbered five or
six, were evidently prepared for him,
as they opened fire the moment he ap-
peared. The officer was wounded at
the first volley, but he stood his ground
and returned the FIRE, sending half a
dozen bullets after the robbers. The
wounded sheriff managed to get back
to his room, where he died within
twenty minutes. When badly-aroused
citizens began arriving at the scene,
Sheriff Powers was dead and the rob
bers had vanished.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
Georgia Bank Robber. Make a Good Haul.

Georgia Bank Robbers Make Good Haul.
Safe blowers forced the vaults of the
Lemon Banking company, at Aeh-
worth, Ca. early Monday morning,
securing $1,000 in gold, S5, 900 Geor-
gia state bond and large amount of
stock certificates. Between SIS, 900 and
$4,000 in notes stock certificates and
bonds were hopelessly mutilated by
the explosion and much currency and
small bills destroyed. box filled
with $50 gold pieces escaped the notice
of the robbers. The robbers had IL
blow through four projections to reacl.
the money.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
Prominent Nevada Man Takes His Own
Life,

A special to the Salt Lake Trib
une, Sunday, says Judge t. w.
Healey, very prominent resident of
Nevada for the last forty years, COM
mitted suicide some time Satul day
night. He was found lying dead on
top of his bed at Carson with his
clothes all on, holding 3s-caliber bull
dog pistol in his right hand The bull
let had entered the right temple and
passed through to the left temple and
pillow, instant death being the evident
result.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13

Mother and Two Children Burned to Death.
Mrs. Ed Kusner and two children
were burned to death in their home at
Waterloo, Ia, Wednesday night in
fire caused by the oyerturning of
lamp. One other child was fatally
burned and three others seriously in
jured. The children were playing
around table on which the lamp
stood. When the burning oil was
thrown on the clothing of the mother
and children, she made no attempt to
escape, but clasped her children in her
the fremen succeeding in rsscuing
four of the children, one of whom can
hardly survive.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13

Oregon Man Has New Gold Saving Process.
William L. Long, who has spent the
past six weeks at Salem, Oregon, claims
that he has discovered new process
for extracting gold from ores, cheaper
than the old methods, and producing
three times the amount of gold that
can be secured by smelter. His claim
is similar to that of Prof. Winn, who
recently died in Denver, after making
similar discoveries. Long has expert
men ted with ore from various sections
with great success. The last expert
ment was made with tailing gs from the
Ashland smelter. Long extracted As
cents from ten pounds of the tailings,
or, at a rate of 800 TO the ton, after the
smelter had secured $40 per ton from
the same ore.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
Representative Newlands Asks Cuba to
Join the Union.

Representative Newlands of Nevada,
OF the Ways and Means committee,
who was the author of the resolution
annexing Hawaii, Wednesday intro
duced joint resolution inviting the
republic of Cuba to become q part of
the United States, first as a territory
then as state of the Union, to be
called the state of Cuba; and also
authorizing rs per cent reduction of
duty on the present crop of Cuban
sugar, in consideration of Cuba's
granting preferential rates to the
United States. The resolution con
fines the 25 per cent reduction of du-
ties to the period prior to January l.,
1Qoa
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
Mystery Surrounds Murder of Washington
Man.

John Herbert Prentice, of Pullman,
WASH, 2l years old, was shot and
killed at the home of his father, two
miles west of town, at o'clock Satur-
day morning under most peculiar cir
cumstances. A coroner's jury returned
a verdict of death from gunshot
wound inflicted by his own hands, but
does not say whether it was suicide or
accident.
A deep air OF mystery surrounds the
affair. Deceased lived with his father,
a widower. The father, John Prem
tice, is so years old and very eccentric.
He recently sold some land and is be-
lieved to have money hidden about the
place. Yesterday he was in Pullman
and acted very qneerly. He bemoaned
his fate, saying that S. few years ago
he was worth 100000 and now is
nearly broke.
Deceased inherited an estate from
his mother in Yamhill county, Oregon,
valued at Sic, 900. He expected to get
this next month.