Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1902-02-13
NORTHWEST NOTES.

OIL has been found ut Parachute,
Colo, at depth of $50 feet.
President Elmer e. Smiley of the
state university is suffering in Chey-
enne from severe attack of grip.
L. @. Abbott, who brought the first
printing press to the Northwest, died
at Olympia, Wash, last week, aged rs.
Thomas Holden, an old-time miner,
fell 45o feet in the A. V. shaft at Lead
vile, Friday. He was instantly killed.
The widow of the late Colonel Rob-
ert G. Ingersoll is suing the Davis es-
tate of Butte, for $95, 900 attorneys
fee.
Fifteen Sumpter, Oregon, miners were
arrested last week, charged with rum
ing two men out of camp, by threaten
ing their lives.
| The thirty-third anniversary Of the
organization of the First Methodist
church of Laramie will be celebrated
about March 18th.
| Mrs. Lizzie Marsh was seriously In
| jured in Denver last week by an ex-
plosion of steam in the 81. Elmo hotel.
She will lose both eyes.
The body of Long Bert, sheep
herder, who was lost in a blizzard
several weeks ago, has been found
near Rock Spring, Wyoming.
Rollo d. Pierson, postmaster of
Louisville, ILL.,, who is accused of en-
bezzlement, was arrested in Upton,
Siskiyou county, Cal, last week.
Automobiles may be used from the
Short Line to Yellowstone park this
season, being quicker and moro COM
Portable than ordinary stage coaches.
James e. Tregle of Colorado Springs
swallowed sixty grains of morphine in
o Cripple Creek saloon Thursday.
Prompt medical attention saved his
life.
/. G. Fish, miner, was killed by
snowslide at Boulder peak, near Dill
Ion, Saturday. Harry SPOTS, a boy
who accompanied him had a narrow
escape.
Homer Fl. Derr, instructor in mining
and geology at the university of Wyo-
ming has accepted an appointment in
the department OF physics in the uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
Six thousand tons OF choice milling
wheat from Tacoma will be sent direct
to Stockholm, Sweden. This will be
the first shipment of wheat from the
Northwest direct to Sweden.
Land Office reports from southern
Carbon county show that the valley of
the Upper North Platte is rapidly fill-
ing up with settlers who are taking
advantage of the homestead law.
Twenty dollars in silver exposed in .
show window of the Curys-Cole shoe
shop at Boulder, Colo. last week, for
a thief. Entrance was gained through
a rear window.
A current of steam and hot air has
been discovered escaping through
crevice in the top of a high cliff near
Fort Benton, Montana The outlet II
supposed to be of an immense UNDER
ground geyser.
The Western Packing company. with
capitalization of S5oo,oo0, has been
organized at Denver. The company
expects to kill 300 cattle, 500 hogs and
300 sheep per day. The plant will be
running by September.
A new weather station has been es-
tablished at Mooreroft, Wyoming, for
the benefit of stock men in the eastern
tablished as the result of the efforts
: of Congressman Monde1l
Safe burglars were busy at Meyers
Falls, WASH, Thursday night. They
broke into the postoftice, took all the
, money and stamps in sight and cut
open many of the letters. seeking more
funds. The S. f. q N. depot was also
! visited, the safe blown open by dyna.
mite, and several express packages
taken.
0 Trouble is threatened in the Red
o desert, between Wyoming and Utah
Il tiockmasters. The greater part of the
8 desert was recently leased by the Car.
o bon county Wool-Growers' association,
9 for the purpose of keeping foreign
" sheep out. Utah sheep-men have in.
n vaded the leased ground and refuse tc
# leave.
T. G. Call and Harry and Thomas
Cosgrlff engaged in a shooting affray
at Big Timber, Mont, that may result
ii seriously for Thomas Gosgriff. Al
are prominent and well-known cattle
~ men. oosgritf was shot through tn,
e. body.
e. The wife of Thomas Flynn. who ex
a pired on the streets of Helena, las
In week, has caused sensation by asking
NJ that the body be exhumed and exam
"a ined to determine whether death wa
. caused by poison. She refused to dis.
u close whom she suspected.
William Daley, the big doclsmaste
n. of Laramie, has returned from Omaha
. where he conferred with the Uniol
Pacific officials with rafaranca "a Al,