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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. The National Live Stock association tv ill hold a convention in Denver, January Jan-uary 23. Charles M. McCortnick of Pueblo, Colo., and Robert I.awson of Cheyenne, Wyo. , have been appointed mail clerks. The Union Pacific now owns l.S.i-1 miles of road, of which it operates all but five miles, which is leased by the Southern Pacific. A special courier from Nye county, j Nevada, the scene of the recent Indian scare, reports that all danger of an uprising up-rising of the Shoshoues is past. Fifty mounted policemen are still on duty, and it is believed that these men can quell any disturbance that may arise, bnt'hostilities are highly improbable. Mrs. Clara Kluge. of San Francisco, who claims to have been the contract wife of the late Adolph Sntro, has commenced com-menced a legal right for some of the Sutro millions by filing an application for letters of guardianship over her two children who are named in the application. ap-plication. Adolph Newton Sutro and Adolphine Charlotte Sutro. Dr. Edward Bovett, a well-known veterinarian of Denver, and E. Girard, cook at the clubhouse of the Standard Shooting club, at Bowles lake, ten miles south of Denver, were drowned while fishing in the lake one day last week. The cause of the accident is unknown, the first knowledge of it be. ing the discovery of their overturned boat by other fishermen. Messrs. Keefe it Bradley, contractors contrac-tors of the work of building the public library foundations at Cheyenne, Wyo., have been granted an enlargement enlarge-ment of their con tract on account of extra work required to overcome obstacles ob-stacles encountered by marshy ground. The original contract was for 531,000. Under the enlarged contract, they will receive upwards of 5."5,000. Mrs. Jesse Conwa3 of Meeteetse, Wyo. , is under arrest, charged with poisoning her husband. Conway was suffering from an attack of typhoid malaria and died. The physician was not satisfied that the disease was the cause of death aud asked for an investigation inves-tigation by a coroner's jury. The jury decided that Conway had been poisoned, poi-soned, and the woman was immediately immediate-ly placed under arrest. George Crawford of Denver has left for New York, to conclude the sale of 1,000 acres of rich mineral land on South mountain. Kio Grande county, to an English syndicate for 2,500,000. This property includes mines at Sum-mi Sum-mi tville, former 3' owned b3 Senator Bowen, which have produced .53.000,000 in gold. A railroad will be built to the mines. Mr. Crawford is also just clos- ing a sale of mines at the Twin Lakes, near Leadville, for St.100,000. A large number of transactions have been made in sheep during the past week by Carbon county, Wj'O. , sheepmen. sheep-men. Carson &, Miller sold and delivered deliv-ered 5,000 head of two-year-old wethers at SrS.liO a head. R. Brackenbury shipped 1,000 head of sheep to the Denver Den-ver market. I. C. Miller shipped twenty-two ears of feeders from Rock Creek to his feeding pens in Nebraska. Shippers are experiencing difficulty in getting cars for slock shipments The abstract of the report made to the comptroller of the currency, indicating indi-cating the condition of the eleven national na-tional banks in Wyoming, as of date September 20th, shows an increase in totals, as compared with .luly 14th, from S:i, 575. 000, to 4.1 12,000. Loans and discounts have increased 840,000. Amounts due from approved reserve agents increased S:j25,00O, and individual individ-ual deposits nearly S 100,000. The average av-erage reserve has increased from 25. U5 to 34.53 per cent. In the recent failure of the Tradesmen's Trades-men's National bank of New York City, the Rock Springs, Wyo., National bank was interested to the amount of 520. 70. having that amount on deposit de-posit at the time of the collapse of the eastern bank. The amount involved is more than two-thirds of the capital of the Rock Springs bank, and is a severe blow to that young financial institution. in-stitution. The stockholders will make good any impairment of the capital stock of the bank. The Indians unlawfully killing game in Wyoming; were able to elude the deputies and reach their reservation, lad the deputies reached their camp before they left it, there would undoubtedly un-doubtedly have been a great many killed, as the Indians had three tecpes as a blind in the open and ten more hid in thick timber near by. It is es-tiinMU'd es-tiinMU'd that this baii'l of Indians, about thirty bucks. UilU-d over .'!O0 licad of cow elk in the three weeks they made their camp on I'ish creel:. State Land A pent Moore of Helena, Mont., is in receipt of an important rnlinff by Secretary liliss. relating to an application made several months hjo by til e state land department to relinquish certain lands in Kitier J!oot 'valley, taking' others in lieu. The ' state desired to permit the state arid land commission to reclaim land so exchanged ex-changed under terms of the Carey act. As the land had been patented, the secretary of the interior decided it could nut be relinquished. The secretary' secre-tary' now holds ho'vever. that unpatented unpat-ented lands can Ije c.v haiifed. |