Show NEWS FROM NEARBY Good Prospects for tho Oil Fields of Casper Vfjo A Bicyclists Tour Biff Clean tip en the 2IliSoulaIdabo Wagon Roads Moscow Wheat S F TE Farnham a young bicyclist who is taking a tour of the country on his bicycle is in the city today He comes from Wisconsin and intended in-tended to go on to Salt Lake city but changed his mind and will go home byway by-way of Denver He had a sail attachment attach-ment to his wheel to help him along and attracted considerable attention OR the streets He stated that he had his sail in full rig and attempted to cross a bridge in Iowa and was blown off the structure but suffered little in 3 ury Boomerang S Casper OH B C Bartlett the wellknown Omaha mine owner is in the city He arrived from Casper last night and said that there was every prospect that the oil fields of Casper would get into the market Dr Lindeman states it as his belief that there is a great sea of ol extending from the Big Horn mountaIn moun-tain to way below Casper and that it can be got to the surface at less cost than is usually the case Work to that I I end is on foot and It Is quite likely that It will reach results in the near future Cheyenne Sun Harvest of the Shears C A Walker of Salt Lake is in Anaconda Mon Drug stores in some parts of Montana Mon-tana close at 9 oclock The new reduction works at Reno have been started up Geese and ducks are plentiful in I vadous parts of Idaho i t A F Hesse and M T Paulsen I lately escaped from the county jail at I Denver There is still plenty of room for i prospectors in British Columbia but bit is by no means easy work I A thief at Stockton Cal stole a I dentists show case of plugged teeth The gold in the teeth was valued at 5150 150Four Four men cleaned up 16000 in gold on MIssoula Creek Mon last season They expended 40000 and took out 100000 Wells Fargos express box was stolen from the stage on the route between Alturas and Amedee at Horse Lake Saturday night It was taken while the driver was changing horses in the barn The wagon road between Salmon City and Leesburg will be completed this week The first wagon will start over the mountain tomorrow The amount of freight for the Leesburg M and M Co lying here awaiting shipment will be rushed over the mountain as speedily as possible to avoid the heavy snow fall A Moscow Idaho paper reports the yield of a tract of seven acres of fall sown wheat at 539 bushels or 77 bushels per acre machine measure By weight it will make nearly SO bushels per acre This crop was grown In one of the states which the New York Post pronounces incapable of supijoruiis a pupuiiiuon ui peciaoie proportions The Albion Idaho state normal school now has the rafters up and begins be-gins to look like a nice neat and imposing im-posing structure There are several men at work and only a short time will elapse till it is completed We are proud of the structure and we an ticipate the future greatness with grIm satisfaction sia County Times I The Mount Diablo Mining compan has declared a dividend of CDcents per share amounting to S 11000 and pay able on Wednesday Nov 8 The last preious dividend was paid on July 22 1S91 and was at the rate of 20 cents per share The mine has been closed down for many months and the present pres-ent dividend Is declared out of a surplus sur-plus fund Hawthorne Bulletin N W ORear editor of the Port Townsend Morning Leader has been I arrested and placed under 2000 bonds upon an indictment returned by the grand jury for forgery For several years ORear was a deputy in the auditors office where he had access to the county warrants and according to Sweeneys confession he stole several sev-eral hundred dollars worth of warrants and forged indorsements thereon Wells Fargo Co have renewed their contract with the S P Co on most advantageous terms to the railroad rail-road company The contract will run twentyone years and in addition to the bonus paid by the express company com-pany which amounts to 1750000 of Wells Fargo Co stock the railroad is to get 40 per cent of the gross earn ngs of the express company during the life of the contract Ingenuity is rampant among the Oregon Lawyers A Salem man was acquitted of horsestealing upon the theory advanced by his counsel that he was only stealing a ride and now a Pendleton attorney suggests that an omplovee cant be convicted of larceny in a store if he took the money home n accordance with custom and never brought it back Meanwhile the man who steals a loaf of bread goes up for three years |