Show NEWS OF THE WEST Relic of Frontier Days Ed Merrill from the Sweetwater was in Casper the past week with his wife and sister Recently in company with a friend he was coming down the river on the ice and noticed the tongue and wheel of a wagon protruding from the bank I proved to be a wagon and contents buried Unearthed the hidden hid-den treasure was found to be a lynchpin lynch-pin wagon box of wagon irons stay chains tires and other irons but the wood had almost rotted I was discovered dis-covered a mile and a half below Independence Inde-pendence Rock about COO yards from Fort Ridge and the same distance from the old government bridge The opinion opin-ion prevails that the old relic was cached away from Indians years ago Idaho Albion is to have two days of horse racing on April 5th and 6th The people of Albion propose to build a fine bridge over the Snake river at Montgomery ferry Rev E E Fife of Lincoln Neb has been called a the pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Boise CliaJlis Messenger Nels Johnson and Will Peterson took it afoot over the Challis trail and were 12 hours from Forney to Hotel De Witt on Morgan creek They were overtaken by George Wiggings snowshoes He built on bul afire a-fire for them got their feet thawed out and started on the trail again The boys arrived at the station at S oclock pretty badly used I prety up Wyoming The files of the state engineers office I are crowded with applications for rental ren-tal of state lands The aggregate bids for more than 1000000 acres with only 250000 at the disposal of the board The bids range from 1 to 10 cents per acre The law restricts a selection to 160 acres Marcus Daly and party of Anaconda I officials were rd Diomondville last Wednesday looking over the plant of the DIamondville Coal Coke company and the Kemmerpr Coal company I is the supposition that the Anaconda Copper Cop-per Mining company anticipate the purchase pur-chase of one or both properties The annual meeting of the Wyoming Stock Growers association which will be held at Cheyenne on April 57 promises prom-ises to be one of the largest gatherings gather-ings of stockmen held for many years Theprosperous condition of the cattle business will cause a large number of dealers and railroad representatives to attend and a good meeting i assured Nevada S C Douglas was found guilty of assault and intent to inflict bodly harm on Miss Gussie Melville of Vir ginia Reno Journal Vice President Max son has received a letter from William Burke the Omaha exposition commissioner I commis-sioner of White Pine I county stating I that exhibits from 1 mines In that I county have been gathered and will be I sent to Wells the nearest point on the C P R Rand that further collections I Creek collec-tions will be sent in time from Cherry j I E C Snyder of the Blko Argonaut was arrested Wednesday on a charge j of criminal libel W W Booher of the Independent filed the complaint I The I i twmililn is the outcome rW n nniVflminfit controversy which has been going on j for sometime between the two Elko j editors in which much bitterness has been shown De Lamar Lode We are Informed f I that John Pippin I the man who was shot sometime ago by Robert Bonds Is I I in a very precarious condition Part I of the left jawbone has come out and the chances are very much against him I at the present time He undoubtedly did too much traveling around in the cold weather for his own good I Colorado The Colorado ldland depot at Glen wood Springs was burned on Wednesday Wednes-day The Incorrigible girls have been removed re-moved from the state Institution at Denver to their new home at Aurora I Thomas A Green a Denver attorney I has been disbarred fr dnv practice on j i account of his criticisms of United J i States Judge Haliett I Deadwood capitalists arc planning to establish a caking plant at Denver Den-ver process to use a recently discovered I |