Show NEWS OF THE WEST Wyoming Interesting exercises were held in the Rawlins opera house Friday the occasion occa-sion being the public presentation of a I cavalry sabre to Captain Morgan Mc Ghee of the Torrey cavalry The gift I was purchased by voluntary subscriptions I subscrip-tions made by Captain McGhees friends The sabre was presented by J IJ Hopkins in a patriotic speech A brief response was made by Captain I McGhee The friends of Captain Davis who raised the second Carbon county troop subscribed sufficient funds to I purchase him a sword similar to Captain Cap-tain McGhees The Torrey cavalry to the number of 600 took a volunteer ride Monday morning morn-ing of ten miles across the country to the north of the pert On Tuesday amounted a-mounted regimental drill was given and the troops rode through Cheyenne on a short practice march No more horses will be received by the regiment The horse purchasing board has gone to Denver where the animals still required re-quired will be purchased An officer and detachment of men will remain and take these horses on to Jacksonville as soon as they shall have been purchased pur-chased Idaho Malad Ida Enterprise News comes to us from American Falls of the death I of one of E Craigs little children ahoy a-hoy aged about G years by drowning in the Snake river about ten miles above American Falls last Monday Twenty men for about two days have been trying to find the body but up to 9 oclock Wednesday morning the body had not been discovered The accident occurred near Craigs house New Mexico At the time Park City was furnishing furnish-ing the biggest fire Utah ever had Albuquerque Al-buquerque was burning and giving New Mexico the greatest blaze it ever had I The fire started either in the dressing rooms or underneath the stage of A A Grants opera house presumably from a defective electric light wire although I some believe that it was the work of an incendiary The volunteer fire department depart-ment responded early but there was alack I lack of water pressure and it was soon I seen that the imposing structure was doomed The conflagration spread and soon property to the extent of a half million dollars had been destroyed Montana A party comprising nine young men of Lewistown explored the ice cave last week which is situated in the summit of Judith mountain nine miles east of Lewistown The cave has two apartments apart-ments the dimensions of the first being be-ing about 250x73x10 The first part or entrance to the ice cave has a rock bed while the second part has an ice bed which is so large that a man cannot throw a rock across it The party was not able to enter this apartment because be-cause during the past five years the ice has raised so high as to almost close the entrance This appears to be due to the caving in of two air holes which are at the foot of the mountain from which flowed a strong and icecold draft These holes were not so large as to allow the entrance of a man O W Joy of Pony one of the pioneers pio-neers of Montana died Sunday after a brief illness Mr Joy was a former resident of this valley moving to Pony some 20 years ago He had many friends who were pained to learn of his demise i |