Show NEWS OF THE WEST Wyoming Heavy floods resulted from heavy rains of the week In Johnson county ditches roads and bridges have been destroyed and a great deal of property damaged On Rock creek all bridges were washed away except two On Crazy Woman creek all bridges were overflowed and several carried away In Buffalo cellars were flooded in all but the higher parts of the city The mill race of the Buffalo Mill company was badly wrecked the upper 300 feet I being swept away Sheep owners are heavy losers in many parts of the county coun-ty A large number of lambs and shorn sheep succumbed to the cold I rains and the losses are heavy Utah cattle are also coming in Frank Benton of Cheyenne has just returned from southern Utah bringing with him 1150 cattle which will be pastured at the Camp Stool ranch He has 800 more on the way He reports the cattle cat-tle situation as being very promising Mrs Mary Murphy wife of M H Murphy a prominent citizen of Laramie Lara-mie died suddenly of apoplexy She was 44 years old was born in Ireland but came to America when an infant She has been a resident of Laramie since 1871 In October 1873 she was married to > Murphy and has borne seven children five sons and two daughters all of whom are living A postofflce has been established at elm near Laramie with Thomas D Shrock as postmaster This olllce is located in the old Cummings City dis trict once a famous camp but the place had acquired such a bad name that the residents asked to have the office named Jelm Hon A D Chamberlain register of the United States land office at Douglas Doug-las had one of his legs broken and his collar bone dislocated in a runaway accident ac-cident at Cheyenne Some alarm is shown by settlers In the Jacksons Hole region over the report re-port that the Indians are planning some sort of n raid Colorado Graduating exercises at the deaf and blind Institute were interesting Two from the latter and one from the former for-mer graduated Thomas Parker a miner at the Venture Ven-ture mine located about four miles from Leadville was frightfully injured Wednesday and will probably die The injury was due tothe premature explosion ex-plosion of a blast and besides being terribly mangled the unfortunate man had both eyes blown out James Norton who attempted a holdup hold-up at Cripple Creek was sentenced to three years In the pen He entered a plea of guilty Incendiaries are reported to be at work in Colorado Springs Idaho State papers generally are condemning condemn-ing the Caldwell Tribune for objectIng object-Ing to the commission issued to Colonel Jones of Blackfoot because the gentleman gentle-man served In the confederate army The Caldwell Tribune strikes a jangled chord In this late day of progress Vood River NewsMiner Cal C Clawson wife and son passed up the branch road yesterday to Ketchum They are from Lake valley New Mexico Mex-ico where they spent the winter They were about a month on the trip corning i corn-ing by way of California for the benefit bene-fit of 1r Clawsons health Engineers are working on the Bear J Q J Q d River canal system in southeastern i Idaho It is a big scheme and the I canalsto be constructed will cover 250 00 acres of fertile land The system embraces four separate canals with Bear river as the fountain head At a point near Soda Springs waters of Bear river will be diverted on each side of the river one branch being carried car-ried through the Chesterfield valley and the other through Gentile valley The Chesterfield canal will be continued contin-ued to the Portneuf river the surplus I being received by that stream the present volume of which is inadeauate for the lands contemplated to be irrigated irri-gated From the Portneuf canals will be taken out to irrigate lands In Cache and Marsh valleys Nevada Jumpers generally precede tragedies a little while Eugene Howard and Los Douglass have jumped the land and water rights In the Como range of mountains formerly owned by the Stinson brothers This land will be used by them as range land for cattle Charles M Shortrldge Is attracting I considerable attention In the state as a politician He may have a Nevada senatorshin In view Montana W H Justison of Basin who was discharged from the regular army in 1SSS through the intercession of Mrs Cleveland at the request of Justisons wife has reenlisted as a busier A number of pickpockets were gathered gath-ered in at Butte and Anaconda by the police on Memorial day |