Show NEWS OF THE WEST Proposed Telephone Line Connecting Wyoming With Utah THE CHINOOK MONTANA WROUGHT IMMENSE GOOD TO THE CATTLE RANGES Montana Claims First Colored Woman Wom-an In United States Ever Admitted Admit-ted to Practice Medicine Denver Dairymen Swindle Their Patrons With Chemical Cream Idaho and Nevada 5 Wyoming I Utah men are interested in a telephone tele-phone line to be established between Evanston Wyo and Randolph Utah The UintaBich Telephone company has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state with a capital stock of 5000 The incorporators are Charles Kingston J E Cashin Charles Stone I of Evanston Robert McKinnie of Randolph Ran-dolph Utah and J M Baxter of Woodruff Wood-ruff Utah Walliam LawrenceUnion Pacific coal and ice contractor is in Laramie to arrange ar-range about harvesting the ice crop for the Union Pacific ice houses at Laramie Lara-mie Rawlins Cheyenne and Denver These points will require 5000 tons and if a warm spell sets in at Denver a much larger amount will be required re-quired The ice is the best it has been in years and is from 18 to 22 inches thick solid and clear as crystal The Grand Army entertainments and fair which will be held in Cheyenne Jan 19 20 and 21 promises to be the greatest event in the history of the G A R in Wyoming Rawlins Republican A sheep herder attempted to lead his horse across abridge a-bridge about 30 feet long a short distance I dis-tance west of Bryan About midway the animal stepped between the stringers string-ers and it was impossible for the herder her-der to get him extricated An engine and caboose were seen approaching and the herder tried to signal the engineer engi-neer to stop but he was too close so he pulled the throttle wide open The engine clung to the rails and tore the horse off the bridge Mrs E Erdman living on Indian creek north of Lusk committed suicide sui-cide last week by taking concentrated lira Mrq T7tmQn ftinl in Irlll VAT in J fant child but Its life was dTie woman has been sick for some time and was insane when she committed the crime L B Rhodes who has valuable mining min-ing property in the Klondike country is buying some good dogs in Laramie to take with him to the Klondike Montana I William Ricketts a cowboy in the employ of exSenator Tom Powers was I arrested at Butte Wednesday Rick etts is < wanted at Great Ealls iQCJiav ing forged the name of < a man by the i name of Austin to checks amounting to I 5249 Austin received the checks in payment for the sale of cattle and had I lost them in Great Falls Ricketts found the checks and after retaining them in his ossession for ten days appeared at the banks with them and secured their payment The cowboy then proceeded to have a good time and I had 15 cents left when arrested A general chinook prevails in the state It has wrought a great good in many places and especially to the ranges which were overed with snow and ice making it hard for range horses and cattle to get at the bunch grass The stockmen are now relieved on that score Among the ranches and minesthe traffic has switched from runners to wheels The volume of water in some places is liable to annoy railroad traffic for a few days About 140 public school teachers as well as members of the faculty of each state educational institution and other colleges are present at the annual meeting of the State Teachers association asso-ciation at Helena George Bell one of the oldtimers of Montana who was once welltodo was sent to the Lewis and Clarke poor farm at the instance of the police and county officials whose attention had been called to the fact that he was alone and ill in a cabin in Helena and was I not only destitute but had no one to care for him Dr Maria Steward the first colored woman of the United States to obtain that degree has registered her diploma in the clerks office in Missoula Dr Steward graduated from the New York medical college in 1810 and was the valedictorian of her class says the Missoula Mis-soula DemocratMessenger The increased coal shipments from Park and Carbon counties have made it necessary for the Northern Pacific to put into service every coal car available avail-able Montana stock growlers will attend the Denver convention which meets in January Interest in the meeting is growing State Veterinarian M E Knowles will read a paper before the convention C B Towers a well known stock commission man and grower of Miles City endorses the idea of a national na-tional association Colorado The surveyors of the United States geological survey have placed the altitude alti-tude figures on the bench marks recently re-cently placed along the east line of the capitol grounds at Denver thus demonstrating demon-strating that the altitude is 5273 feet above thc5 sea level or five feet less than a mile Members of the Arapahoe Democratic society are making elaborate preparations I prepara-tions for the entertainment of Hon George Fred Williams of Massachusetts Massachu-setts who will visit Denver on Jan 7 and S and be the guest of the society on those days Some enterprising dairymen of Denver Den-ver have discovered a process for making mak-ing the finest looking cream in the world out of a very cheap quality of skimmed milk with the investment of very few cents a gallon and no labor worth speaking of Almost coincident with this discovery says the News the health department the city has discovered dis-covered the imposition and the enterprising enter-prising dairymen will be asked to appear ap-pear in police court to answer to the charge or having violated the health ordinances the citly The newmeth od of manufacturing cream consists in the addition to skimmed milk of a chemical preparation This is a powder put ur > in pound packages and manufactured manu-factured by a company of Chicago It is warranted according to the advertisement adver-tisement to preserve meats fish oysters mince meat and other perishable perish-able stuffs from spoiling The dairymen dairy-men had discovered a new use for it Twomasked men held up the Green Light gambling house in Pueblo early Thursday morning They entered the place by the front stairs and covereing the dealers and pl yers with revolvers = t ordered them to the rear of the room I The holdups then gathered up all the coin in sight about 150 O F Barber of ilaybell was in Craig I last Wednesday and brought up a large bald eagle which his son Clarence Clar-ence caught in a trap last week I County Commissionerelect H T Wilson of Rio Blanco county lost several sev-eral hundred dollars by taking his cattle I cat-tle to Omaha instead of selling nearer home He was offered 48 a head for his beef steers at Rifle but thinking he could do better by taking them east I he realized about S less after paying freight and other expenses A new town has been added to Ouray county It is Potosi named after the beautiful mountain of that name The town is located at the junction of Im cgene and Sniffels creeks the site selected for mills in which to treat tbe Camp Bird ores Sheriff O B Downtain of San Miguel county was in Rico last Wednesday and escorted back to Telluride a very smooth looking fellow on a charge of beating a board bill The fellow is supposed sup-posed to be a crook of the first degree His valise was examined by Marshal Heyei of Rico and several unsigned national bank notes were found in addition ad-dition to quite an amount of confederate confeder-ate money The ferryman on the Grand just below be-low the mouth of the Dolores has a nevel way of getting information from those wishing to cross the river His bet girl live four miles above the ferry and at her house the ferryman finds it more pleasant to pass his time I than on the desolafe banks of the Grand He has a sigh postea on each side of the river reading If you want the ferry build a fire When the ferryman ferry-man sees the smoke he rides down and crosses the parties The great drawback the scheme is that owing to not even a sagebrush growing within with-in two miles of the crossing people are compelled to gather their fuel supply before getting into the barren dis S trict Idaho Idaho Falls Times i The hunting t hunt-ing party consisting ofDr Jones John Andrews George Harriman and Clarence Clar-ence Chaoin returned last Tuesday night from a dear hunt on Birch creek about 60 miles west They succeeded suc-ceeded after several days of hard work and persistent hunting in cap turing one poor lone and friendless halfstarved buck At Salmon on Wednesday A J Mc Nabb met with a singular accident While he was throwing a box from the railroad platform a nail caught the ring on his finger carrying him down a distance of eight feet breaking one wrist ana iracturing the other He is generally bruised but is still in the ring John D Bell of Blackfoot has been appointed to a clerkship in the office of the sujveyoi general of Idaho Miss Lucia Leonard of Boise has been ap I pointed fice stenographer in the S same of I I Nevada At the poor farm outside Carson Patrick Henahan died on Wednesday aged 95 years Wottom the man arrested at Reno on suspicion of committing the Steam boat robbery on 1at Saturday night was turned loose it being concluded that the evidence was not sufficient to hold him The fire boys at Reno presented Chief Hodgkinson on Christmas with a handsome chiefs badre6f gold |