Show NEWS OF THE WEST Irrigation Enterprises Under the S Corey Act Cannot Be Taxed I DECISION IH WYOMING BOCK RINGS MAN GIVEN A SEVERE BEATING Heavy live Stock Shipments From Montana PointsBig Prices For Sheep Death of an Old Comstock I ProspectorSerious Cutting Affray Af-fray at Buffalo Wyoming Duel With Carbolic Acid Special Correspondence S Sheridan Wyo Jan tA very important im-portant case and the first of its kind to come up in the state was decided in the district court here Saturday A suit was brought by the Shoshone Irrigation Irriga-tion company to restrain the county from collecting taxes which had been llvied on the companys ditch on the Stinkingwater Fifteen miles of ditch had been assessed at 2000 per mile the I tax amounting to several hundred dollars dol-lars The defense was that the ditch i was constructed In accordance with the I provisions of the Carey act that the I ownership of the ditch and water was vested in the state that the company I was simply acting as an agent of the state and that the property was not subject to taxation Judge Stotts declared the assessment and tax null and void Hock Springs Man Beaten Rock Springs Wyo Jan 24 Sandy Chalice a liveryman was badly beaten I Sunday night by two drunked Slavs Chalice received several bad bruises on the head and three bad cuts in the neck He will live S Montana Helena ministers have instituted a movement for the relief of starving Cubans The committee to raise the subscription subscrip-tion towards the Sisters hospital at Billings report the full amount of 3000 subscribed and the offer of several eligible sites free Stock shipments over the Burlington last year were the largest in the history his-tory of that road Besides some 700 cars of sheep and cattle transferred from the Northern Pacific the Burlington Bur-lington handled nearly 8000 cars of stock received for shipment between Billings and Newcastle a distance of 3G1 miles The Billings yards alone contributed 1400 cars of beef cattle and feeders and 4C1 doubledeck cars of sheep In addition there were about 400 cars of sheep and cattle shipped In over the Burlington during the S year 18S7 Probably the highest price for a goodsized lot of mutton sheep ever paid in Montana was that paid by N J Bielenberg to S E Larabie in Deer Lodge last week So per head for 2000 head Mr Larabie agreeing for him to cull out only six of that number William Rea Sons shipped Jan 20 from Billings over the Northern Pacific Pa-cific 55 doubledeck cars of sheep They shipped 47 cars from Big Timber I Jan 22 Postmaster James H Lynch of Butte has resigned It is expected that George W Irvin will succeed = him Wyoming Mr and Mrs l Davis of Laramie gave their sick child a morphine tablet tab-let by mistake and the child died Alex Brockway of the firm of Brock way Bros Fetterman Douglas left Sunday for Klondike and to join the ranks of gold hunters He will first go to Edmonton Canada and from there proceed on his journey A serious cutting affray took place at Buffalo Henry Johnson cook at the g I I Occidental hotel and George Thomas known as Tex quarreled over a I trifling matter and came to blows Both men finally drew knives and fought fiercely until separated by outsiders out-siders Tex was cut in the hand but is not seriously hurt Johnson was stabbed through the arm the brachial artery being cut He lost a great deal of blood and is very weak Tex is being held in jail to await the result of his opponents wound which it is feared will prove fatal Ruble Rivera sheep inspector for Carbon county reports that the long I continued cold weather is killing a I large number of sheep especially in the bands of old ewes Nevada Reno Journal J H George shipped five cars of sheep yesterday John Long also shipped six cars of cattle and H Levy shipped five cars Virginia Enterprise Henry Berry an oldtime Comstock prospector died about 11 oclock night before last at Jumbo mining district where he was engaged in developing one of his claims He had been sick only a few I S days with pneumonia Mr Berry was well known to all old Comstockers having been foreman of the Savage I mine during the CDs He leaves a wife and two children a daughter and son the last named Frank being employed with his father at Jumbo A Chinaman was frozen to death at Gold Creek last week Idaho S Elaine county warrants cannot be 5 Z sold at any price The Gunn public library at Hager man will give a rhetorical silver medal contest on Feb 22 to which all pupils of the public schools of the state are Invited B B Lower exstate superintendent I of public Instruction has entered the journalistic arena having purchased a half interest in the Silver City Avalanche Ava-lanche Colorado Dark dungeons and bread and water diet are to be prohibited at the industrial indus-trial school for girls at Denver A chicken main was fought near Denver Saturday night and lasted long Into Sunday morning Thirty chickens were entered in the contest and the main which occurred in Jefferson county was witnessed by a large number num-ber of Denver sports When the fight was over there were 13 dead birds Two women of the Denver slums engaged in a duel with carbolic acid t and both will be disfigured for life The Colorado Fuel and Iron company is expending 500000 In enlarging and improving its steel plant at Pueblo and is preparing to compete with the eastern steel plants It has 1100 men at work on the improvements IS I |