Show I NEWS oi THE VEST I t L A Rosa Ida man almost stepped on a t cougar whIle out in the hills last week The fright was mutual Some one must answer J D Stidger 1 > special agent of the interior deDart meat is at Saratoga Wyo to institute r an investigation of the cause of the recent timber fires on Brush creek The body whIch was found in lake on the Shoshone reservation has been I identified as that of William Gekle a Wyoming sheep herder Idaho Falls TImes Mrs J 1L Wat son of Provo fozmr1y Miss Kate BuntIng r Bunt-Ing of this place arrived Tuesday I afternoon for a few days visit with Mrs Ed F WIlln and other friends inS in-S this city The cattlemen of southern Colorado Ji give It out cold that they propose to have a little hand in polItics next fall it least as iar as the legIslators are Ctcerned and will not support candidates candi-dates who are not openly in favor o giving the stockmen of the state laws S that they need p1 On Sept 7 8 and 9 the state convention S conven-tion of the V G T U will be held In Laramie This is the only womals S nventfon held in Wyoming lIrs Mary JevettTeiford state president of theColorado W C 11 U will be present eat5 t S entThe other daY two women reached a Ploche Nev from the desert They claim to have tramped it froin Alturas county Cal Thfiy were verretIeent One was about s je2rSOf age and the f f t n p 0 I Jf + 1 other 25 yeaS They were on theIr way ItO Arizona S f i V Many applications are being recfliv ed for lease of the 341000 > acres of lieu lands recet1y given Wyoming by the government ia lieu of schoo lands in the Yellowstone park The rentals from these lands will increase the annual an-nual revenues of the state over 15 000Several Several Indians arrived in Pioche Nev on Saturday tracking another in from Little Cherry creek who had killed a squaw They had been in Pioche but a short time when they I bEcame so tangled up with tanglefoot fluId that they cOuld not distinguish their own tracks from any other One remarkable thing with Nye county Indians In-dians is their lightness of complexion says the Messenger A sheep herder by the name of Mc Devitt vas kllled by a fist blow at the handsfof a 19yearold boy Mot Eisler at Soldier Ida the other day I It was in selfdefense The St George Newi 1 has verified the reported burning of the mm at Mount Trumbo Sparks from the engine started the fire and the water supply was inadequate to extingUish it Everything Every-thing was totally destroyed includIng 100000 feet of lumber The coroners jury in the case of the accIdental killing in the glove contest at Idaho Springs came to the following decIsion lYe the jury find that John I Rewark cam9to hIs death through injuries in-juries receiyeiat the glove contest held I at the opera house in Idaho Springs I Aug 13 1898 his opponent beIng Rob Watkins Ve also find by the evidence that the said injuries were lntlicted Unintentionally un-intentionally |