Show NEWS OF THE WEST Wyoming V Snow has fallen during the week along the Union Pacific line between Cheyenne and Laramie Mrs H B Henderson of Cheyenne has sent letters to ladies in the various towns and cities in the state represented represent-ed in the Torrey cavalry asking their cooperation in the work of preparing flannel abdomen protectors for the men in the regiment The Utah and Colo rado men have already been supplied I by the women of their states the remaining re-maining troops to be supplied being I Nevada Idaho and Wyoming men Caspar residents will present Lieutenant I Lieu-tenant Hugh L Patton of the Torrey cavalry with a handsome sword and I cavalr i I belt Mr Patton has been sheriff of i the county several terms and hasa i large number of friends in this county i who pre anxious to contribute toward the gift gift V I Tht loss in the vicinity of Casnar j during the past two weeks by the I washing out of roads and bridges fs I estimated to be upwards of 5000 The I gain to the ranges and pastures by the 1 abundant rain is inestimable Robert Taylor lost upwards of 1000 head of i I sheep during the past week on account j of the cold rain which followed shear < V i j i Ing Hon M Nichols has secured the slg I I natures of 60 young men of Sundance who desire to be organized into a military itary company of horn guards The organization i I or-ganization will go to the front If more troops are called for or will render I j service should there be any danger of j Indian outbreaks t I i A carload of hoisting and pumping i i machinery for the Battle Lake AJax j 1 I copper mine owned by Evan Co has reached Fort Steele and will be freighted by team from that place to the mines As scon as the marhinerv is in place extensive ore shipments will commence from the mine > Notwithstanding the fact that Wyo i ming has furnished nearly four times its quota of volunteers a large number of enlistments of Wyoming men are being made into the regular army at the recruiting station of Lieutenant King at Cheyenne and of Lieutenant Gerhardt at Fort Russell For the I I Seventh cavalry Lieutenant Kin has i enl ted 25 recruits here and sept them to Fort Apache V A L Smith the fireman who was i I shot by Engineer Anderson on Feb 7 died Sunday after a long and painful i illness Anderson was out on bail rearrested re-Arrested tonight and placed in tail j I FnMths remains were shipped to Denver 1 Den-ver V i olonel Torrey now has 500 horses for j i his troopers and the work of breaking Land i L-and training them will commence this week I is expected the entlra quota i of mounts will be secured during the I i present week j 1 Miss Estelle Reel of Cheyenne has f i been appointed to the position of superintendent j I su-perintendent of Indian schools one of I the most Important positions Jn the j I Indian bureau The appointment said to be the first presidential woman ap i polntment in the history of the country coun-try Miss Reel has been state superintendent super-intendent of public Instruction inWyo ming for the past three and onehalf years and prior to her election was > 1 V county superintendent of schools for Laramie county two terms Last week a call was issued from Cheyenne asking for lady volunteers to make flannel abdominal protectors for Wyoming troops at San Francisco and at Fort Russell Laramies quotas quot-as 100 and these have been comph ted t-ed and forwarded to the capital V Idaho R T Sewell of Spokane Wash dropped dead from heart disease at his room In the Dearborn lodging house at Pqcatello Boise Statesman The Michael Richardson affair has probably be enclosed en-closed for the time being at least I is not thought there will be any prosecutions pros-ecutions growing out of the shooting of Richardson by Michael or the assault as-sault of Richardson on Michael which resulted in the breaking of the latters leg The case in all probability closed with two entries in the police court V The state land board has appointed P J Gates of Eagle Mills Ark to be expert estimator and appraiser of t ni ber on the white pine lands to be sold H C Shaver of Moscow James A McGee Mc-Gee of Nampa E L Parker of Nez Perces and M H Jacobs of Boise ar to constitute an advisory board of appraisers ap-praisers to consider Mr Gates report and submit their conclusions to th state board of land commissioners The advisory board will work under the direction of the state board Xetchum Keystone H C Lewis returned re-turned from Kansas City Tuesday where he marketed three carloads f mules He sold his mules five hours after they left the car Charles Swanson Swan-son who accompanied Mr Lewis to Kansas City stopped off at Denver on the return trip Silver City Avalanche John Man agan who fell down the manway at the Poorman mine last week shattering shatter-Ing both bones of his right leg near the ankle suffered its amputation last Tuesday and at this writing is getting along splendidly Alta Area On going to press the Area learns of the sad death of Fred dle the second son of Mr and Mrs Jacob Reibold of Clearwater On Thursday evening at about 6 p m th little fellow was found to have apparently appar-ently hanged himself while playing with a towel hung upon a roller Captain Murphy of company C Idahb volunteers has resigned and will return re-turn to Grangeville as soon as relieved re-lieved No reason is assigned Nevada A great deal of bitterness is shown at Carson over the Orphans home investigation in-vestigation Susoiclous conduct of one of the female officials and one Valentine Valen-tine Stanton is charged Some racy evidence has been disclosed Preparations to enjoy the Fourth are in progress at Virginia and a big time is certain Montana George H Scott who is well kncwn Jn Montana from his connection with the country press died while on his way to Klondike Mr Scott was a prolific writer and his favorite subject was the agricultural and horticultural resources re-sources of Montana A Montana jury rendered a verdict for damages in Silver Bow county r suIting from a boycott the suit of A Tait George Haltenhoff and WuJam Hart against the Butte Butchering company Montana Dressed Meat company com-pany Beaverhead Meat company Silver Sil-ver Bow Meat company Butte Dressed Meat company Samuel Cinder and Frank Hamberger The jury gave the plaintiffs a verdict of SlOOO against all the defendants They had sued for 10000 It establishes a precedent in boycott cases Colorado Rev N H Gale who lives four mles northwest of Granada was thrown from his cart and had his shoulder broken and suffered concession of the brain William Tewksburr Roy Tewksbury his son and John H Richards were work ing in the breast of the Revenue tunnel at Cresde when the former struck a missed shot and was blown a distance of 12 feet where he was found with his neck broken and hands blown off and the upper part of his body badly mutilated Hon William J Kerr of Pueblo a well known orator has accepted the invitation of the Fourth of July celebration committee commit-tee and will deliver the principal address at Victor on the anniversary of Independence Inde-pendence day Theodore Peters was accidentally and almost Instantly killed at the Porter Fuel companys mine at Hesperus near Durango Dur-ango Frank Lehon a bride maker while out covering brick kilns near La Junta was struck by lightning The bolt tore a hole in his hat burned the left side of his face and his It breast and partially paralyzed him The doctors have small hopes of his recovery C a |