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Show WYOMING NOTES. ! Green River will soon have a $30,000 passenger station, - Fish Commissioner Miller will place 8T,0Oi) trout In Bear river. ' It is said that there are seventy cases ol typhoid fever In Laramie. It is reported that wild ducks are still very plentiful at Button's lake. The Rocky Mountain Fair association with a oapltal of IO,(JOO has been organized at Laramie, The com.oissioned officers of the Wyoming Nal tonal guards met at Cheyenne Saturday and elected Captain F. A. Btitzer to the position of major of the First battalion. Evanstou Register: L. R. Meyer, a German of Carbon, Wyoming, and superintendent superin-tendent of coal mines at that place, wrote a friend in this city this week that he is a candidate candi-date for the United States senate. Rawlins Republican says: A gang of men were in Rnwllns last week who are putting put-ting up a new telegraph line to take the place of the one now in use. The new line is being put. up on the south side of the track. The coal lately found in the vicinity of Ervay has been pronounced by experts equal to that at Trinidad, Col. The first vein Is four feet thick, the second Ave feet, third three feet, fourth Ave foot and the fifth tour-teen tour-teen fuet Laramie Republican: Captain B. -W. Towner came In at 7:.H0 Sunday morning, having hav-ing ridden from the Buckeye ranch In four hour, to get Dr. Harris to go out to Keystone, where his son, lieu, jr., had broken his leg the night before. The Choyenno Sun says it appears that the shortage in the coal supply Is something some-thing like an epidemic, and It Is not only due to shortage of cars and lack of transportation facilities, but also from lack of miners In the coal mining centers of the west, Chas. Johnson, alias Smith, who distinguished dis-tinguished himself by lawless exploiting In Laramie, Albany and Carbon counties last August, plead guilty to grand larceny before Judgo Knight at Rawlins and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment at Jollet. The convict con-vict Is only SO years old, but had started on the career of a desperado, ( Laramie Republican: Ira Jrr!ngton tells a remarkable story of a hunt he had one morning while out at Halter's ranch In the Black hills. He went out for a little stroll and without going out of his path killed twenty -two cottontails, two skunks, a hear, several mountain grouse and other small game. And he didn't half try either. |