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Show from F.vanston, but the t'nion Pacific i won't furnish thorn car. ' The Evanston Knight of Labor hold n meetiugand made a request that men in the Union Pacific shops receive their back pay. Last pay day only 40 per rent of the w!M due was paid. Three prisoners escaped from the Sweetwater county jail at Green River Suturday. One was Frank Blum, the Grainger postolHce robber. He was shot in the leg at the time of his arrest und was left at Green Kiverfor medical treatment. Two Newcastle men named Mouok and Campen went driving. The horse was balky and backod over the edge of a thirty-font bank. The animal was killed, " buggy smashed, Mr. Mouck broke a leg and Mr. Campeu had three ribs brokeu. Laramie is trying to get up a stock company to build a telephone line to North Park aud Gold Hill, a distance of 120 miles, The line would cost about l!)0 10. The ranchmen along the proposed linoareoxpectedto contribute toward the project. The Kews of the In ter- Moan tain Country Eoilod Down For Oar Rea'lers. ADT 8CISS0KS, AUT MULLU8. Kotos From the Exchanges Pol hind Up aud Put Into Shape For Hatty Readers. A hospital is among the the numerous numer-ous improvements contemplated in Park City. Utah Utah lake is to have it line of barges established upon it for freight and hooting purposes. The report of the condition of Cache comity, published in the Logan Journal, Jour-nal, is a curious piece of work. The figures need revising. The Utah poultry association has gotten out a compiled premium list for the annual exhibition to be held at Og-den Og-den February 4th, 5th and 6th. A gang of bov thieves has infested Park City, Utah, tor some time and last Wednesday night the city marshal made a great hnul and the youthful L pioneers will be reform school inmates. Rich county, probably, will have as many cattle to market this year as any one county in Utah. A large number of steers are being fattened this winter . on the nutritious hay produced in the 'alley around Bear Lake. noon Tuesday. The senate elected II. A. Coinis of White Pine, president pro tern.; George I. LaiiutioD, secretary; Holesworth, aorgeant-at-arms; Young of Tuscnrora. engrossing clerk. The assembly elected C. F. Bickneil of Ornisby, speaker, and Pratt, chief clerk. " MONTANA NOTES. The Bowman eloctrio street railway company has tiled articles of incorporation. incorpor-ation. The Judith Basin rolling mill. Fergus Fer-gus county's first dour mill commenced to grind last week. The sum total of the amount expended expen-ded iih building aud improvements in and near Great Falls during was $1,048,807. C. W. Cannon of Helena is said to be tho largest individual owner of prop-ertv prop-ertv in the state. His taxes for 18U0 were $14,000. The Helena musician who committed suicide because be bad been disappointed disap-pointed in love couldn't have boen much of a player on the affections. A man by tho name of Ed Smith was brought beforo Judgo Logan, at Missoula, Mis-soula, on the charge of cruel and inhuman inhu-man treatment of his boy, 11 years of age. compelling him to sleep out of doors in a barrel. Smith was lined $23 and costs. W. T. Field, candidate for congress on the labor ticket at the reoenl election elec-tion was seriously injured by the front on the boiler of his engine blowing out. Ho is an engineer on tho Northern IV citic. The accident occurred at Timber Line station. There is one man In Livingtone who has a good word to say of the departed Indian chief, Sitting Bull, and that man Is Major Pease. The major says his life was saved and sixteen wagon loads of plunder by the friendly officers of Sitting Bull. This was several years ago. Ho thinks Sitting Bull was assas-inated. assas-inated. The present trouble with the Iudians, he thinks, has been brought about unnecessarily. The major says that there are many white people who work themselves up into a religious frenzy over the second advent of the Messiah, but the United States troops are t o: called out to shoot them down for it. IDAHO NOTES. The CoMir d'Alene bank of Wallace, Shoshone county, has tiled articles of incorporation. The capital stock is $50,000. There are 1500 miles of canal and ditches north of Blackfoot, the cost of which was over $800,000. The work is only half begun. Payette parties have recently sold 1100 head of mutton to a Butte buyer. The price paid was from $3.25 to $4 per head, and the cost of shipment will be about 00 cents per lead. Rexburg is to have a new opera house 40x130 feet, with a 24-foot ceiling. ceil-ing. The site has been selected for it and active steps taken to push the completion com-pletion of the building through on the tirst sign of spring. Luke Reantield, an inmate of the county hospital at Star ranch, cut an artery of each arm and died. One arm was almost severed, evidently with a razor, and an incision was made in the other arm with a knife. Deceased was a native of Hollaud, and over 80 years of age. He was an old-timer and resided re-sided most of the time at Pioneer. (ieorge Harris camo near losing his span ol marcs in Snake river, near Eagle Rock last week, under peculiar circumstances. He unhitched theteaiu from the wugon for the purpose of watering them. The team were given their liberty' a moment while Mr. Harris Har-ris looked for a place where he might with safety drive lhe.m to the water's edge. During his absence the horses thought it would be quite well to help themselves, which they proceeded to do. walking into the river ut its nearest point. The water being deep thev disappeared dis-appeared from view, and Mr. Harris feared for a time they would be drowned, but as the water shallowed lower down they v ere soon able to gain the shore, apparently none tho worse for their voluntary immersion. COLORADO NOTES. The San Luis bank at Antonito has discontinued business. Charlotte Rogers has been appointed postmistress at Wigwam, Colo. In Pueblo tho people are suffering for money to buy mure town lots. There are at present about sixty tank builders erecting oil tanks at Florence. ' Tho State bank of Monte Vista has Increased its capital stock from $;t0,000 to $80,000. Silas Munsen cf Steamboat Springs accidentally tired a bullet into his son's right foot. Trinidad is boring for oil and gas. A glass factory and woolen mill are among the possibilities. At Grand Junction Saturday W. II. Robinson was acquitted of the charge of assault with intent to kill. Miss Mary Frost of Florissant fell from a carriage Saturday, fracturing her skull. She may recover. The business men of Boulder have agreed to closo their places of business at 7 p. m., except Saturdays. Ben Boyer. suspected of murdering Beardsley, was on Saturday exonerated by the coroner's jury at Salid.i. At Arickaree an organization has been formed, the object of which is to secure water privileges for their land. Tho grocery store of Downer brothers. broth-ers. La Junta, Colorado, was closed Saturday morning by the Hank of Eastern East-ern Colorado on notes amounting to $0000. A rabbit hunt about La Jara resulted in slaughtering ollli of the animals. Fred Shnwcroft's side killed 2!i0 and the side under the captaincy of John Shawcroft killed 201. T. W. Blarkhart of Denver accidentally accident-ally shot himself in the right foot while hunting at Gunnison Friday, rendering amputation necessary. He was spund-' spund-' ing his honeymoon at Gunnison. Edgar T. Ensigu, forest commissioner, commis-sioner, has called a convention to meet at Denver on January 21st. , for the purpose of forming a permanent forestry for-estry association for the preservation of forests, game and fish. Idaho Springs sampler! have started tn again purchasing ores of all grades at very nearly the old prices, and the ore blockade is practically ended. A strike of great importance is reported in the Lamartiue mine. It is reported from La Junta that thousands of head of cattle are drifting from the north to the Arkansas river on account of the heavy snow and cold weather. The losses will be very heavy if the snow remains on vtry long. Watkins, a small town on the line of the Kansas Pacific railread, twenty-five miles east of Denver, was the scene of a tragedy early Sunday afternoon. F. J. Banks was shot and instantly killed by Herman C. Franz a saloon keeper. NEVADA NOTES. Xevada is to have a 13 o'clock saloon law. The saloon men are getting it. The Appeal recommends an increase of the Carson poiice force during the session of the legislature. Five dollars on the hundred is rather heavy taxation, hut that is what tho taxpayers of Virginia City have to pay. The rauchers on Big Meadows arc jubilant over the prospects of big crops this coming summer. They are all sowing grain. The Republican says the recent census cen-sus returns gives the township in which Truckee is situated 11)10 whites, 1 Chinese. Chi-nese. 03 Indians aud 4 Japanese, a total of 1710 persons. A genuine case of small pox has been reported at Indian camp on the road from Crescent to Greenville, in Indian valley. As several Iudians have already been exposed, it is to be reasonably expected ex-pected there will bo more cases. Silver State: We understand that the Beno board of trade, commonly called tho State Board of Trade, will endeavor to have an act passed appropriating appro-priating $20,000 to be used in building a roller skating rink in that little burg. The management of the Free Lance, a temperance paper published at Keno, has changed hands, C. H. Gardner retiring. re-tiring. The paper presents au im proved appearance under the control con-trol of Frank Sisson, the now proprietor. pro-prietor. Genoa Courier: The company of miners who located the new ouartz i WYOMING NOTES. The new German Luthern church at Laramie was dedicated on Sunday. Wyoming capitalists are determined to lubricate the wheels of progress with oil from the bowels of the earth. A public test has been made of Shoshone Sho-shone basin oil at Lander. Raw petroleum petro-leum burned readily in an ordinary lamp. Paxton & Arnold are taking out ex-smibint ex-smibint coal from their mine eight miles lode on tho East fork havo a force of ! men at work under Marshall Willard. As previously stated they will cut the ledge in several places in order to make a thorough test of its value. Silver State: A lady accompanied bv several children from 1 to 17 years of ago arrived in towu yesterday. They are supposed to be the advance guard of the Salvation Army. Keport has it that they were ordered to leave I'nion-ville I'nion-ville by the chief of police of that burg. Both houses of the fifteenth session of the Xevada legislature organized at |