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Show lation. While eating tapper he swallowed swal-lowed something which remained in his lhroat and choked hiui to death ia half an hour. Patrick Lennon. wauled at I?titto on a charge of illegal voting, has been arrested ar-rested at Kuike, Idaho. John Flannagan was putting old and long had been lonesome in his little miner's cabin in Strawberry gulch, near Clancy, in Jefferson county. His body was discovered Monday morning with a frightful hole torn through the breast. This note was found near by: "1 don't want to put anybody to any trouble. Bury ma iu the colli n I have made and the grave I have duo;." A few rods from the cabin was a newly made grave and by it a rude colli li . Quietly and in order tho old miner had gone about his final arrangements. Seating himself in the singlo chair in his cabin, he put his trusty rifle, the sol! companion of his life, to his breast and touched the trigger with a stove poker. On the ipiiet hill ho resls in peace, lie bad been mining in California, Cali-fornia, Idaho, Nevada and Montana for twenty yearn. His circle of ae-ipjaintaiici's ae-ipjaintaiici's was always small. A brother lives somewhere in Michigan. WYOMING NOTES. David Lannen, one of the pioneers of v Laramie county, died at Cheyenne l'a's recently. J la "leave property valued at $5(1,0110. State Kng'inecr Meade has left for a trip to the Little Laramie, where ho will gauge aJI of the irrigating ditches supplied by that stream. There ara over lot) ditches to gauge, anil the work will require almost a month to complete com-plete it. The Cheyenne Sun printed the following follow-ing dispatch from VVendover: "( has. A. (iuornsey. who controls vast iron deposits de-posits iu the Hartvillo district, reached here today with a party of eastern ex-perls ex-perls and capitalists." They immediately immedi-ately left for the mines. It is believed that a big deal is under way and that before many days arrangements which will insure ntUi.ation of the mountains of iron will be made." Tho Cheyenne Tribune, speaking of Cyremus Heera, whose Indian claim has just been allowed, ssys Meets was one of tho best, known of overland freighters freight-ers in the old Wyoming dtiys. Mr. Mcers, during hia freighting experience, had a big hunch of wagon stock stolen from him at Ash Hollow, .Neb., near Hcott's blitlls. The cluiiu for this loss, n mounting to $10,01)0, has been awarded by the government, and as Mr. Beers lies been dead for many years, his ti6irs ate being hunted tip. j An eastern syndicate has purchased the Alcorn hot springs, and will spend . .VhUM) in improving them. The springs in iiuastton are situated upon ' lite stiuih iiitiik of the North Platte If river, a! a point where the river cuts its way between perpendicular walls di- rcclly through an immense mountain nttd mountain range. There are. forty springs in all, ranging from very small springs to one that throws a volume of water too great to pass through an ordinary or-dinary barrel. |