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Show ... WYOMING NOTES. j Jerry Sheehan will erect a f -'0,000 hotel ho-tel at Lander The Lsramie city council has passed ru ordinance closing the falcons on Sundays. The Laram'.e city council has placed the tax levy at 4 mills for general purposes pur-poses and lj inilUJor sewer purposes. A fire in Hock Spriugs the night of the Fourth destroyed the Union 1'aciti.t round-house, two cars and a building iu which oil was stored. Advices from Gold Hill are to the effect ef-fect that the snow has almost disappeared, disap-peared, the warm weather of the past month melting it very rapidly. John Fiurinan has made a good discovery dis-covery at the head of the Medicine How. He calls it the Mammoth ledge and it is six feet wide, panning out from live to twenty colors per pan. 1'eter Friis, a section hand, was run down by a passenger train near Rock Springs. Ho died a few hours alter being picked up. The man was tifty-iive tifty-iive years old and had a wife and several sev-eral children in Nebraska. At Laramie Wednesday afternoon, Johnny Schenck, a boy It) years of age, was probably fatally stabbed by Kalph Lasher, a boy 14 years of age. Schenck was stabbed to inches above the nipple j and just at thu tijiyf '.he heart. Young Lasher used an uruinary pocket knife. The fourth annual conclave oj the Wyoming grand commandery, knight templars, convened at Laramie Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon. The total membership member-ship of the stale as reported at the meeting, is V,'J, but these figures do not include the fifteen members of Albert I'ike commandery at Kvanstnn, which do not properly belong in this year's report. The governor as commander-in-chief of the statu militia, has completed his (election of staff ollicrrs. The following follow-ing is a roster: Frank A. Stitzer, adjutant ad-jutant general, with rank of brigadier-general; brigadier-general; John W. Meldiim, inspector genera!, with rank of colonel; John C. Haird, jitdsje advocate, with tin. rank of colonel; W. (i. Shapcntt, assistant ad-jutaut ad-jutaut general, with rank of colonel. |