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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. The Bunce & Delfelter company has been organized to carry on the sheep business in Fremont, county, In Lander, with a capital of $75,000. The Natrona County Racing association associa-tion has been formed at Casper, Wyo., for the purpose of building race tracks and establishing fair grounds at Casper. Cas-per. The Beck & Allen company, recently recent-ly incorporated, will construct a canal nine miles long from the Gray Bull river, near Otto, in Big Horn county, Wyoming. The big tie boom which burst a few days ago at the junction of the Encampment En-campment and Platte rivers, let down 500,000 ties, and created quite a panic at Fort Steele, Wyo. Four men were killed and four injured in-jured by the collapse of a bridge at Otto, Wyo. Three gravel cars went down, the men being crushed to death in the ravine below. The government sheep inspector, now on duty In Carbon county, Wyo , has recently inspected and compelled the dipping of 30,000 sheep under United Unit-ed States government regulations. Three masked men held up and robbed six men in a saloon in Butte, securing about $20 and three watches. A mask fell from the leader of the gang and he was captured afterward. There Is a movement on foot at Rawlins to establish club rooms there for the young men of that city. Several prominent business and railroad men are Interesting themselves In the enterprise. The shearing plant of C. T. Thomas, near Park City, Mont., was swept away and totally destroyed, as the result re-sult of a cloudburst last week, 300 head of sheep and 250 head of cattle being drowned. At a mining camp near Rockdale, Wyo., James Watts shot and killed James Mullaney. It Is claimed the men quarreled and Mullaney attacked Watts with an ax, the latter shooting In' self defense. A large amount of oil machinery, consisting of drills, engines and derricks, der-ricks, has been shipped from Cincinnati Cincin-nati for the Cody Oil & Development company, which is oporating on fields near Cody. Wyo. About 65. miles from Miles City, Mont., Tim Kennedy last week discovered discov-ered a deep hole in the ground near a coal bank, from which Issues smoke and hot vapor. It Is suspected It may lie a coal vein on fire. Grant Jones, editor and publisher of the Doublejack at Dillon, Wyo., died at Battle, Wyo.. on the 20th, from heart failure. He was recognized as nne of the ablest newspaper and magazine mag-azine writers In the west. Pat Donovau. a well known rancher and politician at Clinton; Mont., was siiot fatally by three highwaymen. As he lay dying upon the sod Donovan returned tbe fire, killing one hold-up and fatally wounding another. Ranchmen in the vicinity of Laramie peak. Wyoming, report heavy losses of cattle from a disease resembling anthrax fever. The Rutherford brothers broth-ers have already lost seventy-one head from this mysterious disease. Resident Engineer Graff, at White-fish White-fish lake. Mont., was blown to pieces by a blast which he forgot had not exploded. Graff disregarded the warning warn-ing of his foreman and proceeded to examine the effects of the first blast, when he was blown over feet in the air by the charge of dynamite. |