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Show NORTHWEST XOTES. James F. Cooper and AViUiam J. Hennessy of Cheyenne have been appointed ap-pointed railroad mail clerks, The Postmaster-General has appointed appoint-ed W. F. Cochran, now postoffice inspector in-spector in charge at, Denver, to be chief inspector of tlie postoffice department. Simon Gog-g-enheim, a Denver man, was married at noon on Thanksgiving lay, and to celebrate the occasion he gave a turkey dinner to 4,000 children of that city. Andy Johnson and R. A. Smiley of Eawlins, Wyo., have purchased between be-tween S,000 and 9.000 head of ewes from Utah parties, which will be shipped iu within the next few days. " The committee in charge of arrangements arrange-ments for the coming convention of the National Live-Stock association in Denver, has rejected the proposition to make bull-fighting a feature of the outdoor sports on that occasion. C. P. Pardon, a ''ten-year man," who had been treated as a trusty, escaped from the state penitentiary at Laramie last week. A reward of S100 is offered for his capture. Pardon is believed to have gone south into Colorado. In Denver a highwayman walked into the jewelry store of S. Tobias at Fortieth and Market streets, and with a revolver, forced the proprietor to give him thirty-four gold watches, worth about S500, and made his escape. Wagener Hurlburt, aged 24, waselec. trocuted at Spokane, while attempting to fix an electric light. The lights in the barn failed to work, and Hurlburt thought he could make the repairs without assistance. He accidentally got hold of a live wire, with fatal results. re-sults. Mrs. Nettie R. Craven has petitioned for a family allowance of 35,000 per month from the estate of the late James G. Fair, the allowance to commence com-mence at the date of his death. This would mean S240,000 back allowance. Mrs. Craven claims to be Fair's surviving surviv-ing widow. Next week the water will, for the first time, be turned into the flumes and tunnels of the Southern California Power company in the Santa Ana canyon. can-yon. The plant has been two years in building, and has cost $500,000. Elec-tricity Elec-tricity of a voltage of 33,000 is sent over copper wire to Los Angeles, over eighty miles awa'. Emmett Louck, aged 18, of Cheyenne was fatally injured by being run over by a Union Pacific freight train near Cheyenne. Louck was stealing a ride on a westbound freight train to Laramie Lara-mie and fell beneath the wheels. He was found on the track, having lain eight hours after the accident. His right leg was injured so that amputation amputa-tion near the hip was necessary. Gus Carl has been convicted in the district court at Cheyenne of the crime of attempted murder. Carl was employed em-ployed as foreman of a sheep camp. He became incesed at a sheepherder named Gib Clark, who he thought was tiding to supplant him as foreman, and deliberately delib-erately shot him, inflicting a serious wound. The penalty is imprisonment from one to fourteen years. Forty-eight four-horse teams, engineered engi-neered by Shoshone bucks, squaws and papooses, came into Casper. Wyo., last week after freight. Uncle Sam not only feeds and clothes his wards but pays them well to haul the supplies to the reservation. Their stock and wagons wag-ons are probably better than that of their white brothers in ceDtral Wyoming, Wyo-ming, and they are well supplied with money. A private letter from Washington lays the war department is preparing to wage war on northern Wyoming bandits, having acceded to the demands de-mands of the postoflice. department for aid in exterminating the robbers. The letter says a large force of armed men will be sent to the "llole-in-the-Wall" country aud hunt down to the death the desperadoes and all abettors who have been assisting the lawless men. The coroner's inquest over the remains re-mains of Lillian Prandis, the 13-year-old girl of Oakland, Cal., who was supposed sup-posed to have committed suicide by hanging at Perkley last Saturday, resulted re-sulted in a verdict charging her father with the murder and naming her stepmother step-mother as accessory. The evidence tended to show that the child had been beaten to death and hanged to a bed post by those responsible for her death- The body of H. T. Pombauer, member mem-ber of United States mineral land com mission of Missoula district, Montana, was found near Swan Dake. Mr. Pombauer Pom-bauer left Missoula November 12 for Commissioners' camp. 1 "2 ' miles from Missoula. Tie died of hfnrl. tliseasp Jess Lennon of I)onn!as. Wyo., was shot snd almost instantly killed at Glen Rock by I't-te Mat. son while trying to separate Matson anrl .lohn Farre'.l, who were engan;cri in a drunken brawl. Matsou is now in jail on a charge of murder. Two Osei'ola Indians, Shoshone Bill and his sor:, were found dead in Brc.tvT.5 canyon, near White I'ine, Nevada. The Indians had purchased a quantity of whiskey, got oa. a drunk, and laved out in sno-.v aQ(l were frozen to death. |