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Show NOKTUWEST NOTES. (teorge 'Webster was handed at Spo-Wane Spo-Wane last Friday for the murder ot Mrs. Ashland. Snow to the depth of four inches fell at Cheyenne Friday night. This snow will greatly benefit the ranges, whieli lire sadly in need of moisture. Bert McDonald of New York and Jack Wade of California will fight twenty-five rounds at Hock Spvings on April Hi, for a purse of jSSO, the winue.i to take the entire purse. Those who know declare that withir. the next sixty years all the pinetimbet In Truckee county, Nevada, will have been felled; but the lumber companies are not worrying over that fact. By the premature explosion of sixty sticks of dynamite, five workmen wer burried under a mass of broken rock at Spokane. One dead body was taken from the debris and four wounded men were taken to the hospital. The senate committee on military affairs lias made a favorable report on the Warren bill giving travel pay to members of the Torrey regiment who were at home on sick leave when the regiment was mustered out. Ex-Alderman Charles Joy of Lead-ville, Lead-ville, was shot and fatallj- wounded by his wife. The woman says her husband, hus-band, who was intoxicated, drew a gun a ul was about to fire at her when she pick,"d up a revolver and fired three shots at Vim' one w'hieh penetrated the stomach1" Another eft'"'' ',as been, made to save the life of 'Dia.'uoc(lfielfl" 1acl Uavis, the most noted cr.'Biinal of the northwest, north-west, who four yearago, itis charged, killed two sheephei ers in Cassia county, Idaho. An application has been made for a writ of habeas orpnsas the initial step toward taking Hie ease to the United States supreme cora:t. Secretary Hitchcock has gran-ted the .equest of Senator Mondell maie- in behalf of the sheepmen of nortewrn Wyoming and will permit sheep to graze upon a portion of the Big Horn: timber reservation. It is believed that limilar concessions will be made sheepmen sheep-men of western Wyoming and eastern Utah regarding the Uintah timber reserve. re-serve. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Flemrey, an aged .n,,nl rf ffhevenne. uuarreled while both were intoxicated, and when the-officers the-officers forced an entrace into their home, Mrs. Flemreys clothing was in flames, she having sir.ee died from her injuries. Flemrey was arrested, but was discharged at the preliminary examination, ex-amination, it appearing that the woman had set her own clothes on Ere. Work has commenced on the La ramie-North ramie-North Park telephone Hue of the Rocky j Mountain Bell Telephone company and the line will be rushed to completion with all nosslbs speed and extended on west through the park, the Grand Encampment country and down th Platte liver to Fort Steele, where a force of men is now engaged in build- j ing the line eastward. An empty ws'ter car got away at ; Sherman. Wvo., ad flashed down the t western slope of tl'fe" mountain at a j hair-raising speed unti'5 it met an east- bound freight train at Tie siding. The crew saw the runaway car" in time to jump, and no one was hurt. The front end of the locomotive was damaged some, but the water car was demolished. Traffic was delayed several hours- by the accident. i There seems to be a brighter future- in store for Virginia City,- Nevada.. ; Cheap power is now an assured fact, its installation will probably occur by Julyl. With the introduction of cheap 'O power the consequent change of ma--u!. ;n make wav for a great deal of surface labor. Quite a number of men will be employed in displacing the old machinery and in making the proper allotments for electrical power. Andy Gazavan of Casper, Wyo., has sold out his sheep holdings and retired from business a wealthy man. Seven years ago he came to Casper and ob tained employment as dishwasher in a chop house. Going out on the range to work for" S35 per month herding , n took a band of 3,000 head sheep he soon too f e on shares she,p 0f his own. It owned a buno." w0,.th upwards is said that he ! 0 Of 8100,000. .mittee on the the conference ec nas acCepted urgency deficiency bill -riding S'-O,- the senate ameudment pro making 000 for gauging streams (irJQ :n the ! surveys by the geological survey . iie western states. With this frfi'c? v. regular appropriation of 850,000, 6b geological survey will make a number of surveys and investigations in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico. Arizona Ari-zona and Idaho to measure water supply sup-ply resources and locate reservoir sites. This appropriation means much for the western states. ;Che largest train ever hauled by one j u " -motive left Archer, Wyo., on the. ill. for Omaha. It consisted ol I x noo-pound capacity steel coal t ctt, ?A d. an aggregate ton nr. are of . aa i tons. The Lehigh Tr alloy ubol''1 3 In. |