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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. Indians have again been unlawfully killing game in northern Wyoming-. A deputy sheriff is now on their trail. A postoffice established at Eath's ranch, south of Laramie, has been named Mondell, in honor of Wyoming's new congressman. At Glen rock, Wyo., a few days ago Pete Madsen was held to the district court charged with the murder of Jess Lannon two weeks ago. The next meeting of the A. O. U, W. grand lodge, having jurisdiction in Idaho, Utah and V3oming, will be held in Evanston during the month of May, 1S99. George Howard and Frank Howard' miners, wandered off the road in the mountains near Ironton, Colo., and froze to death. Their bodies were taken to Ouray. From Montana to New Mexico, and from the first range of the Rocky mountains far out on the plains of Kansas and Nebraska the ground last week was covered with a thick mantle of snow. An effort will be made to have the next Wyoming- legislature appropriate money with which to purchase a pack of bloodhounds, to be used at the state penitentiary to assist in capturing escaped es-caped convicts. The building over the shaft at the Kentuck mine in Gold Hill, Nev., has been sold to B. F. Hazeltine, who is taking it down and will dispose of the lumber. Mining- operations in the Kentuck ground will hereafter be conducted con-ducted through the Yellow Jacket, the underlying workings of both mines being connected by drifts. The proposed reservoir for Wheatland, Wheat-land, Wyo., flat will cost 100,000,' which will be about 32.30 to each acre of land that will be benefitted by its construction. All of the settlers who have been consulted express their willingness will-ingness to stand the assessment, and as they can pay the same in labor they are anxious for operations to commence. com-mence. The citizens of Cheyenne are determined deter-mined to have a grand "blowout" on the occasion of the inauguration of De Forest Pachards, Wyoming's next governor. gov-ernor. Committees in charge are arranging for a big inaugural ball and reception to be held at the state capi-tol capi-tol on Monday, January 2 next, when the new governor will be inducted into office. William McMillan, the defe-ed Republican Re-publican nominee for governor of Nevada, will contest the election of Reinhold Sadler, fusionist, on the ' ground that the apparent majority credited to Sadler is based upon a sufficient suf-ficient number of illegal votes to change the result of the election. Some sensational allegations are anticipated. an-ticipated. The Paull-Rocco damage suit, at Ely, Nev. , has resulted in a verdict being be-ing brought in by the jury for Paull for the sum of S22S7.50. The action was brought br Paull for $5500 dam- ages, claimed to have been caused oy reason of his having been refused the privilege of working in the Homestake mine, near Hamilton, in which he held a lease of a one-third interest. Eighteen miles of railroad have been built from Belle Fourche to the Elkhorn Black Hills branch to the nay Creek coal fields in Wyoming the past year. The company will operate their line' in a few weeks and expect to supply sup-ply the Black Hills smelters and the Fremont & Elkhorn road with coal. The coal is an excellent steaming fuel. The Laramie, North Park & Pacific railroad, running from Laramie, Wyo. to the soda works and deposits seven south of that city, was recently sold at a delinquent tax sale for ,?:;90.32. The Union Pacific, owner of the line, removed re-moved the rails two years ago. The purchaser got nothing except a few thousand old ties which are practically of no use. Over 1000 sheep have died out of the Guthrie Brothers Live Stock company's herds in the past ten days, near Douglas, Doug-las, Wyo. The sheep were dipped about ten days ago, and since then they have sdied by scores. Several car- casses were cut open and showed spots ou the kidney. Local sheepmen are considerably worried over the matter, fearing it is some new disease afflicting afflict-ing the sheep. C. Shiiekcrs, the sleek individual who forged the name of Judge Bramel of Laramie, Wyo., to a check for 50 and was caught in Salt Lake, where he was preparing to catch others, pleaded guilty in Laramie and was sentenced to six years in the penitentiary by Judge R. K. Scott of Cheyenne. Judge Bramel, who was imposed upon by Shuckers, requested that another judge j pass sentence upon the forger. The Western Union Telegraph com- pany will in a few days begin the lay-I lay-I ing of another wire between Grass : Valley and Colfax, Cal. This was j made necessary by the large increase in the business between Grass Valley j and the outside world, j The coal mines at Aliny, Carbon, I Hanna and Rock Springs, Wyo., have I been unable to keep up with the de-j de-j mand for fuel, and the Union Pacific. ! Coal company has been rapidly increasing increas-ing its force, until now it is double I what it was two months ago. |