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Show "northwest 0TE3. V- A. PaDabaker, a pioneer of Oregon, Ore-gon, was drowned nearMehama, while attempting to ford the river. A. W. Rynearson, one of the wealthiest wealth-iest ranchers in Oregon, was drowned in the Grand Ronde river on the 23rd- The rivers all over Wyoming, and especially the North Platte and Big Laramie rivers, are rising rapidly. All streams are higher than for many years past. Notice has been given of a general increase of 10 per cent in wages at the Bessemer Steel works of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company at Pueblo. About 1,700 men are benefitted. Engineer Stridley, who is in charge of the large party of Union Pacific surveyors sur-veyors engaged in the work of surveying survey-ing the Athol hill cut off, south of Cheyenne, has issued instructions to rush the work as rapidly as possible. Pete Horn, the colored soldier who has been on trial at Denver for the murder of his comrade, Private Albert Pembertou, at Fort Logan on April 10, was found guilty of manslaughter. The extreme penalty for manslaughter is three years' imprisonment. During the past few weeks a number of cars of inflammable merchandise have been destroyed by fire while passing pass-ing over the Wyoming division of the Union Pacific, and strict orders have been issued to all conductors to haul ears of inflammable freight in the rear end of trains. At a session of the Cumberland Presbyterian assembly, a speech was delivered by the Rev. Chalmers Bourne of Texas, denouncing the Roman Cath-olio Cath-olio church. He stated that it was very difficult for Protestants to da successful proselyting where the Catholic Cath-olic church had established missions. Solomon Bachart, a young man living liv-ing near Mark's Prairie, Oregon, was found in the woods last week having shot himself. Miss Hilton, aged 17, living near Mark's Prairie, was as" saulted and dragged from her horse by Bachart. She reported that Bachart tried to kill her. Bachart belongs to a respectable family. The Butte trades and labor orgar-izations orgar-izations have adopted resolutions in sympathy with the Wardner miners, and in which they declare that "a reign of terror prevails in the town aDd vicinity of Wardner, Ida., brought about by un-American, tyrannical and outrageous mandates promulgated by General Merriam." Charles W. Whitney and Frank Whitney, brothers, were drowned at Palouse rapids, about three miles below be-low Grange, Wash., on the construction construc-tion line of the Snake River Valley railroad. They were shooting the rapids in a canoe, when it struck a rock and capsized. Both men were carried down by the strong current. The order for the abandonment of Fort Washakie, Wyo., has caused consternation con-sternation among the people of Landers, Lan-ders, which is in close proximity to the Wind River reservation, upon which are located some 2,000 Arapahoe and Shoshone Indians. It is feared the removal re-moval of the troops will be the signal for an outbreak between the two tribes, who are not on very friendly terms. The unwatering of seven great silver mines of Creed, Colo., was begun unexpectedly un-expectedly when a diamond drill, which was being operated in the Nelson Nel-son tunnel, tapped the bottom of the Chance shaft. Seven big mines will be drained by the Nelson tunnel, including includ-ing the Chance, Commodore, Amethyst, and New York. The lower workings of these mines were all abandoned some time ago on account of the water which was hundreds of feet deep. An attempt was made upon the life of Captain William C. Brown, commander com-mander of Fort Washakie, by one of his men, Private James R. Workman, Workman imagined that the captain had not treated him right, and, filling himself up on beer, went after the captain. cap-tain. He was discovered by the guard before he had done any damage and disarmed and thrown into the guardhouse. guard-house. Workman subsequently suffered suf-fered from a severe attack of delirium tremens. While fording a stream near Lusk, Wyo., Elliot W. Brown foreman of the New York Livestock company, and one of the best known men of the state met death in a very peculiar manner The current was very swift and carried the horse which Brown was riding, off its feet. The animal was roiled over, throwing Brown ajrainst a rock, knocking him senseless. The men of his outfit got him out of the stream after he had gone down three times- J An attempt was made to resucitate him, but without avail. The remains of a man were found on j the 22nd ult., near Tie Siding, Wyo. j Deceased had evidently been lost in a itorm and fallen over a precipitoui ' ledge. From the remnants of clothing j the body is believed to be that of Wil- liam Purdon, a convict, who escaped November last from Laramie penitentiary. peniten-tiary. Purdon was captured in an j exhausted condition near Tie Siding. 1 but again escaped while l:i3 captor v. ;i. trying to gtt a wagon to take him to Laramia and all trace of him was then, lost. I |