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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. Stockmen of Eawlins, Wyo., report eery light losses of stock during- the past month. The cold weather and snow at Fort Laramie, Wyo., is unprecedented in the past thirty-two years. Fourteen new families arrived last week to make their homes in the 'White River valley, Xevada. About five or six miles south of Silver Sil-ver Peak, Sev., are sand hills which are known to contain gold ranging1 from 50 cents to S2 per ton, and there are millions of tons of it. It is reported that the big seventy-foot seventy-foot ledge at the Drink-water mine in Silver Peak district, Nev., will not be idle very long, as the whole ledge averages about Slo per ton in gold. A ledge of gold-bearing quartz was discovered while grading for the Sierra railroad near Chinese Camp, in Tou-lumne Tou-lumne county, Cal. Great excitement prevails and some of the men are putting put-ting in extra time in panning out gold. Governor Gage of California has attached at-tached his signature to the Morehouse bill requiring all articles, except telegraphic tele-graphic dispatches, published in the newspapers and periodicals of California Cali-fornia referring to individuals, to have the true name of the writer affixed. On a boulder of brown granite, near Vista, Nevada, have been discovered some hieroglyphics which some people claim are the expressions of an ancient language. The characters, signs, or letters vary from one to seven inches in length, and were evidently chisled with some pointed instrument. Inquiries in all portions of Johnson county, Wyo., regarding the condition of live stock show that the results of the winter on live stock interests have not been unfavorable. The foresight of the farmers in providing a large amount of forage is in a large measure accountable for the small loss of stock. The Union Pacific company has pur. chased the King coal mine property on the road between Fort Steele and Saratoga. Sar-atoga. The purchase indicates the probable building of the line connecting connect-ing Dillon, Colo., and Fort Steele, and opening up to railway communication the mining districts of North Park and Grand Encampment. It has been ascertained that the entire en-tire shortage in the accounts of Captain J. M. Neal of the Fourth cavalry, cav-alry, who recently returned to his post, did not reach S3, 000 and this amount was made good by Mr. Mackey, who has known the captain from the latter's boyhood and with whom he was a favorite. The Big' Horn forest reserve officers at Buffalo, Wyo., have received orders from the interior department modifying modify-ing a prior order which prohibited grazing sheep on the reserve. By the modification grazing will be permitted on all parts of the reserve south of the thirteenth standard parallel. This includes in-cludes all of Johnson county except the northern three tiers of sections. W. H. Davis, of the Powder River, Wyoming, country, has discovered a spring on his ranch property which yields pure lubricating oil. lie has sent a number of samples to merchants and is taking orders for the delivery of the product in barrel lots. The oil comes from the spring free from grit and needs no refining process to make it suitable for use for lubricating purposes. pur-poses. The first verdict at Leadville of murder mur-der in the first degree in twelve years was in the case of Robert Strickland He stabbed and killed Barney Can- of Mauch Chunk, Pa., on the night of February 10. Why he killed Carr is a secret still in Stickland's breast. He set forth that he was being held up at the time, but the testimony shows cold-blooded murder. Stickland's wife fainted when the verdict was read. Rain fell in all parts of northern California during last week. News from the valley sections shows that the rivers are rising, but there is little damage of flood just at present, unless the weather should become warmer, in which case the snow iu the mountains moun-tains would melt more rapidly than the water could be carried off. Efforts are being made to harness the surplus water and prevent a repetition of the past two years. The pulpand paper plant to beerect" ed near Floriston, west of Reno, will soon be in progress of construction. The projectors of the scheme are interested in-terested in pulp and paper plants iu Oregon and thoroughly conversant with every phase of the business. The entire plant will cost Si'iO.OdO. When j completed and in full operation it is expected that 400 hands will be employed. employ-ed. Also that the demand for wood to be used in the manufacture of pulp j will be 40.00(1 cords a year. j The news came from Osceola. Xev. , ! j by the last stage that Alma A. W. liard- j ! ner, a sheepherder in the employ of I William Gregory, had disappeared from the camp and was thought to have . committed suicide, lie left the camp j in Spring valley on Saturday morning. i armed with two revolvers and a rillc, and accompanied by a doi'. About , three hour later the dog returned to the camp with a piece of overalls, sat- j j urated with blood, tied about his neck. A search has been instituted, but the ' body has aot been found. j |