Show NOTES A blizzard general over that section struck on october 2 six gochea of snow falling crippling telegraph and delang trains joe motorman at union pacific mine no 8 rock springs wye was badly crushed in the mine ana is in the hospital in a serious condition coal mines of wyoming re earned operations saturday morning september 26 when nearly 8 men went hack to work this undoubted ly marks the end of the strike friends of jerry perman the young nebraskan who disappeared several days ago are now satisfied that he was drowned in brown s lake and that his body is fast in the mud says a rawlins dispatch A work train on the logging railroad of tte chapman logging company was wrecked about five miles west of scappoose oregon five members of a repair gang which was riding on the train were killed and eight injured the thirty fourth annual convention of the american bankers association held at denver last week came to an end with ithe election of george M reynolds of chicago president and lewis E alerson of new yok first vice president the third annual state fair held at wheatland wyo despite the stormy weather was well attended the fair Is now a fixture and preparations have already been made to make the next event even greater than the fair just closed in an altercation at rawhide ne rada jack J wall formerly of butte mont seriously cut M duly an ana onda mining man with a razor wall was arrested and taken out of town an account of threats of lynching made by daly s friends miss elizabeth kelly principal of the public schools at tacoma wash tor the past ten years died at pitts burg pa in a hospital from caraly sis miss kelly was en route from tacoma to la trobe pa to visit a brother when she was stricken A sister of M R preston who was nominated for the presidency on the socialist ticket and 1 serving twenty five years in the state penitentiary at carson Is in reno tor the purpose it Is said of circulating a petition to be presented to the board of pardons when it meets asking tor the pardon of preston in all probability the government will install an electric light and power plant at its big shoshone dam and furnish light and power to the surrounding towns tha power house will be built at corbeit wyo and rower will be generated from the water from the corbett tunnel which has a drop of over fifty feet with bis arms tightly clasped about the neck of a large buck deer which had died of a bullet wound the body of george buxton ot brockway in the southern part of oregon was found in olalla can on by a searching party buxton had evidently wound ed the animal and was preparing to cut its throat when attacked A final settlement has been made between the wyoming operators and the miners and the papers have been signed the wage Is the same as the one in force prior to the strike and regulations remain vir dually the same concessions were made by both sides and the wyoming coal controversy is now ended the friends of charles E holli flaugh have made application to gov arnor brooks of wyoming tor a par don for hollibaugh who was con noted at buffalo of murder in the sec ond degree in march 1901 and sen fenced to life imprisonment the rea sons for asking for hollibaugh s par don aie not given by his friends at the headquarters of the wyo king and the national wool growers associations in cheyenne Chei enne it Is an bounced that the fifth ann lal conven tion of the former will be held in rawlin wyo on monday and tues day january 11 and 12 1909 the national convention will be held in pocatello idaho january 14 to 16 articles of incorporation were filed dt cheyenne last week for abe mon tana wyoming southern railway with a capital of 5 the coin plans the construction of a line from sheridan wyo to miles alt mont and may also extend south ward to the present terminus of the colorado southern at orin wyo A dispatch from chicago says col aniz atlon of the western country will be materially retarded if the railroads between chicago and the pacific coast carry out a plan which has been ad alced by the executive officials nearly every railroad in the western passenger association has agreed to abolish all low or red iced rates after january 1 1309 the joint conference of operators and coal mine workers in helena reached an agreement to maintain the present scale of wages for two years ahe operators had wanted a reduction but agreed to the same scale provided the contract was signed to two ears the leading merchandise store of rawhide nevada was almost demolished by an explosion of dyna mite and H L gleason proprietor and his wife seriously injured A lee has been arrested and lodged in jail on the charge of having cause the explosion peter dickerson champion steer roper of arizona who was arrested at cheyenne Che enne charged with criminally assaulting mrs ida M conness ann cipal of the south cheyenne Chei enne schoola was given a arelin inary hearing ind bound over to the district court in the sum of 5 secretary W F R mills of tl e den ver chamber of commerce has notified george S walker of the national wool growers association that den ver Is not at this time in a position to bid tor the national wool ware house and market according to a cheyenne dispatch the town of michel was again swept by fire last week the cause being unknown practically all the business h roses were wiped out except the great northern hotel the kootenay Koo tenal hotel a drug store a barber shop and a billiard hall the loss Is estimated at 20 |