Show NOTES the trans mis congress will e held in de iver in 1969 david peterson on his way east from walla walla to chicago was I 1 tiled near WUll ston N D by falling from a great northern train work on the cheyenne electric street railway company s extension to fort russell which was stopped by a strike has been resumed with a new force of men after an all day fight the trans mississippi commercial congress at san francisco voted down a resola tion indorsing the recommendation ot postmaster general meyer for a cheaper post robert myers last week brought into cheyenne the largest deer killed in that country in twelve years the animal was shot by myers near diamond station weighs pounds asa Is a twelve point buck A new city directory tor cheyenne was issued last week containing 5 names according to the usual usage the utilization of the multiple three the new directory shows that che enne s population Is 16 that work on the irrigation hysten of the wyoming central irrigation company in the wind river section of wyoming Is to begin as soon surveys are completed which will be about january 1 has been decided leasers on the dead mule claim at rawhide nevada it Is baij are working in dirt returning 47 a aard the pay streak on the dead mule Is four to six test in thickness the channel being eighty feet wide on the average the trial of tom lindsay alias montana slim jordan for the murder of ray parnell near lusk last sum mer was begun in the district court at douglas wyo last week tom daley an alleged accessory in the crime will be tried later two men were killed in the wreck of a passer ger train near foller mont on the shelby junction branch of the great northern the engine went into the river and a fireman and watchman were killed one of the dead is named Ran speck two men were killed and one in aured in a wreck of a great northern train at harals river in the northern part of montana the train was late and while traveling at a high rate 0 speed a soft stretch of road bed the engine rolling into the ditch after chasing a typical western 1 orse rustler for eight years capter ing him twice and as many times he escaped sheriff felix alston of big born county wyoming Is about to lave his hopes realized by again get ang possession of the man R E stratton who has been arrested in altah james oliver curwood a well known author of detroit who recently went into the hudson abdy wilds for a de troit publishing firm has been killed by indians in the lac ie rouge coun try the trader who brought la the report says that the lac ie rouges declare that the white man began the trouble the grading of the railroad into rawhide nevada will be completed within the next week or ten days and the work of laying rails will be commenced as booi as the grade Is completed it Is believed that twenty five miles of railroad from schurz to rawhide will be in opera tion by christmas thomas L hisgen independence party candidate for president ad dressed 2000 people at goldfield OD october 17 and was given a cordial reception mr hisgen said he be that president roosevelt was sincere in his fight against the standard oil company which he had driven out of the republican part n experiment in connection with a great international exposition is to be tried next year when the alaska Y ukon pacific exposition is held in seattle and it will be watched with more than usual interest by church and temperance people and members at the prohibition party for the first time in the history of expositions the sale of intoxicating liquors on the grounds or near them will be abao 1 bitely prohibited allo long on trial at glasgow mont for the murder of john hays and his il year old daughter was con evicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to thirteen ears am his brother walter long was also convicted of the same offense ft ill dickeron the 1 year old horse thief who recently escaped from deputy sheriff toliver while being brought back from sweetwater coun ty where he was arrested on a fre mont county charge has been recap aured and Is now in the county jail at I 1 ander W the campbell construction corn pany of salt lake city has been awarded the contract to construct a depot building at dallon mont for the oregon short I 1 me railroad in accordance with their recent bid for erecting the same at an aggregate sum of that the union pacific intends to cairy out its long considered plan to make evanston wyo the head of the altah division is ind catch by its request to the evanston elec anc light company to supply an esti mate of the coat of lighting a thirty still roundhouse president stubbs of the ivada strite university has addressed an open letter to the citizens of reno nevada it Is a plea for a solid vote on october 24 to abolish gambling in rano giving figures showing that the brings more money to the town than the games A cheyenne dispatch announces that kilpatrick bros collins have turned over to the union pacific rail road company the completed grade of the Athol Borle cutoff and will at once ship their big grading outfit to other points where union pacific con tracts are to be fulfilled sensational rock drilling was done at the interstate fair at spokane by and pickens of butte mont who drilled a hole 56 inches deep in solid granite in fifteen minutes so far as known this is a world s rec ord in granite seven teams were en ared for 1 in prizes 1 |