| Show C co r r NOTES The he business portion portion-of of Divide Divid Col Colo has been wiped out ont by fire The loss i ia is quite quit heavy Eva Proctor Procter has been appointed postmistress postmistress postmistress post post- mistress at Ora Washington county Xu Nev vice Mary ary Morris orris resigned Edward Pritchard of Wyoming has been appointed master mechanic at per annum in the Nevada Sevada agency school Sev Nevada da In San Francisco Cal the strike of ot pressmen and pers is on the daily any papers has virtually ended in a victory for the publishers The strikers practically practically t ca y admit their d defeat feat One day last wee week the Nevada Sevada sol aol fliers diers were paid of at the capitol building building build build- ing in Carson The IThe companies march march- marched ed up in single fil file and received their pay and th their ir discharge harge papers papers Over OyeI was paid them There w was shot t s hot time in the old town that night Mrs rs Celia Barratt aged 92 died at Cheyenne last week For twenty five years Mrs Barratt sold apples at the Cheyenne railway depot to transcontinental passengers and was known tc tG thousands of western people as A Apple Annie She had accumulated d a com com- competency potency l in the pioneer period but lost it all in later years At Hailstone Basin about forty-five forty miles from Billings Mont a dispute arose between Daniel Martin a herder of the Lake Basin Sheep company company and James Westman a herder for B. B O. O Shorey about range rights Martin shot Westman Westman fired four shots at Martin each one taking effect Martin is dead but Westman will recover The large flouring mill at Grand Junction Colo was destroyed by fire firo on the 3rd The Thc loss losi was about and the insurance will amount to but The origin of the fire is a mystery The mill was the only one in the valley and its destruction will be disastrous to not only the owners own ers era but to the growers of wheat in that section The stockholders will proba probably I bly rebuild at once Thomas Jenkins a a. miner from Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming committed suicide in hardware a store at Livingston Mont He lie asked to be shown some revolvers re selected one and asked the salesman to fill the weapon with cartridges He then placed the weapon to his head and fired death being instantaneous No motive can be as ascribed for the die rash ruh act except that he was penniless pe an and de de- de- de I There is considerable bitter feeling in Cheyenne against the soldiers stationed stationed stationed sta sta- at Fort Russell on account of the recent shooting affair in that city A force of thirty extra policemen has been sworn in and the officers at the fort have bave decided to operate co-operate with the city officials with a a. view view of suppressing suppressing sup sup- suppressing pressing further depredations In the future soldiers will not be allowed to carry fire arms when in the city Richard Rising of at Virginia City for thirty years district jud judge e of Nevada died of heart disease at the Grand hotel hotel ho ho- tel San Francisco on the th He lie had just come down from his home on California street On arriving at the hotel he said he be was not feeling well and stepping into an nn interior room lay down on a lounge to rest He lIe had scarcely stretched himself out on the I couch when he died The copper claim near Sara toga as the Haggarty mine in the Battle Lake district is proving to be a II record At twenty-five twenty feet from the surface the vein was seven feet two inches in width After going down fifty feet a a. cut cross-cut vein was started At last report report report re re- re- re port twenty five and a II half feet had been gone Jone through a a. solid body of copper copper copper cop cop- per and the other wall had not yet been reached State Examiner Henderson has baa issued issued is is- is- is sued aued a comparative statement of the business done by the state national and private banks of Wyoming as aa shown by the books booles of the various institutions institutions in in- on September 20 1898 1895 The total deposits upon that date were 3 13 a gain over the amount on deposit July 20 1897 of The total amount of loans and discounts upon September 20 1898 1893 V was S the amount upon July 23 1887 was The state of Wyoming has received a settlement in full accompanied by a 2900 from the war department department department depart depart- ment on account of funds advanced by bl bythe bythe the states state's officers to defray the expenses expenses ex ex- of the state militia for service in the Spanish h war The it scat U was the first to have haTe all of its troops mustered into service after the call ull for volunteers and Is la the first to secure a settlement and repayment from th the government for lor the tho ape |
