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Show iNOJlTinVENT NOTES K. H. Hnrrlmnn left his summer homo nt Pelican l)dgo, on Klamath lake, Oregon, whore he has spent a mouth's vacation, on Friday of last week. Tom and Lawrenco Creed were (sentenced to 1G and 18 months respectively re-spectively for stealing a quantity of i watermelons from a Union Pacific car at Cheyenne. James Olbba of Del Norte, Colo., Tva seriously Injured lu a runaway at the Four Mile ranch, near Uoggs Wyo., a few day ago. When tho horses stnrtcil to run Glbbs wns thrown over the dashboard. H. J. Martin, a freight conductor, formerly of Ogden, Utah, was crushed to death In n collision on tho Northern North-ern Pacific railroad at Avon, about fifty miles west of nutte. Martin wns sleeping In tho caboose of an extra freight train, The warllko Plutes of Inyo county, Cnl., who havo been always more or less hostile to tho whites' occupancy of their territory, aro now so vigorously vigor-ously objecting to tho seizure of their water rights by Ixm Angeles that tho settlers fear trouble. James Stiinwood Pierce, aged 78 years, Is dead tit his home lu Tacomn of apoplexy. He wns a cousin of President Pre-sident Franklin Plorco and his grand-If.ther, grand-If.ther, Nathaniel Plrce, gavo to the I'ederaK government the site for the navy yard at Portsmouth, N. II. Jack Dunn, the outlaw who recent ly murdered a man near Spcarflsh, S. D Is believed to bo 111 hiding near Ilulott, In tho northern part of Crook county, Wyoming. A sheriff and several deputies hnve taken tho trail r.ud hope to bring lu the outlaw. All tiro Wyoming coal mines shut down by tin strike of the miners hnvo supplies of coal on hand and there is little fear of an Immediate coal famine, fam-ine, A Ilutte dispatch announces that tho Amalgamated Copper mines have o six weeks' stock of coal on" hand. After Soptember 13 apple growers ot the Pacific Northwest will bo re. quired to pay a sharp Increase In freight rates to market their apples In tho east. Tho biggest advances nro mado to points west of the Mis-wiurl Mis-wiurl river, whereas ndvnnces to points east of tho Missouri river aro slight. Dewey, tho 10-yoar-old son of H. F. Dnck, a Choycnne contractor, Itmnd a cartridge In the alley at his homo nnd after extracting tho bullet, lie placed the aholl on a mrU nnd hammered It until It exploded. A piece of tho shell struck young Dack In tho loft breast, killing him almost instantly. Sheriff Smalloy of Cheyenne hns unearthed u quantity of dynamite and (use lu tho back, yard of the home locently occupied by Charles Smltlr, who wns shot a fow days ago while resisting tirrest, nnd who Is believed to hnvo robbed a large number of htoros and residences during the past fow years. It Is reliably reported at Newcastle, New-castle, Wyoming, that the nnrrow l.auge railroad extending from Spear fish, S. D., to the Illack Hills na tlonnl forest north of Nwenstle, Is to be standardized and extended to Newcastle early noxt year. The present terminus of tho road is onl 25 miles distant. Pansenger nnd freight rntes on the Pacific coast may bo Increased If the plans considered nt n meeting of officials of-ficials of the Union Pacific railway at tho Auditorium Annex hotel at Chicago Chi-cago tho other day aro fruitful. The neotlng was a secret one, but It was declared that an Increased tariff rate tn tho coast had been consldorcd. The Northern Pacific and suliBldlnry companies, which aro defendants In a suit recently Instituted by the government gov-ernment to recover immensely vn'u-libit) vn'u-libit) coal lnntls In Mnnt'ina filed their answer last week, which In effect N that the gnvernmout cannot go hut', under Its classification under which tho tracts were awarded. Tho mine whistles did not call the miners to work at Dletz, Monarch. Carncyvllle. Knol and Itlverslde on September 2. Seven hundred men are out nt Dlelz. 100 at Monarch, :ion at Carneyvllle, 50 at Kool and 25 at IUversldo. The miners are optimistic. optimis-tic. Sergeant llower of Troop D. Fourth cavitlry. who wandered ttwny from en nip In the Crow Creek reserve, whllo suffering from Injuries received by his horso fnlllng on him. was found In Laramie, and Is being cared for at n local hospital. He will re-cover. re-cover. Coal miners and oporators for the Montana district met In conference at Helena on the 3rd, for the purpose of fixing wngo scalo for tho ensu lug year. The oporators aro understood under-stood to bo desirous of reducing wages, whlclr will bo resisted by the miners. |