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Show iNOltTIlWEST NOTES. Thousands of range horses are said to bo starving to death In eastern Ore-iron. Ore-iron. Cattle are also sufTcrlng. The ceremonies of driving the golden pike In the new line of railway from llowle to Ololie, Arls., occurred on the leth Imt The Wjomlng legislature has passed bill prohibiting the wearing of hats In opera houses and other places of sinuse.ucnt. Oregon celebrated tho fortieth nnnl-versary nnnl-versary of her admission to tho Union 1'T appropriate exercises nt tho state cspltol last neck. The senato has continued tho nomination nomi-nation of W. A. Itlchords of Wyoming to be assistant commissioner of the leneral land tnllcc. Wyoming and Now Mexico stockmen risve lost thousands of rnngo cattle and sheep on account of heavy snows and tinuiuslly cold weather. Word has Wen received In Laramie from Xortli I'nrk of the rinding of the tody of Trltz Lcrletson. a Herman peddter, who bad liecn frorrii to death. The owners of n group of copper mines near Sherman lilll, tlilrtyllro rallesncst of Cheyenne, have sold the ssme to n Denver company for 810,000. The Wyoming legislature lias mem-orlsllted mem-orlsllted congress to pnss the bill now pending before It to create the Tenth Judicial circuit, to Include Utah, Colorado, Col-orado, Wyoming, Idaho anil Moutana, The California lied Cross society has decided to continue the maintenance of lu hospital station In Manila as long s the California volunteers remain In the Orient. llllam Taj lor, colored, and Wallle Shepherd, n woman and also colored, hsto been arrested charged with holding- up a man nt l'ort Steelo and robbing rob-bing him of Slot. James W. lleevcs, an employe of Fslrfax railroad, near Tacoma, was found dend from tho cITccta of drink-Isg drink-Isg a quart of lemon extract In topping ol a whisky spree An Inmate of the Nevada state In-uno In-uno asylum escaped last week and has sot stnee been board from. It Is feared U has been frozen to death while snderlng In tho hills. 8. T Wy man was kilted by the aecl-icntal aecl-icntal dlnchargo of a gun at Illshops, Seinils, lie was attempting to open I gate w lilt tho gun In 111 hand, when It was accidentally discharged, Attorney-General Ford of California has submitted to tho railroad commissioners commis-sioners an opinion, In which lie says that the commission ha no Jurisdiction Jurisdic-tion to adjust rates of the Pullman Csr company. The snowfall at Aspen, Colo,, this winter, has been tho heaviest known for fifteen years. People continue moving out from under the frowning peaks of Aspen mountalus, being In fear of snowslldcs. J. II. Atkinson who stood In llrltlsU Columbia last summer and shot William Wil-liam Patterson, who was on the American Amer-ican sldeot lllalne, Wash., has been sentenced tasovcii years at hard labor in the stato penitentiary. J. K. Fisher, the clever young crook who was arrested at Chcyeune recently, recent-ly, charged with forging checksdrawn on Oovernor Richards, waived Ills preliminary pre-liminary examination and will plead guilty at the next term of court. The unusually heavy snows and excessively ex-cessively cold weather have destroyed 4,330 head of range cattle and 37,(00 head of range sheep In Colorado. At SSt u head the money 'ss through tho destruction of the ranci cattlo will aggregate ag-gregate 8101,000, The money loss on sheep at 83.S0 per head, a low estimate, will reach 8D3.7S0. Harney Carr was founddend In Ixad-vlllo, Ixad-vlllo, Ills liotly being covered with knife wounds. Ilobert Strickland was arrested on suspicion of being tho murderer, and has confessed to tho crime, but declines to stato hi motive. Tho two men were tho best of friends, and It Is bulloved that a woman was tho cause of the trakcdy. The house of the Montana legislature, legisla-ture, by vote of 30 to 30. killed Toole'a woman suffrage bill, which garu the right of suffrage to women under certain cer-tain conditions. The woman suffragists suffrag-ists of the state made no fight for the bill, aa It provided a property qualification qualifi-cation upon woman voters. Thorn Is no probability that an oqual suffrage bill will bo Introduced this session. Two months ago some subterranean action caused the water in tho Stinking Water Hot Springs, In Wyoming torn-tlrcly torn-tlrcly disappear. The water has sgnln made Ita appearance and the cltlrens of the lllg Horn basin are rejoicing over the fact, as hundreds of people Journey to the place annually and batholn the waters, which have alleviated alle-viated many of rheumatism and kindred kin-dred diseases. The California ltalsln-Clrowcrs association asso-ciation lias Issued an address to all tho growers In the state who are In the combine, calling for a mass meeting on March 1. The directors will then resign, re-sign, conceding that the attempt to combine this year Is a failure. Andrew Johnson, a section hand on the Union Pacific, was found dead In his bed at the Montana house In South (Cheyenuo. He had been drinking I heavily since ho came to Cheyenne some threo week ngo and his death was no doubt dui 'o alcoholism. |