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LATE NEWS From Over wyoming The home of Pat O'Toole near Rockeagle, burned to the ground destroying contents. IIII Wind River canon road five miles south of Thermopolis, which was closed during the past ten days because of a landslide in a part of the road where the drainage had not been completed, is open for travel. F. W. Angier. often referred to as the "father of Frontier Days," died at his home in San Jose, Calif., according to a message. Mr. Angier was formerly connected with the Union Pacific There deseased B SB C. E. Beyerle was re-elected mayor of Pine Bluffs, with 119 votes, at the city election. His opponent, C. C. Gross, received thirty votes. Kenneth Smith and Clyde Osborne were elected to serve as councilmen. More than 500 claims have been filed in the Centennial mining district where platinum ore has been found. It Mous the SB uoos SU 1847 expected SI goes there will be a tremendous amount of activity in that district. William Hammond, a telegraph operator, shot and killed Mrs. Florence Hulett, postmistress at Chugwater, forty miles north of Cheyenne, and then killed himself. The tragedy took place in the Chugwater postoffice. As the result of a drunken brawl at Superior, William Posey, 41 years of age, is dead, and Jake Hawkins is confined in the county jail at Green River, charged with murder. Both are colored men who work in a coal mine at Superior. It is reported that the Bank of Van Tassell will soon be reopened and doing business well supported by community confidence. At Manville there is strong prospects that a new bank will shortly be established and upon a sound financial base. The spreading of the rails is assigned as the cause for a wreck of the Cambria train that derailed five cars, three of which were set more or less crosswise of the track. No one was injured in the wreck. The train was composed of the engine, tender and twelve cars. Sixty members of the Carpenters' union at Casper have volunteered their services in the erection of buildings at Camp Carey, the permanent camp home of the Casper Boy Scouts at the mouth of Boxelder canon at Careyhurst. The land was donated by former Governor Robert D. Carey. T. B. Allen terminated a short but interesting career in the vicinity of Wheatland when he was taken in charge by Undersheriff William Thomas of Guernsey on charges of having written a worthless check on the Stock Growers' Bank to the United Stores, with other charges of worthless checks and jumped hotel bills.