, 1884-02-23
The Tax Question-More SettIers-The
Snow Fall-School Facilities
Civilization Progressing.
SUN DANCE, Wyo.,
Fer 10 1894.

am ready and anxious to furnish sub
Stimulating proofs of the correctness of
my assertions when demanded. In the
mean time, when the public welfare de-
mands it, I shall continue to thew to
the line let tho chips fall where they
may"
What little personal intercourse /
have had with the Laramie county
officials, has been of a pleasant charac-
ter, and calculated to impress me with
the idea that they we're men of personal
honor and official integrity, and indeed,
to some of them 1 am under obligations
for fsvors that have not nor will soon
be forgotten. To our isolated position
are attributed most of the sevils COM
planned of. Most of these evils will
remain 8 long as we are three hundred
miles from the fountain head of our
local laws and regulations. There is
lust one cure, and n remedy alone
for this political disease, and that must
o be applied. Action, sharp and
desicive, must take the place of unheed-
ed and impotent complaints.
Settlers continue to hock into our
country, Notwithstanding the inclem-
ency of the season. Ranches are being
located where q foot CT NOW covers
the ground, and obscures the corner
stones that mark the boundary lines.
| Tho wiptnr hnmauar thta f,r hos haaY,
On the average mild; we have had but
about ten days of what might be term
ed severe weather in temperature. On
the Bear Lodge divide, in the vicinity
of Sun Dance, Inyan Kara, and the
Black Buttes, there has been a consid-
cradle snow fall, it being at the present
time a foot or more in depth. To the
east Of the Bear Lodge hills, in what is
known as the Sand creek basin, there
has been but little snow, and that little
usually does not long remain. But the
range stock are doing exceptionally
well in all portions of our country.
Even Through cattle,n that came in
late In the summer are doing finely,
there being but little complaint of loss.
The only school house in district No
9. at the present time, is at Sun Dance;
and was erected by the citizens in
and around that place, and they are
certainly entitled to credit. for the en-
ergy and perseverance manifested in
the enterprise, The building cost in
labor and money between three and
four hundred dollars, and was erected
exclusively by private contributions,
there being as yet no school house fund
voted in this school district. We now
have a flo%urishing school of over twenty
scholars, where but three or four years
since, naught WAS heard of life save the
howl Of the wild wolf, or the whoop of
the marauding savage, Where a few
years since ''Sitting Bull" and his fol-
lowers held high carnival, in the way
of dog feasts, and the brutal Sun
Dance, we now have the social dance
of the more civilized pale-face. In
cleaning off the ground for a fourth of
July picnic, at Sun Dance, last summer
there was unearthed the skull and up
per jaw bone of what appeared to have
been an aged Indian, there being but
n or two teeth remaining. 1t is pos
sible that the defunct remains of this
ancient savage had been placed in the
boughs Of a tree, after the manner of
some of the Indians In disposing of
their dead, and the disintegrations OF
time had placed it where found.
We are having quite an interest man
ifested in the discovery of some oil
springs, some twenty FIVE miles to the
southwest OF Sun Dance, in the vicinity
Of what is known as the timber ridge.
A good many locations have been made
and a company organized, that propos-
es as soon as spring opens, to sink
wells and explore the bowels of the
earth for the hidden reservoirs of this
fluid, that are supposed to exist. The
oil has been tested and found to be of
a superior quality.
This will prove a poor section for
physicians II it always remains as
healthy as it has been so far. The sec.
ond funeral that has occurred in this
portion of Wyoming, since its settle
ment, occurred a day or two since at the
Black Buttes. 1t was that of a Mrs.
Latham, a lady who came to the coun.
try a few months ago, with the hope
that Wyoming's salubrious climate
would check the advances that fell de.
stroyer, consumption, was making upon
her; but she came too late. The other
burial alluded to, was that of Mrs.
Curliss, the woman murdered by Frank
Cornish, the wretch recently sent tc
Joliet, Illinois, where it Is to be hoped
he will remain the rest of his natura.
life, as his just sentance imposes. II
is to be feared however, that the de.
sire Of a certain class OF men, to appro
pirate the property Of others without
just compensation, will necessitate sew
eral additional burials within the neaI
future, or to use language less ambig
uous, horse thieves abound and will b.
called upon to attend ''neck-tie" par
ties IL they persist in riding othea
mems horses around the country with
out leave or license. They must no
imagine that because we are virtual,
without law, that we are withour re
dress IN this matter. Two thieves
with eight or ten head of stolen horseI