Omaha daily bee., 1885-08-19
WYOMING,
WYOMING,
The Cheyer ne Tribune has been I

The Cheyer ne Tribune has been revived.
The corner ttone of the Catholic convent at
Chey enne was laid Sunday.
The English coonists at Laramie are CON
sidering plans for a $4,000 cue house,
Jack Smith, aSnotorious despe1ado aud COW
thief, escaped from jail at Lander last week.
Aaron Hoffman was held up by ''tin horn
gamblers" at Laramie one night last week
and relieved of Sl35.
An alleged relative of the president, M.
L. Cleveland, ia chief cook OF mining outfit
in the Silver Crown district.
The Union Pacific surveying party, seven
men, under the leadership of Surveyor Jones,
left Chey enne Saturday, going northward.
A jubilant cowboy reused the echoes of old
times in Cheyenne, the other night, by riding
through the streets Of the city shouting and
shooting off his gun.
Ths Kiowa Cattle Co, of Cheyenne, has
purchased g 90 head of cattle from Mr.. Tim
Kinney, Of Rock Springs. They are to be
delivered the last of the month.
The assessed valuation of Wyoming tori
tory ir creased from $26, ,G06, ,960.5 in 1854 to
$50, ,Sl3 $50 81 IN 1855, about half Of which
increase was Ia horses and cattle.
A whisky bottle in the inside pocket of
coat saved q acowbuys life in :; shooting scrape
st the Five Mile roadhouse outside Cheyenne.
The bottle was tlanked by pack OF cards and
u small bible.
The Wyoming quarantine yards near Chey-
enne are now in excellent shape for tho recsp-
ton of cattle. The schutes Ior unloading and
loading are all tinishsd up in good shate, there
is an adundancs of good water available at all
times and quantity of good hay in stock,
The Laramie Boomerang has declared war
on the whistlog nuisance and advises the
\ hat
lent to start out without notifying the whole
country from Black Hills to Sheep mountain.
| and that saving Cf steam and fuel would per-
nit of reduction in freight rates that would
bsnett the community"
The largest transfer of land ever made in
| the territory took PLACE at Laramie last week.
The tract comprises the Hutton ranch of 1885,,
900 acres on the Big Laramie, and a strip of
| $1,000 acres adjoining, A river frontage Of
over seventy-hve miles ia secured, the Union
Pacific railroad passes through the entire
length, its windings extending the distance
to about fifty or sixty miles.
The longest irrigation ditch in the far west
is now being excavated in the northern portion
of Wyoming, and will bs when it is com
] pleted, more than one hundred miles in
| length. The ditch is being put in by the
| Union cattle company and 1t will extend
from Stockade Beaver on Beaver creek in
| COOk county III u oOuLHtdbhtIly InLS
aud through portion of the county lying ad
jacsnt to the Obey enne river, a distance OF
I l00 miles,
| The Wyoming Land, Oil and Transporta-
| tion Company, who have succee eded to the oil
interests of tho late Dr.. Graf In that section,
have shafting in position and are beginning
operations on the top of Beaver mountain.
This mountain top hides an oil basin that is
said to be the most valuable deposit in this
belt. 1t gushes from the ground in several
different places. A living stream has already
sprung from one of the shafts, aud, making q
channel for itself down the mountain side, has
become creek of no small magnitude.
The coroners jury which sat on the body
of "Si" Partridge, lynched for horsestealing,
deliberated and declared as follows: "We
the jury, do find that the deceased is believed
to be native American citizen 1.-THE United
States. of about The age of SO or 80 years.
That the evidence showed that he wal q no
torlous desperadO, criminal and horsethisf.
That be was taken from the possession ot an
officer who was conveying him to all at Fort
Collins, at or near Font Sanders, IN the coun-
by and territory aforeFaid, and hanged by the
neck until he was dead, by come persons 10
the Jury unknown, about 0 o'clock on the
evening of August sth, A, ID 1885, and the
Jury tnd that no blame therefore attaches TO
the sheriff of Albany county or to any other
officer of the peace"