, 1886-09-07
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.



The No Wood country is being rapidly
settled.
There are AZ, 81 acres of assessed land
In Johnson county.
The Crow Indians have succeeded at
truck farming this summer.
A number Of forest fires are raging in
different parts of Crook county.
There has been no rain in the Big
Horn basin for nearly three months.
Grasshoppers are reported doing con-
siderable damage to the grass on Powder
river.
Rev. DR.. Huntington, the new rector
OF st. Thomas parish. Raylins, has taken
charge Of his pastoral work.
The Laramie Boomeydnq has informa.
ton that II. ID. Lasher, who was sup
posed to have committed suicide, is living
at Saratoga under an assumed name.
The Evanston Examiner says that a
strange and fatal disease, which so far has
baffied the oldest stockmen, has made its
appearance among the cattle on Henry's
Fork lately.
Dayton parties have been putting in
some hard work at fighting the fires that
are burning in that vicinity. The dam
age SO far has been considerable, but the
workers have succeeded in keeping the
flames confined mostly to the hills
Echo
At the adjourned meeting of the uni.
versity commission yesterday afternoon,
Mr.. George Sent was appointed superin-
tending architect. and will be charged
with the general supervision of the con-
struction of the university building now
in process of erection, when the contract
ing architect, Mr.. Hale, is absent. Lara
ME Boomerang.
Christ. Yeager brought in a specimen
of galena ore from Carbonate hill in the
old Ferris district that is worthy of note.
The specimen is taken from a four foot
vein and the ore runs SIS per cent lead,
with 9 ounces of silver. Christ. has gone
to Denver, but when he returns he will
put a force of men at work on the lode
RaiohnS Journal.
On Wednesday the Pettigrew addition
TO Sundance was surveyed. The addi-
ton consists OF the forty acres immedi-
ately adjoining town on the south, on a
gentle slope of land. and under the soft
Wdtci oPiluCss WHICH VIII Dt uStu lOI IL
water supply for the addition as well as
for the town. This tract will doubtless
become the residence portion of the
town, as many have already selected loca-
tons there. -SmRdonce Gazette.
A correspondent of the Buffalo Echo
writes: Across No Wood are the now
famous oil wells, where lubricating oil
out of a hillside and is dipped up
and used to oil reapers and saw mill ma
chinery. A bottle of this liquid, scooped
up from a gulch, 10 on exhibition at the
Echo Office, and its purity and excellence
is surprising even to those who have en-
tertained very high ideas of the import
ance OF the oil fields of the county. A
few buildings will be erected at the wells
this iall.
Since the recent act of congress en-
abling the Union Pacific to build lateral
branches has become a law, increased ac-
tivity has been noticed amorg its civil en-
gineers and surveyors in this vicinity, aud
1t is more han probable that branch lines
both north and south are contemplated
from Rawlins. 1t is a well known fact
that the only natural roadbed to the
northwestern portion of the territory and
" IL uhilUudl Dhlh Is lIplu ttlS point.
and while every effort has been made by
the towns east and west of us to find an
easy roadway to the southern country, the
traffic still comes to Rawlins. not only on
account of a shorter distance, but because
nature has smoothed the way.-Rdiclins
Journal
Last Saturday one of the employees of
the Mather X Guernsey Cattle Co, while
on a drive for the roundup on Cheyenne
river, ran on to a bunch of Indians in a
detp gulch e%mptying into the river at
Robbers Roost, a well known and far
famed locality in the days of the Black
Hills excitement, who were engaged in
Jerking" the carcass of a beef just killed,
The man attempted to ride up and see the
affair closely, but the squaws rushed
about covering the meat rapidly with
everything available, and an old buck ran
out, took his horse by the bride, turned
him face about, and. with his rifle in one
hand, pointed toward the hills with the
other and said go" The cowboy was I'M
armed and went. Hurryinr to camp sew
eral miles distant he secured company,
Hon. c A. Guernsey being one OF the
party, and then led the road back to the
camp, but the Indians had fed, leaving
tepee poles, pots, pans and utensils in
their haste. -Lusk Herdh.