, 1886-07-27

The Yellowstone has been unusually
high this season. 3
Two black eagles were recently captured
near j. q. Jost's ranch In Carbon coun'
ty. '
Lusk boasts of the abundance and ex
c~cllence OF its resources in the matter oil
water supply.
New regulations are to be adopted for
the Rawhide Buttes Mining district. at a
meeting to be held next Saturday in
Muskrat canyon.
At the Lusk town.lot sale, forty-threc
lots were disposed of for $4,000. Nine
hundred dollars was the highest and SIP
was the lowest price paid by any pur-
chaser.
The $40, 900 tie plant built by the I'm
ion Pacific in this city will draw its first
charge at Q o'clock this evening, and will
be in steady operation hereafter. Several
train loads OF ties have been brought in
from the west to be Burnettized .-Lora-
ME Boomerang.
A cloud burst on Wednesday night in
the Platte canyon. below the mouth of
Sand creek, struck the camp of Mai.
Wilkes railroad survey outfit, washing
away the instruments and all camp eqnip-
age, the men barely escaping with their
lives. -Rapins Journal.
Bishop O'Connor, of Omaha, has re-
ceived $40, 900 from the estate of Drexel,
the millionaire banker Of Philadelphia, to
be used Tor the establishment Of Catholic
missions in Wyoming. There are about
5000 Indians in the territory, and the
money will go toward Outstanding
them.
Mr.. Charles DeMaris, who owns a fine
ranch on Canyon creek, where he has re-
sided for a number of years engaged in
stock raising with much profit to himself,
returned recently from Northern Wye
ming, where he has been for some time
engaged in making arrangements for the
erection of q hotel, bath rooms, etc, at
the well known hot springs near the foot
OF the mountains on the Sinking Water.
These springs are said to possess marvel
GUS curative properties, and. situated as
they arc, in a locality noted for its fine
scenery. and also for its proximity to ex-
cellent trout streams aud mountains
where all kinds Of game, from the Jack
rabbit to the grizzly bear abound, we feel
safe IN predicting that the tine is not far
distant when they will become famous as
a health and pleasure resort. Billings
(Mont) Gazette.
A representative of the Powder River
Cattle company has been along the lire of
the Wyoming Central, with a view Of Sc
lecting the most advantageous shipping
point and a feasible route thereto. From
him VT learn the facts which led him to
choose Lusk AS that point, are as follows
This point will be fitted up with extern
sive cattle yards, etc, by the LIST of Au-
gust, and the country around it presents
all the advantages Of good feed and album
dance of good water-requisites which
are absolutely necessary to the holding of
cattle preparatory to shipment. A good
trail from the Powder River county has
Just been found. The route to be followed
runs Just north of Pumpkin buttes to
Pumpkin creek. thence to Hay creek (thc
head Of the Belle Fourche), thence to
Black Thunder creek, and by short drives
to Lusk. This route is direct and abonnds
in good feed and water. -Lusk Herald.
A Joliet special to the Chicago Inter
Ocean saws: The sheriff of johnson
county, Wyoming, reached this city to-
day, having in charge for consignment to
the Joliet prison a desperate looking gang
of cowboy and Indian convicts. Among
them was Bad Belly a Crow Indian
chief, under a one year sentence for horse
stealing. The squaw Of Bad Belly met
the sheriff at the train on their departure
from Wyoming and offered the sheriff
eighty head Of ponies if he would allow
Bad Belly to escape. The Indian was an
object of great curiositv IN a thrnng nf
people in this city, as the gang were
loade | on a street car for the prison. He
wore upon his head a peculiar hat made
out of eagle feathers. His person was
adorned with a buckskin suit and mecca
sins, and his hair was two feet long. At
the prison his hair was cut off and given
to the sheriff, who will take it back to Bad
Belly's squaw.