, 1886-08-17
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

The total of brands recorded in Crook
county moun to 500.
Lander expe It's to become a railroad
town lei July or August.
The wool growers of Fremont county
have prospered beyond all expectation.
Hailstorms have done considerable dam
age to the crops in the vicinity Of Dayton.
Forty. FIVE thousand one hundred and
ninety. five acres of oil claims have been
located in Crook county.
A brick school house for Shoshoue and
Arapahoe children is to be built at the
Catholic mission on Wind river.
The Powder River Cattle
who are driving a lot Of range cattle to
| Canadian soil, were held up for about
- 900 in taxes while passing through
Custer county, Mont -Sundance Gazette.
Such is the necessity of mail service
between Buffalo and the No Wood valley,
that a subscription list has been made up
and a private system established, Mail
will hereafter be delivered at the Paint
Rock crossing in No Wood weekly, lie "
ing Buffalo Saturday afternoon. -Bufdlo
Echo
A Sheridan correspondent ofthe Buffalo
Echo. SAYS Grass lands lying under
bitches are yielding n good crop of an ex
c%ellent quality Of hay. But lands which
have not had plenty of water, those not
irrigated. produce nothing this season.
Those who have Travelled most over the
ranges, report them in worse condition
than mi year ago.
The Union Pacific railroad is doing
everything in its power to encourage an
enterprise which has Just developed along
its Idaho line-the bottling of mineral
water from the famous soda springs.
These waters have been long noted for
their efficacy, but only until recently did
an attempt to bottle them, and at the
same time retain their health giving quail
tiles, prove successful. Laramie Boom
erdn1.
An immense affair is the irrigating
ditch taken out of Rock creek by Moukres
h Mather. In its present unfinished con
dition the ditch is eight miles long. ten
feet wide on the bottom, with u capacity
of 325 cubic inches Of wafer TO the second.
Whom finished, this water course will be
f ! EN- miles long, entailinR an cxpen q
to Tue owners Of $25. 900. IL will supply
a vast expanse of desert land with the
moisture now lacking to make it product
i've, and the former barren prairie will be
made to blossom as the rose.
Two men named respectively Paddy
Ryan and Tom Hickman. both in the
employ of Thomas s. Jones, at the old
Fort Halleck .ransh, got into an %alterca
ton late in the evening over h pair of
gloves. One word led to another until
affairs had reached a crisis. when Hick,
man shot and killed RYAN Hickman
was taken in custody by Mr. Jones and
escorted TO this city, where he was LODGED
in Jail. He claims hat he was compcllet
to shoot in self defense, and that he had
no idea Of killing Ryan. Rdiolns Jour
nal
Blackwell & Hoge have sunk two 10
foot shafts in the Bear Lodge for tn
Warren's Peak Silver and Copper com
pany. After considerable work and pros
pecting the vein on the Grand junction
was discovered and gone down upon. an
at the depth Of ten feet had increase,
from less than a foot to three feet il
width. A quantity Of the rock wa
brousht to town and is the finest we hav
yet seen coming from the Bear Lodge
The Emma claim also showed the mos
encouraging prospects,. The compan
will thoroughly test their properties; an
' II the results will warrant, expect to d
considerable work this year. Sunefdnc
Gazette.