, 1886-07-17
TOPICS.

Prospectors continue to make discoveries
OF coal near Fetterman.
Forest fires have done great damage on
the west side of Elk mountain.
A.. W. Tenner. a well known citizen of
Rawlins, died last Monday at Providence,
r. l.
A son of John Goetz, a ranchman on
Big Laramie, recently had his arm bro
ken by a fall from his horse.
Henry Olsen and Tom Clinton, miners,
were seriously injured at Rock Springs on
Wednesday. the latter dangerously.
Twenty applications for retail liquor L.
censes have been made by Fetterman par
ties to The authorities OF Albany county
james Burns, one Of the old time EN-
ployes Of the Union Pacific shops, and
who had the sight of one of his eyes de-
stroyed a couple of years ago by a piece
Of steel flying into it, met with another
misfortune recen ly. While chopping
wood the ak slipped and struck a rock, a
chip from which flew into the other eve
and has rendered it useless ever SINCE
Laramie Boomerang.
Harvey johnson has played a great en-
gagement recently. He was employed by
w. j. Smith as foreman in his cigar fac
tory. He was recently married, but his
wife went East about a month ago. and
then Harvey began to go astray. He took
to riotous living and spent his money
faster than he earned it. As a result he
got head over heels in debt, and on Mon
day he 'lit out into the whenceness of
the where, leaving numerous creditors to
mourn his departure. -Ra,oIins Tribune.
Flown lots in Douglas will not be offered
for sale until the arrival Of the railroad.
The track has passed Lusk and is push
ing on toward the Fetterman country
The company has taken the tracklayers
off the Black Hills branch, and Irom the
two gangs has selected a set of picked
track hands to lay the iron to Douglas.
They propose to : beat the record, and
the arrival of the iron horse by Au. ust
Nth is certain. The grade-a twenty
five foot fll-runs through the temporary
town. About a hundred men and teams
are now at work there, and more are
wanted. The work must be completed
by August 18th. -Feftermnn Budget.
Taking u Train Up the Riga.
Passengers can now take a train up the
Riga, because it was one Of the most pop
ular Of a~scents, and its popularity was
largely due to the facility with which
the ascent was achieved. The great size
Of the mountain, its bulk and extent,
made the necessary gradients less steep
and the line thus larger. the zigzags more
frequent, but the ascent less sheer. Pila-
tus will be a much more arduous piece Of
engineering, but many difficulties have
now been mastered which seemed insur-
mountable a few years ago.
On the whole the Riga railway was not
the success it was expected to be. On
the level railways have indeed supplanted
coaches, but on the mountain-side the
difficulty itself is one of the attractions
of the ascent. The Italian climate does
not favor pedestrianism, and the crater
of a volcano commands universal inter-
est. To these double causes must be
ascribed the construction of the railway
up Vesuvius. But in Switzerland the
popular ascents still remain uncontam-
mated by the aid Of the locomotive.
Pilatus has been selected, no doubt. from
its proximity to Lucerne, and the true
hat" of the great mountain will be
found in a few years to be a thriving
Swiss hotel. The railway will take more
than tive years in onstruction.-Foreig
Letter.