, 1890-03-09

for painting towns. Marble, granite,
sandstone, limestone and slate are also
found IN the rock ribbed bosom of the ter.
ritory as well as the bowels of the earth,
awaiting only the arrival Of the scientist,
the capitalist and the savant. Good sa-
wants can always get a Job in Wyoming,
and capitalists who come with letters from
well known society people will be cordial.
ly received at all times.
Large oil fields are known to exist in
various parts of the territory and natural
gas is supposed to underlie the coal belt.
Day before yesterday Wyoming was
known to have 800. 900 cattle and bright
new, speckled calves, with wabbly legs,
are being constantly added to that num-
Der as | write.
Grass on the plains and foothills of
Wyoming cures itself even as the Scrip
lures say to the medical fraternity, "Phy-
siclan, heal thyself." Years ago | would
have said to any one going to Wyoming,
Heel thyselt, but now it is not neces-
sary. l know a man who has lived in
wyoming twenty years and has not been
assassinatCd.
Indians are not so common now in the
territory as they used to be. At least
they do not attack the primary schools
or break up prayer meetings so much as
they used to. 1t is very rare now that
hostile Indians come into the principal
towns and carry off a female seminary.
1t they do, the papers hush it up so that
the Gillette east knows nothing of it.
l have read this winter in the New
\ ork papers, at eight different times, of
the same kind of case. viz, of a mother
walking the streets homeless and hungry,
all night, with a sick baby in her arms,
and being found in the morning BY the
police with the little corpse in her arms.
Crazed by grief and suffering, driven even
from the meanest shelter, with a little
sick child wrapped in an apron. the day
light found her, with dry eyes and disor
dered brain, walking the streets, with Jay
Gould and Russell Sage, carrying the poor
little starved body of her dead baby
wrapped in a calico rag.
For eight years | lived In Wyoming
territory, but l never heard there of a
case like this. Possibly we wore our
trousers in our boots then-the men, |
mean-and We used navy tobacco perhaps
to excess, but we drew the line at starving
little children to death because their
mother couldn't pay the rent by making
shirts at seventeen cents a dozen.
know that in early days Wyoming
had some crude ideas, but she has out
grown them a good deal now. | recall.
especially, some of her statesmen. We
had one member of the legislature, | re-
member, who was elected from Coe and
Carriers tie camp. He had never held
any office Of trust or profit as the gift of
the people before. and so all was new to
him. | will not give his name because
he is in better condition physically than l
am at present. He was a plain, self made
man who had risen to be foreman of a tie
choppers camp in the mountains, and by
not saying anything at all except to issue
his orders, and at table ask some one to
please pass those molasses," OF some
thing like that. which did not arouse
political hostility, he was chosen as a re-
served and non-committal candidate from
that county and elected.
he went with the other members Of the
legislature. When the proper time came
and as they all got off at Cheyenne, he