The Bessemer indicator., 1893-06-24
Wyoming.

Marshal Carr of Cheyenne puts all the
tramps who come to town Into the chain
gang to work on the streets
six freight cars loaded with ore werc
wrecked at Weed station, ten miles east of
Carbon. Saturday afternoon. The accident
was caused by broken axle. No one was
injured but the cars were broken Into kind
ling wood.
Frank S. Beedesom. the "one-legged bi-
cyclst.n en- route awheel from San Francisco
to New York. reached Cheyenne Thursday
cgcniug He is scheduled through in 100
days and has now been on the road twenty
days. Mr. Bcedlcsom Is writing up the coun-
try he passes through for The IH.iete OF Syra.
cuse, New York. As he has only one leg he is
attracting great deal of attention.
Henry Altman, Senator Warren and num-
ber of other public-sp irited men, have closed
Il contract with Frank Melbourne the rain
king. Under the contract he Il to furnish
onc-half inch Of rain within the next five day 3
over all of Laramie county, south Of the 42nd
parnllel Of latitude. for which he is TO receive
S1JC. On July J he Il 10 furnish n half-inch
more for the same sum. The territory that
he Is to water covers 100 miles square. Mel
bourne began al noon on the 22nd from the
dome OF the state capitol
Thousands of acres Of fertile agricultural
land along the Platte river in this state now
| lies idle because OF the expense of rrigatlng
the same. +. II. Harvey and Albert Clough
have invented plant for raising the water
which will reduce the cost materially. An
undershot waterwhee placed In the river
is made 10 propel a centrifugal pump
which elevates the water over the banks OF
the river at the rate OF 1000 gallons a minute.
The cost of the plant Is less than 500 Ranch
men in this section believe these gentlemen
have solved the question of irrigation in the
Platte valley. Three or four Of these
plants would lift enough water over banks
twenty feet high to irrigate thousands OF
acres.
At the close of the Methodist conference
held in Laramie, Bishop Joyce announced the
appointments Of ministers as follows: Super
.ntendcnt of the mission. DIR. n. A. Chamber
lain; Almy, to be supplied Big Horn, Rev.
Benjamin Young; Cambria and Newcastle,
Rev. John r. Wood; Carbon, Rev. G. II.
emo, Rev. j. A. johnson; Douglas, Rev. q.
D. shockIey; Evanston, Rev W. H. Pierce;
Lagrange, Rev. W. T. Puckett; Lander, to
be supplied; Laramie. Rev. J. W. Taylor
Lusk and Manviile, to be supplied: Otto,
Rev l.. G. Thompson; Rawlins, Rev. q. A.
w. Cage: Rock Springs, Rev. S. j. Rogers
Sheridan. Rev. J. II. Gillespie; Tongue River,
to be supplied.
An awful tragedy came near being enacted
Mt Hullett postofiice. twenty miles from Sun
dance, a few days ago. Dell Storms and a
BOY named Swartz, two cowboys, quarrcled
over the possession Of calf. Swartx was
being whipped over the head with rope by
Storms, when he jumped on his horse and
rushed for the corral, whore his coat and six
shooter were lying. Storms saw his move
ment and threw his lasso Just ~ swartz
reached for bis gun. The rope caught the
boy around the waist Storms then started
his horse on the run across the prairie, drag
cling Swartz after him. The men on the
round-up stopped him after he had dragged
swsftx about 100 yards. IL waA isdss1 .
narrow escape frVm horribie dsAth Tha
alfair has stirred Up mash ~ blood ts tn9l
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