The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21
WYOMING.

The Union Pacific train from Chey-
enne which arrived at Denver Satur-
day night had an extra baggage car,
which looked like an emergency nos
pital 1t contained four horribly mu-
tilated men, all on stretchers. Two OF
the injured men were victims OF drill
ing out a charge of giant powder
which had missed fire, and the other
was an employee of the company,
Charles Petersen, who had had ms arm
frightfully mangled while coupling cars
in the Cheyenne yards.
Hon. George T. Beck, Democratic
candidate for the United States senate
in 1892, and now connected with the
Cody Irrigation company in the Big
Horn basin, was married last week at
Red Lodge, Mont, to Miss Daisy Sor-
renson. The wedding took place in the
Congregational church. Mr.. and Mrs.
Beck will reside at Cody, Wyo
Yesterday Chief Justice Potter ad-
ministered the oath to Judge Knight,
at cheyenne, and he will appear for
the first time upon the bench tomor-
row.
The announcement has been made of
the approaching wedding of Lieuten-
ant l.. B. Simonds of the Eighth United
States infantry and Miss Louise Mar
shall, of Cheyenne. Lieutenant ST
monds' hame is in New York City. He
has been with the Eighth infantry for
the past three years. Miss Marshall
is the daughter of the late Colonel
Louis Marshall of the United States
army. She is the niece of the famous
confederate military leader, General
Robert E. Lee, and great grand
daughter of Chief Justice John Mar
shall. of the United States supreme
court.
C. H. King, of Casper, has purchased
the Bar c. ranch about so miles north
of Casper on Powder river. The ranch
will be stocked with cattle. The Bar
c. ranch is noted in Wyoming as one
of the ranches owned by extravaganza
Englishmen in the flash days of the
cattle business in the west. The Bar
c. was known as FreWen's castle and
was fitted up with fine dwellings, a
number of barn sheds, etc, and rep
resented an expenditure of several
hundred thousand dollars, all of which
was lost by the subsequent depression
in the stock business. Moreton F'rew-
en-, the noted financial writer, was the
owner of the ranch.
When the December term of court
was convened at Lander last week.
Judge Bramnel discovered that Ere
mont county had no funds to pay the
expenses of the term. He decided to
discharge the jury and all the crini
nal cases requiring a jury We're con-
tinued to the June term. The election
contest case in which Ben Sheldon
Democrat, contests the election of
John ellis, Republican, for county
clerk and clerk of the court, and Mrs
Ann Jones, Democrat, contests the
election of Mrs. Mary Mason, Repub-
lican county school superintendent
We're decided in favor of the Repub-
leans
Rawlins Republican: Roadmaster
Henry McGonigle discharged the steel
gang which has been at work on the
Seventh district the past three months
at Green River Wednesday night, and
their homes in Denver and elsewhere.
Big Horn Rustler: Judge Stotts of
the Fourth judicial district, has decided
that man charged with stealing from
sheep wagon on the open range and
convicted of it is guilty of burglary,
in accordance with chapter six of the
acts of the last legislature. Hereto
fore this offense has generally been
treated as petty larceny.
George Merrill, foreman of the Pitch
fork company, is reported on his way
to Paint Rock with 1900 head of cat
tie, which will be placed on ranches be-
low thss town and fed hay during the
winter from the stack. This new depar-
ture in the cattle industry has been
necessitated by the shortness of feed
on the. range, owing to the grazing of
large herds of sheep.