The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-25
WYOMING.

Mr.. G. Colangolo, of Cheyenne, who is
a correspondent of LEO d Italia, an
Italian paDer published in New York,
has been advised that Prince Luigo di
Sarvia, nephew of King Umberto, of
Italy, is on his way TO America and
that ne will spend considerable of the
coming summer visiting points of in
terest in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
The prince is said to be an enthusiastic
mountain climber and while here he
will attempt to climb the Grand Teton,
q feat which has as yet not been ac-
complished. After MS visit in the
western states the prince will go to
Alaska, and ATTEMPT the ascent Of
Mounts ST. Elias and Logan, the latter
the highest mountain in Alaska Mr..
Colangolo is in correspondence with
the Italian consul at New York regard
ing the princes visit and will try and
have him stop off at Cheyenne on his
journey west.
Cheyenne Sun: The surveys in
Wyoming this year will cost the gov
eminent $25,000. The contracts are let
to J. Frank Warner. Ed f. Stable,
Howard B. Carpenter and R. W. Bar
hardt. Contracts for part of these sur
veys were let under bids and part was
let at the option of the surveyor
general The country to be surveyed
will take in the Lost Cabin region in
the center of the state, extending TO the
Shoshone reservation and the unsur-
veyed portion of the Medicine Bow
range west OF Laramie. The Sierra
Madre country south of Rawlins will
also be surveyed. The contracts extend
nearly 5000 miles and embrace stan
dard. Guide, Township, Meander and
Section Lines The Lost Cabin country
is rather of a desert nature in point
of water, but the land south of Rawlins
contains water, and some OF the finest
timber land in the state
The new town at Jackson Hole is
booming and will soon have a news
paper.
The La Barge correspondent of the
Evanston Press says: There was quite
a sensational elopement at Viola last
week, Nels Whitman clipping with Miss
Ethel De Graw, a girl about "A years
old Whitman is a. man about 30 years
of age and has a family of six children,
two of whom are older than the bride.
Carbon County Journal: John Shaw
was arrested in Hanna Thursday and
brought to Rawlins, charged with as
sauIt with intent to kill Frank Hewett,
the champion sheep shearer OF the
world. It seems thFt Shaw owns some
buck sheep at Hanna, and one of them
butted Rewett, and he got a gun and
as soon as the ram tried it again he
killed it. Shaw wanted him to pay for
the RAM which Hewett refused to do,
when Shaw got his Winchester and
fired three shots at him, but did not
hit him. Shaw will be tried this term
A Casper dispatch says: The Indian
freight contractor arrived IN casper
This morning after an all nights ride
and reported that the outlaws have
stolen % head of horses at Wolton be-
longing to the Kansas City packers,
Swift & Co., which were to be used in
trailing sheep through to Kansas CITY.
The thieves were seen by parties drlV-
ing away the stock. 1t is known who
most of them are. The horses Were
taken on the night of the 18th. R. M.
Devine foreman of the c. Y roundup,
came in from the range today and said
that the depredations by the Hole in
the Wall outlaws grow worse. Other
sheep camps have been robbed OF
everything during the past ten days.