Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-04-01
WESTERN NEWS NOTES.
The -four mill ut Saratoga. Wyoming. 10
to be started up again.

The -four mill ut Saratoga, Wyoming. 10
to be started up again.
A train load of broom corn from Sterling.
Kansas, arrived In Kansas City. bound for
Onundagn, New York. where 1t will be made
Into whisk brooms. The train In made up
of twenty handsomely decorated cars. ana in
said to be the largest single shipment OF
broom corn ever made from any point In the
world.
Lenna II. winsiow had brought suit In the
Circuit Court for $500 damages against
the Kansas City lodge of the Knights OF the
Mnccabees OF the World for Injuries re-
ceived while being Initiated Into the order.
winsiow claims he was tossed In u blanket
and pushed on high plank. falling to the
floor and receiving permanent injuries.
The Union Pacific shop force nt Cheyenne
Is being gradually Increased on account OF
the pressure of work. not only from the line
OF the Union Pacific. but from other lines.
The Cheyenne shops are now doing large
amount Of repair work for the Denver 4
Gulf and the Oregon short Line. anu for
both of these lines several locomotives are
being rebuilt.
The snow fall In parts of North Dakota
has been phenomenal. In some places the
telegraph poles have had to be heightened
ten or hftecn feet to keep the wires above
the snow. Many farmers have had to get
into their barns from the roof, cutting
hole. The snow, wherever II is drifted, ID
10 hard 1t will hold II horse. and there liz no
crust, either. Along the river bluffs there
are ravInes where the snow Is 100 feet deep.
Last season $4,000 head Of sheep were
sheared mt and around Casper, Wyoming.
and 1t Is estimated that 0Do.O0 will he
shcarcd In the same territory this year.
rI,n sI,n ri Int "A ('uxnpr
pens; Frecland. Lost Cabin. Badgers. Cas-
per Greek and woolton. woOlton Is the
most important outside point. These pens
are sixty-iive miles northwest of Casper.
Shcuring will start April LIST Mt Lost Cabin
and ut Casper about April 10th.
The Salt Lake Herald says Two mil
Hons of money are to be spent In Utah on
the construction, In Sevicr county. Of tue
largest natural reservoir In the world. and
n contiguous system of canals for the prop
agation Of vast water power and the irrigh-
tIon of the largest area OF barren soil over
which the Ingenuity Of man has ever Ind
full scope Two years Will he required for
the completion Of n dam. canals and hy-
drauilc plant. which aggregated Will consti-
tute the water plant and irrigation supply.
Arrangements have been made mt Rawlins
for shcaring and dipping upward OF 100000
hcitu VI SH'tp 'vHiuk heuS'H'
which will open up within II few days. An
estimate places the average clip to the sheep
at eight pounds so that over 5000. 900 pounds
Of wool will he marketed from this county
during the season. An effort will be made
by the fockmnstcrs to take joint action In
regard to the disposal of the clip. and n
meeting OF nll shecpmcn will be held here on
April ~. to which wool commission men
and purchasers Will be invited to attend.
The Free Silver Republican party Of Ne
brnskn was launched Mt Lincoln on the 18th.
The convention had been called by the mem.
bers of the party now In the Legislature.
About forty delegates were present. Only
twelve delegates were present from outside
OF Lincoln. Judge Gregory Of Omaha was
selected to attend the meeting of the prOvis-
ional national committee to be held on June
8. A State central committee was formed,
with l.. q. Pace and W. Is. Price, both of
Lincoln. as chairman and secretary, re-
spectivcly. The State committee is made up
of eighteen members. three from each con.
grcssional district.
The Wyoming State Supreme Court has
decided n case Of peculiar interest which
was appealed from the Crook County Dis
trict Court. The facts In the case are MS
follows: John Manchen, n young Crook
county stockman, proposed to Miss Stella
Sherwood and was accepted. Manchen's
parents objected to the proposed marriage
and induced the young man to ledve the
country. Miss Sherwood made preparation
to commence suit for breach OF promise
when the elder Manchen settled Miss Sher.
woods claim by giving her note for 5000.
When the note became due payment was re-
fused, the claim being that 1t had been
given without consideration. The young
lady sued for the collection Of the note In
the Crook County Court, where she was
beaten. the court sustaining the claim of
Manchen, Sr., that no consideration had
been exchanged for the note. Miss Sher.
wood, who. during the progress of the liti-
CATION had married and is now Mrs. Bar
rett, appealed her case to the State Supreme
Court. which reversed the Judgment OF the
lower court and holds the note to be valid.