, 1899-11-23
WYOMING NOTES.

Big Horn basin.
Gilman McKinnle, n young boy of
Rawlins, is establishing n reputation
as n wolf slayer. He goes out every
Saturday and bags one or two wolves.
Last Thursday a trip in the coal
mines mt GlenrOck, loaded with twenty
five miners, jumped the track. Props
were knocked out, permitting several
tons of earth to fall in upon the men.
Seven miners were more or less inJur-
ed, but no one was killed.
Governor Richards has received
favorable replies from five governors
in answer TO his request to meet in
Salt Lake December 18th to discuss
irrigation II land leasing problems.
These were from Colorado, Utah. New
Mexico, South Dakota and Idaho.
Hartvillc is experiencing a regular
Western frontier day boom. The town
is filling up rapidly with business men
and miners from all sections Of the
country, and before the end of the year
Hartville will be one of the largest. If
not the largest, mining town in the
state.
Mrs. George Harding, residing in the
western part of sheridan, murdered
her little son, Lee w. Harding, aged 4
years, II then committed suicide,
'i''' III " HihlF VI temporary Insanity .
y Y was the weapon used, Mrs.
Harding was the wife of n blacksmith
and for some time has shown signs of
insanity.
The Wyoming Development Com
pany will bore another oil well at once
on its property near Douglas. Man
iirOSsmaycr of Florence, Colorado, has
been secured as n driller. He was the
first man to drill a paying well in the
Colorado district. The is
preparing to do other development
work this winter and thoroughly test
the oil bearing ground in this section.
a corps of Burlington Il Missouri
Railway surveyors is running prelim.
mary lines about twenty miles north of
Rawlins. The line crosses the Albany
county boundary near Toltec, striking
the Medicine Bow river in the vicinity
of Medicine Bow. and following the
stream to its junction with the North
Platte river. 1t crosses the North
Platte n mile north of the mouth of
the Medicine Bow and continues al
most due west across Carbon and
Sweetwater counties.
Charles Bellamy, the Albany county
mining engineer. is in Cheyenne, re
turning from surveying claims at the
new boon copper camp thirteen miles
northeast of Laramie, in Roger canon.
MIR. Bcllamy says the deepest hole is
only fifteen feet. but shows four and
onc-half feet of copper pyrites and red
oxide, which runs from $50 to S16O
per ton. Several claims with less work
show MS well. He regards the camp Il
wonder.
The Union Pacific Company has
agreed TO take up the matter of the ad-
vance demanded by the strikers at
the end of seven months and also to
grant nj that time Il satisfactory Sched-
ulc. II is hoped that this will settle
the difficulty. The striking shoplnen
have received notices from the general
unions that their action in walking out
is sustained. This assurance from the
unions is liable to complicate matters,
as II general strike along the line may
he called If necessary. Several Of the
strikers have left town and many con
template doing So.
Thc HaulSuu camp. recently cs,ab
lishcd three miles from Rawlins. bids
fair to Surpass the FcrriS-Haggerty in
turning out high grade copper ore. The
Home Copper Mining Company. re
Gently Incorporated, Is developing it,
property there has beer put up sub
stantial cabins to shelter the men dur.
ms Ah' lhl'l H. pIf IlllS over Sli
in copper and the first carload is now
ready for shipment To Denver. The
FcrriS-Ilaggclty mine is not now ship
ping, rs I'LL the men are being used to
look for the mother lead of some very
rich specimens found. A crosscut il
being driven from the main shaft in the
hope of cutting the vein.
Efforts made 10 settle the strike of
machinists mt Cheyenne have so far
proved futile. Representatives of the
m~achinistS say that the present strike
is for n restoration of the scale of
wages paid prior to 1891. and which
was reduced mt thai time on account of
the depressed condition of Union Pa
ctiic business. Now that business has
improved and the earnings of the road
are larger than ever before, the com
pany, they say. can well afford to nav
the increase asked. They assert that
living Is higher in Cheyenne than in
Denver or Omaha, Il the scale of
wages should be higher. They have
been getting 321a cents an hour.
Mr.. John Olsen. of the firm of De
Remcr ~ Olsen. contractors for the
grading of the Hartville spur. advises
Mr.. ltobt. Ferguson. Cheyenne employ
meut agent, as follows: Continue to
hire all the men you an. Also send
us cams to work on grade. We can
employ twenty more men per day If
you IA get them. An engine and
work train will be here on Saturday.
the 18th, to take up and push forward
the track laying" Apropos of the
above the Colorado Fuel Il Iron Com.
pany's grading camps ON the Hartville
spur now contain 200 men. the grading
being reported within three miles of
the Platte river. The camps are re
ported as models in their way. good
tents being furnished and n stove i'm
each tent. The building up of Hart
Vile is being rapidly pushed, the pub
lie confidence in its early future ms n
big and busy town daily increasing.
Kaiser Going to England.
Berlin, Nov. 1S.-Empcror william,
the mnrnS nnd TWO Of thnlr snns Al