, 1900-07-12
WYOMING NOTES.

\ prominent Natrona county sheep
man states that the wool clip in that
county will exceed 5,00O,O0O pounds
this season. The clip is almost all of,
there remaining hut Il few small bands
yet TO be shcared.
Otto Snidor and John Martemus of
Buffalo. who were arrested after a long
chase last week, have zee found gull
ty of horse stealing. They We're each
sentenced to serve five years in the
state peniteutiary, and have been taken
TO Laramie by Sheriff Lane.
The owners of the famous Ferris
HagGerty copper mine have arranged
to put in n new n larger plant to
work the mine. Contracts have been
let to sink to the second level and the
mine will be operated on n large scale.
An English company has been given
an option on the mine on n basis of
S2.OOO.0OO to run until September LIST.
The Wyoming Development Com
pany has advertised for bids to break
1000 acres of land in the Wheatland
colony. 1t is the intention of the COM
pany TO SOW the tract with alfalfa and
induce sheep and cattlemen TO come to
Wheatland and feed during the winter.
Wheatland is already famous as a lamb
feeding point.
Another contract for Improvement
work on the Union Pacific has been
awarded to owen Brothers of Norfolk,
Nebraska. The contract calls for the
removal of 10000 cubic yards of gran
lite from n hill a few miles east of Fort
Steele, the hill Of rock being directly
in the path of a proposed cutoff. Inc
cost of this work will be $4,000.
T. II. linn of Chicago, is in Cheyenne
trying to locate a man named Ander-
son, who is said to have swindled IA
number of eastern railroad men on a
bogus sheep deal. Anderson, it is al
legged, claimed to he n Cheyenne bust
ness man, and was able to dispose of
several thousand dollars worth of
stock in "A sheep company which has
never existed in this state.
The city police say there has never
beer more tramps and unemployed
men in Cheyenne than ut present. The
authorities of Albany county are max
ing special preparations for policing
the grading camps on Sherman hill. A
Jail has been fitted up at Tie Siding
and a deputy sheriff has been stationed
there to preserve order. The opening
of saloons there. against the protests
of the residents, has made She situation
worse.
Charles Myers, n section hand of Di-
amondville. met death in n very pecu-
liar last week. Myers dropped
n rail on his foot and crawled into n
clump of bushes alongside the rack TO
remove his she when two other section
men threw II tie into the bushes and
struck Myers on the head. Myers ut
tered II yell aud the men rushed to him
only to find him breathing his last.
Myers was run over by n train near
Evanston n year ago and lost a leg.
Hiram Moses. whose home is in I'LL
nois, was shot in the leg by Il gang of
tramps near Evanston. Moses and
four companions got into a stock car at
Cheyenne and We're riding to Ogden.
AT Uinta three tramps armed with PTS
tolls climbed into the stock car and af-
ter lining the five men up proceeded TO
rob them. When the holdups left the
a they fired half n dozen Shots, one
of them striking loses in the leg.
Moses was taken to the city hospital
at Ogden.
At the solicitation of Senator Warren
the supervising architect will at once
advertise for bids for the completion Of
the United States public building at
titN tllllt. mere Is HNilliblp lot toli-
plotting the building $4,000, and il
bids not exceeding this amount are Sc
cured. work will III on the
building within three months. Should
no bid he received within the amount
available. further work on the build
ing must be deferred until Congress FIX
tends the cost limit.
a Denver mining company that re-
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in the Silver Grown district, twenty
miles north of Cheyenne. have arrang-
ed to develop their properties on a large
scale. Miners are nov being engaged
for the work and by the end of the
present ummer n force of o men will
have been placed in the mines. The
returns from ore sent to Denver show
there is plenty Of rich ore in the district
and the new owners expect TO realize
handsomely on their investment.
w. NJ. Gilcreist, secretary of the
Board of Water Control of the state,
has completed the taking of proof in
adjudication Of the rights of a%ppropria-
tors on the Big Laramie river. Any
body hereafter desiring to claim any
portion of the water of the stream
must resort 10 the courts to establish
his claim. as this is the final sitting of
the board so far MS this stream is con
cerned. The city has made proof of
claim to all the water of the city
springs. and will doubtless he granted
the entire flow.
There is serious trouble brewing on
the sheep ranges In the Big Horn
mountains. II seems that n number of
~tlockmastcrs have used certain portions
of the ranges in the mountains and
other |tiockmasters have respected their
rights. There has always beer plenty
of room for all. but this year the herds
have increased. and there Is Il prospect
of trouble Over n division of the choice
feeding places. Some gun plays have
already been made, and II number of
shcepmcn threatened with death If
they do not their tiocks within a
certain period.
Two years ago. encouraged by a lib
cral bounty, the northern part of Natro-
ma county was almost freed from
wolves. and ii was noticed that there
was an unusual number Of them ON
the Swcetwuter, IN Bates hole and 9th
cr sections. During the past year a
war has been waged on them in these