, 1900-08-02
WYOMING NOTES.

Cuba, Alaska and the PnllIppine Will
pack trains, have Joined the train.
The new monitor Wyoming will be
launched at San Francisco about Sep
TENDER Stk next. The arrangements
have not been made as yet, but n large
number of Wyoming people,
the governor and his staff, Will proba-
bly, attend. There has been some talk
of changing the name of the monitor
and make application TO have one OF
the new ~battleships named after wy
oming.
There Is considerable complaining
among the small ranchmen near Lusk,
who will petition the county commls-
sioners to construct roads on every
township line. The ranchers say tine
big cattle and sheep barons have bulit
fences in places that are twenty ana
thirty miles in length, II that they
are compelled to go around the renee
when crossing the country, thereby
working a hardship to themselves.
The granite gravel with which the
Union Pacific roadbcd is being BALLAST
ed is said to contain gold amounting TO
81 for every ton Of granite, but TO ex-
tract this gold the cost would be about
SO a ton. As there are about forty tons
Of gravel to every thirty-six feet OF
road il will be seen that there Is about
500 worth of gold under every brace
of rails where the road Is ballasted.
The Union Pacific may be said to be
u on a gold basis.
P~ostofice Inspector Bennett has
checked up the accounts Of Postmaster
Sullivan. who absconded from Dla-
mondville last spring, and finds that
Sullivan was short TO the amount OF
S2.427.S3. His bondsmen have been no.
tilted of the shortage and have been
ordered to urn owe the mount to the
government. Although officers scour-
ed the country no trace of Sullivan has
ever been found. His friends believe
he went to Cape Nome.
A courier The arrived at Casper
Tuesday from PedOr mountains, west
of Casper, brings the report that n
fierce forest fire is raging in that vicin-
ity and is travelling eastward with
great rapidity. A number of sheep
camps are directly in the path of the
flames, n considering the dry con-
dition Of the timber and grass on the
range II is thought they are in great
danger. The fire started during the
middle of last week from n hunters
camp and ii was put out several times
by herders and ranchmen, but the tim
Der was so dry that the flames could
not be extinguished permanently.
Another range war is reported from
southern Carbon county and serious
trouble is feared. One day last week
n party of well armed and mounted cat.
tlemen of Routt county, Colorado, Wis
tied the camp of Hetzler & Rivera, just
across the line in Colorado, and, after
killing upwards of seventy head of
sheep, drove the balance of the band
N-n - usI- -N,. - a..
affair have not been received, and it is
not known whether the cattlemen and
sheep herders had any trouble or NOT.
The owners of the sheep have gone to
the scene and will make an effort to re-
cover the live animals. 1t being report
ed the cattlemen scattered the bunch
over a wide territory. This is the second
time during the past twelve months
that ROut county cattlemen have wag-
ed war upon Wyoming sheepmen.
About ten months ago n band of sheep
owned by the Geddes Sheep Company
was taken BY tn. cattlemen ind nearly
LOO head killed and the balance scat
tered.
Secretary of State Fenimore Chatter
ton has received n letter from one of
the leading members of the Mormon
colony in the Big Horn basin which
stated Ii Il the big canal from the
Shoshone river has been completed for
n distance OF eight miles and water
has been turned into the ditch. The
writer stated that the members of the
colony are delighted with the new
country. All are well and the big
ditch will be completed by May ], 1901.
The canal will be about eighteen miles
in length. The state officials nave as
surances hat several hundred Nor
non will trek TO the valley of the Big
Horn from Utah and Idaho next
spring. The movement this year was
more in the nature of IN experiment
and as the ~colonists have found in the
Big Horn basin all that they desire In
the way of rich land, timber, plenty of
water and n delightful climate, they
will encourage their relatives and
friends in the valley of the Great Salt
lake 10 move to northern Wyoming.
There is much anxiety at the present
time among citizens of Wyoming as a
result of the numerous forest fires.
Fires are reported from Elk mountain,
in Carbon county, Horse creek, in Uin-
TO county. the Pedro mountains west
of Casper, and Piney creek in Johnson
and Big Horn counties. A fierce fire
was burning in the forest reserve
" NiNhSN VI t'iiii'ihi''s bul u luTu
rain eXtinguished the flames. The
situation is more encouraging now
than n week ago, before several rain
storms passed over the state. The
forests II ranges, owing to the long
spell Of dry weather, We're Ike finder
and n spark Of fire would spread rap
Idly. Forest rangers are always on
the alert mt this season of the year,
for it is during the months Of July,
August and September that hundreds
of campers aud hunters go to the
mountains and forests for an outing,
when the danger from fires is greatly
Increased, but 1t seems the forest rid
ers have been unable TO put out all the
fires started. If the present rainy
weather should continue for n week or
ten days all danger of serious Tres
will have passed.
A number Of outrages have been COM
mitted by foreigners upon the Chinese
residents of Rock Springs. As a conse-
quence the state authorities have or
Iaral gaNaPnI anpnnnnfag If Y,IIttta a.