, 1900-05-03
WYOMING NOTES.

One of the grading camps OF kllpat-
rick Brothers x Collins. between Lara
mic and Rock Creek, has been quarah-
tined. 1t is reported there are at least
five case Of smallpox among the labor
ers.
San Green. the alleged horse thief.
has been captured at Vernal, Utah. He
was tralled south from Rawlins TO
Meeker. Colorado. by Sheriff Williams
of Rio Blanco county and thence west
into Utah.
General Miles has issued orders dl-
rccting two companies of the BATTALION
of the Twcnty-third United States in
fantry, recently ordered to Fort Doug
las. Utah. to take station at Fort Rus
sell. Wyoming. These troops are now
OH their way from the Philippines.
Contrary to expectation the Goa
mines mt Carbon are being operated
with as large a force of men as ut any
time during the past five years. 1t l.
believed that when the company opened
its new mine on Sand creek this town
would be depopulated. but the rush for
coal has kept miners busy in both the
old and new mines.
Horace G. Leonard. Il Boston capital
list. has been looking over the ground
between Merino, twenty miles west on
the Burlington. and Sundancc, with IA
view of. building a railroad between
the two points. 1t is believed the pre-
liminary surveys will he run and an cs-
innate of cost of the line made in a
few weeks. Such a line would open
n rich agricultural. mining and stock
r.afgfpn ..,,,nf,,. In, Tt.nnls aud Weston
counties.
Arbor Day was observed in Cheyenne
by closing of banks, national, state and
county offices and by appropriate excl
ciScs in the public schools. At the high
school the exercises included addresses
by Rev. i. NJ. White and Frank Bond.
with music by the high school chorus
and orchestra. There We're no public
| opcn-air services. but many trees We're
set out on private grounds and on
highways fronting new residences,
both the weather and ground being es-
pecially favorable for such work.
The owners of the Ferris Haggarty
copper mine. now that the sale of the
property is Off, are arranging TO make
extensive improvements In the mine
and the facilities for transporting the
product to market. Should it be de
cided to build the broad gauge railroad
from Fort Steele to Saratoga. the
grade for which has been partially
thrown up. the Ferris-H aggarty people
will then interest capital in the build.
ing of Il narrow gauge road from
Saratoga TO the mines ut Battle Lake
Such IA o a would cost in the neigh,
borhood Of SSO0.0OO and would make
shipping mines of Il large number of
properties. In any event, the Ferris
Haggarty people will put in a concen
trating plant and matte the ore for
shipment.
AT its annual meeting at Rawlins last
week the Rawlins Wool Storage Com,
pany elected the following officers: ].
c. Davis. president: J. NJ. Ramsey.
vice president: j. L. Osborne. secre,
tary and treasurer. The company de,
cided 10 hold semi-weekly sale days,
at which the wool on hand will he of,
fercd for sale to the highest bidder.
This is expected to naturally increase
the selling price of the wool. AS buyers
Will bid all they think the wool Is
worth in order TO Serur II. The Woo
Growers Association at Il recent meet.
ing elected officers for the ensuing
year and transacted other important
business. The organization takes the
place of the Carbon County Woo
Growers association. II has been i'm.
corporated and includes the principal
sheepmen of the county.
| a strange ease came before the Stat,
supreme Court on the 18th. from til,
District COur of Laramie on a bill OF
exceptions. The case was brought b,
August Nogclsang against ~JosepIin,
Nogclsang for divorce. They were
married in 1874 and lived together foi
eight years. when the wife. as she al
leges, was driven from her home ant
Went to Colorado Springs, where. sew
eral months later, she heard tina
her husband had obtained a divorc,
and. believing herself TO be mt liberty
married n man named ANDERSON. witt
whom she lived thirteen years. Ii
lS96 Mrs. Nogelsang-Anderson re
turned 10 Laramie, became reconcilel
with her first husband and lived will
him until December. 1898. when tn,
present case was commenced. NogeI
sang. in his petition. accuses his wifi,
of bigamy and asks that the mnrriag,
bond be dissolved.
1t is learned that the Burlington has
or is about to award the contract foI
the construction of its road west tt
Salt Lake from Guernsey. 4 gentle
man whO has returned from Omnhg
says that the line has been surveyed
from Guernsey TO the WyOming-utal
line, and that the contract calls for tn,
construction of from 300 to 300 miles
of road west from Guernsey, to bt
completed during the coming summer
From what can be learned. il is th,
intention To build on to the Paciii,
coast ns soon M the rails can be laid
but. for the present, all energies will
he directed in reaching the ELK noun
tain coal fields in southern Carbon
county before the end of this year. BS
building 10 the ELK mountain Goa
fields the Burlington viii open IN Il
development II rich terri DRY in stock
raising, agriculture. mining, etc. The
coal lands near Elk mountain are ok
tensive and the quality of the coal is
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