, 1900-09-06
NOTES.


Wyoming cities will have telephone
connections with Salt Lake by the mid
die Of September.
The tie drive at Green River is all in
and the mass of timbers blocks the
river for a quarter of n mile.
The shopmen ut Cheyenne have de
cided to open n cooperation grocery
store, and will form definite plans Mt
once. They think that prices asked by
retail dealers are too high.
The Supreme Court has decided hat
the property at the corner of Ferguson
and Twentieth streets, Cheyenne, be
longs TO Hon. George Maggie, the YER
Diet having Beer rendered after n hard
fought legal battle between the rela-
tiveS and alleged agents of Herman
Singletary of Denver.
Recently a band of cattlemen rode
over to the hcad of Skull and OIL creeks
near Newcastle. where II band of the
Guthrie sheep Were being grazed and
ordered the herder away. The country
is all taken up by settlers and any at
tempt of sheepmen to Craze their
flocks will be met with resistance by
the cattlemen.
a letter has been received in Casper
from Mrs. A.. NJ. Cook of Davenport,
Iowa, who is looking for n sister cap
turcd by the Indians in this state,
near Rock Creek. thirty-five years ago.
She and her sister We're both captured
when cry young. and the latter has
not been heard of since. A white
squaw has lately been discovered
amOng Indians near Casper and Mrs.
Cook believes she Is her long lost Sis
ter.
frI,a N.ts. "a Of ttann tV.ARlrtV1 To
ward each other in the west half of the
Sherman tunnel came together Monday
morning. The discovery vas then
made that there was n deviation of on
ly one-half inch in the walls OF the tun-
mel as cut by the two gangs. This is
considered to be very good engineering.
1t Is expected that the two gangs of
workmen in the eastern half of the
tunnel will come together in n few
days.
a man named NJ. V. Giltner of Jack
sons Hole has II preserve of twenty
acres inclosed, in which he has n
teen head of elk. He started four years
ago with five cows and n bull elk and
finds that the animals propagate in
this kind of captivity as well as the
open range Consequently his herd is
steadily increasing from natural
Nai'otS WI 'fillilNl nav III hil"'i wv
fate of the buffalo, and when the elk
and other big game are driven out of
tfe country or eXterminated in the
natural order of civilization, he will
have n large herd 10 make sales from,
and ought to make n fortune from his
venture.
In an Interview, State Examiner II.
b. henderson says: There are thir-
teen national, nine state and nine pri-
vate banks in Wyoming. Their state
ments at the close of business on June
20, 1900. show individual deposits of
S5,5T2,549.53, an increase over the
statements of December II, 1896, of
s. ,S44.465.13. Estimating Wyoming's
population at 5000 the deposits of
this state are equal to 5000 per capita.
Indications are thai the December,
1900, statements will show deposits in
the banks of Wyoming of approximate
ly S7,OOO,OOO. y few years ago Wyo-
ming was last on the list of states in
the matter of her bank deposits, but
now she ranks ahead of Arizona, Ida
no, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma
and Indian Territory.
Professor +. II. Newell, chief hydro
grapher of the United States geograph-
ical survey Is in Cheyenne connected
with the survey of reservoir sites by
the geological survey In thc Rocky
mountain and Pacific slope states. Pro
fcssor Newell has visited Montana, Ida
no, Washington. California and Neva-
da, and after his visit to Wyoming Will
proceed to Colorado. The details of
the surveys are placed in Ii hands Of
local representatives of the survey. Mr..
Charles IL. Fitch has been placed in
charge of the work in Montana, Idaho
and Wyoming. In Wyoming the sur
yey this season will be made of reser-
voir sites on the head of Grey Bull
river in the Big Horn basin. Mr.. Fitch
will make an inspection Of the country
In the pper Platte valley and in the
Black Fork and Big Sandy country
with Il view TO further surveys of res
cryoir sites. Work is being conducted
on the geological map of the Sundance
region and tOpOgrlphers are also mt
work in the district near Buffalo and
Evanston.
Following is the program for Frontier
Day at Cheyenne on September 18th:
9:3O II. m. baseball. Cheyenne VS.. Den
yer; | u. m, balloon ascension and para
chute jump; cawboy race, half mile;
running race. half mile; sham battle,
Twenty-third infantry; indian pony
race, half mile; woman'S cow pony
race. hall mile; DucRlnS anu ltcnlnS
contest; running race, free for all;
steer roping contest: stage coach hold
up by Indians. Indian dances, games
and ceremonies during the intermis-
sion. G:30 p. m, illuminated street par
AIDE: S r.. m, open air masque ball II
cake walk. The program OF Thursday,
September 18th, will be as follows:
$50 n. M, baseball, Denver VS.. Chey-
enne; l p. M. balloon ascension Ii
parachute jump: COW pony race, one
! mile; running race, free for all; bicycle
race. FIVE miles; woman's COW pony
race. half mile; cow pony race; wild
horse race. half mile; novelty race, run
ning one mile; Indian pony race, half
mile: stage coach hold-up by road
agents. Indian games. dances and GER
emonics during intermission s p. M,
grand open air mnsquc ball and cake
walk. Free admission TO grounds.
Special Agent NJ. Il. Camplin of the
general land office states there haEe
been nine disastrous fires In the state,
the first one having broken gu last
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