, 1900-11-01
NJ NOTES.

At the preliminary hearing at Chey-
enne of Oliver X. Bryan, the mail clerk
charged with the larceny Of a regis
tered mail package. Bryan was bound
over in the sum of $1,000. The bond
was furnished.
A band Of dogs got into the Laramie
stock yards the other night and Killed
fifty head of sheep. wounding rs many
more. They We're n part of a herd oil
$40 that We're being taken TO Omaha
by W. NJ. owen.
1t is stated that as sOOn rs the Kill
patrick Brothers n Collins grading out
fit conclude their work on the Sherman
hill cutoff they will 90 to Guernsey
and commence work on the eastern II
of the Salt Lake line.
Prospectors have uncovered a vein
of coal in the hills on Owl creek. nine
miles from IhermopOlis. The o a Is
of fine stcaminE quality and the locat'
ors will develop the property. 1t is
understood the Burlington is negotiat-
ing for the mine.
Charles WaIline. the miner who made
a murderouS attack upon John Alsop
at the Keystone mine. took 10 the hills,
armed with II Winchester ana carrying
a pack on his back. He was arrested
D Ut i VII ''AAllA~s N'Af Wv ~ S1f'
Sheriff Baker.
On the opening Of the bids at the
army uuartermaStcr's department of
flee in Denver for the construction of
a guard house and three scts Of officers
quarters mt Fort Russell. the contract
was awarded to NJ. T.. Keefe of Chey-
enne for the sum OF S4l.2JO.
The Laramie County Bar Association
] 500. .,T .,I.tt.I Y..,ItFf4tt. r.,sfNagtfuU
the death of General and former Chief
Justice of Wyoming j. W. Fisher. The
resolutions. reported by Colonel w. H..
Stoll. pay Il high tribute to the mem
DRY of General Fisher as II iurist, citi-
zen and soldier.
Leonard Gross has been charged
with robblng and beating Robert Holm
berg. n Union Pacific fireman mt Lara
mic. TTolmberg was attacked by Gross
in the yards and badly used up. The
highway mar too to the hills and was
followed by Mr.. McCuc, mounted, who
effected his capture.
The Burlington will erect ice houses
at Guernsey and will cut II big supply
of ice on the Platte river his winter.
Guernsey ice will he used on all west
ern divisions of the Burlington from
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the plans of the company. will necessi-
t.fte the employment of force of seven
ty-1i.H men.
Mail Clerks Bryan and Hurd of
Cheyenne were injured i'm the rear-end
collision nj Topaz, on the Oregon Short
Line. on the 17th instant. An engineer
and fireman and one tramp We're badly
hurt and an unknown tramp killed.
Tho fnfnpi.S nf RrN.un mud IuTI ufp
not of n serious nature. The paper mail
vas badly damaged.
a large party of Burlington survey
ors is ut work in the Blue Grass coun-
try northwest of Laramie. 1t il prob
able that the Burlington will adopt the
survey of the Laramie y Sweetwater
Valley Company from Guernsey west,
as it is known to he even more direct
and Il better route than its own. which
was surveyed during the past summer.
a large party of Burlington survey
ors and II number of coal experts have
driven from Laramie across the coun-
try To the Elk Mountain coal fields,
where they will survey branch lines
from the Burlington's transcuntinental
road. establishing yards and depot
grounds to do the preliminary work
looking To the opening of the coal mine.
Large numbers of graders and other
track employees are quitting their jobs
on the Sherman hill ana other cut
offs between Cheyenne and Ogden. The
cold weather Is driving the men who
are not anxious TO work into the cities
and larger towns along the road, The
contractors have made such progress
on the work that these wholesale deser-
tons will not materially affect them.
George David. n bartender at the
Olympia hotel at Kemmerer. who was
shot by Landlord ELAN. fingered in
horrible agony for thirty-siX hours
and ~succumbcd. The charge against
Elan has been changed from assault
to murder. The feeling of the citizens
of Kemmerer is with Elan. who. they
believe. was II wronged husband. Mrs,
Elan has made no further attempts to
commit suicide.
Sheep Inspector Hamilton has gone
from Douglas to Manville to enforce
the quarantine law. II was alleged
that n band of sheep belonging to VII,
liam Mclieyuolds was placed in quar-,
antine some time ago on of
scab. but that Mclieynolds left the
quarantine grounds o o after and Is
now driving his sheep across the coun
try.
NJ. w. Foley, the murderer of Holden
O'Connor. who was sentenced to ..
years last April, has nj last been lodged
in the pcnitentiary. Immediately after
the trial EOlcy's attorneys filed Il mo.
ton for II stay of execution pending the
specified period and Judge Scott or,
dered that Foley be sent to the peni,
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