, 1900-11-15
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provements in its water system. The
filter beds are being extended 500 feet
and new pipes laid.
The physicians believe that William
Goynes, who was shot and seriously
wounded at n ranch south of Lander n
few days ago by William Teilden, will
recover.
A bill is to be introduced at the next
session of the Legislature for the al
lOwance of $500 travel pay TO all vol
untecr soldiers who went to the Phil
ippines.
The Burlington road has made up a
new passenger train schedule Tor
Cheyenne in order to make close CON
nectiOn with the Brush-Alliance and
Deadwood lines.
The official census reports announce
that Laramie's population is S,2OI,
which is an increase of 400 over that
of the last census. Albany countys
population is 13,0S4.
On the afternoon of November 4th
all the business houses of Eaton closed
on the occasion of the funeral of A. Il.
WitZel, who persisted in the burning of
his home The week previous.
II. jeff Carr. warden of the state
~penitentiary, says the institution now
has 16S inmates, a majority serving
sentences for less than five years.
There are thirteen men employed as
penitentiary guards.
The new Union Pacific water works
for Rawlins will he completed by De
cember LIST. The plant includes a pipe
line from the North Platte river at
Fort Steele, n distance of eighteen
miles, this line alone costing 100000.
George w. Barnhart and James Fow-
Ter have been arrested at Newcastle
and bound over to the District Court on
the charge of stealing horses and
changing the brands. The stolen horses
belong to Stirling and Douglas of
Merino.
A prairie fire west of Cheyenne did
considerable damage. The ranch of
John Reese, eight miles northwest of
the city was partly destroyed. Three
fires were started in different places
simultaneously, and have burned over
a wide stretch of ground.
A head-end collision occurred at Bit
ter Greek on the 4th instant, between
n freight and water train. Two engi-
necrs and two firemen were hurt, Fire
man Donnelson quite seriously. Both
engines were demolished and traffic de
layed several hours.
y. A. Kelley was instantly killed in
the Syndicate copper mine near Battle
Lake on the 3rd instant. Kelley and a
man named Cunningham were mining
together when n missed shot was
struck. Cunningham was seriously
and perhaps fatally injured.
General Hugo Dondelman. United
States consul at Prague, Austria, has
started back to Europe from Cheyenne.
General Dondclman is credited with
having made the trip of over G.o0o
miles for the express purpose of voting
for Mckinley at his old home.
The indian bureau at Washington
has received n telegram from the Sho-
shonc aGency in Wyoming announcing
that smallpox has broken out at Lam
der, near the Indian reservation. Vac
cine viris for LOO persons, which the
agent asked to have dispatched to him
Immediately, has been forwarded.
Miss Emily Davies. of Cheyenne,
died n few days since at her parents
home in Fremont, Nebraska. Miss
Davies had been n teacher in the city
schools here for the past nine years
and ut the time of her death was prin-
cipal of the johnson school. Late in
October she was attacked by h pre-
vailing ever
The prairie fire west of Cheyenne
was more disastrous than ut first sup
posed, the loss being upwards of 5000.
Besides destroying the ranch property
of John Iiies, large quantities of hay
and alfalfa owned by Ranchmen Nc
Ghee, Williams, Bresnahen. Chalk and
others We're burned. 1t is believed that
the fires NNnrn nf inrapIipry ORIGIN
James r. Lynn, for many years a
blacksmith in the employ of the Cam
bria Goa Company committed suicide
with a razor. Lynn had been i'll for
some time, although he remained vt
work. The act was committed while
suffering with n temporary fit of in
sanity. A widom and eight children are
left.
The relatives of Samuel Osborne. of
Rawlins, who died suddenly in an
Omaha hotel, believe he met with foul
play and Will cause an investigation
to be mad in view of the fact that
n large sum of money and valuable pa
pers which Osborne had in his pos
session the day before his death were
not found when the body was discov-
cred leads to the belief that the man
was murdered and robbed.
The fastest run ever made between
Rawlins and Cheyenne was accom-
plished by No. ., the %eastbound flyer,
November 2nd. Leaving Rawlins one
hour and forty minutes late. Cheyenne
was reached on time. The average
speed of the train was f%Orty-nine miles
an hour and mt times bursts of speed
of seventy miles an hour were made.
Engineers Schilling, McHugh and
Gardner We're in charge of the train.
In Il small cave at Corlett. six miles
west of Cheyenne, Il few days since,
the body of an unknown man. enact
ated, starving, and portions of the legs
rotting away, was brought to light by
two men who We're going along the
railroad track. The unknown was
brought to the county hospital and the
physicians say he may recover. He
was unconscious when found. How
long he had lain in the cave is not
known, but certain it is that he had
been there four or five days without
fOOd or water.