, 1900-10-25
WYOMING NOTES.

ured out that the population of Lara
mic has increased about twenty-five
per cent. during the last two years.
Manuel Alvarez and Jose Luna, two
Representatives of the Mexican govern
men. have been in Laramie purchasing
horses for the Mexican army.
The rural free mail delivery running
out from Laramie city for n distance
of forty-ive miles will be commenced
on November LIST. Seventy-ive fami-
lies will be accommodated.
After October 18th Resident Engineer
Durlap of the Union Pacific will take
charge of all construction between
Rawlins and Cheyenne. The work Is
nearly completed.
Reports of Cheyenne physicians re
garding the fever epidemic are all
favorable. With hardly an exception
the patients are improving, and 1t Is
believed the worst is over.
Surveyor L. A. Buck, who wandered
away from camp twenty miles north
of Laramie and who 1t was feared
might have met with some injury, has
been found and is all right.
Word rfrom Chicago states that Gov
ernor Richards is improving rapidly.
Word has been received at Cheyenne
that Harry Malloy, formerly superin-
tendent of the Wyoming division of
the Union Pacific, is critically Ill at
Portland with heart trouble.
me typhoid fever epidemic at
Cheyenne seems to be abating rapidly.
The Union Pacific is making some
decided improvements in its shop plant
at Cheyenne to permit of the repairing
of the large locomotives.
1t is probable that the charge of as
sault with intent to kill preferred
against Daniel Mathison by his two
brothers, whom he tried to shoot at
their ranch on the Sybille n short time
ago, will be withdrawn.
Coz Barron. n Russian employed in
the coal mines at G%lenrock, was in
stantly killed u few days ago by a
heavy mass of coal falling OF him.
He was a half brother of Charles Bar
on, n well known leader mong the
Russian miners.
George Rhodes, aged twenty-six,
night foreman of the Union Pacific
Coal Company's number eight mine,
was Instantly killed on the 18th inst.
by n rock falling on his head. He was
the only son of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Rhodes, of Cheyenne.
Alexander, the ten-year-old son of
Hon. Robert p. Allen of Davidson,
near Cheyenne was drowned n few
days 6 while boating on n small
pond near the ranch. The lad was
alone and no one witnessed the accl-
dent. He was an only child.
President George w. Gates of Iowa
College has beer called to the pastor
afn pf fhn FIRST CnnUrnUntipnnI rhurnh
of Cheyenne to fill the vacancy &C.
casioned by the resignation of Rev.
frank Il. White. DIR. Gates is one of
the ablest educators and preachers in
the West.
Andy Gillstrom has been arrested
II put in jail on the charge of steal
ing and driving away n herd of forty
head of cattle belonging to John Wy
mer, n ranchman. living three miles
from Sheridan. c. Il. Potts testified
that Gillstrom hired him, paying him
So to assist in driving off the cattle.
The Laramie Plains Live Stock Pro.
tective Association has arranged to
continue the paying of bounties on
predatory wild animals. Since last
March, when the state appropriation
became exhausted, the association has
! Iuiu DOullN Ol 90 CONOltS, l-o wolves
and twenty-eight wildcats.
The typhoid fever epidemic at Chey-
enne has developed the fact that the
county hospital is lacking in proper ac-
commodations and is not in n proper
sanitary condition. With the use of
the hospital purely as n hospital, 1t is
understood the Union Pacific has Of
fered to pay n portion of the running
expenses for the privilege of placing
their injured employees there.
Captain f. d. Grissell of Sheridan
has been arrested and fined for killing
two of his horses. 1t is stated that
Grissell was offered 800 each for the
horses just before he killed them. He
says he has other horses that he will
kill in a few days. The case is watched
with interest, as II is n nice question
how far the law can Interfere with a
mans disposal Of his own animals.
Charles w. Gilmore, agent OF the
Carnegie museum of Pittsburg, has
returned from n seasons work in the
fossil fields north of Laramie. -Four
men besides himself were employed
n n carload of valuable fossil re-
mains is now en- route to the museum.
Gilmore found missing pieces of giant
ANIMALS of the prehistoric period,
which will make valuable additions
to the collection at P%ittsburg.
C~ontinuances have been granted un-
til the May term of the District court
Mt Rawlins in Il number of important
cattle and horse stealing cases, among
the number being that of sam Greene,
The case of Tom Sun and others
against Willis George Emerson, b. j.
McCaffrey of Denver and the Grand
Encampment Town Company, asking
that a receiver be appointed, will be
taken TO Cheyenne ON n change OF
venue
Perry oXley and George w. Butler,
who recently returned to Thermopolis
from n prospecting trip in Big Horn
canon, brought back with them a
mou%se-colored Indian pony that they
found on n small mesa, which was
surrounded on one side by rapids and
on the other by a high clin. 1t is said
the pony was ridden to the mesa
many years ago by n horse thief
named Nutcher who was fleeing from
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