, 1900-11-08
NOTES.

travelling Engineer BlrneN u lue
Union Pacific has resigned to accept a
position in the Baldwin locomotive
works in Philadelphia.
The Big Horn Wool Growers Associ-
alton will hold its annual meeting at
Cody November 10. Preparations are
being made to entertain the visiting
flockmasters.
Fish Commissioner Morgareidge is
receiving from the United States hsh
commission n large consignment of
black bass. He is placing most of them
in Lake DE Smet.
The Fort Mckinney military reserva-
ton, which is now the property of the
state. has been leased by the state au-
thorities to Norman II. Medium for a
term of five years.
What is regarded by Cheyenne rail-
road officials and men as a phenomenal
performance, if not a worlds record IS
the run made by a special stock train
composed of thirty-eight cars of stock
and the run of 1O2 miles was made in
two hours and forty-five minutes with
out a stop.
The nnouncement is made that the
Union Pacific will install $4,000 worth
of new machinery in its shops at Raw
HIS llt company WIN "E' 'N''
forty-five cottages for its employees. AL
though sixty-five new houses were
built in Rawlins last summer, there Is
not n vacant house in
Frank L. Rice, n Lander merchant,
has disappeared and has no intention
of returning. so he wrote his wife. 1t
is understood that he was in financial
difficulties. He owns considerable
property, conducted n general mer-
chandisc store and is interested in the
Lander brewery. The First National
Bank has attached everything to save
themselves. He leaves his wife n six
children.
The sensational suit begun at Raw
Inns by stockholders in the Grand En-
campment TownSite Company against
W his George Emerson, G. w. Free
man and Bernard Mccartney has been
transferred to Cheyenne. The complain
ants charge misappropriatiOn of money
by defendants, holding Illegal meetings,
voting e~Xtrnvagant salaries to them
selves, etc. and claim damages to the
extent of $4,000.
Eastern capitalists who have been at
Cheyenne have filed on a large tract
of valuable coal lands on the Platte
river about twenty-five miles north of
4 u W. 4 liz ''all Il ulSN'N'ltu
by an old prospector named Brysel,
who has made twenty-eight filings in
the land office. The B~urlinGton's Salt
Lake line will pass the new fields, and
1t is thought the Eastern men are real
ly representatives of the railroad.
The authorities have been advised of
n bold theft of n bunch of fifty head
of cattle from n pasture nea Chey-
enne. A man named Riley was pas
turing the cattle, and Il few days ago
he discovered that every animal had
disappeared. The officers have infor-
nation that the herd was taken to the
railroad and shipped to an Eastern
market and they are now On the trail
of the thieves. The cattle We're valued
at $1,000.
The state superintendent of public
instruction has prepared n report on
the leasing of school and lien lands dur
ing the current year. The report says
that during 1898 there were in force
$50 leases and during the present year
2.4T5, showing the increased demand
for land in Wyoming. In 1898 the rem.
tai amounted to ~S15.255.9O. and during
the present year S50,312.60.
1t is reported that n flow of oil has
been struck in the vicinity of the Wyo.
ming-Montana line north of Cody.
Scout Charles Chrlsty, the well
known veteran of the Beecher Island
massacre on the Arlckaree river in
1867, made a discovery in an Indian
curio shop in Denver n few days since
that took him back TO the pioneer days
of the state. He was passing by the
store when he saw the war bonnet of
Spotted Tail, once one of the leading
chiefs of the Sioux Nation. The old
chief is now gathered TO his fathers,
but Christy says he knew him forty
two years ago. Mr.. Christy says his
intimacy with the old warrior makes
his identification of the bonnet n fact
beyond question. He is seeking TO have
it purchased and presented to the State
Historical Society.
The Union Pacific has inaugurated a
new train service between Omaha and
Ogden. Trains Nos. ] and 1O1, that
passed through Cheyenne at o and 10
p. m, the former being the Overland
Limited and the latter the fast mail,
are consolidated and run as No. /. A
new train, No. :, passes through Chey-
enne about noon, arriving in Ogden
about thirty minutes behind No. 3, the
train that passes Cheyenne at
10 n. m. This new train car
ries the fast mail. There is a slight
change in the schedules of Nos. /, .. 3,
4 and 6. The changes make very little
difference in the running of Nos. l, .,
3 and 4 between Cheyenne and Den
yer.
To Sheriff Elliott of Weld county
Colorado, belongs the credit for the ar
rest of David Mackley, the alleged cat
tie thief and the leader of the gang of
'rustlers' that has been operating in
southeastern Wyoming, northeastern
Colorado and western Nebraska for
several years. The fifty head of cattle
stolen recently from Il pasture south
east of Cheyenne belonged to L.. =.
Reilly of Grover, Colorado. John and
David Mackley We're suspected and the
cattle We're traced to st. Joe, where
they were sold by David Mackley alias
j. \. johnson. He was trailed to Tie
Siding n few days ago and arrested as
he was about to ship several carloads
of cattle, which have, 1t is alleged.
been identified as stolen stock. Sheriff
Elliott returned 10 Greeley with Da-
vld Mnckley and Ed Club. who is