, 1900-05-24
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The structure Will be 325 feet long,
fourteen feet wide and will cost be-
tween $1,000 and $1,000.
Another dynamite explosion occurred
on the 18th at the Sherman gravel
pits, resulting in the injury of one
man. The injured man, Theodore
krantz, was drilling n hole in the rock,
from which he thought all the dyna-
mite had been removed. but enough
remained TO cause an explosion which
shattered his left hand and arm.
A large number of applications for
liquor licenses have been received from
persons who desire to open saloons In
the garding camps along the Union Pa
cific in this county. The county clerk
has refused them all, as 1t Is the inten-
ton to grant no licenses and thereby
save the taxpayers the heavy expense
incident TO arresting and prosecuting
law breakers.
\ man named f. Whallen of AL
lance. Nebraska, was found dead in Il
shanty near the Union Pacific tracks,
mt Itawlins on the 14th. lie had been
employed at Rock Springs as a sheep
shearer. He had a small sum of money
on his person when last seen, but his
pockets We're empty when the body
was found The affair is being nves-
tigated by the police.
Troop c. First United States cavalry,
will leave Fort Logan June 9th Tor
Fort Russell. The troop will be sta
toned here for three months, or during
the term Of the regular summer large
practice. and perhaps longer. Two conf
panies of the Twenty-third infantry are
expected to arrive from the Philippines
during the latter part of June and will
take station at Fort Russell.
Joe Lytlc, editor of the Crook Coun-
~ Monitor ut Sundance scouts the idea
that the bandit killed neal Thomp-
sons. Utah, was the notorious George
Currie. He says he doubts If Curric
was within several hundred miles of
the place of the killing, and thinks
the identification of the dead man is
a trick either to get the rewards offer
ed by the railroad and express com
panics or assist Currie in making his
escape from the officers.
The Republican State Convention
met mt Cheyenne on the 10th and nom
mated the following: For congressman,
+. w. Mondell; for delegates to Nation
al Convention, Senator f. L. Warren.
senator C.. ID. Clark. Congressman f.
w. Mondell. Governor Deforest Rich
ards, Colonel j. l.. Torrey and Hon.
George ii. GOble; ~alternates. f.. w.
Stone. Thomas Bebb. f. L. Rounds. j.
g. Cosgrlff, Adj. Spaugh and John Nc
Gill.
Carl Bergquist. "A laborer. was ser
iously injured Tuesday by II premature
explosion of dynamite ut "A grading
camp, n few miles east of Guernsey.
Bergquist had put in II charge of
powder and when the sticks of dyna-
mite Were inserted an explosion fol
lowed before Bergquist could get out
of the way. His face, arms and breast
We're filed with small pieces of rock
and he was blown II distance of forty
feet. He was removed to the Burling-
ton hospital at Grand Island.
There are thirteen cases of smallpox
in the pest house at Green River. If
the disease continues to spread out it
VIII probably be necessary to quaran-
tine the town. Judge Craig has ad-
journcd the session of the District
Court, IND a large number OF persons
have left Green River. Should the
town be "quarantined it will be neces-
sary for the Union Pacific to change
its division headquarters from Green
River to Granger or Rock Springs.
Trains would then be run here without
stopping.
y large band OF sheep owned by j.
\. DOnncll, which was shipped in from
the west has been ~quarantined by the
state board of sheep commissioners 1t
Is stated that upwards of $4,000 head
of sheep are now held i'll quarantine
on the Idaho-W Wyoming line. 1t being
the intention of the owners to trail in
to the state. Sheepmen are elated over
he vigorous action of the sheep board
In quarantining foreign bands of sheep
for as long rs this is lone there is lit
tie danger of disease getting in among
the home tlocks.
As soon as the work now under way
u West is completed, the Bell Telc-
phone Company will build Il line north
from Cheyenne to Casper. Douglas,
Lusk. GlcnrOck and on into the north
ern part of the state TO Newcastle.
Sheridan. Sundancc. Buffalo and to
Deadwood and Lead City in the Black
Hills. The company has planned to
connect Lander. ThermOpolis and Fort
Washable with the main line through
southern Wyoming, either ut Hawlins
or ROck Springs. 1t is predicted that
inside of twelve months every town
of any size in Wyoming will he con
nccted with Denver on the south and
Salt Lake and Ogden on the west by
long distance telephone.
The c]oroner's jury has completed its
work of investigating the awful wreck
at O'Neill switch. thirteen miles west
of Iawlins. and has placed the blame
for the accident on the crew of train
No. 81, wost-hound, and the railroad
w%recking outfits have clearcd away the
pile of bent and twisted irons. aNles.
broken locomotives and cars. All that
remains to mark the spot where one
of the worst wrecks in the history of
the western end of the Union Pacific
is n large pile of ashes and partly
burned orangcs ana sugar, which will
be cleared away In n few days. The
testimony before the C%Oroner'S Jury
showed that brakeman Perry ana the
section foreman were probably the
ones directly TO blame for the accident.
The section foreman opened the switch