, 1900-05-17
WYOMING NOTES

have notified the sheep men that they
Will shear no more sheep mt { cents per
head, and demand s cents. Their de-
mands will doubtless be granted.
+. The land department of the Union
Pacific sold more than 10000 acres last
month, and reports an increasing de
mand for lands from settlers coming
in from Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and
Nebraska.
An attempt to burglarIze the Cos
grin Brothers store and the Saratoga
State bank Wednesday morning about
? O'Clock was frustrated by one of the
clerks, p. Lefferts. who sleeps in the
store. Lefferts received II slight
wound in the abdomen in exchange of
shots. The obbers escaped.
Banker Bigelow of Ogden has pur-
chased 300 acres of land on Bridgcr
bench, south of Evanston. The land is
well watered and the purchaser pro-
poses 10 get Utah people to settle there.
\ large lumber of people have settled
in the vicinity of BridGer this spring.
The volunteer firemen, eleven in
number, who were injured in the Union
Pacific oil house explosion mt Laramie
last February, will be reimbursed for
all time lost and money expended for
medical attention. The Union Pacific
has volunteered to stand the expenses.
The aggregate amount of the claims
of the tiremen is 500.
Word was received from Sidney last
Thursday night to the effect that an
unknown tramp had been murdered.
He was found in II box ear bleeding
rom several staps mace WIN II khlie'
but was still conscious. He said he
was stabbed bv 81 comnoniou. brt could
not give an accurate dissertation of his
assailant. The wounded man died
shortly nfter beinr found
a large number OF applications f9r
liquor licenses nave peeh received from
PERSONS VINO desire to open SiiIoons IN
the saruihE ci.nps along the Union IA
enc III thls county: the county clerk
mas refused mem all. hS II Is the lhteh-
'ioi 10 grant no licenses ana thereby
s"Ne me taxpayers the heaNN expense
,h'"ieht 10 hrrestlhS anu prosecuting
Jaw preaherS'
The wool cIin for. tho vvastnrn shoan
ranges will be much larger this year
than for last season. G.. &. Dennis. n
prominent railroad man, has returned
from n trip through all of the princi-
pal districts. He states that there will
he at least 6,opO,OOO pounds of wool
clipped from the sheep on the Casper.
Wyoming range. Several of the lnrg-
est counties have sold out their crop
for III cents per pound. Others believe
that thew will get more and will store
their clippS in the warehouses until lat
er on. The clip will amount to about
eight pounds to the sheep, which is
equal to S1.25 per head.
elaboration Of p,v.Iirs hrso,,
mon has returned from ,hoyannn
u,ha,o ~ inrarn,n.ion , nI,aina
,hnt tba Irnjan t,aaiGn Iii a,,nn"anoa
work i'm the moan. future on n snur tract;
from Rowlins 10 fine iron mines near
that town. The iron mines are nov
shiDDinr fifty tons of orp nor dov hut
with a roilrord the outnut will he in
creased TO several hundred ions There
is n thnt the snur will bc
extended ON 10 tho stone nnnrries four
miles south of town In which event
a strong orronized some fine
ago. will oneTnte the Guorries on n large
scale
A. uoo,t,n 90 ,bo ~
ri,,o 80 ,bn 49, -
Hon baII a. CbaSannn on ~ or a.
mimi Erortiar nnn ooIorra. io, ',e
49, ns;Inraaa ,nJ vac
ntAtAnintnI -, annfAt NpftI 1stty,,,. mud
hnpinnss mon 90 asoartnir thnin o,in
ions In rn~ord 10 III nIrisahiIi, III
hnst banner of caIoh,,t;n" tho ,inr
1t seems TO be the general opinion thar
no wear should be omitted and that
novel eatures can be added to make
the occasion attractive. At the meet
ing it was also decided TO compile and
issue a pamphlet describing the re-
sources and advantages of Cheyenne
with Il view to giving Information for
business men, investors and intending
settlers.
Word has been received from Battle
Lake TO he effect that the owners of
the famous Ferris-Haggarty conner
mine have struck II alrge body of ma
tive copper mt the bottom of the shaft
President Ferris and other owners of
the property left at once for the mine
to verify the report. The ore i'm the
Ferris Haggarty has been growing
richer with depth and this discovery.
while it has caused considerable cX-
citement, does not come rs n surprise.
That the find will stimulate develop
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