, 1900-08-23
WYOMING T

1tA Il MIS- Va
Newcastle was visited by a fire last
week which, for a time, threatened a
portion of the town. BY hard work the
tiremen confined the flames to three or
-four buildings. One of the firemen fell
from a ladder and was slightly in
jured.
The streams of Wyoming are very
low. and the amount of snow now m
the mountains is less than is usual at
this time of the year: the warm wealth
er has melted the snow more rapidly
than usual. Powder river Is reported
to be the lowest known In many years.
A peculiar accident occurred at the
Union Pacific tunnel, near Aspen, the
other day. A herd of sheep was graz
ing hear the track and n of the AMI
mails picked up a dynamite cartridge
and commenced TO chew 1t. Shortly al
ter there was n loud report and the
sheep was blown to pieces.
Information has been received to the
effect that the work of building a
wagon roa from Cody to the Yellow
stone Park will be commenced shortly.
The government appropriated the sum
of S20,OO0 for this work II 1t Is I'M
derstood will construct the road. Cap
a Chittenden has been placed in
charge and will doubtless conduct the
work in person.
Special Agent Wantland of the I'm
Ron Pacific lane department has been
at Rawlins consulting sheep men rela-
tive to leasing 1,OpO.OOO acres of rail-
DAD lands in Sweetwater and Carbon
counties. The company is willing to
lease the big tract, providing the sheep
men will come to some sort of an agree
ment over a division of the range. 1t
is probable the lease will be made be
fore fall.
In western Nebraska and several
parts OF Wyoming the prairie dog is
becoming a great nuisance TO garden
ers and stock ~raisers. They have in
creased rapidly since the stock men
have been eXterminating h wolves
and coyotes. which before the ranges
We're stocked with cattle depended on
these little animals for a large part of
their nourishment. Many of the prairie
dogs are being killed by poison.
f. c. Caldwell, n brakeman on the
Union Pacific. met with n terrible ac-
cident at Smeed station, sixty miles
east of Cheyenne on the 3rd. lie was
standing on the pilot Of the locomotive
as the train was heading in on a side
track, when he fell under the wheels.
Both legs were mangled and one COM
pletely severed from the body. A spe-
cial train was quickly made up and
Caldwell brought TO the Cheyenne hos
pital. where he died nj moo after sub
hitting TO the amputation of the re
naming leg. He was conscious until
n few minutes before death came.
Special Agent NJ. b. Camplin and n
large force of men are now busily en-
| rn raI in pNtinp1iShInU forest firpS
which are destroying some of the best
timber in the state. The Cheyenne
land office has been wired in regard to
the matter, and is working in conjunC-
ton with the commissioner of The gen,
cral land office. Two Of the largest and
most destructive fires are raging on
Sandstone creek. three miles north OF
CscCOla in Carbon county. Another
fire is in progress north of C%oppcrton
in the same county, while still another
big fire is burning not far from the ia.
Rambler mine. The rains Of the
past week have suppressed fires in u
number of places. but they have brok.
en- out nnew and worse than ever.
Fire broke out in the Continental
company's oil house at Laramie ON The
18th and burned fiercely for seVera.
hours. Five hundred eases of oil and
| ElSDlllf NlbItil III lht bullllIls tNlilbtl
ed and demolished the structure. 4
tank containing 5000 gallons of OF
stood close to the big building and til,
firemen, fearing the big tank would eX
plode, We're unable 10 successfully tiGh'
the flames. The loss will probably
' reach $1,000, $1,000 being for oil alone
The fire finally burned itself out. bu
had the flames communicated with th'
oil in the big tank large loss of lif,
would have resulted. This is the sec
ond oil house fire and explosion tina
has occurred here this year. At tn,
former twenty persons We're burned
and injured.
Many of the ranchmen along the Bi.
Laramie and its tributaries are be
coming greatly alarmed over the dan
ger of being cut off from their waite
supply. through the operation of tn,
Wyoming Development Company il
the vicinity of Wheatland. Person
who have watched the progress of tina
concern are warning the ranchmen o
this county that their water rights ar
in actual danger and that they shoul,
take immediate steps for their proteC
ton. bitches TO the number of fifty
two, carrying water for the irrigation
of tracts of land running all the wa.
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actual danger because of the larg
claims made by the Wyoming Develop
ment Company and because o
the big plans it is now pre-
pairing to consummate. The WY
oming Development Company ha
constructed n large tunnel near Mo
Gill's to take the water from the Ri
Laramie and carry 1t into Blue Grns
creek. 1t is now putting in an enoT
nous reservoir to store the water sen
down by the spriNg floods. The seven
teen bitches thai have claimed right
prior to those set up by the WyominI
Development Company will he SAT
enough from the demands of the hi
concern, bu those of later date are Il
imminent danger of being cut of il
part or entirely from their supply o
water. These bitches are not only thos
taken directly from the Big Laramie
but those taken from the Little Lara
mic and from all the tributaries of tn
Big Laramie in this county.
Large game is fast disappearing iron
northwestern Wyoming. and its de
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