, 1900-12-27
WYOMING NOTES.

northern counties of the STATE.
The stOckmen of Big Horn county
on Gray Bull offer $50 each for every
grown gray wolf killed, SO for wolt
pups and agrees to pay $50 for each
coyote or bob-cat killed.
burlington S%witchman John Cockreh
was run over by II ear in the sheridan
yards. one leg was crushed so badly
that amputation was necessary. lie
was doing well mt last reports.
Jesse Knight. .Jr.. son of Justice
Knight Of the Supreme Court, was ten
dered Il cadctShip in West Point by
Senator Clark, but as the young man
is about 10 take NJ The study OF law,
he refused ii.
At the recent meeting of the Union
Pacific directors Il SUN sufficient to
build the Athol cutoff. south of Chey-
cnnc, on the Denver Pacific, was ap-
propriatcd. 1t is believed work Will be
commenced early in the spring.
Members of the state board of char
tiles have returned from a trip of in
spectiOn of the Rock Springs hospital
and the Rawlins penitentiary, and have
concluded all arrangements necessary
for the removal of the prisoners in
the Laramie ~penitentiary to the Raw
Inns Institution.
Representative Mondcll has secured
~h""I'Ioh ny ,he ii"uHr W On IN
ihehi TO lne lhdiah appropriations u
IL .ha ptr VIVA ,ivor
nnor Fort woshokin wvominp S65O is
nIrnodr oraunhia Coz. thnt n,,rnose
making n total of 81 800.
IL li"use iiN'i an" u't
''c nHS rtl"ssu 10 I"s''' III
anu hhrpprs pii INC ltcin vi %Ii''1,T
propose" ny tcP~reSch'a'Ne no'
y tne CONSTRUCTION VI eNpeiIi"s
Tho IIissnnr; riyor and tho survey of
rnso,.,.air sita. L. mo n.,st,,n s+,,nS
''"''"' ""ii'H "'"Ni"- "a"
u '"i'ElrHH U S''ui' pay "htn ps
ihl'i W "VPnl 'hith' ,outI'i,oA
ioi IDllH -tlEhl tI'lH'ua VI 90 "m
~, NE"nHIS, WI" -H"E"n' "u i"s IN.
- H,NJi"l "nHS 81 81 -.
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Ii'n'n .iteN anu III '"' "uJ'tHihS
Hiuu''"IhS'
The ranch house OF +. II. Harvey,
hppu, mr. iiilIs nuIth W i,"uSSt.S az
'!uri''"liS o"uEn - va Nv ~ ~
SUM, "pou' ndluirEh'' nv puiIeu W
NH
lLs lne nuliuliE nhrIoMis escap-
en n'ams 't I'm. "nu WIZ ~
S"Nc even lneII Wearing "Pl"rei' II
ioss IL "pou' Hl'''''
a new disease has broker out among
cattle III wyoming ana MS a result over
1ou hehd OF young ANIMALS nave dled.
Inc disease is called crOuplous .iaryn-
Gus being II FORM OF dlphtherla: Inc
disease proves fatal when once 1t at
.n,Ns an uniiIl"l' H'"'' "utnoll,icS nv
tnNlnE Slel,s 10 P['N'ill II sPIehu u tle
"io't'' NV ,ii'ui"'9 VIZ" instructions
i'i "'"''"S II VI" W. Sei' out AT oh'''
secretary Hltchcoc has affirmed h
llild Once decision IN which the selec-
q OF the state OF wyoming and in
ll"u OF sections III II 80 III the FORT
steele military reservation was held
Tor rejection. The secretary says the
law una which the reservation was
opened excluded the state from using
the sections designated AS bases for
lieu selections. He, however, directs
the land commissioner TO give II reason
hble time IN which TO substitute other
bases for the lands selected In list Il.
''There is no truth in the published
report that we nave let a contract for
building through Echo canon TO Salt
Lake SAID Mr.. Il. Dickinson. general
lllailhser OF the Union racine system,
10 Denver reporter. Il drove through
llle canon WIN our engineer recently
II we decided that the route was not
Ieislble Tor rallruad construction. In
iact' II Is practically Impossible TO
bulld through the canon, and we have
abandoned the project. although it
would be Il saving III mileage into Salt
Like.