, 1900-08-30
WYOMING NoTES.

1t is reported that n force of prospec-
tors will be placed in the field by the
Burlington and an effort made TO locate
the same vein of coal that is being de-
veloped by the Union Pacific ut ROCK
Springs. The scene of operations will
be along the line of survey of the eX-
tension west from Guernsey to Salt
Lake.
Louis Kurz fell from the top of the
Rawlins- Saratoga coach and broke his
neck. dying instantly. Kurz was drink
ing heavily and when leaving Saratoga
the driver insisted that he should ride
inside. When n few miles from Peck
station he climbed on top and soon
after fell TO the ground, striking on
his head and breaking his neck. lie
died instantly.
Word was brought to Rawlins from
the southern part of the county that a
band of horse thieves who have been
operating in that section burned the
ranch house of George Mckinney and
tackled n notice on n tree ordering every
IL about the place to leave the country
or suffer the consequences. There has
been a great deal of lawlessness in this
section, and a force of officers left al
once for the scene.
-Four masked men entered n saloon
on the grade of the Sherman hill cutoff
late Saturday night and compelled the
proprictors to hand over about SIOo.
The proprietors were about to close up
for the night and We're alone in the
place. The masked men We're heavily
armed and resistance was useless. At
ter firing n few shots to intimidate the
saloon men the robbers disappeared in
the dark. The affair was kept quiet to
aid the officers who were placed Oh the
ease TO run the hold-ups down. No ar
rests have been made and there Is no
clue to the robbers.
| An accident occurred in one of the
| grading camps mt Sherman the other
day. y high trcstle was being built
across a valley by Macarthur Brothers.
[ 1t has only been partially finished. and
n narrow gauge track, upon which the
construction trains run. was built out
to the brink of the bridge. A train con
sisting of n donkey engine and twelve
cars plunged over the end of this
trestle and fell to the bottom of the
valley, a distance of forty feet. At the
bottom the care were badly piled up
and broken. All the workmen on the
train, except the engineer, jumped
from the ears in time to save their
lives. The engineer went down with
hlS tuSilt, Dul WIS nOl DdulN lDJultu.
| Fire broke out in the Continental
| company oil house at Laramie on the
18th and burned fiercely for several
. hours. Five hundred cases of oil and
| gasoline stored in the building eXplod-
| ed and demolished the structure. A
tank containing 5000 gallons of oil
/ stood close to the big building and the
tiremen, fearing the big tank would ex-
| plode, were unable TO successfully fight
the flames. The loss will probably
reach $1,000. $1,000 being for oil alone.
! The fire finally burned itself out, but
! had the flames communicated with the
oil IL the big tank large loss of life
would have resulted. This is the sec
ond oil house fire Inc explosion that
has occurred here this year.
/ The will of Hon. George Ferris. who
was killed Saturday in n runaway acct
| dent, has been filed for probate. Mrs.
\ Ferris is appointed administrative and
sole trustee of the Inheritance of min
or children without bond BY the terms
| of the will the widow becomes heir to
! one-half of the estate, the balance to
! be divided between the five children,
only one of which is of age. 1t pro-
! vides that each child upon reaching his
| majority, shall receive six per cent. of
l his share, me n like amount each year
| until thirty years of age. when the bal
| ance shall be paid in bulk. There is n
| proviso, however. that in case they de-
1 sire to go into business the administers
/ triX may give them such amount as
| she deems necessary TO carry on the
business. A dispatch was received
from the intending purchasers of the
mine, stating that they would be here
! in n short time with the money to close
! the deal.
George Ferris. president of the Fer
; ~rls-Haggerty Mining Company, was
| killed on the 18th in "A runaway acct
| dent, while travelling from the mine to
| his HON in Saratoga. He had been
out directing the work of the employees
| Of the mine in lighting the forest fires,
which threatened TO destroy the mine
buildings. The fire swept through the
timber, burning also about 1000 cords
! of wood. and the men were forced to
go over to the mines TO get away from
II. Mr.. Ferris started for home Inc
while going down Il steep hill a few
miles from the mine his team became
1 frightened and ran away. After run
4 ming some distance, they ran into one
! of The heavy ore teams. and Mr.. Ferris
was thrown out. striking on his head
land dying instantly. An option was
u ~ va nv ~ " ~" "''hN iEp "
$1,000 900. and word was received that
the purchasers We're on their way to
close the deal.
The machinists. boilermakers, black
smiths and other employees of the
Union Pacific shops here are arranging
to establish II cooperative store in
Cheyenne in the near future. The men
assert that the merchants of Cheyenne.
and especially the grOcerymen, are
holding them up IN prices of goods.
They charge that when the recent in
crease in hours in the shops went into
effect prices of groceries We're ad-
yanced ten per cen They say they
will buy groceries ut wholesale prices
in Omaha and undersell the merchants.
Another meeting will he held Monday
! night. when definite action in the mat
ter will be taken. 4 number of
grocerymen were interviewed tonight
and they say they have not raised
prices and that only n reasonable
profit is made ON their goods. The rea-
son that higher prices prevail here
than in Denver, they say, is because