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rapidly as possible, n little over n mile
of poles and wire being put up each
day.
Al Rawlins the coroner's jury in the
case of Cecil Smith, who shot and kill
ed Crystal Appleton, returned a YER
diet that the killing was %felonious and
the Smith woman will be held to the
District Court on the charge of muir
der. The Smith woman is colored.
Chairman KuykendalI, of the COM
mittee in charge Of the rough riding
exhibitions of the Festival of Noun
tain and Plain at Denver in October,
has engaged about IA dozen Of the best
broncho riders who appeared at Chey-
enne on Frontier Day, and several or
the worst horses have also been Sc
cured for the coming Denver show.
Ex-Postmaster John Andrews of Red
Lodge, Montana, was mistaken for a
bear at the Lewis ranch north of Me
teetse on the LIST inst. and instantly
killed by John Romersea. The party
had been hunting bear, n at twilight
Romersea noticed a dark object in a
field near the ranch. Romersea fired
and Andrews fell dead.
The authorities at Sundance are
completely batfied in their search for
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Pine creek rnnchman. Vaughn disap-
peared several weeks ago and it is be
lieved he was murdered. Some Of his
cattle and horses were sold and George
Brownfield has been arrested on sus-
picion of having put the ranchman
out of the way.
The attempt to elicit n confession
from James Hayes. the negro who Is
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ed to assault Miss Farrell upon the
road between Cheyenne and Fort Rus
sell, has proved fruitless. Though
Hayes has been positively Identified by
the victim IF the assault and "A num-
Der of people, he stoutly denies that
he was ever neal the place.
Among the Frontier Day sighseers
at Cheyenne last month were Il num-
Der of special correspondents for east
ern magazines who secured photo
graphs and data and who will write
exhaustive for their papers.
In this way the Wild West show will
be advertised throughout the East and
another year large crowds of EASTERN
ers will undoubtedly attend.
A Cheyenne correspondent says
anent the trouble between sheep and
cattle owners which has been breaking
out in different sections of Wyoming
for some time past, Il letter has been
received in Cheyenne from an eastern
newspaper syndicate asking for IA pic
ture of a dead line. photograph pre-
ferred. with II complete description
and data covering the erection of the
same
Word has reached Cody of n fatal
accident on Grass creek. about forty
miles north of the ShoshOne reserva-
ton. Farquahr Gillies. n prominent
sheepman of hat section, vas leading
II pack horse. He thoughtlessly tied
the halter rope round his wrist, and
the animal, becoming frightened,
dragged him for about 800 yards over
rocky ground. He died before a doc
tor could be summoned.
A Cheyenne dispatch says that Kcl.
I. Nickel has paid To James Miller $50
as damages caused by running n band
Of sheep on Miller's meadow recently.
Miller brought suit for 500 damages,
but it being shown that The damage
did not exceed $50, he accepted that
amount. The sheep that caused all of
the trouble in the Iron Mountain coun-
try recently have been moved north
llllo llt 1lillt river country.
The divorce law passed by the last
session of the Legislature went into
effect September LIST, and q residence
of one year in the state is now requir-
ed before Il petition for divorce can be
granted by the court. Under the old
law, which was in effect for two
years, a residence of but six months
was required. Since the passage of
the six months law. in 1899, there has
been Il divorce colony in Cheyenne
continually, people coming from every
part of the United States to secure IL
hasty separation from worse halves.
There are still in the city II number of
prospective Divorces, who arrived in
time to file their petition before the
new law went into fleet.
The report comes from Cheyenne
that n petition for divorce has been
filed in Ii district court by Professor
ElwOOd Mead, the grounds for the ac-
ton being given as incOmpatibility.
The petition was filed prior to Profess
sor Mead's departure for Washington
but kept secret until n few days ago,
when the matter leaked out. Mrs.
Mead has departed for her home in
Iowa, where she will remain until the
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children are with friends in Cheyenne.
Professor Mead and Mrs. Mead were
married about eighteen months ago.
she being his second wife. The chill
dren were by his first wife, who died
several years ago. The action for di-
vorce is Il surprise to Professor Mead's
friends, who supposed that he and his
wife Were happy. 1t is said. however,
that the proceedings would have been
filed some time Z had not Professor
Mead's accident, in which he lost an
arm, prevented.
Curley Roberts. alias Matteson. was
arrested at Mcteetse a few days u
II brought to Cody to stand trial for
the murder Of Samuel Carlson, the
Paint Rock ranchman who was foully
murdered during the latter part OF
June. Carlson lived alone in II lStle
cabin on Paint Rock, and 1t was sup
posed that he had hidden n large sum
of money i'm his house. Hunters found
the dead body of Garrison at the cabin
and unmistakable evidence of murder.
a careful search was made for the
murderer but the officers were com
ulptplV butlip1 there hpiup nut a sinai.