, 1901-11-14
NOTES.

Inc or II warren Live
Stock Company says that the recent
fire Mt the Wheeler ranch. thirty miles
south of Cheyenne, was undoubtedly
Of incendiary origin.
The physicians of Cheyenne. headed
by Or. H.. NJ. Bennett, county physi-
clan. will petition the Board of County
Commissioners to have the paupers
moved from the county hospital.
DR.. l.. T.. Shaw of Cheyenne was
found dead near the Union Pacific
tracks at Bryan station, twenty miles
west of Green river. His neck was
broken and it believed that he fell
from a westbounnd train.
At Cheyenne, on the 9TH instant.
Judge Scott sentenced John Warren to
the ~penitentiary for one year for fOrg-
ary. Warren obtained n deposit of
$50 Mt Dillman's restaurant by forging
the owners name to an order.
Work on the telephone line to the
Powder River country is progressing
apidly, and will probably be com
}letcd in n few weeks. The line will
place the rich stock section 10 the south
II direct communication with Buffalo.
y disastrous fire occurred on the even
ng of October 2Sth at New Castle
when almost an entire block of build
ngs was destroyed. The burned build
ngs included the p~ostofIice. n frame
structure, which was completely
'uined, together with its contents.
Sam Wing. formerly n la%undryman.
has purchased and stocked n ranch in
die Upper Wind River country and
will engage in cattle raising. He is a
'ull blood Chinaman and has saved
considerable money earned by washing
'lothes. He has an American part
Ter.
G. l.. McDonough of Los Angeles,
California, has made an examination
IF the Wheatland colony with n view
% bringing II large colony Of Dunkards
here to settle. He was sent by the
passenger department of the Union Pa
eitlc. His report will be very favora-
BILE.
President L. +. Smiley and Profess
sOr Aven Nelson OF the Wyoming state
University left Laramie on the 9Th in
slant for Washington. II. C.. to attend
the national meeting of the heads of
agricultural colleges Of the United
States. They will be absent about
two weeks.
Il. w. Mann, city attorney of Chcy-
enne, has delivered an opinion that the
State Board of Health is compelled by
the laws OF Wyoming to look after
cases of contagious disease. and here
after the city of Cheyenne will turn
over all cases of smallpox to the state
health officials.
The Mitchell coal mines in the Red
hills, east of Buffalo, have been on fire
since last August. The owners have
been compelled to abandon the proper
ty and will open another shaft at once.
The fire in the old workings will be
left to itself, and in time, it is thought,
Will burn itself out.
James Shelley ATTEMPTED suicide at
Garland n few days since by taking
morphine. Shelley had been employed
by the Burlington on its Taluca-Cody
line and was Il member Of the contract
ing firm of Shelley X O'Shca. 1t is
said that n fair stenoEraphcr was the
II of Sheeley's rash act.
Laramie advices state that prepare
tons for the approaching sessions of
the Wyoming Industrial convention are
actively going forward and the visitors
who assemble in Laramie December
18th and 18th will find Il surprise
awaiting them in the display of miner
al and agricultural products of the
state.
The first delegates to the state in
dustrial convention at Laramie. De
cember 18th and 18th. have been APP
pointed by Mayor j. l.. Murray of
Cheyenne. They are: +. W. Mann, y.
X. Davis, IL. Waldo Moore, Herman
Wellnitz. Colin Hunter. Walter L..
Larsh, Daniel ellis, j. +. Rossman,
Henry Altman and Daniel McUlvan.
An attorney Of Miles City, Montana,
has written Sheriff Storm of Sundance,
Ekalada, Montana, several weeks ago.
is probably that of John Vaughn of
Beulah, who disappeared from his
ranch last summer. Waugh, so far as
the authorities can learn, was last
seen alive at AlaZada, Montana.
The Union Pacific has hOnored Pro-
fessor Wilbur c. Knight of the State
university by changing the name Of
Hillard station on the Bear River-Le
Roy cutoff TO Knight. The change
will take place tomorrow. Professor
Knight is n noted paleonOtologist. who
has lone much to attract the atten-
ton of the outside world to the min
aral of the state.
The Beaver Creek coal mine near
Sheridan has been on fire several days
the work of incendiaries. Coal cars
were saturated with oil and started
Town the incline of the tunnel. Tracks
At tine mouth of the mine show that
.wo men We're implicated. There is no
,lue to the incendiarles. The Beaver
Creek mine is n small property, but
has one of the best coal veins in the
district.
A Cheyenne dispatch say the condl-
ton of the Wyoming ranges is so good
this fall that the majority of the sheep
men who have heretofore shipped their
feeders TO Colorado will not do so. but
will feed the animals at home. sending
them to the market in the spring. For
the first time lambs are being fed
through the winter Mt Wheatland. f.
NJ. Gibson viii feed 1900 head and
other farmers about 900 head.
The last spike ON the Taluca-C Cody
line of the burlington railroad was
driven saturday. November 2nd. and
the line formally opened to Cody.