, 1901-12-05
WYOMING NOTES.


9th by a fair, the proceeds of which
will be used in buying books.
Though married but twenty months,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred j. Lebrecht of Lar
.snie are the proud parents of four big
healthy babes. Before they had been
married n year Mrs. LebreCht present
ed her husband with twin boys. and a
few days ago she gave birth 20 twin
girls.
A Cheyenne correspondent says the
attempt to raise n Mckinley memorial
fund in Wyoming is meeting with very
poor success. the people failing TO take
hold of the idea in the right spirit. In
Cheyenne. after books had been open
for three weeks, but S11 had been do
mated.
Adjutant General +. A. sitter has
been notified by the government chief
of ordnance that the Wyoming Nation
al Guard will he armed with the Krng-
Jorgensen arms as soon AS the proper
requisition is forwarded to Washing
ton. The militia is at present armed
with Sprinfields.
The net receipts of the Elks' fair
recently held ut Cheyenne will run
over $1,000. The kangaroo court
alone collected $in5.2G. the receipts of
the last night being S142.O5. The
booths cleared $ loo. and the fancy
work stores $500, a total of over S.
800. with the tickets sold not taken
into consideration.
At Cheyenne on the 10Th instant,
Adiutant General +. A.. Sitter mus
tired into service Company Il. Wyoming
National Guard. The company is com
posed of forty-two men of Cheyenne,
many Of them being Philippine veter-
ans There are now eight companies
OF the National guard iii the state n
Il regimental organization will be
formed in the near future.
The new cadets at the Wyoming
State University have all been 'set up
and now engaged in battalion drill.
The veterans are spending their tame
in artillery practice. Emory Land. Il
graduate of the w. s. T.. class of '9S.
who is the Wyoming cadet at hnnap-
oils. played the star game for An
napOlis in the Columbia Annapolis
football game.
1t is stated tina Kaycee will he made
the distributing point for frontier bus
mess west of Casper. The G. III. King
Commercial Company of Casper will
put in n big store there. n telephone
line will he built from Buffalo to Kay
Gee and thence to Casper. and daily
stages will he put on. This will boom
the little own of Kaycee and Will sav
rnnchmcn and others much travel and
freighting expense.
The Mormuns of Wyoming are send
ing missionaries into the eastern md
southern states. especially the latter.
The workers are all men and leave
their homes with just sufficient money
to carry them to their destination. eX-
nn1tinU Dffnr fhny Drpiyn IN anrD tllair
living by hard labor while they spread
the doctrines of their church. Most of
the missionaries are sen ont from the
northern part of Uinta county. where
four-tifths of the population is Nor
mon.
The line of the Rocky Mountain Bell
Telephone Company, connecting Chey-
enne with Douglas. was completed No
vember 9th, and thrown open to the
public for two days free of charge. An
exchange has beer put in al Douglas
and is now connected. The line. from
Douglas TO Casper, and from there to
Thermon0lis and Lander, will not be
commenced until next spring. This is
the first telephone line TO connect
Cheyenne with the central part of the
state.
Cody advices say that horse thieves
nave been operating in that vicinity for
several weeks. and a number of valu-
able horses have disappeared. Some
two weeks ago two men are alleged to
have stolen two horses in town. They
were trailed to Basin City and arrested
there n few days later. They gave
tieir names as Newport II Green.
Charles Smith and Ed Brown were ar
rested a few days ago. charged with
stealing Il pair OF horses from FRANK
perry
Word has reached CHEYENNE of the
finding of a remarkable cave at Wild
Cat. "A mining camp fifteen miles from
Hartville. A thirty-foot prospect hole
broke into the cave, the walls of which
are h~lgh-grade u u ore. A weighted
o let down for 200 feet failed TO
find the bottom of the cavity. A man
was also let down and found the COP,
per on the walls smooth and g~listening.
leople from the surrounding country
are said TO he 'akihS up clalils near the