, 1901-06-27
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sIdIt SUPERINTENDENT VI
struction lyman has received authority
to select three teachers for service In
the Philippines.
The Secretary of the Interior has APP
proved five permits to Craze = addi-
tional horses and cattle in the Big
Horn forest reserve, Wyoming.
A reward has beer offered for the
arrest and conviction of any person
or persons caught unlawfully running
horses on government land in the sun
dance region.
The Dyer ranch on Pole creek near
Cheyenne was recently sold to the
Warren Live Stock Company for So
O00. The property covers nearly l,4Vo
acres of fine grazing land.
The ranch house of Olsen & Heller,
near Glenrock. burned to the ground
on the night of the 18th instant. The
loss is over $1,000. The ore Is sup
posed to have been of ~incendiary orr
gin.
1t is reported from Casper that
Eugene, the ~niEe-year-old son OF Mr.
and Mrs. ]. II. Olmstead of Berthaton,
shor and killed himself with n 44-cali.
Der revolver a few days since. He a
UP W Nhn'
when il fell and exploded.
On the night of the 18th ]. Ford II
Ed. Olsen, both of Omaha,
and robbed Night Clerk J. l.. Chatham
of the Brunswick hotel at Rawlins II
fed to the hills. a posse pursued ana
captured the men after exchanging
shots. Chatham was badly beaten up.
Cheyenne men owning ranches in
Uinta county are authority for TIE
statement that there is absolutely no
truth in any of the frequent reports
which have been sent out from mat
section to the effect that serious trou-
BILE is imminent between sheep raisers
and cattle owners.
The owners of the band of sheep at
tackled by cattlemen on Henrys FORK
n few days ago, two herders being
wounded. sheep killed and the camp
wagons burned, have offered a reward
of $1,000 for information that will lead
to the arrest and conviction of the
guilty parties.
The board of trustees of the Uniyef.
sity of Wyoming elected all the mem
bers of the faculty who We're candl-
dates and 500 per annum was added
to the salary of each, beginning with
the new college year. 1t was decided
to build a central heating plant for
the entire group of buildings at n cost
of 81, 900 and bid for this work will
be opened July 22nd.
Moritz weimrich, the beet sugar ex-
pert, who has been examining the
Wheatland flats to determine their
a~daptability to beet sugar culture, says
that he thinks the country is good for
that purpose. He says he doubts
whether any beet sugar factory can
be run at a profit year after year in
any country where artificial watering
of crops is not depended upon.
An Evanston dispatch says: Peter
Johnson of the firm of Duckworth &
johnson. Utah sheepmen, was held up
by a party of armed cattlemen near
the scene of the recent shooting and
burning of a sheep camp on Henry's
Fork, one day last week, and warned
not to bring any sheep into that Sec
ton and to at once move his II
away. He complied with the request.
Johnson thinks the men We're the
same who shot the Butterfield boys.
Johnson thinks more trouble will oc-
cur in the Henry's Fork country be-
fore the summer is over.
A Rock Springs dispatch to the Den.
yer News. June Goth, gives the follow
ing: Ira Dodge and Mr.. Vandervoort
arrived here to-day with George Ecker,
the man who killed Deputy Sheriff c.
B. Holden of Uinta county, Wyoming.
and fatally wounded Fred Reardon, a
merchant of Big Piney. Deputy Sher-
if Holden had occasion TO arrest Ecker.
He did not take his gun from him af-
40. 49, .,- -,I-. ~au,-- nr-..l Il. a.
him, thinking IL was not necessary.
Ecker, therefore. thinking he had an
Easy man to deal with, ordered the
deputy TO throw up his hands, which
he did. Reardon being on the scene,
pulled his gun and fired on Ecker, in
ficting only a flesh wound. Ecker
returned the fire, hitting and fatally
wounding Reardon. In the meantime
the deputy reached for his gun, but
was not quick enough, for Ecker shot
and killed him. Ecker then took a
family horse which was tied near by
and started for the hills. The horse
not being used to the hard driving gave
out after going about seven miles. Eek.
er dismounted. thinking the old horse
would return home and he could hide
and get out of harms way. n could
no doubt have done so had not the
morse stayeu right Wltn MN. Dodge
and Nandervoort, hearing of the trag.
edy, started after and secured Ecker.
The former hearing of the lynching
mob being organized ut Piney took a
roundabout way to a Justice of the
peace. where Ecker got a preliminary
hearing. He pleaded guilty and they
Were appointed special police to de-
liver him to the proper authorities.
They were Overtaken by the mob at
the ranch of Thomas Francis, and af.
ter discussing the matter about three
hours the earnest persuasion of the of.
fcers prevailed and they were allowed
TO proceed on their way TO Rock
Springs with their prisoner. They had
travelled over 100 miles in a round.
about way TO land their prisoner in
safety. Ecker was placed in Jail here
TO await the arrival of Sheriff James
Of Uinta county. who arrived this af.
ternoon and took him TO Evanston to
await trial ut the next term of the dis
trict court.