, 1901-02-21
WYOMING NOTES.

new postoffice building mt Laramie.
A shipment of central Wyoming-fed
sheep was recently sent to Honolulu
for consumption.
Sheriff Shaver of Cheyenne has gone
South for his health. He will remain
some time in Arizona, where his physi-
clans him he will be benefited.
Congressman Mondell has introduced
n bill providing for the use of all
moneys received from the sale of public
lands in the construction of reservoirs
and the promtion of irrigation.
A number of bands of sheep afflicted
with scab, have been quarantined not
far from Casper during the past few
weeks. 1t is reported that almost ev-
cry band of sheep in johnson county is
afflicted with scab.
The Wyoming representatives in Con
grcss have requested the Wan Depart
ment to give Wyoming horse raisers an
opportunity to supply the horses re
quired for tho increased cavalry ser
vice under the new army act.
Congressman Mondell has secured
the passage of n bill in the House pro
viding that atidavits and proofs by en-
trymen may he made before any Unit
ed States commissioner, any judge or
clerk of any land court of the district.
According to the report of the secre-
tary of war, showing the strength of
the militia in the several states, Wyom-
ing has twenty-nine officers and 32I
privates and non-cOmmissioned officers;
aggregate strength, 35S; available for
military service, $500.
Since the first of the year companies
have been incorporated to do business
in the state. the aggregate capital of
which is S13, 900. OF this amount
$4,000. 900 is represented in mining
companies, nearly all of which own
properties in the Grand Encampment
and Battle Lake districts.
Professor C. r. johnson of the office
of irrigation Investigations, has been
in Laramie to arrange with the eNper-
iment station of the state university
to carry on work during the coming
summer on the Little Laramie river
in connection with the office. PROBES.
sor Fairfield will have charge.
A local company produced n play at
the Cheyenne opera house for the ben,
eft of the 'Wyoming' silver service
fund. Mrs. Hanson. wife of Surveyor
General Hanson, wrote the play and
herself took n leading part. The en-
tertainment was very successful and
netted several hundred dollars.
The Southern Pacific. on account of
n strike among the miners at Pleasant
Valley. Utah, has been compelled to
call upon the Oregon Short Line for
fuel, and a contract for the delivery of
o tons daily has been entered into.
Regular shipments of coal Will be made
from the mines ut Kemmerer and at
D~iamondville, the fuel being delivered
to the Southern Pacific at Ogden. 1t
is also possible another mine will he
opened up in the near future.
Colonel Il. S. Ncttlcton of the land of
flee irrigation Investigations has been
requested to address the sugar beet
growers of Grand Junction. Colorado,
on the 2Sth on seepage. During the
coming summer Professor Nettleton
will make seepage Investigations at
Grand Junction, n request having been
made for his work by n number of
growers and manufacturers. a Chey-
cnnc company is Interested at Grand
Junction, having purchased the large
sugar factory there recently.
The first death that has occurred in
the state penltentiary since its estab-
lishment in 1872, happened on the 18th
inst, when Julius Greenwald died of
heart disease. He "a employed in
the cigar factory. and was employed all
day. He was lying on his bed talking
to his cellmate when ne died suddenly.
without Il word. Greenwald was n life
prisoner, having been sentenced from
Evanston September -, 1897, for the
murder of his wife, whom he had
found in IL house of prostitution and
shot down in n heat of passion. He
was Mt that time n member in good
standing of the Masonic and /. o. q. +.
orders. He has a sister living in Lar
annie and another in Evanston. They
have been trying to obtain n pardon
for him, and visited him only n day OF
two before in connection with the pc.
titiou they Were preparing.