, 1901-07-04
NOTES.

pany OF the wyoming Napoi"
at Rawlins.
The two large coal chutes of the
Union Pacific at Medicine Bow were
recently burned. destroying two steel
cars and hundreds of tons of coal.
On June 26th the secretary of the in
terror approved two patents of and
in the CHEYENNE and Evanston land
districts. to the Union Pacific Railroad
Company. The two patents aggregate
ed 15S,110 acres.
The Green River Tie and Lumber
Company has a drive of 35O.OOo ties
and mine props in the river, qSer twice
the number sent down last year. Inc
drive will arrive in Green Riven about
the middle of July.
George Ecker, who killed Deputy
Charles Holden on Big Piney, is now
safe in jail at Evanston. He is surfer
ing with a bad wound in the right leg,
where a bullet from Holden's gun tore
away a piece of bone.
The Union Pacific has installed a tie
roasting plant at Laramie inc Will EN-
ploy thirty men. All ties for use on
the wyoming division will he treated.
1t Is said that after the ties nave peeh
treated they will last for twenty years.
Under the new law governing lands
sold for taxes, Laramie county has
come into possession of a large amount
| of real estate in and adjoining Chey-
enne. The real estate involved was at
one time valued at over S25O,OOO, Out Is
now considered worthless.
I C. NJ. Beason of Ogden has delivered
at the Shoshone reservation 43o head
of stock cattle for the use of the In
dams. They have been placed In
charge of white men in order to pre-
vent the Indians engaging in n grand
slaughter and killing them all at n
time.
A good deal of counterfeit and mu-
tilated coin is again being taken by
i Cheyenne merchants. Some time z
the town was flooded with bogus ana
mutilated coins, and IL is supposed that
the same parties who We're Responsible
for the influx at that time are again
at work.
The coroner of Crook county was re
! Gently called to Sand Creek to investi-
gate the killing of John Coombs.
Coombs and a friend named Chaffey
were out hunting and Chaffey seeing
Coombs moving through heavy brush
mistook him for a deer and fired, kill
ing him instantly.
The Clear Creek and Lake De Smet
Wolf Association has offered a bounty
of SO for each gray wolf killed within
n section embracing the properties of
the members of the association. This
in addition to the state bounty of So
per head, and the hid makes the value
of each wolf killed about S15.
The coroner Mt Rock Springs recent
ly held an Inquest over the human
skeleton found several days ago on the
Big Sandy. Nothing by which identi-
fication could be Established was
found. but 1t is supposed that Ii re-
mains are those of a man by the name
of GiIlies who disappeared eight years
ago.
The news from Washington to the
effect that Professor Elwood Mead
had been transferred TO that city is re
received in Cheyenne with regret. as it
will be in Wyoming generally. A let
ter states that Professor Mead's arm
is healing rapidly. but that he will not
( be able TO leave the hospital for fully
a month.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
Company's line from Battle Lake to
Dixon and Baggs is assured. Contracts
for poles and other equipment have
been let and the line will be built at
once This will connect Rawlins,
Cheyenne, Sail Lake and Denver with
the rich Snake River country of south
ern Wyoming and northern Colorado.
1t is reported that it is the intention
of he Burlington 10 extend its Taluca-
Cody line TO a point midway between
Cody and Meeteese, where extensive
beds of coal will he opened mp. Work
is progressing rapidly on the road from
Taluca south, rails having been laid
n distance of forty miles. The line is
expected to reach Cody some time in
September.
The contractors constructing the gov
eminent road from Cody, Big Horn
county. to Yellowstone Park, are push
ing the work rapidly. The oad will be
macadamiZed for thirty miles of its
length after entering the park, and af-
ter the completion of the Burlington to
Cody will shorten the journey of tour
lists from the East nearly 100 hours.
1t is reported that owing to the large
number of fishing parties which have
visited southeastern Wyoming streams
this season there is danger of exter-
mination of trout The streams are
nearly all artiicially stocked. From
many of them trout have been taken
steadily at the ate of 1000 n day, and
I but few over the legal length, six
inches, remain.
The twelve leading oil companies
that recently entered into an agree
ment to Jointly sink n well in the oil
fields of Fossil have completed the Or
ganization Of a consolidated company.
Five thousand dollars has been sub
scribed and boring machinery ordered.
The Fossil fields are n considerable dis
lance north Of the scene of the Union
Pacific's oil discovery near Evanston.
A report has been current at Chey-
enne that the Union Pacific is after the
Cheyenne & Northern branch of the
Colorado & Southern. 1t is claimed
that the Burlington is now handling al
o all of the cattle being brought up
from the South and distributed among
the ranges Of Wyoming, western Ne
braska, South Dakota and Montana,
and 1t is to secure n share of this bus
mess thai the Union Pacific seeks to