, 1901-02-14
WYOMING NOTES.

The Senate has passed the bill in
creasing the Galary of the governor to
$1,000 n year, and ii Is now In the
House.
John Dwyer of Evanston has through
the efforts of Senator Clark received
n position in the government printing
office in Washington.
The Union Pacific has adopted a plan
of fumigating the depot stations along
the line during periods of epidemic dis
ease. 1t uses bichloride Of lime and
other ~disinfectants.
Fred j. Isham of Sherman is said to
have fallen heir TO a valuable tract of
oil lands in Pennsylvania. Mr.. lsham
is IA ranchman of Sherman. The oil
lands are valued at nearly a million
dollars.
Enlistments have been lively of late
at the recruiting station in Cheyenne.
Many of the recruits are from among
the men who worked on the railroad
construction gangs during the summer
and fall.
Professor Elwood Mead, expert in
charge of the irrigation Investigations
of the Department of Agriculture, has
been engaged TO deliver a series of lee
lures at Harvard College during March
and April.
John O'Brien, sentenced to eleven
years in the penitentiary from Crook
county for perjury, has been pardoned
by Governor Richards on promise that
O'Brien will remove TO Colorado, where
he lived prior to coming to Wyoming.
Mr.. McGilrs bill against gambling,
introduced in the state Senate and re
ferred to the committee of the whole
by one majority, defines the several
games of chance that are to be pro-
hibited. Games of whist and high five
for prizes. nickel-in-the-slot machines
and n number of other games are not
mentioned.
The Senate has passed the bounty
bill and the bill providing for the
teaching in the public schools of the
state of a system of humane treatment
of animals. Tho permanent location
of state buildings bill was also passed
and has gone to the governor.
A petition is being circulated to Sc
cure subscriptions for the building of
n telephone line from Casper to Ian
der. The proposed Inc will pass
through Wolton, Lost Cabin and other
inland towns and will be of benefit to
n large section of central Wyoming.
State Superintendent T. T. lyman re-
Gently went to Rawlins to negotiate the
sale of n tract of state land on which
is located the Union Pacific station
grounds. From Rawlins lyman pro-
posed to go to Kemmercr and Evans
ton and dispose of state lands Mt those
places.
What is known ms the optional gam
bling bill, passed by the lower House,
met a summary fate in the Senate,
where the committee of the whole rec
commended that the bill be indefinitely
postponed. The bill provided that the
matter of issuing gambling licenses
should he decided by a vote of the peo-
pie in the town interested.
The arbitration bill was defeated in
the state Legislature. This bill pro-
vided. thai all labor troubles occurring
within the state should be settled by a
board of arbitration, appointed by the
governor and consisting of representa-
tives of labor organizations and EN-
ployers. A number of like measures
have met similar fates.
Henry Gordon Balch died at Laramie
February Sd from pleurisy and hear
failure. Mr.. Balch was a member of
the present state Senate, president of
the First National Bank of Laramie
and the First National Bank of Rock
Springs, and had many other import.
ant business investments in Laramie.
He leaves Il wife and four children.
A grey wolf that had been causing
damage among the cattle of DR.. II. l..
Stevens on his rance near Laramie,
was discovered by John Allen. manager
of the ranch. n morning at daybreak.
1t was skulking around IA haystacI
about 200 yards from the house. Allen
got his rifle and shot the beast from
the doorstep of the ranch house. The
wolf measured over six feet from tip
to tip and four feet from paw to paw,
In the Senate. after a lively discus.
sion over the liquor license bill, it was
finally amended by cutting down the
retail license from $500 to $500, and
the wholesale license from $500 to $l7j.
The bill as recommended for passage
provides for a uniform license in all
parts of the state. Heretofore cities
and towns on the line of Il railroad
have been compelled TO pay double the
license of merchants in the inland
towns.
Fence wires are used for telephone
uTpOS III llt Laramie DlulllS.. III
one locality eight ranches are connect
ed by telephone, the wire used being
the top strand of II barb wire fence.
Regular telephone instruments and
connections are in use mt the ranches,
and the system seems TO be in perfect
working order. 1t is of great benefit
10 the neighboring ranchmen. The set
Element is also connected by wire with
Laramie.
Two labor bills have been f~avorably
reported in the House, both of them
having been introduced by Mr.. Bugas
of Sweetwater county. one provides
that cOal miners shall dock the miners
according to the number of pounds of
rock found in each car of coal and not
dock the men for a whole a when
n little rock is mixed with the coal, as
at present. The other bill Is to enforce
the semi-monthly payment of wages to
miners as provided by "A law enacted in
1891. At present the coal companies
are paying monthly.
Senators Warren and Clark and Rep
resentatives Mondell have recommend.
oil for nnnfntntAf nc .tl4aan. L. a.