, 1901-11-07
WYOMING NOTES.

10 one year III tHe ptnllehtiuiS
The Union Pacific band has beer or
ganized at Cheyenne. The company
will furnish uniforms n 1nstru-
ments. The organization Will be coh-
posed of twenty = four men all EN-
ployes of the road.
\ Laramie dispatch of October 18th
says that +. A. Blake, who came to
Laramie with his family in 1879 and
has resided here continuously ever
since. is lying at the point OF death'
He is eighty-four years bid.
The rewards aggregating $500 are
still standing for information that VIII
lead to the location of John $. Vaughn,
n ranchman of the Sundance section,
who was last seen near Alzada, Mon
tana, last July. All efforts TO locate
the missing nan have failed.
Sheriff Hubbard of Sheridan has re-
ceived the $1,000 reward offered for
the arrest of Otto C~henoworth, the no
torious horse thief who is wanted in
South Dakota. where he is alleged TO
have stolen 10000 worth of horses
from the Little Missouri Horse Com
pany.
The secretary of the interior on DC
tober 10Th approved three patents of
land to the Union Pacific Railway Co.
in Wyoming. n tract of $3.50 ana
another of 132.9I9 acres in the Chey-
enne land district, the third, 90.
acres, being in the Cheyenne and Ev-
anstOn districts.
Sundance is now connected with the
outside world by telephone. The line
from Aladdin TO Sundance was com-
pleted n few days ago, the promoters
and builders being the Harrison Tele-
phone Company. From Aladdin a line
runs to all of the larger towns of the
Black Hills region.
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\ disastrous fire occurred on the even
ing OF October 18th at New Castle
when almost an entire block of build
ingS was destroyed. The burned build
ings included the postotiice, n frame
structure, which was completely
ruined, together with its contents.
Among the companies operating in
the fossil fields is the lnter-Mountain
oil Company. which has a capitaliza-
ton of 100000, and is backed by
such men as Senator Kearns of Utah.
Senator Clark of Wyoming, Perry $.
Heath and others. This company now
has machinery en- route for several
wells.
A.. \. Winters. who is alleged TO
have committed forgcrics in several
places in Colorado and Wyoming, was
given n Jail sentence of ninety days
at Cheyenne for obtaining money
under false prctcnses at Pine Bluff.
The checks We're drawn for amounts
less than SD. and Winters could not
be prosecuted on the charge of for.
gerry.
The Union Pacific has honorcd Pro
fessor Wilbur C.. Knight Of the State
university by changing the name of
Hillard station on the Bear River-Le
Roy cutoff 10 Knight. The change
will take place tomorrow. Professor
Knight is a noted palconotologist, who
has done much to attract the atten-
ton of the outside world to Ii min
eral of the state.
\ Cheyenne dispatch says the condi-
ton of the Wyoming ranges is so good
this fall that the majority of the sheep
men who have heretofore shipped their
feeders 10 Colorado will not DO so. but
will feed the animals mt nome, sending
them to the market in the spring. For
the first time lambs are being fed
through the winter at Wheatland. IT,.
NJ. Gibson viii feed 800 head and
other farmers about 800 head.
At Cheyenne on October 18th George
Nichols was seriously injured in an
unusual manner. lie was riding a
wheel on Eddy street and collided
with n guy rope of a derrick at the
public building. Nichols was thrown
to the ground with great force. his
chest being cayed in and one rib torn
loose from the breast bone. He will
doubtless ecover. and ii is stated that
he will sue the contractors for dam
yes
\ Cheyenne correspondent states
that if plans already formulated are
carried out Southern Wyoming will
have "A colony of Boer farmers in the
near future. A number of The Hague
bankers and other wealthy men of
Holland are negotiating for n tract of
100000 acres of land in the valleys of
Green river and Blacks Fork. in the
vicinity of Bryan. on the main line of
the Union Pacific in Sweetwater coun-
~. Surveys have been made for an
Immense canal from Green river 10
water the entire tract. 1t is proposed
to COLOMBO the tract with Beers and
farmers from Holland. and the details
IF the plan are now being carried out.
+. l.. Grub. who is connected with
he Union Pacific. is said To be negoti-
itiuE with several Hollanders who are
hnanciering the project. and will short
~ visit Wyoming in company with
hem. The plans call for Il division
Of the tract into e~ighty-acre farms, TO
De devoted to the raising of sugar
oeets and such grain and vegetables
As Will provide food for the colonists
and their stock. 1t is proposed to build
4 large beet sugar factory in the colony
and of course the raising of sugar beets
viii be encouraged. 1t is said that
tests have been made showing the
soil in the valley of the Green river to
be well adapted To beet culture and the
climate is also favorable. The pro-
motors have been investigating the
proposition for Over Il year and it is
said are now ready to proceed with
colonization from Europe. A large
amount of work will have to be done
before actual farming can be COM
menced and the colOnistS will be given
an opportunity to do this.
The long lost Scariwoda sisters
whose parents died in Denver i'm 1876.