, 1901-07-11
WYOMING NOTES.

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Moncreife Bros. of Sheridan. recent
ly shipped thirty horses 10 South Afri-
+ "a. The animals We're purchased by
the British government for service in
South Africa.
superintendent S. IL. Campbell of
the state fish hatchery recently
shipped 10000 trout fry to Fort
Steele, where they will he turned loose
in the waters of the North Platte.
Articles of incorporation were filed
July Bird by the Fossil Consolidated
Oil Company. with a capital stock of
~Sl.oOO.O0O. This is the concern for the
purpose of sinking a test well in the
kemmerer district.
j. C. Teller, the Union Pacific tie
contractor, has filed a bono in the sum
OF $1,000 with the state engineer as
security for any damages that may re-
suit by reason of injury to any dam
or headgate along the streams.
Secretary Hitchcock recently 1p-
proved for patent to the state of Wy
oming a list of lands selected under
the grant TO aid the state charitable,
educational n penal Institutions, EN-.
bracing 100000 acres in the Sundace
district.
1t Is expected that drillings will be
commenced in the oil fields near Green
River inside of thirty days. The SAL
Rafael Oil Company has shipped drill
ing machinery from Akron, Ohio. Ten
expert drillers are coming to conduct
the work.
The large real estate and live stock
holdings of the Guthrie Live Stock
Company in central Wyoming have
been sold to E. NJ. Gibson of Cheyenne
fat. a. .A,.at1-, tg,,, - GI-nn nn T1,-
property embraces 1000 acres of land,
most of which Is under irrigation ana
improved.
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 Chaffcy seeing
combs moving through heavy brush
mistook him for n deer and fired, kill
ing him Instantly.
Word received from Great Falls,
Montana, states that Harry w. Leav-
erton, formerly of Sheridan. has been
sentenced to three years in the Mon
tana ~penitentiary for burglary. Leav-
erton's father is wealthy and resides
in California. but did not assist young
beaverton in his trouble.
II is reported that Sam Garvin. a
%stockman of Big Horn, who operated
with Robert l.. Lee in the theft of a
number of horses from the Crow
Creek reservation in Montana. has
been arrested ut Billings. They sold
the stolen animals to settlers after
having kept them until search for
them was abandoned.
Stste Superintendent of Public In
siruction lyman has appointed the fol-
lowing teachers for service in the Phil
ippines: Robert $. Gray. Wheatland;
H.. l.. Noble. Goldsmith: Mrs. Effie X.
Dodds, Cheyenne. The teachers have
been instructed TO he in San Francisco
by July 2:ird, at which time the trans
port for Manila sails.
Word has reached Casper of the dis
covery that the immense natural ce-
ment beds ON Bald mountain, Big
Horn county, carry 81 per ton in gold.
The deposits extend for miles and the
cement can be quarried out in enor-
nous quantities. The settlers in the
district are taking up claims wherever
open ground can be found.
Apostle \. o. Woodruff of the Nor
mon Church, says that the colonial
tion of the northern part of Wyoming
by Mormons from other states Is to
he continued steadily. The advantages
of the country. especially the Big
Horn basin. are unsurpassed by any
other western section. About 5000
Mormons have already come In.
The Stockmen md Ranchers' Pro-
tective Association has been organized
on the north and south forks of the
S~hoshone river and their tributaries,
for the protection of their range. AT n
recent meeting the association passed
resolutions II caused notices to be
posted warming tiockmasters to keep
off a certain range which the stock
men claim as their own.
In the District Court at Rawllns,
Judge Craig sentenced Orlo McSwain,
convicted of numbering James Taylor
or Baggs, to twenty years in the peni-
Tertiary. George Moore, who killed
James Edmunds at Mamma last winter,
was sentenced to twenty years. having
been convicted of murder in the sec
ond degree. James Ford and Ed. OIL
son were acquitted of the charge of as
sauit with intent to commit murder.
They assaulted Night Clerk Cheatham
of Ii Brunswick hotel. The evidence
showed that Cheatham started the
trouble and was the aggressor.
At the request of the Italian charge
d'affaires the. State Department at
Washington has used its good offices
to protect from violence DIR. Giocomo.
an Italian resident at Rock Springs.
The doctor is accused by the authorl.
ties of an offense against n woman
He was arrested and brought before
n local judge who showed n PURPOSE
to release him on bail. This brought
ont much local clamor and there were
fears that he would be lynched. This
led 10 the application by the aurhori
ties in Washington. In reply to the
inquiry of the State Department the
governor stated the situation was no
serious and that the state authorities
would take due provisions 10 avoid vi
ulencc.
\ Sundance correspondent writes
that many oil locations are being made
In the new field ten miles north of
Moorcroft. over 6O,0O0 acres having al
ready been taken up and four boring
outfits sent for. The fields are de
scribcd as about eight miles long and
six miles wide and the best Indications
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