, 1901-04-25
WYOMING NOTES.

Inc Stanle survey lHS pdiiy 60
Cheyenne Sunday, April 10th, for
Opai. Uinta county. The boundary
lines of the Yellowstone park Will be
surveyed.
The secretary of the interior has is
sued patents to the state of Wyoming
for 1000 acres of land in the Lander
district, which had been selected unuer
the school land grant.
Fred Anderson of La Barge shot and
seriously wounded Alex McAlpln u
few days ago neal Midway, Wyoming.
McAlpin received three bullets in MS
body, but will recover.
The Gushing grading outfit, which
has been stored at Sherman, VIII pe
moved to lockwood. Nebraska, where
Contractor Gushing has secured n con-
tract to grade five miles of road.
Captain Overton, commanding at
Fort Washable on the Shoshone reser-
walton, has been promoted and ordered
to report at Fort Riley, Kansas, where
he will be assigned to service in the
Fourteenth cavalry.
There are now 172 prisoners in the
state penitentiary at Laramie. showing
a large increase in the last rev
months. In past years the umhe OF
convicts in the Wyoming state prison
has varied from $50 to 100.
Tom Thurnall, charged with stealing
horses I'm Laramie county, was bounu
over to the District Court in the sum OF
$1,000. There are two complaints
against Thurnall. His attorney Of
fcred no evidence in defense.
General L. V. Sumner is in Washing
ton, ID. c., endcavoring to organize an
encampment of Rough Riders, TO be
held in Wyoming this summer. His
idea is TO make the organization per-
and have annual meetings.
There has been received at the gov
errors office a draft for SI,3S5.O3, due
from the Interior Department as nVe
per cent. of all moneys derived from
the sale of public lands in h state.
The money goes into the school fuhd.
Secretary Hitchcock has ordered
patented to the state of Wyoming a
list Of 1.2SO acres of land in the Buff
falo district under the grant for the
state charitable and penal institutions
and n list of o acres in the Sundance
district under the grant for publlc
building at the capital.
The laboring men of Cheyenne have
organized a federation which will be
conducted in connection with the M
tiOnal Federation of Labor. Among
the organizations that Joined the local
federation were the machinists. black
smiths. boilermakers, carpenters,
painters, decorators, ear repaircrs, etc.
The managers of the Wyoming De-
velopment Company have arranged to
supply sugar beet seed TO the farmers
of Wheatland, and request that small
patches he planted to test the produc-
tivcness of the ground and quality of
the bee as to percentage of sugar. 1t
is expected a sugar beet factory will be
established at Wheatland mex season.
During the week eTiing April 18th
the state paid out SOB for volt boun-
ties, exceeding the amount paid dur
ing any previous week under the new
law. The two higest individual pay
ments We're to II. L. Poole, Sheridan
county. $1O5. for killing ~thirty-five
gray wolves, and TO j. p. Barton. same
county, 500. for thirty-three killed.
Malcolm Moncreiffe. owner of the
famous Beckton, Wyoming, sheep
farm. where are raised some of the
highest grades of blooded sheep in
America. will be married at London
this month TO Miss Amy Walker, Il
Chicago belle. Mr.. Moncreiffe is a
brother of the Earl of Kinmoull, the
Duchess of Athol and the Countess of
Dudley.
Scribner Il Orville of the Walcott-
Saratoga stage line, are said to be
talking of putting in automobiles to
take the place of fOur-horse stages be-
tween the railroad and Saratoga and
the mining camps of Battle Lake and
Grand E~ncampment. 1t is said the
autos will haul heavier loads and make
the trip in much less time than the
horses.
Judge j. NJ. Carey returned to Chey-
enne Il few days since. from Il visit to
the big reservoir of the Wheatland col
ony. OF the Laramie plains. He say
that upwards of ID teams are at work
and il is believed that sufficient prog
resS will have been made by May 10Th
TO permit of i~mpounding water. While
the big reservoir, the largest in the
world that is used for storing water for
irrigation, will not be completed for
ninety days, sufficient work will have
been lone to catch the spring floods.
st. Matthew's new cathedral of the
Episcopal diocese OF Wyoming and
Idaho, of which Laramie Is the see
city, viii consecrate August 18th,
when there will he a function, includ-
ing Il c~onvocation of the clergy and
delegates of the Jurisdiction. Bishop
Graves of Laramie, Bishops Leonard
and Williams of Omaha, and Bishop
Spalding of Colorado will be among
the prominent churchmen who will be
present. Two years ago there was Il
debt of 10000 hanging over the ca
thedral. Through the eff of Bish-
ops Graves and Talbot and Dean Cope
this has been reduced to 5000, largely
by the donations of eastern church
people. The remaining debt Will be
paid before the date of the consecra-
ton.
The Denver Republicans Cheyenne
correspondent say that now that the
storm has passed and the snow is dis
appearing rapidly, reports of stock and
range conditions are being received
from Ii surrounding country. While
the storm was quite severe and one of
the worst of the Niutnr tho stock