, 1901-03-21
WYOMING NOTES.

f. Cody buffalo Bib Judge advocate
general on his military staff with the
rank of colonel.
Max Idleman, n wealthy resident OF
| Cheyenne, was robbed OF his pocket
book containing $500 in the city OF
Paris a few days since.
In the Wyoming Supreme Court In
the case of Kelly VS.. Rhodes, involving
the question of taxing sheep driven
through the country 1t was decided
they were subject to taxation.
The state treasurer has purchased Tor
the state the Douglas school district
bonds amounting to 81, 800. The funds
are to be used in making an addition
to the Douglas public school building.
II. b. Carpenter with his government
surveying party composed of Frank
Warner, Carl Snyder, Rex Schnetger,
all Cheyenne boys, have one west to
survey the boundary line between Utah
and Arizona.
An appeal has been taken to the SUI
preme court in the case of Alfred Gus
taveSen, convicted of murder in the
second degree last fall and sentenced
to twenty years in the pen. Gustave'
sen killed one of his companions dur
ing a drunken brawl near Tie Siding
a party of sixty emigrants will ar.
rive in n few days from Illinois ana
will settle on Bear river in western
| Wyoming. They are all member OF
the Amish Church. If they find the
country suitable for the building OF
new homes another colony Will come &c
Wyoming next a
C. L. Wantland, land commissioner
of the Union Pacific, has just closed
two important sales of railroad lands
in Carbon county. Kirk Dyer bought
800 acres near Medicine Bow and 5.
w. johnson 1900 acres near Carbon
The railroad company has sold nearly
1900 acres in this county in the past
thirty days.
The Swan Land and Cattle Company,
the largest of the kid in
Wyoming. having over S3,0OO,0tO in
vested in cattle and ranches, has just
offered a special bounty of $40 each
on wolves and So o cubs killed. These
bounties are in addition to those paid
by the state and will remain in force
from March l, 1901, to March 1, o
Agents of the Burlington railroad on
the 18th inst. made twenty filings of
16O acres in the local and office, the
anne covering valuable lands situated
in the Seminole mountains and Dor
dering the Platte river. The coal lands
are also in the vicinity of the route of
the Burlington's Guernsey-Salt Lake
line. The Burlington has now secured
upwards of 2S,OO0 acres of coal lands
in Carbon county.
The secretary of agriculture has been
asked to continue government sheep in
spection at Douglas, which was found
to be of great benefit last year.. 1t is
IpnrAnCnl . NtrAt tIn fpEnnatfnn of oil
stock shipped into or out of the
try, as well as the local inspection
which has been carried on heretofore.
If this is done. with the cooperation
of the state authorities, scab will be
practically eradicated.
The sheep and wool growers of Big
Horn basin held their annual meeting
at Basin on the 9th inst. The same
officers who presided last year were re-
elected. The association paid bounty
on 229 coyotes n ninety-nine bob
cats. 1t was agreed mat y cent per
head should be levied on all sheep and
lambs owned by members of the asso-
citation for bounty purposes, the bounty
TO be paid in addition to that G. the
state.
The well known Camp Stool ranch.
located n few miles southeast of Chey-
enne on Crow creek was recently sold
by Charles Stearns to the Wyoming
Cattle and Investment Company for
SO, 900. The investment company is
composed of Iowa parties and was re-
Gently organized with 100000 capital.
1t owns and controls 10000 acres of
ranch and range lands on the line of
the Union Pacific between Atkinson
Inc Hinsdale.
The snow report just issued by Di-
rector Palmer shows at the beginning
of this month a marked deficiency over
the eastern slopes of, the Big Horn
mountains and over the Laramie and
Platte river watersheds. The indica-
tons are that the streams of the east
ern section of Wyoming will be lower
during the coming summer than for
many years previous. This condition
can only be changed by heavy snow
storms in the mountains during the
coming month.
Cody advices state that Engineer
John j. Marshall. who Is running the
survey of n new ditch from IshawoOd
10 Germania, has reached a point near
Mud spring on Dry creek and expects
to complete the entire survey in a few
weeks. The Oregon basin will be
Hooded as soon as the ditch Is con
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tablished there. Two bitches. one from
Sage creek and the other from Dry
creek, will furnish enough water to ir-
rigate several thousand acres of land
II n large colony will be established
near Germania another year.
Senate Warren and Repre- sentative
Mondell Of Wyoming recently called at
the War Department and urged the
expenditure from the general fund pro-
Vided for construction of military posts
OF $4,000 at Fort Mckenzie. Wyom-
ing, in addition TO $4,000 specifically
appropriated for this purpose. They
desire the post enlarged to quarter at
least three troops of cavalry. Major
Martin, who is in charge of army post
construction. desires to provide for en-
largement of Fort Mckenzie but is
handicapped by n ruling of the auditor
FOR the War Department holding that
where a specific sum is appropriated
Tor construction of n military post no