, 1901-06-20
WYOMING NOTES.

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At Cheyenne on the 18th instant,
Judge Scott sentenced Charles Burg
stone to n year in the ~penitentiary.
Burgstone stole n bicycle and was
caught mt Fort Collins.
Matt Doughcrty and G. Richardson
have filed on the section of land at
Spring Valley on which the Union Pa
cific struck oil and will contest the
company for ownership. They claim,
the railroad has no title to the land.
Belle Fisher, who became notorious
during the trial of the Foley murder
case, and who was sent 10 jail mt
Evanston for attempting to bride wit
nesses for the prosecution, has been
released, having paid the unearned
portion of her fine.
Machinery is being received for the
oil fields at billiard. Spring Valley,
Medicine Butte, Cumberland and Eos
sill. The Kilpatricks Will sink three
wells mt Hilliard and other parties are
arranging to place machinery in posi-
ton as oon as it arrives.
In the United States. Court at Chey-
enne the case against A. A. Spaugh,
charged with illegally fencing the pub
lie domain and set for trial June 18Th,
was continued to the September term,
when 1t is expected n number of SINH
lar cases will be prepared.
Contracts for the attractions for the
Laramie Elks fair, July LIST to 9th,
have been closed. Among the features
will be a trained animal show, team
swing. electric fountain, Jerusalem,
streets of Cairo. German village,
Gypsy camp and Turkish theater.
The clerks of the Wells-Fargo EX-
press Company at Cheyenne have been
having rafting fun with n box of rat
tlesnakes shipped to Cheyenne from
San Antonio, Texas, to Bosco, the Aus
traliaIt snake charmer, who lacked the
necessary $3.50 to pay express
charges.
Troop A, Wyoming National Guard,
recently went camping upon the Mid
die Crow. about twenty-five miles
west of Cheyenne. Mounts We're taken
along, and regular cavalry drill will
be held. The troop will in the near
future make a weeks practice march
into Colorado.
Reports from Jackson park are to
the effect that game is more plentiful
than in any portion of the Rocky
Mountain range. Thousands of elk
are seen in n single herd, mountain
sheep and deer are seen everywhere in
the foothills. m bear can be killed in
large numbers by invading their
haunts 4,
The Union Pacific laIih department
has sold to Cosgrif Bros. Aof Fort
Steele and Salt Lake, 10000 acres of
land near Medicine Bow. The pur.
chase joins the tract of 1900 acres
recently purchased by Quealey Bros.
Charles Jackson of 1sawlins has pur-
chased 1900 acres of railraod land
situated in the western end of Rawllns
county.
A Cheyenne dispatch to n Denver
paper says that n correspondent who
has returned from n "trip over the state,
reports that the disturbances between
the cattle and sheep men in Wyoming
have quoted down. In the Sweetwa-
ter country the cattle men and sheep
men have agreed on n division of the
range. Like conditions prevail in the
Big Horn country and in southwest
Wyoming.
Sharp Nose, the chief of the Arapa-
hoe tribe, died at the s~ub-agency north
west of Fort Washable. June 18th, of
rheumatism. Sharp Nose was about
siXty-tive years old. and had been chief
of the A~rapahoes since the death of
Black Coal, sever years ago. He was
always the war chief of the tribe and
was noted for his cruelty IL bloody
deeds. His body was Inferred accord
ing 10 Indian rites near his tepee.
Attorney Simpson, who recently re-
turned to Lander from n trip to Jack
son valley, and the Tetons. reports
that John ID. Sargent has been again
arrested for cruelty and aggravated
assault, this time by his oldest daugh-
ter. When the case came TO trial the
daughter, who Is under age, agreed to
withdraw her complaint on condition
that she should he permitted to leave
him forever. on his cOnsenting TO
this. the case was dismissed and the
girl left her home.
Late advices from Fort Washable
say tho ArapahOes. who recently deticd
the Indian agent and their
determination TO hold the sun dance
are quieting down and all fears of
trouble are passing away. Colonel
Lee is in command of the single com
pany stationed nj Fort Washable, the
lieutenant who was in charge being
now cOunscled by the veteran com
mnnder lately returned from the Chi
nese war. No further trouble is anti
cipated II it is believed the scheduled
sun dance will not occur.
Rawlins ndviccs state that in the
lult bI'ihlhE Ol lht ItlltI TIE uOOlll
across the Platte river at Fort Steele
it is estimated that $4,000 ties escaped
down h river. with n probable ulti-
mate loss of two-thirds of this mum
Der. The ranchmen Of Pass creek,
n of the tributaries of the Platte
river, have formed an association 30
enter n trespass and damage suit
against the Teller tie people. and say
that ample money will he fOrthcom-
ing to carry this suit, If necessary, to
the Supreme Court of the United
States. The ranchmen claim that the
tloating this year down Pass creek of
W,0UO ties has been II source of great
damage to them, every irrigating dam
on the creck-twenty in number-he-
ing carried away by the ties, and their
hay crops In many cases entirely
ruined for the want of water, the car
ryinE out of the dams rendering the
conserving of such water impossible.
An Evanston dispatch says the
United States land office has received
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