, 1901-02-07
WYOMING T

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Society has determined TO build an OPP
era house. 10 cost about $1,000.
In response to a petition of old sol
diers filed by Senator Warren in the
pension bureau. DIR. Il. T.. R~ohrbaugh
has been designated as examining
physician for the pension bureau at
Casper. Wyoming.
The fish and game committees of the
two houses of the Legislature have
been making an investigation of the
state fish hatchery near Laramie. 1t
is probable that several thousand dol
lars will be spent in improvements.
The House committee on military af-
fairs in Congress has acted favorably
upon the bill authorizing n monument
COMMUNICATING the Indian battle of
Massacre Hi in Wyoming, In which
several hundred troops lost their lives.
Charles Blydenburgh. n stage driver
working for the mail contractor carry
ing the mails between Fort Washable
and ThermopOlis. was held up
by two mcn and robbed of about 5000.
He resisted. but was knocked senseless.
A bill has been introduced in the
lower house to appropriate S1,1OO to re-
imbursc Sheriff Swanson of Sweet
water county for expenses incurred in
chasing a band of outlaws that killed
n sheriff and his deputy in Utah last
spring.
Henry Jones was frightfully man
gled by a premature explosion on Sher-
man hill. Both legs We're broken. one
arm crushed. his chin blown of and
his face and head cut and bruised. He
was taken to st. Joscph's hospital,
Omaha.
The secretary of the interior has af-
firmed the decision of the land office in
the case of Eastus Stralp against
Thomas HutchinsOn's dessert land entry
is dismissed on the ground that his
showing of the mineral character of the
land is insufficient.
ID. l.. Swinney of Lander has sold to
Barross Bros. his flock of sheep, con-
sistlng of G,4OO head. at S4.4O per head,
or S2S.1GO. The above sum represents
Mr.. %Swinney's earnings in the past ten
years, rs he came TO Wyoming eleven
years e penniless,
A special school election has been
called for Douglas to vote $4,000 bonds
to build an addition to the school
house. The present building is full.
and sixty scholars now use n small
building down town that has been rent
ed for school purposes.
An Indiana syndicate has closed a
deal for a large tract of coal lands
west of Rawlins. \ mine will be
opened up nj once and the quality and
extent of the coal will be determined.
If the coal is of cool quality and can
be found in sufficient quantity the com-
pany will operate on II large scale.
A bill has been introduced in the low
or house which is known as the anti
gambling bill" II does not prohibit
gambling. however. but makes it neces-
sary for licenses 10 be procured
through n vote of the people. Each
town and city in the state shall decide
for itself whether gambling shall be
licensed in that particular town.
The joint committee of the Senate
IND House on the needs of the peniten-
tiary. recommend an appropriation of
$4,000. Among the changes and i'm
provements that will be made is the
building of an additional cell house.
providing better sanitation by connect
ing with the Rawlins city sewer. build
ing n number of steel cages for guards,
and another fence or wall around the
stockade. SO that weapons cannot be
handed in from the outside, and to
prevent prisoners from digging their
way out under the walls.
Ii is stated in Cheyenne that sew
eral miners of Silver Crown will
commence suit in the District Court
against the Union Pacific Railroad
Company to have certain patents set
aside by the government. as such pat
ents cover valuable mineral lodes. The
government granted the Union Pacific
railroad every alternate section for
twenty miles ON each side of the road
bed. 1t is understood that this grant
did not include any minerals except
coal and iron, but 1t is questioned If n
patent obtained under good faith al
he set aside by later mineral discover
les. The ground covered by the gov
rnmeu grant is said TO embrace some
of the most valuable mineral regions of
the state.
The much talked of divorce bill, in
truduccd in the lower House of the
Legislature by RUssman of Laramie
county, and which passed that body.
has also been passed by the Senate.
The bill rs originally framed. and as
1t passed the House. made 1t necessary
for Il man or woman seeking divorce
80 reside in the state two years before
II decree could he granted. When the
WI appeared btIOIt Tue committee Ill
the Scuatc the time of residence was
cut down to II year. and it thus
passed the Senate As the law now
stands. an applicant for divorce can.
after u residence of six months, secure
II decree upon the Introduction of the
proper evidence showing that he is en-
titled 10 n separation.
A memorial has been introduced in
the Legislature calling upon President
Mckinley to establish II forest reserve
In the Medicine Bow mountains. and Il
portion of the Sierra Madre range.
Wyoming's representatives are also
asked TO do everything in their power
to have the reserve set aside. The
memorial, which was introduced by
senator Plat, calls the attention of the
President to the IA that tie cutters
and others are rapidly destroying the
timber in these mountains, thus injur.
lug the water supply Of settlers in the
valley of the Platte river and its tribu-
tarles in nrrthern Colorado. eastern
Utah, southern and central Wyoming
and western Nebraska. During the