, 1901-06-06
WYOMING NOTES:

The salary of the postmaster at Buff
falo has been raised from S1,2OO to
$1,000.
Laramie lodge No. rs, B. T. o. E.,
for a Fourth OF July celebration VIII
hold a five days street fair.
Swarms of young grasshoppers APP
pearing near Fort Laramie ave awak-
ened some apprehension of danger TINS
summer.
w. II. Frazee. of the Laramie school
board, has offered prizes to those
rooms in the public schools whose pu-
pills pick the most dandelion blossoms
The following increases in postmast-
ers' salaries go into effect July i:
Rawlins, 1880 to $1,000; Rock
Springs. LOO to S1.SoO; New Castle
and Green River. 81, 100 to $1,000.
Thomas Leslie of Cheyenne, who
was riding on a hand car last March
with Tom Law. when the latter was
killed, has brought suit against the
Union Pacific for $4,000 damages.
The coroner's jury at Buffalo in II
case of Edward Paden, who shot VI
liver Beard recently, returned Il verdict
that the killing was malicious and pre-
meditated. Paden is in Jail and VIII
be tried for murder.
John Taylor, aged twenty-seven, an
employe of the Central Coal and Coke
Company at Sweetwater, accidentally
shot and killed himself while out
hunting rabbits. He was a member of
the A. o. u. ". at Park City, Utah.
Cowboys in the New Castle section
who were members of Torrey's Rough
Rider regiment are arranging to hold
n reunion there this summer. Colonel
Torrey will be present n a rousing
time is anticipated.
Ranchmen along Brush and a
creeks have complained to the attor-
ney general that Tie Contractor ]. G..
Teller is allowing his ties to block
canal headgates and destroy %irriga.ing
stems along those streams.
The Elks are arranging TO hold a
street fair at Laramie July 4th. There
will be n midway and other novel fea-
lures. Many people are expected to
come from Cheyenne, Rawlins and
other nearby towns to participate.
During the recent heavy rains on
Sherman hill Ranchman Stevenson
lost over 10000 t~wo-year-old trout.
Stevenson had stocked a pond on Dale
creek inside of his pastures and when
the freshet came the dan was carried
away and the fish with it.
An effort is being made to have the
national home of the Elks established
mt Cody. Buffalo Bill" Cody is work
ing hard to secure the hon for his
town. having agreed to donate a large
tract of land to the home and assist
in the building if the Elks select Cody.
The state board of charities on their
recent trip to Thermopolis inaugurated
n system of improvements for the state
hot springs. Lenses have been made
rnlnr .,nntrnpt for thn hnil1inp nf n
fine hotel and for the construction of
sanitarium and bath houses.
The state has granted n lease on
land at the Hot Springs to William
PEN for ten years, upon which MIR.
Pens agrees to construct n large nata-
torium. The plunge bath will be of
stone and will form one of the prin-
cipal attractions of the famous water
ing place.
+. johnson and Patrick Judge, la
borerS, We're blown up by the eXplo-
sion of four kegs of powder ut the
Sherman gravel pits n few days since.
Both men We're badly burned II
johnson was thought to he fatally in
jured. Sparks from II passing engine
struck some loose powder.
The Carbon County Wool Growers
Association offers n reward of $500
lot lnt UITtSl ulu NbhN ~ vi ~
person found ~injuring. robbing or kill
ing sheep or destroying or damaging
sheep wagons and camps, where the
party injured is n member of the asso-
citation.
Patrick McGill. an old-time resident
of Cheyenne, who was released from
the state insane asylum at Evanston
II few months ago left Cheyenne n
short time since, going in a southwest
erly direction, and mt last advices had
not been heard from, although Il
searching party had started out to
look for him..
The case Of the state of Wyoming
VS.. c. A. Lewis, in Judge Hayford's
court nj Laramie has been continued
until June 18th. Lewis was arrested for
leaving open "A gate across a private
road ON the ranch OF William Taylor,
at Rock River. and the case is impor-
tant in that 1t is the first prosecution
under the state fence law making the
leaving open Of n gate across a private
road II punishable offense.
1t has been learned that il was not
the original intention of President Me
Kinley to stop In Laramie en- route
East. Several Laramites sent a num-
Der of nice rainbow trout to the Pres
ideut at Medicine Bow and the Presi-
dent n his party breakfasted on this
toothsome food, Mrs. Mckinley partak-
ing of n few mOrsels Of the fish. At
ter the meal a vote was taken TO stop
In the OWL that had contributed to
such n delightful meal. and the stop
was made.
Sheridan advices state tina several
detectives nave been nj work invcsti-
eating the killing OF 1000 head OF
sheen by masked men. on Otto creek
last December. The sheep belonged to
II. Il. Selway. The herder was bound
and gagged and the sheep driven owe
n precipice. all that We're not killed by
the fall being dubbed to death. 1t Is
now stated that sufficient evidence has
been obtained TO warrant the appre-
hension Of three or fOur men sup
posed TO have participated in the af-
fair, and that warrants Will he is