, 1901-08-01
NOTES.

Inc OHlOu utlnC mas Pun
the private buildings in Hanna and
now may be said to own the town
The State Board of Equalization will
meet at Cheyenne August 12th TO as
sess the valuation Of all state prop
erty.
A fine new hotel is to be built at
Douglas which will cost $4,000. Lo-
cal capital is back of the project and
$4,000 has already been subscribed.
The fire which broke out in the Med
icine Bow forest reserve, south OF Elk
mountain recently, is now under con-
troll and will be extinguished before
greater loss is occasioned.
The picturesque name of Tie Siding
will now be dropped from the railroad
time tables, the name having been
changed TO Hermosa, and that of Sid
ing Junction to Hermosa Junction.
]. P. Helm has beer appointed war
den of the state p~enitentiary at Lara
ME, vice w. II. Adams, resigned. Mr..
Adams has been warden for six
months, and the cause of his sudden
resignation was not stated.
The iron mines at Hartville will
shortly increase their output from oOO
to 800 tons of ore per day. The In
creased ore traffic will necessitate ad-
ditional equipment and locomotives on
the Cheyenne & Northern.
The department of Colorado has is
sued orders making Fort d. A. Rus
sell, three miles west of Cheyenne, the
headquarters of the Eighteenth United
States infantry. This means that at
least 500 men, including the regimental
hand, will be stationed there.
The assessor of Albany county is
said to have discovered that a ranch
man living near Laramie, who is as
sessed upon but one stallion and l6O
horses, owns forty stations and over
100 head of horses, forty of them
saddle horses, all of them ranging in
the county.
A Rawlins dispatch of July 2ith
says: A fierce forest fire is raging in
the Medicine Bow forest reserve, south
of Elk mountain. and efforts are being
made TO eNtinguish the flames before
they spread too far. The fire was evil
IDENTIFY ignited by hunters or fishermen
in the mountains.
A band of Sioux Indians, under the
leadership of Sinking Bear, passed
through New Castle recently en- route
ru Lander on a visit to the Shoshones.
INtIbIlS lIolh Nht UNI hAoheh
which the Indians have passed say
they have been slaughtering wild game
in old-time fashion.
The long distance telephone line from
Cheyenne to Douglas will be completed
and in operation by October LIST. Work
will be commenced on both ends of the
line inside of twenty days and rushed
to completion. Local feeders will be
hrf1t NJ anna nn1 thn linz nytan1n1 IN
Casper. Next year the wire will be ex-
tended to Lander.
At Laramie, July 22nd. Mrs. Martha
Boies, mother of United States Com
missioner John Simons, and the first
woman juror and one of the the first
women voters in Wyoming, was mar
ried to John Atkinson. The bride is
sixty and the bridegroom is siXty-five.
The brides late husband was a cousin
of former Governor Boies of Iowa.
In the District Court at Casper. Man.
uel Armenia has been convicted of
stealing sheep and sentenced to the
penitentiary for three years. 1t is al
legged that Armenia has been stealing
stock in central Wyoming for many
years. He has been tried a number of
times but could never be convicted.
1t is estimated that upward of S1OO,O00
has been spent in prosecuting him.
The citizens of the Saratoga valley
are ~agitating a scheme for the con-
struction of an immense irrigating
ditch which. by taking water from the
North Platte river, would reclaim $780,
600 acres of arid lands at the approx
mate cost of 81 an acre. Every acre
of the land is believed to be capable
of producing four tons of alfalfa n
year, worth at the present market price
81 a ton in h stack.
Representative Mondell has been as
sured by the War Department that
prompt action will be taken looking to
the installation of a complete sewerage
and water system at Fort Mackenzie.
The plan contemplates the construc-
ton of separate storage reservoirs for
the fort to insure a constant and high
pressure of water. The sewerage sys-
TEN will be extended TO all buildings
of the fort and to other necessary
points.
Word was received at Cheyenne July
10Th from Iron Mountain that William
Nichols, the thirteen-year-old son of
ranchman Kels i. Nichols. was shot
from ambush and killed while opening
u gate two miles from his fathers
ranch. The boy had dismounted from
his horse and was in the act of pushing
on the gate when he received a bullet
in the back. He fell on his face and
lay in me road nearly thirty-six hours
before the body was found. No clue
to the assassin was apparent.
The reward of $500 offered by Gov
ernor Richards for the arrest and con
viction of the murderer of VIII Nick
oil. has been formally announced. as
well as the reward of $500 more by the
commissioners of Laramie county.
This big reward is inducing private de-
tectives to take a hand in the case and
the authorities are confident informa-
ton will soon be forthcoming which
VIII throw some light upon the mys-
terry.
Cheyenne advices state that there is
every prospect of IA radical change in
the sheep inspection in Wyoming. As
the result of n correspondence between
the sheep commissioners and the sec
rotary of agriculture a conference has
been held at the state building par
ucipated in by Governor Richards.