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, 1901-10-25

The Cheyenne Leader of yesterday
afternoon reprinted from the columns
of The Republican the special dispatch
concerning the transfer of Master Me
chanic William McKeen, jr.. from the
Cheyenne to the Omaha shops of the
Union Pacific, following it with the
following comment:
THE officials were seen this morning
regarding the truth of the report and
denied positively that any such change
vas contemplated, so far as their
knowledge goes. At the present time
Master Mechanic Mckeen has begun
the Inauguration of new plans and
methods in the shops of the Wyoming
division, which he would never have
been permitted to begin if he was to
have been transferred to some other
point, as they will require his personal
supervision to carry out.
1T has been ascertained that the
source of The Republicans infOrma.
ton here was comparatively authentic
and the denials of the officials may be
inspired by professional secrecy which
they must practice in important rail
road matters"
The Tribune of this morning has the
following:
"a rumor is current to the effect that
Master Mechanic Barnum of the Ne
braska division of the Union Pacific
has resigned his position and that
Master Mechanic W. r. McKeen of the
Wyoming division will be transferred
to Omaha to fill the vacancy. officials
when asked of the matter yesterday
said that they knew nothing of any
such prospective change and gave IA
number of good reasons for thinking
that Mr.. McKeen would not be trans
ferred from the Wyoming division.
There is also a m to the effect
that Mr.. Sprague of the Colorado di-
vision has been requested to tender
his resignation and that General Fore
man Stuart of the Wyoming division
will be appointed to the position
, 1901-10-25
CLAIM
MADE BY CHURCHILL THAT HE
BOUGHT THE HORSES SAID
TO HAVE BEEN STOLEN.
Shows Bill Of Sale Dated July rs, 1899,
Conveying Horses from a Man
Named Wilson, Who Was In Trou-
BILE and Gave Horses as Security
for Money Borrowed from De-
PENDANT.

Sheriff Alfred Cook returned last
night from Walcott with w. G. Church
Ill, wanted for the theft of six head of
horses from the Cook brothers, the dam
contractors, and the horses, being driv-
en- over from Grand Encampment by
way Of the Rambler mine, are expect
ed to reach this city this afternoon.
Chuchill was arraigned in Justice
Hayford's court this morning, but. was
not ready to plead, n was given op-
portunity to employ attorneys and
make defense to the charge.
Churchill says he will have no diff
ticulty in proving that he bought the
horses more than two years ago, from
a man named John H. Wilson, at Bill
ings. Mont, and exhibits a bill Of sale
purporting to have been signed by Will
o on the 25th Of July, 1899, convey
ing the six horses in question and six
more said to have been sold by him
later. The horses described in the
bill Of sale were not branded, and
Churchill asserts that he branded his
horses some time during this summer,
as they were good horses and liable
to be stolen.
He tells a story that seems to hang
together, and gave County Attorney
Downey the names OF parties at Grand
Encampment who would testify to his
ownership of them and also that he
had bought them and paid Wilson in
the neighborhood Of $3.50 for the
twelve.
Churchill's story is that Wilson, a
Chadron, Neb., man, got into a cutting
scrape somewhere up north, possibly
in Crook county, and needing money,
Churchill advanced him a sum approx
mating $3.50. Wilson agreed to give
him a bill Of sale for the horses, and
if he vas not able to meet the obliga-
ton within a year and redeem the
horses, they should become the prop
erty Of Churchill. Wilson did fall to
come to time and Churchill took the
horses.
On the other hand, it is asserted
that the horses were owned by the
Cooks, some Of them being raised by
their father, and that they can be iden-
titled by any number of people here
in Laramie. They were not branded,
and when Churchill got possession of
them he added his own brand, which
he said was not recorded anywhere.
, 1901-10-25
ADDITION
TO LOCAL WORKING FORCE OF
RAILROAD MEN MADE NEcES.
sARY BY RECENT ORDER.
All DoubIe-Deck Sheep Cars To Be
Cleaned and Resanded at This
station-Department Of Agricul-
ture Makes RuIin9-LocaI and Per-
sonal Among Railroad Men.

By a recent ruling of the department
Of agriculture, bureau of animal indus
try, the government inspector will
hereafter refuse to give certificate of
inspection for shipments of sheep that
have been loaded in dirty cars, and in
compliance with this ruling, Assistant
Superintendent Whitney has issued a
bulletin that hereafter all double-deck
sheep cars must be cleaned and re-
sanded here before being sent out to be
loaded.
This work will require the constant
services of a force of men numbering
ten and they will be put to work as
o as they can be secured. The or
der overs the Wyoming division, and
is effective at once, SO that the local
yardmaster and stock pen foreman will
have their hands full for a time.
, 1901-10-25
Furnished housekeeping rooms for
rent. Sayer Hansen, ISL Sixth street
A Long-Lived Engine.

The Great Northern Railway Com
pany, of England, are the owners of an
express engine which is believed to
own the worlds record for the number
of miles run. This is No. /, employed
daily on express trains between Peter
borough and London. or Peterborough
and Doncaster. The engine, which be-
longs to IA single driving wheel type,
was built at Doncaster in 1850. being
the first to be fitted with outside cyl
inders. From careful calculations made
the engine has just recently completed
its four millionth mile. The engine
still runs on its original wheels, and
is capable of holding its own against
the newest constructed In its long life
the No. | has not me with an accident
Of serious nature.
, 1901-10-25
STRUCK STUFF BELIEVED
TO az lIRANIlIM

Prof. P. H.. Daley, the well.known
m%ineralogist of Centennial mountain,
is in the city today, interesting local
mining men in specimens of stuff re-
Gently found by him in a mine in the
mountain, and which some think very
closely resembles uranium, a very val.
liable mineral. Mr.. Fox has a piece of
genuine uranium ore. which he paid rs
cents for In Colorado to add to his col.
lection, and the specimens brought in
by Prof. Daley resemble it In many
ways. Partial tests made Of the new
ind give some of the results laid down
by Dana and others, and the matter has
been quite freely discussed today.
Mr.. Daley says there is an immense
body Of the rock, and II 1t should prove
valuable, It would set the Centennial
mountain aAre.
, 1901-10-25
PICTURED STONE
U BY MINER.

+. r. Scheen, a miner, while work
ing near the head of Rock creek, in
Carbon county, a few days ago made
a remarkable discovery, says the
Cheyenne Tribune. He was digging in
a hole twenty feet in depth and uncov-
cred a smooth, fiat piece OF quartzite,
upor. which is a perfect picture of the
canon of Rock creek in the vicinity of
the hole.
No work had ever been done within
the memory of man in the vicinity of
the discovery, and the quartzite must
have been buried for centuries. Every
detail of the picture is correct and as
clear as a photograph. Scheen will
sent the remarkable geological curl
osity to the museum of the state uni
VerSity.
, 1901-10-25

J.. Pierpont Morgan is expected in
New York tomorrow.
The new transcontinental trains will
be the best ever turned out.
The Gould party will not make a
trip owe the Wyoming division.
Manager j.. E. Market of the Pacific
Hotel company was at Salt Lake yes
terday.
General Passenger Agent Lomax of
the Union Pacific was in Chicago yes
terday.
George Gould has been made chair
man of the board Of the Rio Grande
Southern.
1t may be the Vanderbilts will buy
the Chicago Great Western and the
Rock Island.
The differences between the two
Northwestern elements will be settled
satisfactorily.
Alfred Darlow, head of the Union Pa
cific's advertising department al Oma-
ha, is in Chicago.
General Manager Dickinson is max
ing an inspection tour over the Kan
sas division Of the Union Pacific.
There is nothing in the Cheyenne
story that Conductor James Mason has
been appointed yardmaster here. There
is 10 vacancy nor likelihood of one.
A Cheyenne roundhouse fireman has
been bounced for firing an engine
whose throttle was open and which
came very nearly tumbling into a turn
table pit.
Yardmaster John Crooks has gone
hunting in the mountains for a few
days. Night Yardmaster Will Blalock
has taken his position and Jim Slaugh-
ter is working nights.
c. l.. Nagel, the well known tin
smith In the shops, left this afternoon
for st. Louis, where he will be mar
ried on November 5th to Miss Annie
Baer of that city. They will reside in
Cheyenne, says the Leader.
F. p. Perry, an operator in the Union
Pacific offices, has left for Sunrise to
accept the position Of railroad agent
and operator at that point to succeed
Mr.. Langston. who Is coming to Chey-
enne to accept the position of dis
patcher in the new Office of the Chey-
enne and Northern.-Cheyenne Lead
er.
Manufacturers Of typewriters, com
putting scales and cash registers have
not abandoned their attempts to in
duce the railroads to forego their in
~tention Of treating samples OF these
wares as excess baggage or express
freight and charging for their transpor,
tation accordingly. They have asked
for a modification Of the rules recently
adopted by the general baggage agents
by making provision for the free trans
%portation Of these articles as personal
baggage when they are packed in
trunks and shipped exclusively at the
owners risk. Their application has
been docketed Tor iuii discussion at
the next meeting Of the Western Pas,
senger association.
, 1901-10-25
THINK THEY HAVE
A CLEVER FORSER.

A Cheyenne special to the Denver
Post says the authorities believe that
when A.. A. Winters was arrested at
Cripple Creek a few days ago, one of
the boldest forgers that ever operated
in the west, was captured. Winters is
wanted at Cheyenne Oh several charges
of forgery. committed at Pine Bluffs,
near the Nebraska line. The authori-
ties of several Colorado towns. includ.
ing Denver, Colorado Springs and
Leadville, are anxious to get hold of
Winters, and when the Wyoming au-
thorities are through with the sleek
individual he will probably be turned
over to the Colorado officials.
1t is believed that an effort was be
ing made at Cripple Creek to ha5eas
corpus Winters away from the Wyo-
ming sheriff and but for the latter's
promptness in getting away from the
gold camp Winters friends would have
probably succeeded.
If convicted on the charge of forgery
at Cheyenne Winters will be given the
full penalty.
, 1901-10-25
BRIGANDS FOUND
The Searching Party Now in Touch
With Abductors.

Constantinople, Oct. 25.-The mis-
sionaries, who are operating from
Samakov. Bulgaria, are at last in touch
Stone and her companion, Nine. Tsil
ka, according to dispatches received
here today, though whether negotia
tons for the ransom have actually
been opened is not disclosed. The
missionaries OH the spot are expected
to conclude business with the utmost
dispatch.
, 1901-10-25
BUSY DAY FOR
Mr.. BELTS r

County Treasure Reals added to the
hilarity of the occasion at the postof-
flee this morning by dropping into the
mail boxes 1900 postal cards notifying
the taxpayers of the county that their
taxes were due and the amount from
each. Mr.. Beltz and his efficient and
good natured force We're equal 10 the
emergency, as on all such occasions,
and soon had the cards in their re-
spective places"
, 1901-10-25
BACK TO
LARAMIE
PASSENGER ENGINEERS AND
FIREMEN CUT OUT
HERE.
They Will Run Through From Lara
mic to Cheyenne, Thence to Raw
Inns and Back to Laramie, Where
They Lay Over For About Twen-
ty-Four to Twenty-Elght Hours
Change Occurs Tomorrow.

@ Beginning tomorrow, east-bound Q
Q passenger engineers and iremen @
Q will cut out here and remain over @
@ until the relieving enginmen take @
Q the engine for the round trip, re- 6
@ turning to Laramie, where the G
@ change is again made. G
O In other words, the men who go G
@ east on train No. 4 at noon to- @
Q morrow will remain with the en- @
Q CINE. taking train No. 1Ol west @
9 from Cheyenne to Rawlins. return 9
O ing from the latter place to Lara @
Q ME on 102. The crew is then G
@ relieved at this point by another @
Q crew, which makes a similar @
Q round trip. @
Q There will be two crews to each @
Q engine, and ten crews in all. all Q
Q Of whom will have their lay-over @
Q in Laramie. The men will have @
Q a rest from twenty-four to TWEEN @
o ty-eight hours. @
Q The men now in Cheyenne have O
Q been given orders to deadhead @
O back to Laramie and take their @
Q runs out of this city. Q
Q This leaves the passenger men @
Q about as they were before the @
Q change to Cheyenne. They have @
Q the long run. on practically a mile @
Q age basis, n will retain their Q
Q homes in this city. @
Q This concession to the men is @
Q voluntary on the part of the com @
Q pany and the men are according Q
Q ly greatly elated. @
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, 1901-10-25
MISSING TRAMPS
MAY BE IN WRECK.

A tramp mixed up in the coal train
made the announcement that at the
time the accident occurred he was &C
cupying one of the ditched cars with
companions. He was thrown
clear Of the wreck, but does not know
what became OF the other e The
fear is entertained that they may be
buried under the great pile of coal
from the ditched cars.
, 1901-10-25
SOURCES
OF INFORMATION OF THE REPUB-
LICAN KEEPS CHEYENNE
PAPERS GUESSING.

Confirmation and Denial of Railroad
Item in Succeeding Paragraphs of
Cheyenne Leader-The Tribune
Also Mixed as to the Rumors-
Changes in Union Pacific Mechani-
cal Force.
, 1901-10-25

c. NJ. Phelps, Forestdale, Vt, says
his child was completely cured of a
bad case of eczema by the use of De
Wits Hazel Salve. Beware of all
counterfeits. 1t instantly relieves
piles.-Lalamie Drug company.
, 1901-10-25
Execution of CzoIoosz.

Q Albany, N. Y, Oct. 25.-Leon F. c
. Z~zolgosz, the murderer of Presi- G
Q dent Mckinley, will be electrocu- G
9 ted at z a. M, Tuesday, Oct. 90. G
Q at Auburn prison. G
G Q @ Q Q Q Q Q @ @ @ 9 Q {,
, 1901-10-25

FOR SALE-Good five-room house,
good cellar, two lots. good barn, for
sale cheap. r. A. HIXSON.
59t7
, 1901-10-25

FOUND-A pocketbook. Owner can
have same by describing and paying
for this ad. 64t3
, 1901-10-25
Laramie Machine and Plumbing Co.
James Naismith. Manager.
Machine Jobbing Of All Kinds,
Plumbing and Steam Heating.
Gasoline Engines, Steam Engines,
Boilers, Pumps and Mining
Machinery.
$40 Second, next To Laramie Grocery Co
G.. J.
Merchant Tailor

II you want the best suit or over
coat that can be had for the least
money, C. J. Peterson can give 1t to
you. He employs only the most ex-
pert cutters and filters and guaran-
tees a perfect fit.
lis THORNeURCH.
, 1901-10-25

lis THORNBU RCh
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-06-06

sale June ~, IL ana IL. IOOd' 10 re.
turn June 10th.
Some few days ago DIR. hymns the
county superintendent of health,
placed several families in the Helena
neighborhoood under quarantine for
smallpox. One of the heads of the
families placed under such orders re-
fused to obey the superintendent and
broke the quarantine and came very
close to being arrested for SO doing.
The board of health is given all kinds
of power by law to enforce its orders
and at meeting of the board held
last Saturday DR.. Tymms was in
structed to enforce his orders and to
take all necessary steps to prosecute
any person or persons refusing to re-
main in quarantine when ordered by
the health officer to do so. While the
cases of smallpox are of the light
form there is no telling what it may
lead to and if general spread of the
disease took place it might endanger
lives as we'll as place a large bill of
expense on the taxpayers, and the
board of health would be severely
blamed for not doing its duty. A
word to the wise is sufficient. The
board will use it's utmost endeavors to
stamp out any contagious disease
either in a mild or malignant form
and will see that its orders are obeyed
hereafter.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-08
GERMANS WILL
FIGHT TARIFF
Opposition Leaders Plan
to Delay Action on
a Bill.
Russia and Austria May Suffer
From Proposed Leg
islation.

BERLIN, Dec. 7.-The tariff bill goes
to the committee next week and nobody
expects its temperance for months.
Bebel and Richter and other opposition
leaders have agreed to delay the measure
as long as possible in committee They
are determined to make a fight on every
one of the items. This well worn form
of preliminary action is to be continued
in the House after it leaves the commit
tee and it is cutie possible that the nnal
vote will not be read until 1908, unless the
Government offers compromise, Whlch
is unlikely. The Government, being aware
of the dilatory tactics ahead, is consloer-
ing changing the rules of the House SO
as to block the obstructive work OF the
opposition.
A variety of estimates of the majority
for or against the bill are being consld-
cred. The general impression is that the
Government commands large ndJ0Ilty.
/ is not the United States that would De
concerned should the tariff bill be put
through in its present form, but Russia
and AuStria-Hungary. 1t is the pelle1 OF
the Foreign Office that Germany is Wen
able to uphold her side should the united
States make repriSalS.
Russia and Austria-Hungary nave al
ready Informed Germany that they are
not willing to neg9tisste GO tse enG}n fa T
These notifications are considered equlva-
lent to the declaration of an economic
war, in which the broad markets now
open to Germany will Immediately be
closed and the considerable volume of
United States products now finding its
way to Russia through German traders
would in consequence be excluded with
German goods.
The manager of the American Tool
Companys works in Berlin has made a
remarkable comparison of the wages paid
and the cost of tools made here with the
wages paid and the cost of tools at the
American works, both sets of laborers
using identical machines. He finds that
the American workman, making an exact
allowance for the difference in wages,
turns out a clear 25 per cent more of
product for the same unit of wages. Man
for man, the German produces two-ffths
of what an American does. A shoe fac
tory at Breslau, using American machin-
cry, secured better results by importing
eight American workmen and paying
them by the piece
The debate on the tariff bill was re-
sumed in the Reichstag to-day. Baron
Won Wangenheim, Conservative, declared
that the proposals of Count Won Kanitz,
the Agrarian leader, were the only ones
which would give relief and that sooner
or later recourse would have to be had
to them. The speaker added that If in
creased protection was rejected the Con-
servatives would not vote for the bill.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-08
GETS MURDERER
STILL At LARGE
Brutal Chinese Assassin
Succeeds in Covering
His Tracks.

After thorough investigator the po-
lice are satisfied that the three Cinnamon
who were arrested in connection with the
murder of Wong Get, who was foully
slain on Commercial street Friday
afternoon, had nothing to do with the
killing. The prisoners will be given their
freedom to-day. The murderer, accord
ing to the police, is Quan Ho, notorious
gun-fighter, who halls from San Jose. 1t
is known that he arrived here last Thurs
day, presumably in answer to a sum-
mons from the Bing Kong Tong the
most powerful organization in China
town.
Get, it was supposed, held the secrets
of rival tong, and it was decided to put
him out of the way. According to the
ponce, Quan Ho was specially imported
from San Jose to carry out the edIct of
the Blng Kong Tong. While walking
Friday afternoon Get, who had arrived
in this city only few days before, was
shot in the back, dying in short time
The murder was witnessed by Jack
Kelly, better known as Manila Jack, who
conducts a saloon contiguous to the scene
of the shooting. After the murderer had
emptied his gun at his victim Kelly
lost him in Fish alley. He is satisfied
that he will be able to identify him in
case he is arersted. In his flight the
murderer dropped the revolver which he
used in dispatching his victim.
Last night Detectives George McMa-
hon and Ed Gibson were securing China
town for the murderer They seem to
think he is in hiding in some den in the
Chinese quarter, awaiting a favorable op-
portunity to leave the city. 1t is expect
to-day offer a reward for the apprehen-
sion of the murderer.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-08
ROYAL RA|MENT
WILL DAZZLE
King Edward Decides
Upon Coronation
Robe Des grs
Three Thousand Precious
Stones in the Monarch's
Crown.

LONDON, Dec. 1.-THE designs of the
coronation robes have been decided upon
Alng Edward will wear a cloth of gold
under a jacket embroidered with palm
branches and the shamrock, rose and
thlstle On the Kings stole the cross OF
ot. george, the royal crown and the rose
shamrock and thistle will be woven il
soIo thread. His cape will be niagnifi-
ceHt garment, decorated with silver eagles
blems. '0 Ia ma iioi al GIL
The Queen will wear robes almost sim
nar j 70 those of Queen Adelaide They
VIII VIII pe brought to Marlborough House
Iioill H broole Castle, where they are kept
as heIrlooms. In spite of their age, they
d are IN excellent condition They are of
oidSh VelVet manufactured in hand looms,
SIaporaIeiy embroidered and giaced hav-
ing sleeves. --e
Inc coronation rites will last four
n0urs After the sacrament has been ad-
M IS1teIeq TO Ine King he will discard
r.nt uliS cHurcn Vestments and put on his state
Over 5000 precious stones-diamonds
pGnIrls, L,iII B. ruoles, sapphires and emeralds-
WI VIII be included in the Kings crown.
dnsre VIII be 1860 pure white diamonds
aIu @ EV rose diamonds. The historic
T8uoy 8iy winch the King of CASTLE gave the
BACK Pr1nce in 1867, and which subse-
quentiy was worn by Henry V at Agin-
court, is IN the center of the crown, placed
III the heart of Maltese cross.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-08
CORRESPONDENT HAVE
FUN WITH STATESMEN
Members of the Famous Gridiron Club
Give a Notable December
Dinner

WASHINGTON, Dec. THE Gridiron
Club, composed of forty Washington cor
respondents, scored another notable sue
cess tonight on the occasion of the De-
cember dinner. About 150 guests assem-
bled around the Gridiron table at the Ar
lington Hotel. The features, as usual
touched upon public events in a jocular
manner, and began with a menu which
was "A New Alice in Wonderland. BY
the most delicate inference the illustra-
tions and quotations could be applied to
some of the events in the life of President
Roosevelt. The arrival of the collier Mer-
riment (Merrimac) with supply of cham
payne to fill the bunkers of the diners was
a laughable skit, and the selection of a
delegate to London to attend the corona
ton furnished opportunity for the nomi-
nation of number of delegates for the
place and their rejection for various rea-
sons.
Another laughable skit was fake. meet
Ing of an alleged cabinet in which vari-
Gus characters appeared and tried to pass
themselves off as the real thing. They
were finally hustled out unceremOniously.
Among those who made excellent speeches
were Postmaster General Smith, Senators
Allison and Mitchell, the Chinese Minis
ter, former Senator Carter and Governor
Francis, both now connected with the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition.