, 1901-11-21
NOTES.

nv hahNol Va
Laramie. and member of the City
Council, and one OF the pioneer citi-
zen and business men of the city. died
on the 18th INST.
Professor Clarence Johnston of
Cheyenne reached Washington on the
18th inst. en- route TO Italy, Spain and
Egypt, where he will make n study Of
and report on irrigation conditions on
behalf of the office of irrigation inves-
tigation.
DIR. G.. T. Seabury. state veterinarian.
recently received n telegram from Ken
dali, Fremont county, That CHAMBERS
had appeared among the horses in that
section, and decided to 20 to the scene
of the trouble. He cannot keep up
with the spread of the disease in the
state.
a party of six Ute Indians from the
White River agency have been in Rock
Springs, where it was believed that
they came north to escape from the
game wardens and that as soon as
the war clouds blow owe they will
return to their hunting grounds in
Rout county, Colorado.
Work has been commenced upon the
NicolTable mountain ditch. which will
reclaim about 1000 acres of land locat-
ed on the bench of the Wind river
south of Lander. The canal will be
from six to nine feet in width and ten
miles in length. Water will be taken
directly from the river.
1t is reported that the horses used
in the transportation of ore from the
great Rambler mine to the smelter at
Grand En"campment are dying from
an unknown malady. They ave
symptoms similar to those of distem-
per and swell up after death to alb
normal proportions.
The Uintah Alfalfa Irrigation Com
pany has filed articles of Incorporation.
Nebraska men are behind the project.
1t Is proposed to build a reservoir and
canal system near Carter station on the
Union Pacific and colombo a large
tract of land. Water will also be
taken from Black Fork creek.
After having his skull penetrated by
the point of n pick. Willie Wiggen. an
eleven-year-old boy living mt Rock
Springs, is alive and recovering, much
to the surprise of his physician. The
lad was struck by n younger brother,
the pick point penetrating his brain.
He was unconscious for hours and not
expected to live.
The United States grand jury at
Cheyenne returned indictments against
Hermann Becker of Sundaace. who is
charged with counterfeitinE; John j.
Holiday and Albert S. Collin. charged
with breaking into the postoffice at
Ervay, and Henry Pigg, charged with
selling whisky to the Indians on the
Wind River reservation.
Smallpox has broken out among the
Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians on the
Wind River reservation, but measures
are being taken to prevent the disease
spreading. Last year smallpox was
very destructive among the redskins,
but tie authorities have acted prompt
ly this year and little fear is enter
tanned of the disease becoming cpl
demic.
Joseph r. Walters, who murdered
Mrs. Agnes ID. Hoover at Thermupolis,
September 18th, has lbeen sentenced to
be hanged at Basin City, December
10th. \ stay of execution has been
granted pending an appeal to the Su-
preme Court. 1t is alleged that several
points in the case that would probably
have resulted in n verdict of murder
in the second degree were not brought
out at the trial.
Burlington surveyors are in the field
south of Cody running n line to the 30
U acres of coal land neal Thermop-
oils controlled by Senator Clark of
Montana. Clark is investigating ex-
tensively in the vicinity of the fields
and has several agents on the ground.
1t was reported several months ago
that the Burlington would build a line
to a point near Thermopolis for the
purpose of opening up the great coal
deposits.
Articles of Incorporation have been
flaI la tI.A - n - -I-
state by the North Platte Canal and
Colonization Company. The capital
stock of the company Is 5000 and
its object is to build n ana forty miles
in length for the reclamation of 100000
acres of land lying near the Nebraska
line in the northern part Of Laramie
county. This Is the company which
proposes to bring 1000 Swedish farm
ers from Illinois into Wyoming To set
tie.
The Piedmont oil field is said to pro-
due clay suitable for pottery, fire
brick and crucibles. The deposit was
discovered on the holdings of the Wyo-
ming and Utah OIL Development Com
pany, and the estimated quantity in
sight Is nearly 1.OOO,OOO tons. An an
alysis of the clay gave the following
result: Silica. ti%fty-four per cent;
alumina, 2G.35 per cent; iron oxide,
$50 per cent; lime. 2.35 per cent; phos-
phoric acid, 30 per cent; water, 11.GO
per cent.
Complaints are said to be made by
travellers that certain ranchment along
the county road between Cheyenne
and Wheatland have the highway
fenced in numerous places. The coun-
ty road Is from 100 to BOG feet wide
and good pasturage Is TO be found NIL