, 1901-04-11
WYOMING I

office salary raised Szoo-
The Wyoming State Sunday School
association will hold its nnual con
vention at Laramie on Friday, May ou'
Richard McGrath of Dayton was IN
stantly killed on the 10Th ult. by pelhs
thrown from n wagon. The horses ran
away and McGrath struck his head on
a rock.
1t is expected the first railroad
cursion oyer the Sherman hill cut-oH
will be fixed for April 18th, by whlch
time the ballasting will be fully COM
pleted.
The Superior Oil Company has or
dered eighteen-inch casing for It's new
well near Douglas. 1t will be the
largest well eve attempted in central
Wyoming.
The Lawson canal, near Basin. is
rapidly nearing completion. The canal,
which will furnish water for about
1900 acres, is being built by private
enterprise.
The Democrats IF Buffalo elected g.
w. Creswell for mayor and their en-
tire ticket. Bonds were voted by a
large majority for the construction OF
a city hall.
1t is now reported hat the Burling-
ton has changed its plans with reter-
ence to running into Cody on its 10
Inca extension and will make Meet
teetse its objective point.
Prof. w. II. Fairfield, superintendent
of the University Experiment Farm at
Larimer, has gone to Leftwich, Alder
ia, Canada, where he has accepted a
position with a large irrigation COM
pany.
Captain Nickerson, who has served
our years as Indian agent at the Sho-
shone reservation, has been reappolnt-
ed for another term of o u years. He
is an Ohio man and served in ckin
ley's company in the Civil War.
Scott Officer. a sheepman on Big
Sandy creek neal Casper, has sold to
the Neveda Sheep company 5000 head
of sheep at 81 per head. h is one
of the largest deals made recently in
the ne~ighborhood.
George Dillman. son of Hon. Joseph
Dillman of Cheyenne, has been advised
by the adjutant general at Washington
that he had passed the examination for
admission TO West Point and requested
to report June 10th.
The acquisition of the Southern Pa
clfic by the Union Pacific has increased
the demand on the coal mines of the
bhlbL luNlIN III NNVihlhSs
ing the opening of additional mines at
Hanna, Rock Springs and other coal
camps.
Arthur Phillips. the mail carrier
! charged with robbing the Rawlins-
Split Rock mail sack of a registered
money letter. has been brought TO
Cheyenne and placed in the county jail
to await his trial at the next term OF
the United States Il
Richard McGrath was killed in a
runaway pear his ranch at Dayton. He
was driving down the hill leading TO
Wolf creek when his team became
frightened. At the bottom of the hill
he was thrown out and struck his head
on a rock. His neck was broken by
the fall.
Secretary Hitchcock has issued an
order restoring to public settlement
one township of land in III northeast
ern portion of the Big Horn timber
reserve. The land in question is de
void of timber and is desired for set
tlement by farmers who will irrigate
and cultivate it.
C. W. Round, a horse buyer of Chey-
enne, has been awarded a contract by
the United States quartermaster at
Denver to furnish 100 cavalry horses
" - VI INV 4 mn az NtA' "a
airy in Arizona, the horses TO be deliv-
cred at Buffalo, Sheridan n Gillette,
Wyoming. and Billings, Montana. Mr..
Round will make Buffalo his head
quarters.
Ira r. Fredendall. formerly sheriff of
Laramie county. has received the APP
pointment of captain and assistant
quartermaster in the regular army.
Captain Fredendall has been serving
for nearly two years in the quarter
masters department under a volunteer
commission and is now in China with
the army.
On the recent visit of President
Kebler of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company to Huntsville, ii was stated
that arrangements are being made to
increase the output of iron ore 1OO per
cent. by May LIST next, when the pro-
duction will be 1900 tons daily, all of
this ore being needed 10 fill the de
mani of the Pueblo works.
The new Masonic temple to be erect
ed at Cheyenne will be two stories in
height and will also contain n base
ment. In addition to the halls and
meeting rooms, elegant club rooms
will he fitted up, pool and billiard TIA
bles, bowling alleys, etc, will be put
III anu OlItT tullES dTTinStu lOF llt
convenience and amusement of the
members.
The state superintendent of public
instruction has made the annnal ap-
portiOnment of funds for school pur-
poses and distributed same among The
various counties ms follows: Albany,
S5,325; Big Horn, S2.576; Carbon. So
80; Converse. $2,S56; Crook. 1924;
Fremont, S2.5I2; Johnson, S2.26S; Lar
annie, SS.352; Natrona. $1,l53: Sweet
water. S4,424; Sheridan. S5,212; Tin
tab, $12,66I; Weston, $1.S4I.
A man representing himself as an
old railroad conductor on the New
York Central railroad entered a Chey-
enne bank II few days since and got n
draft cashed on the First National
Bank of New York. He showed his
railroad pass on the Union Pacific and
eastern roads with his signature cor
responding TO that on the draft. 1t
now transpires that the man had no