, 1901-07-18
WYOMING NOTES.

OF tne TWO OWLS.
Two japanese cooks brought to Cody
by the Cody Hotel Company were or
dered out of town by a citizens colh-
mittee'' and compelled to leave.
A report is going the rounds that a
high official of the Union Pacihc stared
recently that the company VIII puiiu
no branch lines in Wyoming this year.
Farmers in the Jackson Hole coun-
try are advertising for farm hahus'
Good wages are being paid, but a sum
Client number of laborers TO care Tor
the crops cannot be secured.
Two additional forest rangers for the
Big Horn reserves have been appoint
ed. They are Frank Hammett of Cody,
who goes to the north fork of the Sho-
shone, and Frank links of Cody, who
goes to the Sunlight district.
Complaints of the wanton killing OF
ELK in the Yellowstone park has result
ed in the forest rangers being instruct
ed to assist the game wardens in put
ting II stop to the slaughter. Several
poachers will be arrested.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
Company has asked for a franchise ut
Casper and viii put in II system of tele-
phone here at once. SC as to be in readi-
ness for the north and south line now
building between Cheyenne and Mon
tana.
Herbert Amber. the man who killed
Richard England and wounded anoth-
or at Medicine Bow May 10th. has been
released. Evidence showed that Am
bier acted purely in self-defense and
the Charge against him was with
drawn.
The Warren Live Stock Company has
disposed of its 1907 clip of wool to
Dewey. Gould 4 Co. of Boston at a
price ranging between twelve and thil'-
teen cents per pound. The clip amount
ed to over th~ree-quarters of Il million
of pounds.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the application of $. Conant
Parks. George NJ. Sliney, c. w. Barr,
Ira T.. Jones, Samuel c. Parks, Jr.,
and others. to organize the First Ma
tional Bank of Thermopolis, with Il
capital of $3.50
The old line of the Union Pacific
over Sherman hill, including the bridge
over Dale creek, is being torn up. Sew
eral weeks work will be required to
remove the bridge ana steel rails. The
line from Buford to the gravel pits
east of Sherman will not he up
at present.
Coroner Murray of Cheyenne has re-
ceived another letter from the mother
of the latk Hubert EacOck. who died
in the county hospital OF scarlet fever
while awaiting trial on he charge of
horse stealing, in which she says suit
will he brought against the county for
damages for the death of her son.
DIR. Seabury, state veterinarian at
Cheyenne. has received information
from the ranch of Colonel Cody tBuf-
falO Bid, in Big Horn county, that Il
new disease of horses has broken out
there. The malady is dangerous i'll
character, especially among mares.
S. w. Mcintyre c'Rattlesnake Jack'D
one of the most successful trappers of
wolves and coyotes in Wyoming. was
in Cheyenne n few days since with two
gray wolf and twenty coyote skins. He
is now camped on Boulder ridge near
the Colorado line with traps out over
Bull and Red mountains.
One of the enterprises undertaken by
the Van Horn-Mfiller Cooperative
Trust is the erection ut. or near Lara
mic of II smelter. The incorporation
is the Wyoming Smelling Company.
which is capitalized for S2jO,G0O. 1t is
understood that the company will en-
deavOr to secur Ii old penitentiary
buildings ut Laramie when vacated.
Theodore Weight, n |bOOkkeepcr in
the employ of Senator L. E. Warren nj
Cheyenne. who recently Went TO Ger
many 10 visit his parents. was ordered
to leave by July 18th on account of his
having come away from that country
TO escape military service. Weight is
II naturalized American citizen and
threatens to make the matter II nation
al affair.
Reports received at Cheyenne from
Converse county state that grasshop-
pers are eating off the range grass and
destroying thec crops. Along the Horse
less and Muddy great damage has al
ready been done. Wheat crops have
sun cred more than any other class of
vegetation. The large number of in
sects is attributed to the exceedingly
dry fall of 1900.
In his address before the Eastern
Wyoming Wool Growers Association
Governor Richards advanced the the
DRY that 1t is not only possible to run
sheep I'M cattle together. but it is also
more profitable than conducting the
two industries separately. He said
ina the idea tina sheep ruin II range
is a mistake. and cited many Instance
where sheep grazing had improved the
range fifty per cent.
1t is reported at Cheyenne that an
epidemic of Elanders exists throughout
the state, the greater number of cases
being confined to ~Diamondville, Day
ton and Pryor Gap. The disease is
caused by railroad contractors bring
ing diseased horses into the state. the
quarantine and inspection laws being
insufficient to keep them out. AT Day
ton the infected animals are said 80 he
in such n state that they will probably
have to be killed.
c. l.. Wantland. Union Pacific land
agent, says that negotiations between
Sweetwalcr county shecpmcn and the
Union Pacific company are under way
for an agreement to provide for the
leasing of only the railroad land lying
south of the track between Rock
Springs and Upton, the northern sec.
tons to be left open for the use of
uinta county and Utah Slleeumen. the
balance of the Red desert to She fIorkS