, 1901-10-03
WYOMING NOTES.

u u ScnOOl yeur.
At Cheyenne September 22nd Lena
Fair, wife of Joseph Fair, shot n
killed her father-in-law. Mix FAR
who is said to nave just before threat
ened her life with a revolver.
There are at present thirteen manned
and injured patients in the surglcal
ward of the state hospital. of the 10
patients received mt the institution
since July LIST but seven have dled.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has put on "A large force OF mel
stringing new copper wire from lArh-
mic to Denver and from Denver 10
Salt Lake, working in both directions
Word has reached Kemmerer from
Cokevllle that John Benson, a sheep
man of that place. recently Iost ~
sheep. A behr got into his flock ana
stampeded the animals. running ABOUT
700 over a prccipice.
Charlie Roberts IA seriously in
jured at Sundance by his horse falling
and rolling upon him. His lett collar
bone. which was broken five months
ago in n similar manner, was shatter-
ed. He will GOV
The Cheyenne lodge Of Elks is ar
ranging to give II fair of "A weeks dur
illol III lllt lfil lhAuA's -,
tainment will be conducted along the
lines established by the Elks in heir
fairs in other cities.
A new daily paper has been started
mt Sheridan under the management OF
Hayden Nj. White and George Il.
Graves. The new paper will be de-
voted TO the interests of the Demo
cratic party. This is the fifth daily in
the state.
Thirty antelope II week are being
killed In the vicinity of Cheyenne. The
animals are unusually numerous this
year, but very wild and hard to get
n shot at. Parties Of hunters are leav-
ing the city daily and the majority
of them return with game.
The receipts now coming into the
state from the sale and rental Of school
lands amounts to about $4,000 per
month. At this rate the state will dis
tribute among the schools of Wyoming
this year about 100000. as against
S5S,OOO for the year 9DO
Sheriff Moses of South Dakota and
his three deputies have returned from
Kuycec, where they have been search
ing Tor Otto C"henowOrth and his band
of horse thieves. 1t is believed that
the outlaws are in hiding in the Big
Horn mountains, where the officers
are not prepared 10 follow them.
on September 18th r. r. lyman,
state superintendent of public instruc-
tiOn. sold mt auction twcnty-four lots
lying within the limits of Cheyenne,
but belonging 10 n school section.
Thomas Talbot bid the lam in ut $50.
The ground lies between the own and
Frontier park.
a proposition to erect II 2DO-ton smell
ter in Laramie has been received by
DIR. Swigart, Il member of the commit
tee appointed by the Business Mems
Association to correspond with various
parties in regard to the character of
the plant most desirable for handling
the ores of this section.
\ New Castle dispatch says that the
young Italian who stabbed Antonio
Camera at Cambria because the old
man administered II rebuke to him he
cause lie spoke dis~paragingly of the
late President, was captured at Craw-
ford, Nebraska, and is now in the
county jail. Camera is in the hospital
and will recover.
Since October l. 1898. there have
been filed in the office of the secretary
of state papers of incorporation by
companies with an aggregate capital
stock of SI3J. $4,000. The total as
sessed valuation Of the several coun-
ties of the state is less than $4,000
600. or one-tenth of the noun repre-
scented by company capital stock.
A coroner's jury inquired into the
shooting of Michael Fair at Cheyenne
and returned II verdict that Mrs. Fairs
action was ''iustitinhlc and not felon-
iOus, but e~Ncusablc.' She was immedi-
ately released from custody. He both
cred me till ! had 10 kill him. is the
in which Mrs. Lena Fair sums
W the shooting of her father-in-law,
Michael Fair.
Cheyenne dispatch says that Alfred
AFFORD, the Iron Mountain ranchman
recently warned to leave that section
or suffer death at the hands of parties
unknown, has completed arrangements
for the transfer of his family to an
other community. None of the other
threatened ranchmen have taken the
notices posted upon their cOrrnls aud
houses as being serious.
The bore Of the Aspen tunnel through
Piedmont hill In Umta county is low
completed in the rough state. and will
he ready for trains us soon us the
trimming can be done. The Union Pa
citic tracks run to the mouth of the
TUNE ut each end and the cutoff will
he ready for operation rs Soon as the
tunnel roadbed is ready for steel. The
bore is over n mile in length.
Farmers and stock companies near
Whcatland are arranging to feed sheep
on n large scale this winter. Large
quantities of alfalfa ARE being pur-
chased. The Guthrie Live Stock Com
pauy Will fecd upwards of 10000 sheep.
Experiments conducted in feeding last
year Were successful and ii is expect
ed that Wheatland will become a rival
to Fort Collins in the feeding aud fat
tcning business. >
Sheriff Storm has shipped two car
loads of horses East from %Sundancp.
The animals We're inspected mt Moore
croft and will go direct TO st. Louis,
where n large number of horses are
being gathered for service In South AT.
riCa. The British government has sev-
eral agents in the state and hundreds
Of good horses are being purchased.
The animals are the best that the west
crn ranges produce and rnuchmcu are
receiving fancy prices for them.