, 1902-01-16
STATE ITEM MS.

Fred j.. Becker, editor OF the Sheridan
Enterprise, and Miss Lydia Hollenbeck
OF that city, we're united in marriage
last Wednesday.
Arthur G.. Jones was appointed trus.
tee of the state university Wednesday,
to fill the vacancy occasional by the
death of d, c. Bacon.
AS the result OF the discovery of the
smallpox in the state ~penitentiary every
guard and convict in the prison has
been ~vaccinated, over 2OO people in all.
Two cases OF smallpox were discovered
in Cheyenne Sunday on Eighteenth
street, and taken to the pest house.
The place has been strictly q%uarantined
A convict in the state penitentiary by
the name OF Larsh became violently in
sane at the prison last Friday and was
sent to the state insane asylum ut Evan.
ston.
A man by the name of Heaton was
nd.bagged and robbed Of $40 in En-
campment recently. He is a man g.
years of age, out thugs have no respect
for age.
Walter Du Vail, who has been EN-.
ployed on a Pole creek ranch IN Sheri.
dan county was struck on the head with
a shovel by another employee at the
same ranch Friday, and was seriously
injured, The man who used the shovel
is now under arrest.
Miss G. r. Hebard OF the Varsity
Golf club last week defeated Miss Bail.
ey, champion Of the state, in a hotly
contested golf game on the Cheyenne
golf links. The final score was extreme
ly decisive, being 50 to 81. Both play.
ers were in better form and made better
scores than in the championship game
early this fall.
Fred Nash, the passenger brakeman,
well known on the road sustained a
stroke Of paralysis just after train No. G
left Rawlins Saturday evening. He
lost the use OF the lower limbs entirely,
and when the train arrived in Cheyenne
at l~2:55.o'clock in the morning had not
improved. He was taken to his home in
a carriage and a physician Summoned.
The Denver papers are making an
attempt to have an early morning train
put on between that place and Cheyenne.
The desire is for a connection with No.
3 OF the main line. The train from
Denver in the day time now connects
with No. 8, which follows over five hours
behind No 3 1t is reported that No 6
connection will be changed to No 81
time.
Two OF the outlaws who shot and kill,
ed Sheriff Kicker OF Natrona county
have been caught and probably the 9th,
er two have been apprehended by this
time. The two men who have been
caught are Clarence Woodward and JEFF
Franklin. Charles Woodward, the mar
who lie supposed to have fired the fatal
shot, and Frank Foote are the ones still
at large.
Harve Curry, the last one of the gang
who held up and robbed the u. p. train
at Wilcox, on June 2nd, 1898, and who
lis the man who murdered Sheriff Hazen
OF Converse County a few days after,
has been located, it is believed, in Knox.
vile, Tenn. He is under arrest at that
place and Marshal Frank Hadsell has
gone after him. 1t is said the authori.
ties at Knoxville do not want to give
him up.
Jim O'Brien ran across an elk in the
VR pasture the other day, and chased il
into Glenrock. says the Douglas Budget,
The animal was u magnificent bull with
a fine pair of antlers. After browsing
around on Patterson's lawn during
which time every citizen who was out OF
bed at that hour WA rubbering for all
he was worth, the animal vaulted over
the fence and disappeared in the hills
back OF town.