, 1902-03-13
WYOMING IN BRIEF.

master at Harvey. Wyo., and w. ii.
kipp has been appointed postmaster at
Mazelton. Wyo.
Company Il, Wyoming National
tiuard. is being drilled at targets with
the new krag-Jorgenson rifles recently
received from the government.
4l,Sio pounds of sugar beets IN one
acre of sugar beets last season. Also
won state premium on his Rocky Ford
cantaloupes and watermelons.
Charles SydaI. twenty-three years
old, was accidentally killed at the head
of Wildcat creek. a branch of the Sho-
shone, fifty miles from Cody. Sunday
noon. by his boon companion, Hills
Jordan.
Sayer Hansen. who has a ranch at
Sheep mountain. was in Laramie and
reported the finding of eleven head of
his cattle. ten two-year-olds and a fine
mich COW, in Lake Hattie on his ranch,
under the ice.
The Rocky Mountain Belle Telephone
Company is preparing to erect its line
across Wyoming from south to north,
as was the announced intention last
fall. The gap to be bridged extends
from Lander TO Basin City.
Popp & Noble, proprietors of the Sen
ate saloon at Cheyenne, attempted to
openly defy the anti-gambling law to-
night. They opened with n roulette
wheel and poker game, but were
promptly closed by the sheriff.
Attorney J. T. Norton's arrest at
Cheyenne has brought to light n long
series of fraudulent matrimonial bu-
reau II other schemes conducted by
him through the mails. He CORE
sponded under the name of Mabel Dun
las.
The Ferris hotel ut Rawlins has bee
.eased for five years by w. j. Moring
and A. II. Frye, up TO the present day
clerk and steward. respectively, of the
Albany Hotel in Denver. The Ferris
has just been completed at a cost of
$4,000.
Daniel Densley is suing the Union
Pacific in the Salt Lake courts for ST.
1I6 damages alleged to be due as the
result of the road in delaying n ship
ment of sheep from Bitter Creek, Wyo-
ming, to Omaha, where Densley lost
this amount.
The secretary of war last Friday. on
request of Congressman Mondell,
signed an order allowing a sum of
money for completing the storage res
ervoir and extending the pipe line to
the water works at Fort Mckenzie. and
for a sewerage system at the post.
1t is credlbly reported that Mat Ba-
rock and associates have sold to Col
onel Stocking of st. Paul. Colonel Shep-
perd of the Chicago x Alton railroad,
and others, 2,5GO acres of oil lands for
$4,000. These oil lands lie between
Rawlins and Fort Steele and are to be
developed his year.
The first tracklaying for the Lara
mic, Hahn's Peak & Pacific railroad
will begin at Laramie in April. and 1t
is expected to complete the first divis-
ion, extending to Centennial, a distance
of thirty-seven miles, during July. Pre-
liminary surveys have been made for
about 600 miles of track.
The Union Pacific has leased the
Green River Opera House and will re-
construct the building and use it as n
club house for employees. The audito-
rum will be made into a billiard room,
and II end cut off for Il library. The
company will maintain the club. which
will be open to employees in all depart
ments.
Relative to the building of a railroad
into the Saratoga valley and the Grand
Encampment mining district. the as
surance now comes from headquarters
that Ii building of the line south from
! Walcott will begin by May LIST and that
the line will be rushed to completion
within from sixty TO seventy days after
the first ground is broken.
A Larimer paper IL that Kid
Winchester of Big Horn basin. and
Jack Moran of Chicago, will engage in
Il twelve-round prize fight in Iiawlins
on March 18th, but Acting Mayor
Clause, in the absence of Mayor John
son, states emphaticnlly that no prize
fights will take place in Rawllns UNI
der the present administration.
As n result of the continual contagion
of Wyoming cattle by stock shipped if-
to the state from Colorado and Nebras-
ka, Acting Governor Chatterton has
issued a proclamation declaring n quar-
antine against both of those states. The
principal disease brought in by foreign
cattle Is that variety of mange known
as Texas Itch and 1t is to give the
Wyoming cattlemen an opportunity to
stamp this out that the proclamation
is issued.
Denver men supposed to Ne represen-
tatives of the Union Pacific. are max
ing overtures to Messrs. Buckley *
Ryan, owners of the Walcott townsite,
for the tract. The deal has not yet
been closed, but 1t is understood that
the railroad company will probably Sc
cure the TOWNSHIP. for some good Of
fers have been made. 1t Is said that
n branch railroad from Walcott to
Grand Encampment via Saratoga, is
now an assured fact.
Saratoga. Wyoming, has been visited
during the last week by n heavy fall Of
snow. Only about six inches fell there
in the Saratoga valley. but reports
from the mountains say snow has fall
en- there to n depth of several feet. In
one locality II is over seven feet deep
and still showing. In the main range
of the Medicine Bow mountains II Is es-
timated that thirty feet of snow has
fallen this winter. This has settled
down to an average depth of sixteen
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