The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-16
WYOMING IN BRIEF,

Of the State Supreme Court and viii
am II Kelly Of Cheyenne has been sa-
iected as his successor.
James Calhoun, aged eighty four
years. who wandered away from the
ranch of Amos Smith at Big Piney re-
/ Gently and lad his feet frozen, died at
IT the hospital at. Evanston, January
| 9TH.
] Senator Warren has introduced a
. bill to grant Mrs Eva " Downey of
Laramie, Wyoming, pension OF $50.
. Mrs. Downey is the widow of Colonel
/ Downey. former delegate in Congress
. from Wyoming.
The State Pharmacy Board will hold
its first meeting in Rawlins February
5th, 9Th and Ith, at which time appli-
cants for certificates in pharmacy will
he examined officers will be elected,
and an application for membership in
the National Association will be made
The executive committee of the Wy
oming Industrial Association has ex-
tended to Secretary Wilson of the In
terror Department an invitation to at
tend the Industrial Convention at
Cheyenne February 3rd and ith. The
invitation will be delivered by Senator
Warren
The Union Pacific received $50 car
loads of merchandise for Rawlins con-
signees during the year 1902 and
shipped l,66O carloads from the same
point OF this number .046 cars were
loaded with stock. The sum of $24l.- =
900 was received in freight charges and
$4,000 from ticket sales.
The young women cadets of the state
university drilled on the university
campus at Laramie recently with the
young men. The consolidated forces
were formed in four companies, COM
manded by Captain Yates, the military
instructor. The young women wore
their new uniforms of blue and white
and were armed with wooden guns.
The newly-elected state officers were
sworn in at Cheyenne and assumed
their positions on January 5th, as fol
lows: Governor, DeForest Richards;
auditor Leroy Grant; treasurer, Hen
ry G. Hay; superintendent of public
instruction, Thomas II, lyman; secre
tary of state, Fennimore Chatterton
A grand inaugural ball and reception
were held at night.
William Johnson, mail carrier on the
| Woods Landing rural delivery route,
says that the wind storm that ragged on
the Laramie plains recently did con-
siderable damage. fences being blown
down, haystacks scattered and barns
and sheds wrecked. At the Homer
ranch Shed 200 feet in length, hous-
ing seventy-five cattle was blown down
but none of the animals We're killed.
A Cheyenne dispatch of January 7th
says: James E. Miller. the Iron Noun
tain ranchman, who was neighbor
and bitter enemy of Kels P. Nickel and
closely connected with the feud which
ragged in that section for years, has
mysteriously disappeared. His where
abouts are unknown even to his family
which still resides here and have been
trying to find him for the past three
months.
The new coal chute of the Union Pa
cific at Echo, Utah. is nearing compile
tion, and new chute is under con-
struction at Hanna. Two more have
been authorized-one at Rock River
and one at Carter-and work on them
will be commenced at once. These new
chutes cost approximately 100000 each
but the money saved in handling coal
will more than pay for the chutes dur
ing the first year of their use.
The story that James Miller, form
merly a neighbor of kels p. Nickel in
the Iron Mountain country. has mys-
teriously disappeared. is said to
be without foundation. Miller left
Cheyenne shortly after the Horn
trial for his farm In Oklahoma
where he now is. His family re-
ceive letters from him regularly. and
he is planning an early visit to his
wife and children in this county.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
Company has authorized considerable
new work in Wyoming for the coming
season. chief of which will be the con-
struction of line from Rock Springs
on the Union Pacific, to Lander, and a
line from Lost Cabin. on the Casper
Lander-Thermopolis line, to Basin City
via Ten Sleep and Bonanza. If posi-
BILE the latter line will be extended dur
ing the summer from Basin City to Big
Timber, Montana. via Cody.
The Johnson County Wolf Bounty
Association has held it's annual meet
ing. The report of the treasurer
showed that during the year the asso-
citation expended S3,927.97 in bounties
for sos coyotes and 1876 wolves. Ar
rangements were made for the contin-
! uance of the bounties on wild animals,
the stocllmen agreeing to pay into the
association at the rate of 10 cents per
head on all cattle and horses and l
cent per head on all sheep listed for
taxation.
S. L. Wiley of Omaha who is at the
| head of company that has been
| building canals and reclaiming land
along the Greybull river, announces
that he is about to undertake the big
gest irrigation proposition yet at
| tempted in the state. His company
| will tap the Shoshone river above the
Cody ditch for all unappropriated wa
| ter and conduct this, with the abun-
| dant food waters of the spring
months, through canal to a storage
reservoir known as the Oregon basin,
ten miles below Cody City. The basin,