, 1905-10-26

County Commissioner Thomas Os-
borne, Jr. was over from the ranch the
latter part of last week after a load of
brick and other building material.
Presbyterian services will be con-
Quoted by Rev. w. o. Harper at Bar
nett Hall, Sunday at II n m and 7:30 p
IN. Special music on both occasions.
Mr.. Pearson. professor of physical
culture of the Billings Y. NJ. c. A..
visited with friends in Cody and with
his cousin, Marion Williams of Mar
quette.
Rector Murphy, formerly of Cody.
and row of Rock Springs, went east to
New York City on Monday last TO meet
his wife who sailed from Belfast,
Ireland, to Join her husband.
Orc Haley, the Laramie stOckman.
this week sold 763 head of feeder cattle
at the Denver market. averaging 1,116
pounds, for So. %, and 100 head averag-
ing the same, brought S2.Sj.
The case of Jim Black against Jim
Davidson, involving the payment of a
note on which the latter was an en-
dorser was continued until the spring
term of court when it will be tried by
a jury.
Mr.. N. K. Griggs. the noted
musical composer of Lincoln, Nebraska.
stopped Off between trains to visit his
old time friends. Mr.. Geo. IT. Beck and
family, resulting in a highly enjoyed
imprOmptu musical.
Bob Steel a wel1-kpown tlockmas-
ter of Basin. sailed from Scotland on
the 10th and is expected home about
the last of the current month. Next to
Scotland Bob is firmly of the opinion
that the Big Horn basin is a fine port
in which to anchor.
Mr.. Linn. the boss Shell Creek
ranchmau. bought from L. w. Shuman
at Germauia, about 200 IONS of alfalfa
with pasture thrown in at SO. - per ton.
He also purchased a large amount of
\ wheat and oats from the same party,
| paying S1.00 per 100 at the bin.
Judge Parmelee, in view of the
very small civil docket at Basin decid.
ed to continue all cases that required
a jury until the spring term. BY this
wise f%orethought Big Horn county is
summonipg a jury in a county more
than 100 miles square.
Fred Garland holds the worlds
record for fast driving on these desert
roads. He left Basin at 10 a m on
Sunday morning and at 1915 was eat
ing dinner with his party at Burling-
ton. With a fresh team he started out
at 3:15 p m and was eating o Sunday
dinner in Cody at the Irma hotel at
2:1O p m. AS a space and time ami
hilator Fred is a bowling success.
Last Friday night a man by the
name of Jack Golding, who had been
drinking quite freely and. acting
ordinarily strange, told several persons
he intended taking his life that even.
ing. Marshal Carl Hammett was mott
fed, and took the gentleman into
custody. After lodging him in jail, he
searched him and found on his person
an ounce of carbolic acid. Had the
marshal not placed him in safe keep
ing, he probably would have carried
out his threat, especially if he got a
little nor whiskey.
That prince among old time trap
pers, Mr.. Sheets of Cody, brought in a
fine bear skin on Friday last. 1t was
the first real cross between q silver tip
grizzly and a black Zeal that was ever
brought in from this section of the
Rocky mountains and is really a
curiosity to hunters. MI. Sheets also
bad the good fortune to shoot two of
her cubs, one a black, the other a fine
specimen of a brown bear. He also
brought 10 seven martin skins. George
and his w pet dogs are entitled to the
red ribbon as prize hunters.
Andy Meyers a well-known man
about Sage Creek and Burlington at
tended last weeks races, at that bloom
ing young city, for some, to him, un-
accountable reason he bet on the wrong
horse, and this slight error cost him
1926 hard plunks. That Feuton ten
derfood who to the name of
Sheets, and bet on his W horse, won
out to the tune of about $500, and the
Burlington boys have nightly, since
that race, held midnight meetings try