, 1905-11-16
T0kD M a FEW WORDS.
Loading Events of the Sig World Briefly Stated for Busy
Big Horn County People.

In a wreck on the Colorado & Southern, near Cheyenne a few days
ago, two men were seriously injured.
A special from St. Petersburg says that it is announced that mar
tail law will be declared throughout Poland.
For the desertion of a Filipino wife, Lieut.. Sidney S. Burbank was
courtlmartialed and dismissed from the service, charged with conduct
unbecoming an officer.
At a recent session of court at Green River held by Judge Craig,
seven prisoners were sentenced to terms in the penitentiary and were
escorted there by the sheriff.
AT the Cheyenne city election last week all the republican candi-
dates were elected but one. Bristol, the republican candidate in the
First ward was defeated by l5votes.
A. G. Cowap, a Burlington fireman, was u over by an engine Fri
day, and seriously injured. ASS result OF the accident the unfortunate
fireman had one of his legs amputated.
Criminal prosecutions of John D. Rockefeller and other Standard
Oil magnates, under the same antitrust law that has nipped the beef
barons, are being prepared for, and the first steps may be taken any
A postofce has been established at shoshoni Fremont county,
Wyo, and Robert Knittle has been appointed postmaster. A daily
mail service will be established with the CasperLander stage at
Muskrat.
It's generally believed that the Union Pacific is interested in the
canal project which is said to be o n foot for the reclamation of a strip
of land containing over 100000 acres along the Platte river. If this
project is carried through it will cover some of Wyomingis arid land.
Laramie is iubiant over the fact that the old roller mill, which had
been idle for several years, is to again be put in operation. 1t is the
intention of the persons reopening the mill to procure enough wheat
and rye from the settlers of the Laramie Plains to keep the mill Ia
operation.
One night last week the police of Rawlins ratded the gambling dens
of that city and now the sound of the festive poker chips is not to be
heard except in the office of the chief of police, where they re being
huddled into boxes to be used as evidence when the matter is taken be-
fore the court.
ASS result of the recent visit of w. C. Htntze, special agent of the
United States general land office, the illegal fences in Johnson county
Ire rapidly being torn down. This is Hintzes second visit to this
county and h e says that nearly 1000 miles Of fence have oeen taken down
since his last visit.
Ala meetln2 OF tne sheridan county medica society nelu last wee
Or. c. r. HALEY was removed from the office of president because he
assisted the hospital physician in IN operation. Itseems that there
was to be rendered the hospital physician.
Dispatches from Rome have given rise to much disquietude regard
ing the health OF Pope Plus y. 1t has been discovered that the pope
latterlv has oiven his musicians much ANXIETY. His sugerine from
govt, which has become chronic, have also become considerably aggra-
waited.
An Arapahoe chieftain, Coming Bear, was tried before the United
States Commissioner at Lander and bound over to the federal court at
Cheyenne on the charge of criminal assault. The victim of Coming
Bear was the wife of another Arapahoe warrior and she was assaulted
in retaiaton 10 outragesa alleged Ito have BEEF committed by her hus-
band upon the wife of Coming Bear.
A special telegram from Thermopois says that the glowing news
paper accounts of the richness of the recently discovered mineral dis
trict on Copper mountain, Ire attracting large plumbers of prospectors
and miners to the district, and before winter closes there will be several
hundred there. The first bonanza strikes are holding up and Indicate
that they r. permanent propositions.
The tribute paid to President Roosevelt in Lon don in connection
with the lord mayors parade, has directed attention in w ashington to
the suggestion made by ]. Selwin TAFT, local representative of the Inter
national Banking corporation, that the triumph of the president a S a
peacemakerb be perpetuated by the erection, in the capitol city, ola
magnificent Roosevelt Temple of Peace"
1t is reported that the best oil we'll that has been drilled in the
Salt creek oil region nea Casper, vas finished last week by the
Antwerps Salt Creek Oil syndicate. The new well is a spouter, and
when the flow ofo Oil as struck by the drilers at a depth OF 40 feet'the
flow of oil came roaring up through the well and went up in the air as
high as the derrick. The well was plugged and the product will not
be used until arrangements can be made to put it on the market.
Several Japanese laborers employed at a limestone quarry near
mikado. Some Swedes employed at the same quarry thought the Japs
were on a strike and went out in sympathy. When the Japanese cele-
bration ended and the ceebrants reported for duty, they err put to
work aud the truth of the situation dawned upon the swedes and they
also applied for work, but werer refused and arr now out of employment.
Tabulation of the bids received on the construction of fifty miles of
the big interstate canal between wyoming and Nebraska, whichw were
opened at the Denver office of the United State reclamation service last
week, show that the work of completing the canal will cost 100000.
The exact figures, from the lowest bids received, are $592,s2 of which
s46f,951 will be expended on the excavation of the canal and sl3O876
on the structural work, including all masonry and concrete work. w.
woLx The lowest bidder on the excavation we're: Deadwood
Construction company of South Dakota, James OConnor, of
Mitchell, Neb, and the Burk Construction company of ST.. Louis Mo.
These bids we're selected and recommended to the department at Wash
ington for awarding contracts. Forty miles of the canal are already
under contract. The canal will be fed by the immense Pathfinder res-
ervoir, known a the North Platte project. When completed this one
canal will irrigate 100000 of land, but there will be several Others fedby
the Pathfinder reservoir. That part of the ditch for which bids have
just peen opened calls for the excavation and removal of aOoO 600 cubic
yards of earth 10000 cubic yards of rock