, 1907-07-18
WYOMING HAPPENINGS

crushed.
The next meeting of the board Of
Medical Examiners will be held at
Laramie on the second Wednesday in
October, being the 9th of that month.
Herbert w. Tyler, secretary of the
Sheridan chamber of commerce, com. /
mitted suicide at Sheridan by blowing /
his brains out with a shotgun. Finan. |
cia trouble is given as the cause.
The Laramie Coal Company is hav.
ing some difficulty in filling its large
orders for coal under the reduced
schedule by the failure of the railroad
company to deliver the cars as fast as
they are ordered.
Fred Bath, the ranchman who was
roped and dragged over the prairie by
a cowboy a few days ago, has a frac.
tured skull and the attending physi.
clans fear serious results. Pulls, the &C.
cused cowboy, has left the country.
Charles Finlaysen, foreman Of the
Union Pacific car shop at Cheyenne
returned from Denver, bringing with
him fifty laborers for work in coal
chutes of the Wyoming division, where
the Union Pacific Is storing an i'm
mense mount Of reserve o This
detachment brings the total of lab
orers taken out of Denver during the
last week for this work to about 400.
Deputy United States Marshal Snow
is in northern Wyoming serving sub
poenas upon witnesses in the cases Of
United States against w. F.. Britain,
ex-postmaster at Sheridan, who is
charged with interfering with the
United States mails, E. E. Lonabaugh
and four others charged with con-
spiracy to defraud the government in
acquiring coal lands. which cases will
be tried in the federal court at Chey-
m
D. A twelve foot prospect hole in a
coal vein near Cokeville proved a
death trap for Guy Button and Charles
Forquist, prospectors, who, with three
other men, were examining the vein.
Button and Forquist dropped into the
hole and were almost instantly over
come by gas. A third man, with a
rope around his body, attempted to
rescue them and was hauled to the
surface unconscious. Several hours
elapsed before the bodies could be res
cued.
Governor Brooks has named the fol
lowing delegates to represent Wyom-
ing at the irrigation congress in Sac.
ramento, California: w. F. Hamilton,
Douglas; j. M. Schwoob. Cody;
Michael Quealey. Elk Mountain; w. A..
Hayden, Alton; ]. NJ. Carey n c. A.
Guernsey. Cheyenne; E. j. Bell, Lar
annie; B. C. Hart, Basin: E.. S. Tenn
pleton, Sheridan; p. B.. Coolige, Ian
der; F. C. Bosler, Rock River; A. H.
Allen. Bags; J.. E. Chapman, Evans
ton; C. F. Robertson, Worland; Rich
ord Young Buffalo.
His solicitude for the safety of 9th
ers when himself in deadly peril re-
suited in the death of Ed Rodgers, a
miner in No. 4 c~olliery at Dietz. Rod
gers and William Bergley were climb
ing the slope and were o 300 feet
from the surface when they heard the
roar of a string of trip cars which had
broken away at the surface and were
rolling down the slope at terrific
speed. Bergley instantly sprang into
a crosscut and escaped. Rodgers de-
layed in order to shout a warning to!
men further down the slope. He was|
struck by The flying cars and fatally
crushed. He leaves a widow and six
small children.
Frank e. Mcmillan, formerly OF
Cheyenne, has been selected by Post
hidolV oShSiai HhSsSi boNS Shai Sp
of the reorganization of the Washing
ton p~ostoffice, which is to be made a
model institution. in addition to his
duties in this connection, Mcmillan
will be inspector in chief of the East
ern district. Ten ear & Mcmillan
was a postal clerk with a run between
Cheyenne and Ogden. His ability at
tracted attention and he was promoted
to the chief clerkship of the railway
mail service at Ogden. Later he was
made a %postoffice inspector, with head
quarters at Boston, and still later was
appointed assistant postmaster at Bos-
ton.
The most terrific hail storm in the
history of the Laramie Peak district
occurred recently and swept over a
strip of country five miles in width
and fifty miles in length. leaving a
trail of crushed vegetation behind it.
The fact that The storm did not do
immense damage is due to the few
ranches in its path, the country be
ing principally cattle range and
sparsely inhabited. On Buckhorn fiat.
where the storm crossed the Colorado
& Southern, hail was several inches in
depth and the stones averaged as big
as pigeon eggs, while a few were as
large as hens eggs. After falling the
hail became practically a solid mass
of ice and interfered with railway
traffic.
The Wyoming Humane Society is in
vestigating the case of a stray Thomas
feline. which not only involves inhu'
man cruelty, but illustrates the re-
markable vitality of the cat tribe. b..
c. Carson, a barber, was attracted to
the rear of his shop by mOurnful cater
wauling and found a large tomcat with
a knife sticking in its brain. The
blade of the knife had been forced be
tween the animals eyes. Carson