, 1907-08-01

The King Bros Sheep Company's
clip, amounting to bout 10000 pounds,
consigned to Dewey, Gould & Company
of Boston, was shipped to Laramie.
Justice Hynds of Laramie fined Joe
Cortez, a Mexican sh%eepherder, 500
and costs and sent INN to jail for six
months for passing worthless checks.
Fish Commissioner Campbell has
sem 10000 young fish to Evanston
for distribution in the streams of
Uinta county, and $1,000 went to Tom
Painter in that county.
The Carbon Timber Company OIL ac-
count of the deficiency of labor in he
district is importing Japs for its tie
cutting. The first lnstallment arrived
at the Douglas creek tie camp.
Negotiations are on for the purchase
of the controlling interest in the
Northt American Trust Company at
Encampment, by Cosgriff Bros. The
deal will probably be closed within
the next ten days.
Mrs. Katherine McKetchnie, born in
Scotland eighty-nine years ago, COM
ing to America at the age of eight n
long a resident of Wyoming, died at
the home of her on, twenty miles
east of Laramie.
c. l.. Chapman, deputy county clerk,
has been appointed secretary of the
Sheridan County Fair Association to
succeed the late secretary, H. w. Ty-
Ter, says the Sheridan Post. J. J.
Bentley, who accepted the Office tenn
porarily, declined to accept the place
permanently.
Lightning struck a large tree in
front of the residence of Charles A.
Reals. on Sixth street, in Laramie,
tearing the trunk of the tree badly.
Mrs. Sterzbach, who Ives in the May
nGrd house, at the corner of Sixth and
Kearney street, was somewhat stunned
from the bolt, her limbs being almost
paralyzed for the moment. No other
damage has been reported.
AS the postoffice at Encampment is
the only place in camp where money
less than a nickel is accepted, all the
cents of the district accumulated there
until Postmaster Ashley had IS of that
denomination. He disposed of them to
the stockholders of the Penn-Wyoming
company, who were inspecting their
properties, at eighty-tive ents on the
dollar, the loss being the postmaster's
Two street besgars were before JUS
tice Hynds of Laramie, each receiving
a fine of s15 and costs, amounting in
the end to eighteen and one-half days
in the calaboose. One of the fellows
approached a merchant and asked for
a nickel. The coin not coming to the
fore, the fellow undertook to enforce
collection a la Sullivan, and Constable
Jones had him in a holy minute. He
will devote some of his surplus en-
ergy to work for the benefit of the
city.
r. NJ. Jones and II. F. Alwine of
Pittsburg returned from a visit of in
specttion to the oil wells of Spring Val
ley, Wyoming, in which they are in
terested, and ARE registered at the
Kenyon, says the Salt Lake Tribune.
There is great activity in well boring.
The ~Pittsburg-Salt Lake Oil Company
is doing splendid work. They just
opened a good promising Oil well a
few days ago. The company's oil re
hnery is a great success. 1t has not
been in operation very long, but al
ready there are several thousand dol
lars worth of refined oil ready for
shipment.
Chief Engineer F. A. Haines of the
Northwestern. accompanied by VIII
liam Hines, travelling freight agent,
have one by wager for a two weeks
trip over South pass and through the
New Fork section. Mr.. Hines will
make an examination of the topo-
graphy of the country in order to de-
termine the feasibility of extending
the road in that direction to the Pa
cific coast, which is its ultimate des.
tination. They go from South pass to
Pinedale n thence through Jackson's
hole to Jackson, and from there they
Will return to Lander by way of Union
pass n thence down Big Wind river.
If Mr.. Haines decides that the route
is feasible, a corp of surveyors will be
put to work at once to survey the
new line. The Northwestern already
has a line surveyed up Wind river
from a point just west of S%hoshone,
but has been hesitating about build
ing this line on account of the heavy
grades encountered, there being more
than twenty-five miles of a two and
one-half per cent. grade, over which
but five loads can be hauled by their
ordinary freight locomotives. Mr..
Hines is looking up the matter OF
stock shipments. whi.h promise to he
exceedingly heavy from the New Fork
section this fall. Mony of the cattle
men of that section tried the expert.
ment of driving Their stock to Lander
and nearby railroad points last fall and
nearly all stock from western Wyom-
ing and eastern Idaho will be driven
there for shipment This fall.
Someone once mentioned the fact
that VIII Hiskey was a marc worker
and another friend remarked, We'll,
ia like to have a photograph of him
In the act" Farley Mathison is ex-
hibiting some photographs taken up
around Boswells ranch by j.. H. Slim