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Show Diocese of gbeyeiinc CHEYENNE. Reports About Bishop Lenihan's Successor Suc-cessor Without Foundation. The report that Father N. M. Red-mend Red-mend of Lead City, vicar general of Scuth Dakota, would succeed Right Rev. T. M. Lenihan as bishop of the diocese of Wyoming is without foundation. foun-dation. No successor to the iate bishop can be appointed until the priests of the diocese have had a meeting and referred the matter to the bishops' council at Dubuque, which will then have to get together 'and refer the vacancy to the head of the Church at Rome. No action has as yet been taken tak-en and none is contemplated immediately. immedi-ately. Meanwhile, Father Cumisky of Laramie will continue to direct the affairs of the diocese from that place. The Cheyenne lodge of the Catholic Knights of America has elected the following officers to serve for the ensuing en-suing year: Rev. George J. Bryant, spiritual director; Dr. L. P. Desmond, medical examiner; John F. Crowley, president; Joe J. Daly, secretary; James F. Fink, treasurer; J. C. Carey, George J. Lamm and A. M. Sullivan, trustees. ? The World's fair hall of fame idea is sweeping Wyoming, and calls for suggestions sug-gestions as to who shall represent the state as its two most prominent men are being printed in every newspaper. So far but three names have been presented, pre-sented, John A. Campbell, first governor gover-nor of the territory; Jim Bridger, the noted frontiersman, and Amalia B. Simons Post (Mrs. Morton E. Post), who saved suffrage to the women of Wyoming at the session of the second legislature. John Gillman, the celebrated railroad showman, is attempting to arrange for a two-car exhibit of the products of Wyoming. He is going to the Pacific coast, and on coming eastward will gather from two to five cars in each state through which he passes. He says that by the time Chicago is reached he will have a train of fifty cars. RAWLINS. The report published last week that Father Ternes will leave Rawlins permanently per-manently is untrue. The reverend gentleman gen-tleman will leave for California shortly after, the first of the year, but expects to return to Rawlins as soon as his health permits. j William Murray, who was so seriously serious-ly hurt by his horse falling upon him, died on Friday night of last week. The body was sent to his old home in Leavenworth, Kan. He was a member of the Eagles and that society sent a member to Leavenworth as an escort for the body. Patrick O'Melia, who died recently, after a long illness, at the age of 35 years, was born in County Kildare, Ire-i Ire-i land, and came to Rawlins with his parents when a boy 14 years of age. He has resided in this city ever since. Pat was a large-hearted, impulsive young man, and made friends of everyone every-one who knew him. He followed railroading rail-roading most of his life, but for two years past has given his time to mining. min-ing. With feverish restlessness he delved for the hidden wealth of the earth, paying but little attention to his health until his constitution w-as so undermined that it was impossible for him to rally, and he sank slowly until death relieved him. His funeral w;as held from St. Joseph's Jo-seph's Catholic church. Rev. Father Ternes conducted" the services. Six of the Healy brothers, who have been friends of the deceased for many years, acted as pallbearers. Mrs. Jane Granger died recently after aft-er an illness extending over two years. The funeral took place from St. Joseph's Jo-seph's Catholic church, interment being be-ing in the Catholic cemetery. Deceased was born in Canada in 1839 and moved to Chicago in 18G0. She was married in that city to Thomas Fenley and moved to Rawlins in 1868, residing in this county ever since. Mr. Fenley died soon after and in 1871 she was married to William Granger. Gran-ger. For a number of years she resided re-sided at Ferris, in this county. The Rawlins Journal says she was quite prominent in the early history of Rawlins Raw-lins and Carbon county and was know n by all as a woman of warm impulses. Many of the old-timers had reason to be thankful to' her and her husband for favors which tided them over the rough places and gave them a start cn the road to prosperity. Although she had long been ill and her death was expected, the announcement announce-ment when it came caused a genuine sadness in the breasts of all who knew her. Miss Belle Ryan is home from Denver, Den-ver, where she has been attending school, and is spending the holidays with her parents in Rawlins. y- George Donnelly came down from the Ferris mountain mines and says that notwithstanding the severe winter weather and the heavy snowfall, the work in the .development of the mines goes steadily on, and that early next spring great things may be looked for in that district. Up to the present time there has been but few assays made of the mineral of the Ferris mountains, and Mr. Donnelly asserts that but few know what minerals exist in the district. dis-trict. LARAMIE. r Professor Wilbur C. Knight of the chain of, geology, Wyoming State university uni-versity jsi spending the Christmas holidays holi-days putting together the bones of a sea serpent discovered by him in 1895 and of which this university owns the type of' species and genus. This new acquisition is rated as the most valuable valua-ble specimen in the university bone room. - At the time of the discovery of the fossil remains of the pre-adamite monster, mon-ster, Professor Knight exhumed a portion por-tion of the skeleton, but before the fol-lowinfr fol-lowinfr season arrived, in which he expected to complete his work, an east-srn east-srn scientist who knew a good thing when he jieard of it, learned of the remarkable re-markable find, struck out for the Wyoming Wyo-ming , bone-yard and resurrected . the rest of the remains. Professor Knight soon after discovered the grave robbery rob-bery and got on the trail of the robber. He has been following that trail for six years, and aft'er a hard battle finally recovered the precious bones and is now engaged in the restoration of the only and original sea serpent. This particular representative of the class of swimming saurians in life was sixty feet long and had a lateral expanse ex-panse of twenty fet between the front limbs. The serpent had four paddles, one of which was supplied with five fingers. The hand of the paddle was fifty-two inches long and fifteen inches wide at the base. The antedeluvian sea serpent was the largest swimmer known and lively entirely on fishes. Professor Knight expects soon to begin be-gin moving of the university collection of fossils into the new museum in science sci-ence hall, which is 80x76 feet in dimensions. dimen-sions. Walter S. Bramel. w ho died at a Denver Den-ver hospital yesterday morning, and whose remains were brought to this city today for interment, was a brother of Hon. C. W. Bramel. judge of the second judicial court and at present attending a regular session at Lander. The dead man was a pioneer in this section, universally popular and respected, re-spected, and was familiarly known throughout Albany county as "Buck" Bramel. ROCK SPRINGS. Among the young folks w ho are home for the holidays are: Miss Katherine Gobie from Salt Lake, Nettie and Freddie Fred-die O'Donnell, Salt Lake; John Thompson, Thomp-son, Laramie; Josephine, Tcm and Eddie Ed-die Murray, Ogden; Roger Davis, Laramie; Lar-amie; James Lemarr, Salt Lake. -$ During the first eleven months of 1901 405 patients were treated at the state hospital here. One hundred and sixty-si:-: cases were medical and 233 surgical. surgi-cal. The railroad company and the coal companies furnished 165 of the surgical cases. Of these the( Union Pacific furnished fur-nished 144.' i EVANSTON. A very pretty wedding occurred at 5 o'clock Christmas afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William N. Summers, Sum-mers, when their daughter, Mrs. Mae L. Holley, was united in marriage to Mr. Gus Kuster by the Rev. Father Casey. The bride was attired in gray crepe trimmed with white chiffon and panne velvet and carried white carnations. carna-tions. Only a few of the relatives and intimate friend3 of the contracting parties par-ties were present. There were many beautiful and costly presents. The happy hap-py couple went to Salt Lake for a brief honeymoon. They will be at home after February 1 at their home in Park City. . : |