Show SHOULD CALL IT OGDEN Controversy Over the Naming of a Wyoming River At the last meeting of the Wyoming legislature a movement was begun with the object of changing the name of the Shoshone river to the Coulter river says the Denver Xews The reason advanced for the change was that Shoshone means snake and there are two Snake rivers I also that Coulter was the name of the llrst white man who set foot upon the soil of Wyoming and It was proper that the name of John Coulter should be handed down to future generations Although 1 Al-though the bill did not pass it Is probable prob-able the movement will be resuscitated at the next meeting of the legislature AV L Bailey general passenger agent of the Colorado Midland road who has made a special study of early western history thinks tho river ought to be known as the Ogden rlver instead of the Coulter According to Jlr Bailey Peter Ogden after whom the city of Ogden Utah is named antedated Coulter six or eight years in arriving in Wyoming Ogden who was a trapper of the Hudson Hud-son Bay company came down into Wyoming on one of his winter expedition expedi-tion traveling as far south sis the Green river where He passed the winter of 180405 Coulter was a member of Lewis and Clarks expedition which passed through to the mouth o fthe Columbia river several years later lIe afterward returned to the mountains with a companion com-panion who was killed by the Indians somewhere within the limits If the present pres-ent state of Wyoming |