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Show WYOMING NOTES. The habit of pilfering Wire fences from the ranches around Lusk has become be-come so common as to cause talk of lynching the thieves if caught. The commissioners have decided to bond Fremont county forthenmouutof the debt July 10th, between $110,000 and $3,000. It is stated on reliable authority that the Burlington & Missouri officials have said recently that they intended to build to Laramie and reach their coal fieids west of here. The officers-elect of Fremont county will give a grand statehood ball and banquet at Woodruff's hall. Lander, this evening. It will be made a big occasion oc-casion by the people of that county. The Standard Oil company recognizes Newcastle as one of the coming distributing distri-buting centers and are making arrangements arrange-ments to place an agent there. They will erect a building for storage aud handlo all tho northern Wyoming trade from this point. Laramie Republican: Superintendent Superintend-ent Knight, of the Keystone mine, was in town today and reports that on Friday Fri-day a rich body of ore was struck in the Florence. It will run at least $400 to the ton. The clenn-up fortius month will amount to $10,000. Cheyenne Leader: "George, the barber," bar-ber," shot a white goose at one of the lakes yesterday morning. This is the first time a bird of the Kind has been killed near Cheyenne. They are seldom sel-dom seen in this section, generally passing pass-ing over western Nebraska. There is hardly a busier place in the country today, except at political headquarters, head-quarters, than the Laramie Union Pacific shops, Fully 800 men are shaping shap-ing timbers and forging iron in that busy, bustling place. All the men who can bo hired are being put to work. |