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Show subsequent sums for an agricultural college and experiment station, to cut down tho tax for university purposes one-half. A force of men who have been at work constructing the telegraph line between be-tween Hod Butte ami Pearl City, Clah, will put up on the Cheyenne & Northern North-ern extension to Douglas. Several barrels of oil How daily from a spring just discovered north of Lauder- A description of the oil tallies ex-aetly ex-aetly with that which comes from the Salt creek gusher at Casper. Should an irrigating canal be con strutted from Bessemer to Uridger's Ferry,rcelaiming;l00.oOO acres of choice lands for agricultural purposes, it would prove a greater boon to Wyoming, Wyom-ing, or at, least to central Wyoming, than statehood. Laramie Republican: Miss Irene Morse, the new lady principal at the university, arrived Wednesday evening and wiil assume tho duties of her position posi-tion with the opening of the term. She comes from Boston, Mass.. ami is a teacher of considerable experience and high reputation. WYOMING NOTES. The Bessomnr well is down 1,785 feet, and the walking beam is still pounding away. A good, steady flow of oil has beon struck in the Bonanza well, in Big Horn basin. - John E. Leet, the Denver capitaiist, will next spring build a five-mile ditch on his laud near Douglas, at cost of 13,000. The ranch house of James Powell, on LaPrelo, burned to the ground last week, with all the furniture, clothing and money belonging to the family. A special telegram received from Saratoga brings the news of a big silver strike nt Gold Hill, which has caused the greatest excitement in that locality. Laramie Republican: The report, well authenticated, comes from Cheyenne Chey-enne that It Is proposed, in view of the $16,000 which the university is to get Iroui th government next year and |