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Rawlins Republican 6-1-1901 – 4-29-1903
6/1/1901
Oil at Walcott, W. W. Breese drilling for lease holders Buckley + Ryan, struck oil sand at 535 feet – “as yet not enough to justify calling it a mine”
L. F. Linden of Canton, I: looking for location for cigar factory here – would employee 25 men if locals support industry
Diamondville woman (Belle Fisher) held since district court term 1 year ago – has served out her sentence and some of her $500 fine – paid unearned portion and was released, will not return to Diamondville
The small water pipe in alley between Front + Cedar and east of Colorado no longer serviceable (rusted) will be shut off 6/15/01 – property owners should make connections to city main
P. A. Beck (super) stops work on depot – puts men to work on storm sewer under tracks at bottom of 4th St. to carry off storm drainage
6/5/01
First kiln fires at brick plant, another ready to go
Rush to Walcott, since oil found 200 location notices received at county clerk’s office, additional clerk hired (Miss Minnie Carr)
Rawlins Social Club organized – biweekly dances
District court – Al Probst, Cosgriff Brothers Store robber pled guilty; Frank N. Nevins, cattle thief, case to follow McSwain’s; George Moore’s trial next Monday; James McMahon, bludgeon murderer, to be tried after Moore
UP chief engineer Berry says new plants for depot completed soon
Cosgriff Brothers Ft. Steele wool clip largest in county, last week 600,000 pounds
3 foot sewer under track at foot of 4th St. progressing, city will make gutter connections
Special Council Meeting – Mayor Johnson appoints Tom Hanks as day cop, William McCarty as Marshal, and Charles B. Osborne as night cop
UP offers county a lease on old RR bridge at Ft. Steele with terms county finds unreasonable
6/8/01
Pile driver arrived for depot
E. Wyle photographer returns to take charge of G. E. Barber’s studio – making plans with Dr. Osborne to move studio in new block
Arlo McSwain jury hard to pick
L. F. Linden to open cigar factory – leased rooms at rear of Rasmusson’s undertaking parlor, will have 3 hands to start
Father Ternes back from CA – health improved
A. H. Allen, Snake River Sheepman to buy Oregon band to run on Snake River
Saratoga Hot Springs bottling plant sold to Hiram Hughes of Glenwood Springs, CO
Edson Cut finished
A. Abbott new manager of Brunswick Hotel – running 1st class house and kitchen, meals served starting at 25 cents
Snake River raises telephone money for Dixon-Baggs line
6/12/01
McSwain case given to jury – he claims self defense
Engine #1824 a Hoodoo (in Como wreck Saturday) third time its jumped the track for no apparent cause – engine manager was in #1824 when he jumped to his death
First story of Ferris Hotel progressing – delayed waiting for Denver brick – W. A. Davis plumbing contractor putting steam pipes in for first floor
Dr. Osborne lets stone foundation contract to W. E. Collins – 800 wagon loads of stone
Dennis O’Melia buys Dr. Jolley’s hospital for $4,000 – to run a boarding house
Woodmen of World [?]
6/15/01
Two hobo RR riders attached J. O. Cheatham, acting night clerk of Brunswick, who refused them a bed without advance payment
Kinch McKinney has full citizenship restored – taken 7 years ago when convicted of cattle theft, returned after a large number of requests from prominent men
Arlo McSwain guilty of murder in the 2nd degree – jury out less than 20 minutes
Al Probst gets 12 years for Medicine Bow store holdup
Frank Nevins still on trial for killing B. C. Fay’s steer
First brick kiln burned – beautiful light red
Former Dixon postmaster Sidney Mann charged with impersonating postal inspector in order to get letter sent asking for his removal as postmaster – case dismissed for lack of evidence
Tracks in front of Depot have to be raised 12” to meet grade of city – track on north side will be used as main line when Depot finished and will be re-laid with 90 pound rail – repair track to be moved to south side and east of new subway, creating space for a park
Contractor O’Rourke to be finished with sewer 7/9, 3 blocks more pipe to lay
6/19/01
Moore’s trial to go to jury tonight
Cons to be moved 10/1 says “Funnyboy” Chatterton
Dan Quinlan’s steam laundry started 6/17
Driving of piling at depot finished – concrete foundation being made
City has laid water pipe from pen reservoir to cemetery – water for plots available
Mrs. Minnie Peckham employed as forewoman at Quinlan’s steam laundry
T. A. Rendle has built large stable with lumber from old Rankin stable – stalls for 50 head of horses and loft with capacity for several cars of hay and grain
Dixon – Annie Reichke obit
6/22/01
George Moore guilty of murder in the 2nd degree
Dr. Heath left to visit Denver
Roy Kelley still hunting family
27 years since Indian Fight – Pine Grove/Rawlins Springs Massacre
6/26/01
J. J. Henry informs press he has ordered furniture for Ferris from Denver, to be shipped next week
Contract for poles let for Snake River phone line
M. C. Barkwell, regiment colonel Wyoming National Guard here, wants company of guard formed here, talks to Captain M. M. Maghee + Lt. Charles B. Osborne who MIGHT interest locals in such an organization
Modern woodmen band gets instruments
Lumber put on ground for F. A. Luckfield home to be built on corner east of J. M. Rumsey’s
framework of Ferris Hotel will be up end of week – brick will be done then to
contractor Collins laying foundation stone for Osborne Block in a few days
contractor Abbott to lay brick on Hansen block as soon as 2nd kiln cools
Big Perkins + sister Mrs. Fox in Rawlins
Joe Baker abused and beat one of his step daughters seriously and was arrested
Arlo McSwain sentenced to 20 years, Moore 20 years, Nevins 3 years
Council and mayor feuding about cop appointments
Captain L. G. Davis and family up from Denver to Saratoga Ranch – has few head of registered cattle to send to ranch as well
UP “secret service” taking extraordinary precautions to prevent a holdup at an express between Laramie and Rawlins by Hole-in-Wall gang, who are now supposedly in Rawlins making plans to attack a train
Laramie RR shops to close – all engines to run Cheyenne to Rawlins
Contractor O’Rourke nearly done
Streets sprinkled again – an innovation that all appreciate
G. P. Matthewson (Killed Brush) well known Jack Creek ranch man visits Rawlins
Sisters of St. Joe’s School leave next week for Pendleton, OR – school to reopen first week of September
Woodmen Silver Coronet band to make first public appearance
E. M. Tierney division foreman Laramie – thought to be returning to old job as shop foreman here – tenant ordered out, his family returning next week
Medicine Bow coal chutes burn – sparks from passing train – already rebuilding, burnt before in October 1895
7/3/01
Sheriff McDaniel + Deputy Horton take McSwain, Moore, + Nevin to pen
Dan Quinlan has new laundry wagon on the street
City orders new sprinkling car from Denver
Settlings of dirt against foundation of east side of new Hansen Mercantile caused wall to bulge out - dirt will have to be removed and wall strengthened before building can be erected
UP now putting up automatic gates at RR crossing at the end of freight depot
General Foreman Ed Tierney ordered to remain at Laramie pending further orders
Woodmen Band to furnish musical entertainment here for 4th of July afternoon and evening
Herbert Ambler released - shooting to death of Rich England deemed self defense
2nd kiln of 123,000 bricks ready as soon as kiln cools in latter part of the week
3rd kiln of 125 bricks has been fired, 4th kiln being built
Teams grading grounds on both sides of tracks east of stockyards 3000 feet, now side tracks will be laid
7/6/01
Workmen on Ferris didn't take 4th off - flew flag and worked
Swedes have social dance at Danish Hall
Attorney N. R. Greenfield buys Ed R. York's interest in Park Hill Townsite Co. and becomes Agent as well as attorney for company
Park Hill Townsite Co. have deal with city to extend water mains to their addition - bids for pipe work to be called for at once
7/10/01
Bids for grading front street to be opened
Sprinkler setup 7/8, now working, Robert Rankin teamster/operator
Ed Tierney to move family to Rawlins next week, will retire for present time from UP
2 12" breach loading guns of pattern #15 went wet to Union Iron Works of SF, destined aboard Wyoming
Bids for improvement at old pen opened - awards not made for stone, brick, or cement work
Work to start on Hugus Co. 2nd story next week
Stone masons making rapid progress on foundation of Osborne block
Brick layers to begin brick work at Depot tomorrow
W. W. Abbott has brick layers on Hansen/Rawlins Packing Building, H. Larsen has crew putting up joist
Norris Frances new 2 story home in NW Rawlins is enclosed
Sheeting being put on 2nd and 3rd stories of Ferris hotel, which are of wood
7/13/01
Craig Courier: telephone line from Rawlins to Baggs/Dixon to be extended this summer, likely to Hahn's Peak or Craig
No branch lines to be built in WY this year - no Walcott to Encampment
Another line "wire" circuit Rawlins to Grand Encampment now being strung for telephone
Callahan + Larsen proprietors of Colorado/Wyoming chain "Golden Rule Stores" lease corner store room in Charles Johnson's livery barn, will sell dry goods and notions
Work going well on Ferris Hotel - outside to be enclosed and roof on soon
E. M. Tierney will move family here Monday next
7/17/01
Work of removing stone caps and cornice for brickwork begun on Hugus building - brickwork to start soon
Osborne contracts let - W. W. Abbott gets brick work, Daley + Dow get wood work
J. R. Grimes, Cheyenne contractor, begins work on old pen, sublets stonework and excavation of laundry/bath/tailor shop to Smith + Collins of Rawlins
7/20/01
Fred Wolfe obit
Modern Woodmen of America order band uniforms, regulation for M.W.A. - green coat, white trousers
Ringling Brothers circus to be in Rawlins 8/13
Super A. J. Vance and lineman Charles Komer of telephone company go to Saratoga to install new exchange; switchboard with independent operator to be put in - Saratoga will then have same facilities as Rawlins
Gus Engstrom, carpenter, cut wrist working on August Swanson's Park Hill home - had bad reaction to chloroform he had asked for and died
Hugus store robbed overnight
Bids for construction of stone steps to south entrance to Rawlins public school
7/24/01
A. J. Vance has company putting in new exchange at Encampment
Fight Greek vs. Austrian laborers at Granger
Architect J. J. Buddart, who drew plans for Ferris hotel, Osborne block, Hugus addition, here to inspect progress on all
City board inspects sewer as O'Rourke finishes work; grade work on Front began, Sam Green superintending job supervised by city engineer Booker
Woodmen band got contract to play Frontier Celebration in Cheyenne
Brick work progressing again after several day delay due to no material
J. R. Grimes up from Cheyenne to study progress on stone work of addition to building at old pen
Will Nickell assassinated near father's ranch
7/27/01
Brickwork on Hansen building to be done soon, W. W. Abbott will move crew to work on Hansen Quinlan + O'Donnel block
Norrie France home near done, paint and plaster beings next week
Sewer accepted, O'Rourke released from further obligations
G. A. Anderson + Charles Eklof victims of premature explosion in north quarry - Eklof badly burned, Anderson blinded (possibly may recover)
W. H. Loomis jeweler, hires Arthur Delano of Chicago to help with increased trade
J. K. Hetzler manager accepts frontier days gig for M.W.A. band - uniforms for 19 should be here in time
Mrs. May Ferris fetted mountain freighter runs bus between Saratoga and bottle mining camps - 1st class freighter does it all herself, was injured a few days ago by wagon running back on her - shoulder and breast hurt.
7/31/01
Cloud burst on Separation Creek, county bridge washed out on Ferris road, creek overran banks
Hopkins Brothers get lease on 38,000 acres in north Carbon Count filed on by Budington this spring, land on west side of Platte was to be coal field, will make excellent sheep range
At end of new Elk (Mason’s) Hall there’s a piece of ground facing cedar, Elks decided to buy it to build an addition to the hall
Sam Green making good process grading Front St.
Special meeting at city board plumbing license issued to Johnson-Davis of Denver to do Ferris Hotel, Flarity + Rattigan of Denver doing Bennett Hardware, W. A. Davis and P. S. Cook of Cheyenne doing pen work
Burlington still needs coal, still reason to build to Seminoe
8/3/01
Ferris Hotel to have Platte River Water – city gives permission for them to deal with and tap UP main’s
O’Rourke paid for sewer – Rendle Brothers allowed some for teams to grade streets
Pressed brick co. and R.E.L.+F. Co. also given permission to buy into UP water
Edison biograph projector to have been used to show Passion Flag picture failed Weds., worked Thursday
Abbott done with brickwork on Hansen Mercantile block, now working on O’Donnel + Quinlan building
Henry Blickfelt preparing to build building on corner of 4th and Buffalo opposite Ferris Hotel, to be blacksmith and wagon shop – residence there now being moved
Mac Stewart in jail in Mexico for killing 2 Mexicans
in self-defense” writes J. M. Rumsey asking Carbon County friends to raise money to intercede with President Diaz on his behalf – been in Chihuahua jail 6 years
Dale Creek Bridge coming down
Denver Post says trace of Kelly family (missing since 1899) has been found
8/7/01
Saratoga – Gold Hill stage J. C. Kennaday seeking mail route, looks possible
A. C. Hayford, son of Justice Hayford of Laramie, implicated in sensational affair involving Green River Scandal
M.W.A. band gives concert
Plumbers employed here want 8 hours’ work, 10 hours’ pay – 14 to 15 men want union, want 8 hour work day but with current pay – “a real hardship”
new 100 horsepower boiler for light plant here and being installed
Eliza Stewart "Big Bun" + George Harris have completed their 3 year terms in Laramie prison
Edward Miller + Edward Zabrley, cyclists from Toledo, OH passed through en route to Pacific Coast - try to average 90 miles a day
8/10/01
2 men attempt to burgle contractor J. R. Grimes' room at Brunswick hotel
Rawlins Red Sandstone found in hills east of town, will be used for sills in Osborne Block - Tom Frew has contract to get stone; harder than gray sandstone of Rawlins, and better than Ft. Collins' stone
George H. Godfrey of Columbus, NE here, organizing new sheep company with John Mahoney and others. Felix Wilson same
Father Teches to hospital in Chicago - will have to give up parish here, and seek lower altitude; Father Lynch to be in charge for now
Henry Magor Sr. hired as watchman on Ferris building site - vandalism and theft so great guard needed
Dr. W. A. Jolly + bride back from wedding tour, moved into Mrs. Smith's on West Pine
New depot almost ready for roof - trains will be running to it by
10/1
Plasterers + painters working on Hansen Mercantile block
Charles E. Blydenburgh gets plans for veneered brick home on lots north of Danish hall
8/14/01
Col. William Jennings Bryan + 2 younger kids visit Rawlins, a guest of Dr. John E. Osborne
Ringling Brothers give splendid parade and fine performance
Dixon - C. A. Reschke executor sold Mrs. Reschke ranch above Dixon to Joe Morgan
C. A. Reschke and wife Jennie lose 16 year old Albert son to brights disease and pneumonia
Irving Rendle + Ed Bennett left for 3 weeks trip to Pan American exposition, Buffalo
Peter Eichhorn chief clerk to General Forman Tierney at Laramie shops retires from UP, will work for J. J. Cullen as bookkeeper in Rawlins; Tierney has interest in store and is running it while Cullen is out east
8/17/01
Clarence, 15 year old son of J. P. Hansen, "accidentally" shot at father's ranch at Bull Canyon - his friend Willie Cronin the only witness ran away
James Caldwell accused of rape of 14 year old Rose Hynes - caught by posse
New boiler set at R.E.L+F. co.
RR posts anti-drink bulletins in shops, caused considerable talk
Frank Williams, who tried to enter Grime's room in Brunswick hotel through transom asked to go before Judge Craig, pled guilty of entering a house with intent to commit robbery, 4 years in pen
Jens Hansen announces grand picnic at his grove near Ft. Steele, find dance pavilion erected under trees, music provided, refreshments served
Dr. A. F. Thode gets new "operating chairs" which have steel frame and iron base, with red plush upholstery
Section foreman Palm has crew of Austrians laying new main line track to bring trains in front of new passenger depot
Mr. L. C. Kelly’s buildings on 4th St. being raised 30” to grade work being done on new corner building “Stubs” W. P. Davis saloon – to be removed and replaced with 2 story brick building
Mike Sheehan sells interest in Bell Springs stage station to Pete McTaggart who will have his family there and take charge
First meeting of new city council of Grand Encampment
8/21/01
Coroner's jury says Clarence shot self while playing with lock on rifle - Dr. Maghee says no, wound and powder burns show gun could not have been in his hands when fired
Chapman in from Sand Creek - hay crop good this year; brings in 2 feuding hay hands who got into fight previously, both strangers to the area and glad to leave
Economical and clean light from R.E.L.+F. Co. output being doubled
One year ago George Ferris killed when thrown from buggy during runaway
William Jennings Bryan and kids, Dr. Osborne and Attorney Milton Moore of Saratoga fishing at Tilton's ranch 10 miles from Encampment - will attend dinner at Encampment given by Phill Lee + Mayor W. C. Henry, will speak at Saratoga Friday night
UP supplying all its building with Platte water, why hasn't city made deal for rest of community?
8/24/01
UP cranes working on new Ft. Steele RR bridge
James Caldwell pled guilty to assault and rape - sentenced to 10 years
Jake Waeckerlin to build 2 story business block on 4th St.
Hot Springs Hotel Co. completes elegant club house for patrons
Mrs. B. E. Jones (sheep owner) building fine new home north part of town - peculiar, house being built diagonally on lot
Tile roof on depot about done
UP having storm sewer made at west end of new depot to carry off drainage from track
St. Joe's school to open 9/3, Father Lynch has parish
Grading on Front between 4th and 6th commenced - should look like a boulevard
Kelly family still lost
8/28/01
In a "Negro Drive" behind the Pacific Hotel kept by Minnie Hazelridge (aka the Double Diamond) Minnie shot another woman, Crystal LaBelle Appleton
L. E. Armstrong succeed Porter B. Coolidge as partner to F. Chatterton, Coolidge going back to Chicago - Armstrong recently graduated from Columbia
Rawlins-Lander stage road being changed over soldier divide - no big change in distance but will avoid snow drifts
Robert Freedman sells interests in Green River and will HQ in Rawlins where he has "splendid business and beautiful home"
8/31/01
Willful Murder verdict of coroner's jury for Crystal LaBelle Appleton's death
Hugus Co. brickwork nearly done
Contractor Abbot almost done with brickwork on O'Donnell and Quinlan building
Ferris hotel nearly enclosed
Brickwork nearly done on Thomas F. O'Donnel home corner of 5th near pen
J. G. Rankin drives General Manager Dickinson + Super Robert Baxter (UP) out to his copper prospect northwest of town
J. H. W. Glazier, carriage painter, to open at Blickfeldt's shop on corner of 4th + Buffalo
9/4/01
Photo - UP shovel working Sherman gravel
Robert Graig manager of Hot Springs Hotel bar and bowling alley says new alley made big hit
Hazelridge - held without bail, charged with 1st degree murder, Double Diamond closed by city and other women inmates ordered out of town
Encampment - Marshal Dunbar resigns, can make more money out of public service
Linemen stringing wires in Encampment for new telephone exchange which is to open soon
Handsome oak shelving for Hansen Mercantile here
For sale, oldest established furniture, carpet, and wall paper business plus "The Fair Store" stock - will sell together or separate
Section foreman Palms gang now bridging all tracks in Rawlins yards to dead level
Mrs. R. England (widow) in from Pass Creek, left son with her sister-in-law, Mrs. W. W. McDonald, to attend school in Rawlins
9/7/01
President McKinley shot - resting quietly
9/11/01
36 hours on stage coach - Rawlins Republican representative enjoys brief visit to Wind River Valley courtesy of B. F. Taylor, manager of Rawlins-Lander stage; US requires mails transported between terminals in 36 hours in summer, 40 hours in winter; done with 7 changes of horses, and 3 meal stops
9/14/01
President McKinley dead
Cons still to be moved 10/1
Qualey lakes (Elk Mountain) scene of squatters camps - numerous Finnish miners recently discharged from Carbon Mines
Officially post office at Daley's Ranch closed - not enough business
Kelly building "Slob's Saloon" moved to center of 4th St. to make room for new 2 story brick building
James Healy opens dray line, HQ at Johnson's livery barn
Attorney Porter B. Coolidge + wife left for Chicago
9/18/01
Theodore Roosevelt took oath of president
Memorial service at opera house for president
3,000 will build good wagon road from Rawlins to Ferris Haggarty - miners and Ferris Haggarty Co. will subscribe $1,000
Cheyenne Leader says Ed Haggarty has sold his interest in the Deal + Haggarty ranch to Bennett Livestock Co.
Contractor J. R. Grimes - held up by Steele strike - Polley Jail Co. unable to supply iron works and gratings for windows and doors - prisoners still to be moved
9/21/01
Photo - Ferris under construction
Businessmen jump in on mine road
James P. Hansen architect for H. Larsen - goes to Nysted NE for bride (Miss Carry Sorensen), will return after wedding
UP closes contract to carry Royal Mail – Australia to London and back across US instead of Suez Canal, several days saved for mail and passengers
Cow Creek Sheep Co. incorporated
N. K. Boswell pen lessee here to see new pen – saw many defects
B. B. Holmes, manager of Hansen Mercantile Co. dry goods for 2 years, left with wife for CA, sold home to N. R. Greenfield
9/25/01
Road committee for mine road left to go over route of proposed wagon road
Super. Park here, ordered new depot to be opened by 10/1. Stringing wires for telegraph to station and transferring batteries
Contract let to B. t. Ryan to complete tunnel through Hot Springs Hill to convey water from Springs to Hotel and neighborhood houses
Speculation by state board of C+R as to cost of prisoner move; 191 prisoners in pen, most ever
James Douglas of recently incorporated Dixon Land + Livestock Co. has several hundred tons of hay, will winter in CA or England
Photo of new Bohn Hotel in Grand Encampment
Lessee Boswell told Republican on his return to Laramie the Rawlins building will not be ready in time
N. R. Greenfield inspected several Denver parks with John C. Gallop (formerly city of Denver Park Commissioner), who is now president of Park Hill Townsite Co., thinks Rawlins should have a park like Platte Park in Denver
9/28/01
Mine road will be built
New grocery – R. P. Turpin + M. D. Robison to open in old Odd Fellows building ground floor vacated by Hansen Mercantile Co.
Hansen Mercantile moving stock into new store from 3 old stores; Rawlins Packing Co. also moving into same building
C. O. Stevens fined for selling meat he may have stolen
Sneak thief George Whitney tries to burgle Alex Henly, but was caught
Contractor Haines now bringing Foote buildings on corner of 4th and Front up to grade
Ironwork for old pen here
Franciscan Sisters provide Father Lynch with musical prodigy Sister Mary Luke of Philadelphia, who arrived to take charge of musical department at St. Joseph’s parish school
Republican has inaugurated “mining department” with C. W. Taylor to cover Encampment and Battle Lake Districts
James Michaels obit
Col. J. L. Torrey of Torrey’s Rough Riders will deliver address at unveiling of monuments erected for Privates Slack and Big Horn in Sheridan County
Lessee Boswell up from Laramie to look after unloading of 3 cars of broom corn for pen factory, expects more in a few days
Jim G. Rankin making plans to sink shaft on copper property NW of town
M. W. Dillon left for Denver, probably for the winter
10/2/01
Hansen Mercantile Co. opens new brick block
Commissioners split on mine road – no action
Manager A. J. Vance of Rocky Mountain Bell telephone company states line will be finished to Slater, CO by next Friday, and down the river to Dixon and Baggs within 3 weeks
Bowling alley sold by J. K. Hetzler to Louis J. Nelson (the painter)
Contractor Abbott falls working Osborne block, broke knee cap, injured hip, able to get around on crutches
Charles M. Hurst (Rawlins RR), Andrew J. Miller, and William G. Adamson - incorporated Hurst manufacturing company, will produce patented RR switch which can be closed when train passes by someone on the train without having to stop the train
Soren Hansen + Louis Larsen to open meat market in building currently Rawlins Packing Co as soon as that business moves into new Cedar St. Store in Hansen block
William Miller, long time stage driver on Rawlins-Washakie line resigns and left for Trinidad, CO to go into ranching
10/5/01
New station in use, passenger trains began using new depot yesterday. With numbers 3 and 4 now carrying dining cars, no longer a need for meal stops
Old depot being fitted up for use of Yard Master Sullivan
As soon as Ferris hotel opens, Pacific hotel dining room will close and be converted into a reading room, Pacific hotel will be converted into a lodging house
Board at Mrs. R. L. Row’s, corner of 8th and Pine – no kids
Geddes Sheep Company sells 5,000 ewe lambs to Dixon L+L stock company
The Paulson Building recently vacated by Hansen Mercantile Co. is being fitted up for Fred Anderson’s new saloon
10/9/01
Asphaltum claims 11 miles south of Bitter Creek Station
Contractor Grimes says he’ll be through with iron work tomorrow
State superintended Tynan says transfer (of prisoners) not for at least 2 weeks
Laramie Dispatch - Laramie blacksmith making shackles to transport cons, will have to be cut off at Rawlins
RR record - 58 miles in 55 minutes, set by Engineer George Haskins train number 101
Peryam's Ranch Hotel at Riverside completed last spring, doing well
2nd floor of new O'Donnell/Quinlan building contracted out for Knights of Pythias Hall
Rawlins Livestock Co. buy "township of land" SW of old Nevins Ranch, 10,880 acres from UPRR land department
Rawlins Livestock Co. give notice to stockholders of meeting adjournment signed J. A. Rendle, secretary
Property of Mrs. Minnie Lavin Petty, corner 3rd and Buffalo oppose Dr. Maghee’s residence, sold to Mrs. M. E. Foster
10/12/01
J. W. Hugus obit
State cons request portrait painted of Chaplain Mrs. E. E. Slosson, which she will present to cons – be placed in new chapel at Rawlins [nah]
Photo – Honorable Willis George Emerson plus hoopla on Grand Encampment
Mrs. Wells moves dressmaking from over opera house to rooms over Rawlins National Bank
Iron Mountain food still on – since death of Willie Nickel, now Paul Go, ranch hand hired by Kels P. Nickel barely got settled in when letter came “leave or be killed” – Go fled to Cheyenne
10/16/01
T. A. Rendle sent out team to Sand Creek to get J. V. Cantlin road machine, which will be used to construct Rawlins-Mines wagon road
Wyoming population: 92,531 – 58,184 males, 34,347 females (males 62.9%); whites 89,051, black 940, Chinese 461, Japanese 393, Native Americans 1636 (whites 96.2%); white males 65,843, white females 33,208, other males 2,341, other females 1,139
UP has long barred up freight cars to be used as jails at frontier towns but for first time it is building a traveling prison car to be used transferring cons from Laramie to Rawlins – can carry 50 at once
10/19/01
Aerial tramway to be built from Ferris Haggarty to Grant Encampment, says Ferris Haggarty president I. C. Miller
Old Hansen building on Cedar sold to W. S. Anderson
Contractor Grimes locates here – having finished pen work, he is now contracted to do wood work on Mrs. Kelly’s building and has brought wife from Cheyenne
Grimes work done at pen
Telephone extension line from Battle Lake to Slater and Dixon reached Dixon, everyone given opportunity to use it for free for a day
Super A. J. Vance back from Encampment overseeing installation of telephone exchange – now 50 subscribers
10/23/01
Thomas B. O’Donnell and Con Quinlan have opened their new brick building north of the opera house – grocery and provisions – also have a fine 2 horse delivery wagon; Quinlan will do outside orders while O’Donnell attends to the store
President C. M. Hurst and Secretary/Treasurer A. J. Miller of Hurst automatic switch say stock in firm selling rapidly at 10 cents a share – predict it’ll go to $1 as soon as a working model is completed
Mrs. William Baiers gets husband’s civil war pension (finally), plus back pay of $1,500 (delay because he enlisted under an assumed name)
Sam (S. H.) Green given contract to put plots of ground E+W of new depot in shape to be planted as parks next spring
M. W. Dillon back from Denver, will go to Ferris Mountain, then Grand Encampment
J. G. Jost back from Utah, will go back into sheep business
J. c. Davis back from Chicago, missed Judge Hugus’ CA funeral - notified too late
10/26/01
Notice, Cullen Commercial Co. to succeed firm of J. J. Cullen, now J. J. Cullen + E. M. Tierney
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