The State of Wyoming.

Manawatu Herald, 16 April 1892, Page 2

The State of Wyoming.

From New York news comes that those interested in grazing in the above State are objecting to the settlement of the State, and have resisted the authority of the law, as represented by the sheriffs and their officers. American news has to be carefully discounted so that wild as the inhabitants in that portion of the world may be, we doubt their having slain forty-six persons in the one act. It is not many years since the north-western portion of North America was admitted as the State of Wyoming, it being only as lately as the year 1868. Previously it was the happy hunting ground of the dark and white skins, and in 1874 a massacre of the whites then residing there, by the Indians, was reported. The character of the country can be judged by the description of the National park, which has been reserved out of its area. The Yellowstone park consists of 3,800 square miles, including a lake of 830 square miles, and there are numerous geysers, voloanic and other grand natural phenomena, rugged mountains, forests, meadows, rivers and much scenery. In 1879 a large emigration of negroes from the eastern states flowed into Wyoming. We suppose the (< old identities " are feeling a bit " crowded out."