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star Wyoming Bl Tuesday, June 9, 1992 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Trona water kills fish in Sweetwater stream 1 evidence of fish killed in the bigger rivers and drinking water is not in danger at this time due to the cooperative efforts of irrigation districts, the BLM, BuRec, and the U.S. Coast Guard, which are increasing water flows to purge the rivers and dilute the poisonous sodium. The aquifers are "so totally sat- urated, that its' going to take quite a while before all of these areas are purged of that trona water," Kaminski said. He didn't know how long that would be.

Kaminski said that BuRec had its Utah crew come to Sweetwater County to drill the well in late May, And while the BLM had warned that to get to the fresh water, BuRec would have to drill through the high-pressure the pressure was higher than anyone expected. "We listed some precautions that should be taken to avoid what had happened. As the drilling progressed, they hit this level of trona water and the pressure even exceeded what our employees had anticipated. It's kind of like an underground blowout," the spokesman said. When the trona water was hit, it permeated into two aquifers above it.

Those aquifers feed the springs that feed Bone Draw. Cement wasn't adequate to seal the well and it took crews several days to get heavy drilling mud from Baroil, more than 100 miles west, he said. ROCK SPRINGS (AP) Water as black as coffee and as salty as popcorn is running through a short tributary of the Big Sandy, killing all fish and other small organisms in its path. The fluid, naturally-occurring trona water, was accidentally tapped by the Bureau of Reclamation while it drilled toward an artesian well May 28. Ironically, the drilling project was intended to pump more water into the half-mile long Bone Draw to improve habitat for fish, officials said.

Boxes and boxes of fish eggs had already been placed along the streambanks by Trout Unlimited and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department when BuRec accidentally tapped the trona water. The sodium-rich, black water killed the fish and eggs, according to Bureau of Land Management spokesman George Kaminski. "It's a dramatic thing when you look at this hillside. "It looks like someone is forcing black coffee to come out of the hill and coming out of Bone Draw there is a dark brown stain to the water. "All the sodium contamination kills the fish and little organisms," Kaminski said Monday.

Bone Draw feeds Big Sandy, which flows into the Green River, which flows through the town of Green River, "where they get their drinking water," Kaminksi said. He emphasized that there is no Judy Hamilton A scenic excursion via train through the Medicine Bow National Forest provides this expansive view, looking northeast just southeast of Albany. Plains panorama Official: Saratoga fish kill to delay Wyo stocking But accident will not slow efforts to de-list rare cutthroat trout years, officials said. The Saratoga Hatchery lost all of its Greenback broodstock, but had already shipped eggs to Bellvue this year and has additional eggs from the trout at the Saratoga Hatchery, Hammer said. Last month's poisoning also killed 14,000 four-inch Colorado River cutthroat production fish, the USFWS said earlier.

Brown and lake trout also died in the ac-' cident, Hammer said. The fish loss is not expected to have any significant effect on Wyoming waters, Hammer said. The hatchery was expected to ship 3.5 million brown trout eggs this year to hatcheries in Montana, Utah, Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Tennessee. As a result of the fish loss, only about 1.2 million eggs will be produced in Saratoga, Hammer said. The agencies wanting eggs from Saratoga will be able to obtain them from other federal hatcheries or from commercial hatcheries, Hammer said.

None of the brown trout eggs were to be used in Wyoming, he said. However, the hatchery was expected to plant four- to five-inch Rainbow and Colorado River cut By CANDY MOULTON Star-Tribune correspondent SARATOGA An accidental kill of 32,000 fish including rare Greenback and Colorado River cutthroat trout last month shouldn't have a significant impact on Wyoming waters, Saratoga Hatchery Manager Jim Hammer says. However, stocking of some streams and lakes in southern Wyoming won't take place as earlier planned because of the loss of Colorado River cutthroat trout which were to be used The fish died when chlorine inadvertently got into the hatchery water system during work on rehabilitation of underground wells, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Investigator Dick Wydoski said. All of the hatchery's threatened Greenback Cutthroat trout died as a result of water contamination.

However, the hatchery had already shipped eggs from that strain of trout to the Bellvue Hatchery in Colorado where they will be raised, Hammer said. Other eggs at the Saratoga Hatchery weren't affected. The decision had been made pri jJMMMMK Cheyenne police arrest suspect in Green River hotel homicide Rawlins man dies in highway roll over RAWLINS Rawlins resident Thomas Dow, 40, died shortly after midnight Sunday in an accident two miles south of the city on Wyoming Highway 71 when he was ejected from his pickup truck, according to reports from the Wyoming Highway Patrol. The WHP said the death was Wyoming's 50th in 1992, compared to only 29 at the same time one year ago. Idaho girl dies in Alta horse accident ALTA AP) An 11 -year-old Idaho Falls, Idaho, girl died after a horse dragged her about three-quarters of a mile around a pasture near here.

Sirena Bradley was visiting her grandfather's ranch with her family last Thursday when the accident occurred, authorities said. She was holding a horse by its tether when the animal apparently spooked, entangled her in the rope and dragged her as it galloped away, according to the Teton County Sheriffs Department. Former Green River attorney disbarred CHEYENNE Former Green River attorney Dean W. Clark has been disbarred from the practice of law in Wyoming by the Wyoming Supreme Court, according to a Wyoming State Bar release. Clark's June 3 disbarment followed the court's review of the report and recommendation of the Wyoming State Bar's Board of Professional Responsibility.

Clark did not respond, plead or otherwise or to the May 21 accident to have the Greenback cutthroat raise'd in Colorado. Therefore, the death of the Greenback in Saratoga "should not significantly delay the ongoing de-listing efforts," the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said soon after the accidental poisoning. Wydoski said the fish were killed when chlorine was pumped through three of the fish holding tank raceways. The chlorine had been used by Layne Environmental Services of Denver to clean the water well system as part of a rehabilitation project, Wydoski said Monday.

The loss of the Greenback cutthroat broodstock "didn't set the program back in the wild at all because they're still stocking fish in the wild." Hammer said. Those fish are being planted primarily in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. Both Hammer and Wydoski said if one or two more populations of the Greenback cutthroat are established as is planned, then the threatened species will be delisted and no longer protected under the Federal Threatened and Endangered Species Act. That could occur within the next two to three marked in Colo Dave Castaway of Denver, a Sioux who is a member of the American Indian Movement. "If they'd leave that out, maybe we'd feel a lot better." Bryan said Sunday's ceremony looked, in many ways, like the first one.

A funeral procession of about two dozens cars, including six vintage ones, wound behind a hearse up the mountain. Walking beside the coffin was John Horan, president of Horan and McConaty Family Mortuaries. He wore period mourning clothes, including a black top hat. Horan's grandfather, George Olinger, coordinated Cody's original funeral. throat trout in Wyoming waters, he said.

The Rainbow would have been stocked in Saratoga Lake while the Colorado River cutthroat were earmarked for such places as Hog Park Reservoir, Sucker Lake and North French Creek in southern Wyoming, Hammer said. The Colorado River cutthroat are native to the Little Snake River and Green River drainages, but those fish have been affected by restrictions on their range. As a result the Wyoming has an active management program to increase the range of the fish. That management includes restricting other species of fish-such as rainbow and brook trout which interbreed with them in the streams where they are located. The also plants Colorado River cutthroat in some streams in an effort to establish a greater area for them, Fisheries Biologist Bill Bradshaw said.

Historically Greenback cutthroat trout were in the drainage of the South Platte river including the Crow Creek drainage in southeastern Wyoming. Now, according to Bradshaw, "They are extinct in Wyoming as far as anybody knows." ficer noticed Burri's vehicle being driven by someone who matched Arten's description, Gillen said. The truck was later reported stolen. On Friday, a railroad detective spotted the suspect and notified police. They arrested him the next day after using a search warrant to find several items that belonged to Burri, authorities say.

Burri's truck was found 27 miles northwest of Cheyenne and sent it to the state crime laboratory for processing. In court Monday, Green River Police Lt. Mont Mecham said Burri was hit in the head seven times with a blunt instrument. A preliminary hearing for Arten will be held within 10 days. Day said.

The free time was awarded to the girl because of her compliance with the other two levels, he Day acknowledges that while the Youth Home drove the teenager to the recreation center and picked her up two hours later, no one checked whether the girl actually signed into the center. Mrs. Snyder claims that her daughter would leave the recreation center once Youth Home supervisors were no longer present and meet with a local 20-year-old man. The two would then go to the young man's house for two hours. It was during that time the teen became pregnant, Mrs.

Snyder contends. But Day says said Snyder and her daughter were "fully aware of the rules and regulations and level of accomplishment provided for by this defendant and both plaintiffs were well aware of the type of supervision provided by this defendant." CHEYENNE (AP) A 28-year-old Cheyenne man has been arrested and charged with the beating death of a 37-year-old Cheyenne man at a Green River hotel. Bill Louis Arten was arrested Saturday in Cheyenne. He was charged with first-degree murder of railroad worker Ted Burri on May 28th. He made his initial appearance in Sweetwater County Court on Monday.

Authorities say they are still checking out whether Arten is his real name. The 6-foot-5-inch blond man had given police different names, said Green River Chief of Police Greg Gillen. Hours before a co-worker discovered Burri's body, a police of MRS foe will speak in Laramie, Lander LANDER A nuclear physicist will speak on transportation and storage of nuclear waste in Laramie and Lander this week. Marvin Resnikoff, director of Radioactive Waste Management Associates in New York, also will address issues and problems surrounding Monitored Retrievable Storage. He will speak at 7 p.m.

June 10 at the University of Wyoming Business College Auditorium, and again at 7 p.m. June 1 1 at Lander Valley High School. Resnikoff has authored several books on radioactive waste, has been a technical consultant to several states and has testified before the U.S. Congress on nuclear waste. Resnikoff's speech, called "The Next Nuclear Gamble: Transportation and Storage of Nuclear Waste," is open to the public in both Laramie and Lander.

Stephanie Kessler, director of the Wyoming Outdoor Council, said her group is bringing Resnikoff to Wyoming "to present an alternative view to the information provided by Fremont County in its MRS study." Fremont County currently is winding down a six-month study of the possible siting of a facility for the temporary storage of radioactive spent fuel rods from the nation's commercial nuclear reactors. Resnikoff appearance in Wyoming is sponsored by WOC, Wyoming Against Nuclear Dumps and the Albany County Citizens for a Clean Environment. defend formal disciplinary proceedings before the board, the re i that Clark had been retained by nu map by Kathleen Bogan'Star-1 ribune the November general election. Sunday's candidate list incorrectly list Chase's party affiliation. (HD55) (hD26) Riverton OLander FREMONT COUNTY lease said.

The board's report indicated merous individuals to handle probate matters and that he failed to act with "reasonable diligence and promptness" in handling those mat ters. Officials at SweetwaterYoiilh Home: Not responsible for girl's pregnancy Belout seeks House District 55 seat GREEN RIVER (AP) Youth Home, Inc. of Rock Springs denies responsibility for a 14-year-old girl's pregnancy, refuting her mother's contention that the child was not adequately supervised. The teen-ager's mother, Diane Snyder, filed a lawsuit against Youth Home alleging that her daughter became pregnant and caught a sexually-transmitted disease while in the care of the youth home. She is seeking child care payments for the newborn.

In the response to the lawsuit, Youth Home lawyer Richard Day says the teen's pregnancy is her fault, not the institution's. Day admits the teen-ager was permitted two hours of unsupervised free time at the civic recreation center in Rock Springs near the end of her stay at the youth home. The girl was granted the free time because she had completed two preceding "levels" of responsibility at the Youth Home, CHEYENNE Rep. Eli Bebout, D-Riverton, is seeking re-election to the Wyoming House of Representatives from House District 55 in Fremont County- A statewide district map and the accompanying list of legislative candidates that appeared in Sunday's Casper Star-Tribune did not include Bebout's district. Bebout is running unopposed in the Aug.

18 Democratic primary. No Republicans filed in House District 55. In House District 30 Sheridan resident Jane Costello Chase is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Rep. Bill Bcnsel, D-Sheridan, in (ht5) KHD54) Buffalo Bill burial GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) The anniversary of Buffalo Bill's funeral drew a crowd of several hundred composed of hero-worshippers and several protesters as six cowboys carried a coffin to Cody's grave site on Lookout "Buffalo Bill was a hero to ev-'ery kid," said Bill Bryan, an 84-year-old Golden resident who was "one of those kids when he attended Col.

William F. Cody's burial herein 1917. To a few protesters who stood a discreet distance away holding signs that called Cody an "Indian Scalper" the memories were less fond. "They glorify him as an Indian fighter and as a scalper," said.