, 1915-05-27

River Valley Fair at Evanston.
sept. 21-23-Natrona County Fair at
Sept, ,21-23.-Big Horn County Fair at
Sept. 2S-oct. Eleventh Annual wy
oming state Fair at Douglas.
A glass plant is to be established at
Laramie.
The Bear River Valley fair will be
held at Evanston, Sept. 1918.
AT Paola it is stated that the loss
of cattle by poison larkspur is heavy.
Eight cars of material and machin-
cry for the sugar factory have been
%unloaded at Sheridan.
Grading has been completed on the
Lincoln highway to the three-mile
stone west of Cheyenne.
Fire, supposedly OF incendiary
origin, did about $500 damage to the
Kimball hotel at Glenrock.
Gillette is organizing a brass band
and is arranging for a two days cele-
bration this yea on July 2 and 8.
Mrs. v Thomas Irish of Evanston
has assumed her duties as clerk of the
State Board of Control al Cheyenne.
Michael McHugh, aged about sixty,
and an old time resident of Cheyenne,
committed suicide. A widow, two
sons and a daughter survive him.
One of Cheyenne's oldest residents,
Daniel Fallon, seventy-eight, passed
away after an illness lasting only a
few hours. Death was due to heart
failure.
Five thousand automobiles will pass
through Cody in August and Septem.
Der, 1t is estimated, as a result of the
opening of Yellowstone Park to mo-
torists.
Secretary of State Frank l.. Houx
has issued $500 automobile licenses
SO far this year.. of which 43S have
been issued to automobile owners In
Laramie county.
The contract for the erection of four
houses on the O-Four-Bar ranch to
house beet workers in the employ of
the Sheridan Beet Growers Associa-
ton has been awarded.
A modern brick and concrete build
ing with the latest and most up-to-
date machinery will replace the old
water mill" of the Sheridan Manu-
featuring Company at Sheridan.
To be elected mayor on one day and
rave his safe robbed on the evening
of he next does not fall to the lot of
many men, but that was the expert
nee of Mayor Berry of Basin.
The Chris Juel wool clip, aggregat-
ing 100000 pounds, sold for 271a cents
a pound. A number of clips in the
Rock Springs vicinity have been sold
at from "a cents to 27h cents.
A civil service examination will be
held at Cheyenne, June IL. to examine
applicants for rural carrier at Car
penter, and other vacancies tina may
occur on rural routes in Laramie
county.
Prof. Frederick j. Stanton, for many
years a resident of Cheyenne, charges
that he is the victim of u conspiracy
whereby he has been ~defrauded of
property at Casper worth more than
100000.
Cheyenne was in the throes of a
regular honest e to : goodness
storm on the 18th, and shivered most
of the day. Winter wraps relegated
to the closet were hauled out again
and worn with comfort.
In the case of the United States VS..
William Summers, at Cheyenne, in
which the defendant is charged with
having cut timber on federal lands,
Judge Riner imposed a fine of 800 and
costs upon the defendants plea of
guilty.
Giuseppe Milan was killed at Sub.
lett by his cousin, Dominic Gardino,
during a celebration held by his
friends on the eve of his departure for
Italy to enter the army. The cousins
quarreled n Gardino stabbed Milan
to death. The murderer was arrested
a short time later, having made no eff.
fort to escape.
Attacked by a mother coyote. whose
den he was watching while his part.
ner went for a gun, Shorty" Marshall
of Douglas had a hard battle before he
choked the creature to death. He was
bitten repeatedly and much lacerated
by the coyotes claws. After d~isposing
of the mother he crawled into the den
and strangled seven pups.
Whether or not a monument to Old
Steamboat, the meanest bucking horse
that ever lived, will be erected at
Frontier Park in Cheyenne, has not
been decided, but the Frontier Days
committee is considering a proposal
that the unwilling of such a monumen
be made a feature of the coming
Frontier Days celebration, July 81, %,
90 and "a.
At Kemmerer, guilty of murder in
the first degree without qualification,
was the verdict in the case of Dan
Parker, colored, who was tried for
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