, 1918-02-21
Brief News Notes
From An Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union News Service.

population VI SdopCi 10 oiu ~
doubled in the past year.
The buffalo herd in Yellowstone
National park now numbers 800 head.
Rock Springs ELS celebrated their
golden anniversary with a ball and
banquet.
The Riverton-W Wyoming Oil Com
pany is erecting a large refinery at
Riverton.
An election will be held early in
March at Lander, on the issuance Oh
5 10000 school bonds.
Operators of the Texas Oil Com
pany are considering the erection OF a
refinery at Glenrock.
Rev. A. Gordon Fowkes, pastor OF
the Episcopal church at Big Piney,
will join the colors.
The citizens of Cody turned over
to the Red Cross the money collected
for the Buffalo Bill equestrian statue
to be erected in that city.
The Ohio Oil Company declared a
quarterly dividend of SLIPS a share
and an extra of s4.75 a share, both
payable March 20 to stock of record
Feb. 10.
Edward Henry, son of M. D. Henry,
of a ranch at Brown Springs,
was shot and killed by a ranch en-
ploye named Dunn. A posse was or
ganized by Sheriff Messenger and Is
following the slayer.
Griffin, Loring, Williams and Nc
Carthy, the committee appoined to IN
vestigate the feasibility of erecting a
flour and feed mill at Greybull, are
of the opinion that $4,000 can be
raised by subscription.
During December the Midwest Re
filming Company completed seventeen
wells IN wyoming, fourteen of which
we're producers, and three were fail
ures-a water well east of Salt Creek,
a dry hole at PILOT Butte and a water
well at Big Muddy.
Rock Springs officials conducted a
fruitless investigation to learn the
Identity of q man who was found muir
dered in a canon half a mile west of
the Tipperary mine, his body lying in
a small stream and his throat cut
from ear to ear. The body was dis
covered by Staten Mazzinatti, q sheep
herder.
Four persons are dead and three
more may die as a result of drinking
denatured alcohol, which, it has been
learned, was stolen from a boxcar at
Francis. The dead are Mrs. Emma
Chorp har tuyn unno n and E1pin
Sharp, and Miss Gladys White, a
vaudeville dancer playing at a Gillette
theater. Lloyd and : Herbert Sharp
and C. D. Mckee are critically i'll.
Clyde Burrows Pearson. convicted
murderer, suspected horsethief n
cattle r~ustler, was denied executive
clemency by Governor Gunter of Col
sheriff of Laramie county, Wyoming,
while the officer vas attempting to
arrest him in this state. At the anne
time the governor ave Pearson q
respite of two weeks, extending the
time of execution to the week of
March 10, instead of that of Feb. "a.
Receipt of positive information from
federal authorities al Washington
stating that there are no reasons why
the War Department should object to
the holding of the Frontier Day cele-
bration at Cheyenne has removed the
last bar to preparations for the event.
The committee has a letter from Oscar
A. Price, secretary t william G. NC
Adoo, director general of railroads, in
which the opinion is expressed that,
at the time for the celebration, late in
July, all car shortage will have been
done away with.
Jess Willard has finally agreed to
fight in Cheyenne July { of this year,
arrangements having been completed
for a bout with Jack Dempsey, &C.
cording to press dispatches from Chi
cago. The fight will be for a purse of
$100,O 0 which is deposited in a Chey.
enne bank. All proceeds from the
fight will go to the Red Cross, in.
Guiding the moving picture rights.
Nc conference of governors to dis.
cuss plans for e%xpediting the ratifica.
ton by the states of the federal
amendment for prohibition will be
held. This is established by the re.
plies of thirty-six of the fo~rty-seven
other governors of states to whom
Gov. Frank l.. .Houx of Wyoming ad'
dressed a letter suggesting that a cor
ference for the purpose be arranged
for an early date. Before the replies
were received four states-North Da.
kota, Kentucky, Mississippi and South
Carolina had ratified the amendment
The governors of six other states de
clared themselves in favor of holding
the conference, thirteen governors
| were NOT in favor of the cnnferanca