, 1919-10-16
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
N~ewspaper Union News Service.

Burlington, who met with an accident
at Cadoma, west of Casper, had to
have his left leg amputated below the
knee. Fritz was taken to the hospital
at Casper.
Two famous Frontier days perform
erS were married in Cheyenne recently.
They are, Phil Yoder of Meriden, for
mer world champion steer roper and
Mrs. Edith Irwin of La Grange, former
champion lady relay rider.
Reduction of the police force in Cas-.
per to four men, showing a correspond
ing slump in the number of arrests for
the month of September, which were 30
per cent less than those for August,
indicating hat local crimes are re-
corded in direct proportion to the num-
Der of peace officers.
The Wyosage Drilling Syndicate,
with a capitalization of 100000 in $50
units, was formed for the specific pur-
poseo f drilling the acreage held under
lease in the Usage and Upton fields in
Weston county, Wyoming, and there
are several favorable features of the
syndicate's program that promises re-
suits.
Adequate water protection and serv-
ice will be secured for Casper within
the next sixty days or sooner accord
ing to action taken at IL special council
meeting. The City Council voted to
purchase Il new power unit for the city
water works plant costing nearly $780,
600 which will add an additional unit
to the plant.
Following the lead of Eastern cities.
notably Chicago, sixteen labor unions
of Cheyenne have banded together into
the Labor Party of Laramie County. A
ticket has been placed in the field for
the coming city primaries. which is
headed by Edward p. Taylor, former
Cheyenne fire chief, and subsequently
state labor commissioner.
Three nurses at the state hospital at
Sheridan, who saw service in the Red
Cross during the war-the Misses Web
Der, Hickman and Stephens-have filed
on 640-acre homesteads near the Mon
tana line in the section referred to as
Hendricks pasture" Because of their
service in the Red Cross the young
ome will be able to make final proof
in a year.
After he had been mourned as dead
by his relatives for six months, Harold
p. Holman, a member of the First divi-
sion, this week was joyfully reunited
with his parents, who reside at Cum
berland, a coal camp near Kemmerer.
Holman was reported as killed in action
in France and six months elapsed be-
fore his parents learned that the re-
port was u%nfOunded.
Erection of a dam 200 feet long
across the outlet of New Fork lake on
upper Green river at a cost of $4,000,
will be started in the spring by the
newly incorporated New Fork Lake
Reservoir and Irrigation Company,
formed by ranchers who this season ex-
perienced a shortage of water for irri-
CATION purposes. The new dam will
impound water for the irrigation OF
10000 acres of land north of Cora, in.
Guiding the fertile valley of the Green
river in Fremont county.
More than 5000 acres of reclaimed
and irrigated land in the Shoshone re-
clamation project in the Big Horn
basin of Wyoming, were thrown open
to homestead entry, according to infor-
nation received by the reclamation
service. The land was divided into
seventy-nine farms, and costs the
h~omesteaders 800 an acre. 1t is located
near the towns Of Powell and Beaver.
A similar amount of reclaimed land
near Yuma, Ariz., will be sold to the
highest bidders at an auction to be
held Dec. 10 at Phoenix.
Roy V. Phillips, eX-soldier convicted
mt Green River of the murder of Gust
Pappas at Rock Springs July Goth, will
spend the remainder of his life, in the
state penitentiary. Judge Arnold of
the district court sentenced Phillips to
Imprisonment for life, the jury in the
case having decided hat capital pun
ishment should not be inflicted.
Many cattle owners around Casper
are taking some faith in the prediction
of the Grow Indians living neal Sheri-
dan that mex year will he MS dry as the
present one, and accordingly they r
shipping to Colorado points for grazing
for the neXt two years. They plan 10
ship direct from Nebraska md Colo
RADIO grazing points to the cattle mar
ket.
Rule No. 9 Of the State Board of
Health requiring vaccination of school
children In Wyoming annot be en-
forced when there r no cases of
smallpox prevalent in the community,
is the decision handed down mt Casper
in the District Court. The case will be
appealed to the State Supreme Court. In
the meantime, the attorney for the
school board announced no further at
tempt will be made to enforce the vac
cination rule.
Jose Gutierrez, a Mexican identified
by n military registration car issued