, 1919-04-10
Brief News Notes
From An Parts of
Wyoming
western Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Frontier Days-Cheyenne, July 21-t

former Colorado "Aggles."
Fred Holbrook, 1~6-year-old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Holbrook of
Lander, was accidentally shot and in
stantly killed by the discharge of a %
caliber gun held in his own hands,
while out hunting rabbits.
In a fast and interesting basketball
game at Laramie, the Wyoming Cow
boys defeated the University of Den
yer by a score of q to 10. The game
was for the benefit of the State High
School basketball tournament.
Harvey yenters, convicted of killing
Andrew George on June IS of last
year, has been sentenced to life i'm
prisonment in the state penitentiary.
Venters is 85 years of age and unmar-
ried and was convicted at Laramie.
One of the largest single incorpora-
ton fees recently paid to the secretary
of state was handed In by John d.
Clark, when he filed articles of incor-
roration for the Salt Greek Producers
Association, Inc. The amount of the
fee was $4,O05.
A posse is pursuing Lloyd Belden,
who walked into Happy Jacks saloon
at ~Thermopolis with a slx-shooter in
each hand, held up half a dozen par
Elephants in a poker game, %appropriat-
ed the bank roll of the game and fled.
Beldep was arrested recently for cat
tie stealing and was at liberty under
$1,000 bail.
Because of crowded conditions and
exorbitant living e-ptii5es with which
their salaries are not commensurate,
they say. practically the entire teach
ing staff of the Riverton schools has
refused to accept appointments for an
other year.. The board is considering
the erection of an apartment house to
meet the emergency.
A fifty-eight-year search for the
grave of A. III. Unthank, who was a
member Ola party of California gold
searchers, ended at Glenrock when Mr..
and Mrs. J. A. Unthank of Walthill,
Neb., visited the grave, marked by a
headstone on which the inscription,
"A. HI. Unthank, Died July 2, 1885,"
had almost been. o~bliterated by the ele-
ments.
Two young wives, neither Of whom
is more than 10 years of age, and
whose husbands are both in France,
will spend twenty-five days in the Cas-
per jail through prosecution on immor-
atty charges. Environment, they say,
is responsible for their plight, their
home life being such that they were
glad to resor to anything to break the
monotony of life.
Supervisor =. s. Pierce of the Medi-
cine Bow forest reserve has received
seventeen applications for permits to
but the forestry bureau has authorized
only 57,100 for the season, which be-
gins July list and ends September
10th. The sheepmen pay 8h cents n
head, and 35 per cent Of this fund is
returned to the county for road and
school purposes.
Initial steps In a campaign to be
waged by the city authorities toward
extirpating vice and immortality In
Casper, was taken when a special
meeting of the City Council was called
at request Of City Attorney W. Fl. Pat
ten for the purpose of enacting ordin-
ances that will invest the city attor-
ney with authority to place all dance
halls and Srooming houses I'm Casper
under supervision Of the police depart
ment.
Demanding So a day, all the plumb
ers and steamfitters In Cheyenne went
on strike. No immediate settlement Is
In sight. The men have been getting
81 a day OIL an eight-hour basis.
George e. Belknap has beer named
by Sheriff Gaylord of Fremont county
to be the deputy for the western por-
ton of the county with Headquarters
at Pinedale to succeed the late I. l..
-Clementsen, who died last October
from influenza. The name of Mr.. Bel
KNAPP will be presented to the board OF
county commissioners for confirmation
at the next session of the board.
One OF the most important items of
interest to the oil and gas operators
on the public lands Of the United
States, If o the most important, is
the recent decision of the department
Of the interior In The Dudley OIL Com
pany case, which holds that the dlscov-
cry of q small quantity Of oil in a
shallow well drilled on a possible oil
structure, adjacent to lands of proven
oil character on the same structure,
without securing oil in commercial
quantities, is a good and sufficient dis
covery OF petroleum to support a min