, 1919-03-27
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

COMING EVENTS.
Frontier Days-Cheyenne, July Gig

hotel, erected ut an expense of approx
mately 100000.
After celebrating thirty hours the
jury in the case of Charles Albright,
who last December killed Clifford
Boyd by stabbing him through the
aeart, returned a verdict of guilty of
granddaughter at Cheyenne.
The largest herd of buffalo in the
world is now owned by a citizen of
Thermopolis, William Clayton. Clay
ton has purchased from w. d. Turner
of Fort Garland, Colo, the famous
buffalo herd started by General Pal
mer at Colorado Springs years ago, for
$4,000.
Perfection of a process that will
permit the manufacture of carbon aft
er the gasoline has been taken from
the natural gas may solve the carbon
black question in Wyoming, recently
the subject of legislative enactment
which practically strangles the indus
try in this state.
A good stenographer is worth 500 a
month, and no clerk in the employ of
the state of Wyoming should receive
less, is the verdict of the new state
supply board after an investigation at
the state house. Clerks receiving less
than 500 will be raised to that
amount or discharged.
The committee that will manage the
1919 Frontier Days celebration has
been appointed by the Industrial Club.
1t consists of Il. Joe Cahill, Charles
w. Hirsig, John Bell, John c., Thomp-
son, Jr., and Clyde Early. Arrange
ments for the celebration, which will
be held July 21-26, will begin at once
Success of the road bond issue at
the election April %, making avail
able some S6,750,OOO in government
and state funds for state highway i'm
provement, will mean the construction
of a new highway from Casper and
Salt Creek to the Montana state line
through Sheridan, thereDy opening a
new region for motor truck transport.
Senator Francis Emroy Warren of
Wyoming, who, neX to Senator Lodge,
has the longest continuous service rec
ord in the Senate, and who served a
year or two before Senator Lodge en-
tered the Senate, but was out for a
year, is scheduled to become chairman
of the committee on appropriations,
the place which he held when the Re-
publlcans were las in control of the
Senate.
a novel elopement was that of Jack
Stanley and Miss Ethel Beers in that
its starting point was the Lincoln
county Jail, Kemmerer. The couple
became acquainted while serving Jail
sentences, the privileges which they
enjoyed because of their status as
trustees enabling them to conduct
their courtship and, eventually, to es-
cape when plans for the elopement
had been perfected.
More than S2,O00,OOO in new build
ings and improvements now under
way or to be started within the next
thirty days, is Cheyenne's initial con-
tribution to the expansion program
calculated to furnish employment to
returning soldiers and others. Work
already under way includes improve
ment and enlargement of the Union
Pacific shops, involving an expendi-
ture of more than $1,00O,0O0, with like
improvements by the Colorado &
Southern totaling 100000. Buildings
planned are Il 100000 county hospi-
tai, Y. VIC. A. building to cost $780,
900, n farmers elevator and cheese
factory representing an investment of
$4,000.
COInraIn onH NNyprnfpr had Maid In
Gle Sam more than $S,000,000 as the
first installment on their 1918 income
taxes, according to an estimate made
by Mark A. Skinner, collector of inter
nal revenue for these two states. The
total income taxes to be paid by the
two states will run between $35, 600, 900
and S40,OOO,O0O.
County Attorney Floyd A. Walker
succeeded in securing the confessions
of seven men and boys implicated in
an organized holdup of Glenrock last
week. -Four of those who pleaded
guilty are boys between the ages of 10
and IS, the others being men. Three
are now in Jail at Douglas awaiting
the action of the court, and the others
are out on bond.
A. NJ. Minium, president of the
American F%ireproofing Company, with
II. A. Petit of Chicago, are in Lander
10 supervise the installation of the ma
chinery for the $4,000 asbestos mill
recently hauled TO the mines at Lewis
ton. They state that operations dur
ing the winter have resulted in the
accumulation of $4,000 worth of as
bestos at the dump, which will be
worked as soon as the plant can be
Installed.
Acting Governor Chaplin granted
the request of the governor of Idaho
for the extradition of Frank McDon-
aid of Casper, charged with obtaining
money under false %pretenses at Armio,
Idaho. Mcdonald is n former bank
promoter who organized a string of
banks in Wyoming.