, 1919-09-18
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

liC oily ,oulcIl.
Ralph Jennings, son of /. n. Jen-
nings, II member of the State Legis-
lature, was found murdered in his au-
tomobiIe at Laramie City.
Forrest Warren Cadwalader of Phil
adelphia, heir to a S5O,OOO,OOO estate,
met with serious injury on his vaca-
ton at Casper when his foot was filled
with shot from the accidental dis
charge of a gun
Six thousand acres of irrigable land,
divided into seventy-nine farms, will
be opened to homestead entry in the
Shoshone reclamation project in the
Big Horn basin of Wyoming on Oct. 8
by the Department of Agriculture.
The body of Jack Baird, wanted by
Nebraska authorities for bad check OPP
%crations, has been found in the Platte
river near Casper only n short dis
lance from the point where he was
supposed to have tried to ford the
stream.
Fifteen of the fifty-five members of
the original convention which drew up
the constitution of the state of WyO-
ming will hold a reunion in the capitol
building on Sept. IS. The other forty
members OF the constitutional conven-
tlon have all died.
Deputies have abandoned their hunt
for William Mckinley, who killed his
employer, Leander Johnson, near Paci-
fic Springs, after securing the Red
desert country into which he escaped.
Mckinley is familiar with the country
and is supposed to be in hiding.
One of the cleverest automobile tire
thefts ever perpetrated vas discovered
at Hillsdale when J. G. Halforth of Ce-
dar Rapids started to change a tire ON
his machine. When he stripped the
tire cover off the spare, instead OF
finding the new tire hat should have
beer there, an old, dilapidated wreck,
worn through to the fabric was found
in its place.
Joe Walch was arraigned in the
United States District Court and found
guilty of selling liquor to Indians,
thereby clearing up the last case of
this nature on record. He was fined
500 and sentenced to serve sixty days
in the Casper Jail by Judge J. A. Riner.
Federal officers do not expect any
more cases of this nature since the adj
ven of prohibition.
Attorneys Thomas NJ. Hyde of Basin,
and ii. c. Bronze of Worland, have
brought suit in the District Court of
Sheridan county for owen E.. Sweeney
against the railroad for $4,000 for the
death of John Sweeney, which oc-
CURED last year OF the railroad in
that county. This is one of the larg-
est damage suits of the kind ever
brought in the state.
More than 100 persons were made i'll,
some of them seriously so, from pto-
maine poisoning taken in eating a
meal served by the Methodist ladies
during the progress of the Platte cOun-
~ fair at Wheatland. All of those af
flicted had prompt medical care, and
numbers were rushed to the hospitals.
Many severe cases were reported by
physicians, but there were no fatali-
ties.
Preceding the coming of its owner,
who is en- route from France, a pocket
razor strop that saved the life of Cam
den Sheffner of Casper when he was
struck by II German bullet at Fismes,
has bee received by J. A. S%heffner,
father of the soldier. Young Shelf
ner carried the strop in a breast peck
ct and it sufficiently DETECTED the Hun
bullet to cause it to inflict a superb
cial instead of a fatal wound.
Harold Il. Denbeaux, a returned sol
der who killed Josephine Hovey in
Laramie, June 26th, when he struck
her because she would not give him
more money, pleaded guilty to man
slaughter in the District Court and has
been sentenced to the p~enitentiary.
Natrona county has an assessed val
uation of S32,205, $50 or more than five
million dollars more than last year
The tax levy now being framed by the
commissioners will be made as low as
possible, the only increase being made
necessary by great enrolment in
creases.
Greybull has voted S2OO,OOO in bonds
for improvements which include 10000
feet of water mains, extensions
and school house. Greybull has built
over 100000 in residences up to July
list, and 1t is expected that over $780,
600 in residences will be built during
the last half of the year.
Walter More, 80, of Cheyenne, was
accidentally killed lei Cooper lake
when a shotgun carried by a man
named Hill was discharged at close
range. Moore received the full dis
charge under his right arm, killing him
instantly. The men were hunting
when the accident occurred.
Although there were as many as six
teen bids on a single tract, and many
drew five to ten bids each, 6,622 acres
out of a total Of 1885 acres of dead
IndlanN lands under irrinntinn ON the