, 1919-06-05
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Union News Service.

COMING EVENTS.
Frontier Days-Cheyenne. July 21-26.
State Fair at Douglas. Sept. 9-13.
High school cadets of Newcastle
planted trees in the courthouse square
for five Newcastle men who died while
in the service.
Governor Carey has announced the
appointment of DIR. ]. d. Single of
Cheyenne as u member of the State
Board or Medical Examiners.
Tim Donavan, an employee of the
Mike Mahoney Sheep Company, was
drowned in the Platte river when he
attempted to ford the stream four miles
west of Casper.
The Saratoga and Encampment rail-
road will not be junked. Instead it
will he continued into Colorado, join
ing the Moffat road at Steamboat
Springs, says George G. Morse of Den
yer.
George Sells was found near the
tracks with a bullet hole through the
head at Rawlins. The discovery was
made some hours after the killing. 1t
is believed that the man was MUIR
dered.
Walter Ayers of Rock Springs was
struck by IL train at Grenville and hor-
ribly mangled. One of his arms was
found on a car in Ogden, 3 miles
from the scene of the accident. Ayers
is survived by a wife and five child
rem.
Acting Warden w. II. Brine of the
Wyoming penitentiary at Rawlins, has
notified the State Board of Charities
and Reform that two of the four con-
victs who escaped from the peniten-
tiary have been captured neal Raw
Inns.
The John A. Donnell Sheep Com
pany of Rawlins has received the
highest price paid any Carbon county
producer for his wool clip, getting
53A cents per pound. Practically all
the large producers sold for more than
so cents.
Tom Fletcher of Lowell, Wyo., had
u narrow escape from death when the
car which he was driving plunged over
the river bank, throwing him through
the windshield, and sinking in the
river. In driving down a hill, he failed
to make the urn ut the river bank,
and plunged in. He was severely cut,
and is unable to tell just how he got
out of the water.
What officials declared was n of
The biggest drug smuggling enterprises
in the history of the Northwest CAME
to an end when David Baxter and his
wife, Bessie Baxter, OF Butte, Mont,
pleaded guilty in Federal Court at
Cheyenne to illegal sales of morphine
and were sentenced to serve n year
and one day each in the federal peni-
tertiary at Leavenworth, Kansas.
Ideal weather conditions have con-
tributed to the largest lamb crop in
years and the highest quality wool ev-
err marketed from Wyoming according
to flockmasters, who will this year
reap handsome profits from sheep and
wool growing. Not "a single yer
storm interviewed to demoralize the
lambing season as in former years, and
as a result the percentage of loss was
reduced to the vanishing point.
Mrs. Matilda Kreer, wife of Alvorez
Kreer of Hudson, is in the county Jail
following an alleged assault on her
husband. The two had lived together
peacefully for many years, but Mrs.
Kreer had a hallucination which led
her to try to kill her husband as he
lay asleep. His throat was gashed for
five inches with a knife, which missed
~. ,I,- ,,@tVt ~ IN small fro afinn
of an inch. Kreer will recover. His
wife is held pending an investigation
into her sanity.
General Manager w. NJ. letters has
announced tina the week from June
| 22nd to June Doth will be observed as
mo accident week. on the Union Pa
cific, each division vieing with the
| Others to reach perfection In prevent
ing accidents. Mr.. LETTERS says
press reports recently have elaborat-
ed on the showing made by the Union
Pacific, not only in financial matters,
but in the details of the operation as
well, all of which is a reflection of the
intelligence and loyal support of the
rank and file"
James Boyle. held in the county jail
at Laramie on charges of insanity, and
who was TO be returned to Cincinnati
by Undersheriff Price, dug his way oui
of the county Jail and made his es
cape while the undersheriff was buy
ing the tickets. Boyle was taken from
the county Jail to eat his dinner, was
then confined in the woman's ward un
til the undersheriff returned with the
railroad fare. He tore u hole in the
floor, which let him get under th'
jail. and from there he made his es
cape. He was violently opposed to go
ing east with the sheriff, and it is be
lieved that he o. "A westward course
He has not yet been r~ecaptured.