, 1919-05-29

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u price of go cents, which they be-
lieve will be paid. Most of the men
are acting as individuals.
The Moose lodge at Casper, has pur-
chased a lot and will erect a 500, 900
building this summer. Plans for the
building are now under consideration
by the building committee.
Plans for the horse racing meet
which will be held in Sheridan, June
2lst are going ahead rapidly. Al
ready there are $50 head of race
horses stabbed in that city and be-
coming acclimated.
AT the first meeting of the new state
board of fair managers 1t was decided
to hold the 1919 Wyoming state fair
September 8 to 10, inclusive, at Doug
Las. Plans were laid to make this
years exhibition the biggest ever.
The 5-year-old daughter of Forest
Supervisor Cooper of Pinedale, was
killed in front of the Plnedale garage,
where she was playing when a big
truck backed out of the place and ran
over her. Death was instantaneous.
Oscar Peterson established two new
presidents in Lincoln county wool an
nails when he sold 5000 head of choice
ewes to Bennion brothers Of Coke
vile for $50 per head, the highest
price ever paid in Western Wyoming.
An eight-room school building will
be erected in Lingle this summer, &C
cording to unofficial announcement
from the school board. The rapid
growth of the town has resulted in
crowded schools and the work has been
accordingly hampered.
Elks of Casper will erect one of the
finest ~clubhouses in the state during
the coming summer. The plans became
now with the completion of a real
estate transfer involving u considera-
tion of $4,000, whereby the local lodge
secures property at the corner of
Third and Wolcott streets.
The 6-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Carlow of Wilson may lose the
sight of both yes as the result of in
Juries sustained when a dynamite cap
with which he was playing exploded in
his hands. The hand also was badly
shattered. The caps were found when
some children were playing in a va
cant house.
What officials declared was one 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 one year
and N day each in the federal peni-
tertiary at Leavenworth, Kansas.
The Hot Springs county wal chest |
committee has voted $500 to erect a
temporary booth lear the depot for
the purpose of aiding the Mothers |
League and the Red Cross workers in
serving lunches to soldiers who pass
through Thermopolis on their way to
the north. The Red Cross has been
conducting a canteen service and serv- |
ing free lunches since rehabilitation
began.
Verdia E. Mooney, ID, was acquitted
Of the charge of killing his aunt, Mrs. |
Mary Mooney, by a jury in the District
Court at Buffalo, when he entered a
plea of self defense, not only for him |
self but for other members of his
family. Mrs. Mooney was killed at the
ranch home of the youthful defendant,
when, after a family fracas of some
sort, she appeared at the place with
the intention Of killing not only the lad
but the rest of the family as well.
Four convicts made Il daring escape
from the Wyoming state ~penitentiary,
located at Rawlins. They climbed
through a manhcle in the chapel.
Believing that proper care and at
tention would have saved him from
the loss of his left leg, w. L. Bush, q
Hart Mountain rancher, has filed suit
in the District Court at Cody, asking
for damages from DIR. w. l.. Chilcott, of
Belfrey. DR.. Chilcott treated a COM
pound fracture sustained by Bush dur
Ing a trapping trip. The injured limb
developed gangrene and amputation
above the knee was necessary to save
Bush's life, Is the complaint.
Engineers from the Denver office of
the district forester for the Second
district are encamped at Woods land
ing, in Albany county, prepared to
check up the forest surveys figures
for a road up Woods creek to the
state line, on the way from Laramie to
Walden, Colo, for which the federal
government has set aside $12,500, a
like sum coming from the state treas
ury. This road will shorten the dis
lance between Laramie and Walden
about eight miles. 1t will be completed
BY Aug. /.
An increase in the salary of teach
ers by placing them on n year-round
basis was adopted by the board of
trustees at a recent meeting at Wheat
land. In addition to paying teachers
for the full year, those who attend