, 1919-08-21
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
wesLern Newspaper Union News seryles.

structure with I'D guest rooms, n
costing S20,000-under arrangements
which were completed in Cheyenne re-
Gently.
EX-soldiers attending the Wyoming
State Fair on Soldiers and Sailors day,
which will he Sept. IL, will be fed buff
falo and elk meat prepared barbecue
style. The state game department has
agreed to supply one yearling buffalo
and N elk for the occasion.
Lorenzo Arrelleno, aged "a years
said to be an employee of the Standard
Oil Company at Casper, was killed
when he was u over by an engine
in the Northwestern railroad yards at
that place. He was badly mangled
about his legs and hips.
Benjamin Denny, "a, a pioneer resi-
dent of the Tensleep valley, is dead
from injuries sustained when the team
attached to Il binder which he was op-
Grating bolted. Denny fell beneath the
machine and the bull Wheel passed
over his body, breaking every rib. He
died a few hours later.
Put off Il gravel train on the Chi
cago & Northwestern, near Douglas,
on which they were stealing a ride,
Andy Collins and James Wilson
walked the ties until they were tired,
lay down on the track to rest and
were killed by a freight train which
passed over the road a few minutes
later.
Harry Douglas, ii ranchman of the
Slbylee district, had a peculiar expe-
rience when he was struck by light
ming during n storm at IVA, Wyo. He
was riding a horse when the bolt de-
scended, killing the horse. Mr.. Doug
las was lot even shocked by the light
ming, but the works of his watch were
fused together in IL solid mass.
Jesse Scott, who is charged with
numbering John Rosie in an affair last
April nea the Sandbar district, is to
be tried at Casper in the District Court
until June 14th, the petition shows.
His preliminary hearing resulted in be-
ing bound over to the District Court
by Judge w. Z. Tubbs.
July estimates on the amoun of new
oil production for Wyoming during
July show hat $500 barrels were add
ed daily as compared with less than
1,30O barrels for new production dur
ing June. Thirty-two oil wells were
completed, as compared with thirty
during June. Approximately 400 rigs
are reported as being up in the state,
making an increase of thirty over the
month of June.
A shipment of sixteen tons of the
explosive, T. n. T., has been
sent to the Big Horn forest for use on
roads and trails. This explosive is
some that was left after the war and
was donated by the War Department
to II forest reserves to be used in the
work of salvaging. Twelve tons will
be used IN the Buffalo-Tensleep road,
while the remainder will be utilized on
the Shell creek road.
During the past ten years home
steaders nave taken up something like
100000 acres of Wyoming lands.
Figures complied by State Immigra-
ton Commissioner C. S. Hill and an
~ MN GU nat VII July
L, 1909, there were 30, 390,27O acres of
vacant lands in this state, and that on
July l, 1919, there were only 22,3S7,-
CSC. OF the difference-13,0 02, 5S4-by
far the larger share was taken by
homesteaders; n small portion was
withdrawn by the government on ac-
oun of its coal and oil properties.
The total for July 1, 1918, was 25,434,-
1913. Thus in the past year the land
seekers have taken up 3,046,507 acres.
After being denied n new trial
Charles Gilmore, who shot and killed
Lee Ewing on the main street of Cody
July 10, 1918, was sentenced to serve
from twenty to twenty-five years in
the state prison. Gilmore was found
guilty of murder in the second degree
at his trial in March, but was not sem
fenced by Judge Metz until this term
of court.
Asserting that he was f. l.. Crabbe,
state prohibition commissioner, a
stranger who had located a whisky
cache in the hills just south of Tie Sid
ing, Wyo., confiscated the entire
amount, valued at 100000 under cur
rent bootleg prices, loaded 1t up into
three automobiles and drove to Colo
RADIO with the obvious Intention of sell
ing the entire amount.
Deputy Sheriff Home Booth was
shot in the arm and seriously wound
ed when he went in search of John
Faberline, a trusty who escaped while
moving the lawn at the court house
at Lander. Faberline took the gun
away from a boy whom he met on the
way and when overtaken by the sher-
IF is alleged to have hot him. Faber-
line surrendered when overpowered by
a posse at Arapahoe.
Excavation for Greybull's 100000
high school building for which bonds
were voted last month have started.
Tho contract for tho hufIdfnn xyoo tab