, 1919-11-13

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Equitable store secured merchandise
valued at $500 and escaped. They
picked the lock to gain entrance and
left no clew to their identity.
Jack Sharp and two companions who
came into contact with a power line
carrying 2,3OO volts of electricity in
No. 4 mine of the Union Pacific Coal
Company, at Rock Springs, is a very
sick man, but will recover.
The Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph company has purchased the
Fitch residence in Laramie City and
Don after Ii first of the e year
will begin the erection thereon Of a
modern telephone exchange.
The home of H. II, Swartz, attorney,
while absent, was robbed of $4,000
worth of v%aluables and clothing. A
$1,000 sealskin coat is among the
missing articles. Burglars used IN ak
To chop the lock from Il rear door.
Mrs. Elizabeth A. De Voc, 65 years
old, a resident of Buffalo, died sud-
denly of apoplexy while riding in a
touring car enroute to Texas. Mrs.
De Voc, who was accompanied by her
son, Edward w. De Voc. and his wife,
was on her way from Buffalo to health
resorts in Texas when death occurred.
Bids will be opened Nov. IL for the
construction of the Henderson unit of
The Paint Rock canal between McDer-
mitt and McName gulches, under
which several thousand acres of land
IN l.. u"t an L. 80,
involves $4,000 cubic yards of earth.
All of the land to he benefited is ad-
iacent to Basin and Henderson.
One of Cheyenne's two motor fire
trucks was reduced to a pile of wreck
age and four firemen narrowly es-
capped injury when Il truck in which
they were riding struck Il Union Pa
cific freight rain. The truck was
called out to the east end of the I'm
ion Pacific yards to eXtinguiSh a
freight car fire and was smashed IN
its return trip to the house when a
train backed across the Russell street
crossing.
Reaction from suppressed excite
ment attendant upon the success Of
Il practical joke which he and several
other youths had played upon a fell
low employee, was responsible for the
death of Walter Wagner, age 16, at
Casper, who dropped dead in the Of
ices of the Western Union Company.
Death is charged directly to embOlism
of the heart. resulting primarily from
n heart weakness and the excitement
of the moment.
Oil burning locomotives will operate
on the Colorado & Southern roa due
to a shortage of coal which may Grip
pie transportation on other routes, it
has been announced. In this
ment Il ray of hope is seen by people,
inasmuch as these engines can run
under their own power to oil fields for
more fuel, and can bring oil to Chey-
enne from the Casper refineries. This
oil, should the miners strike prove
lasting, could be used for heat.
That several of his horses, which
were being shipped in a boXcar from
Gillette, Wyo., to Denver, became
frightened at the Missing of steam in
Il train on the adjoining track, and
were killed, is the allegation contained
III Il udlhdS' sun Nv III bht
Court by Charles Curtis against the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail
road. 1t is alleged that the deaths &C.
Cured in part because the car was
out of repair. Six horses lost their
lives. it is stated. for which $1,297.5O
recompense is asked.
Prof. Frank Aydelotte of the Bos-
ton Institute of Technology, American
secretary of The Rhodes trustee, has
announced that v. Suicer of Berkeley,
Calf, Il graduate of the University
of Wyoming In 1918, had been select
ed as the Wyoming man to be sent
to Oxford University, England, as a
Rhodes scholar" under the apportion-
ment for 1919.
The first hard-surfaced road to be
built in this state was completed on
being started in 1918 and was made
possible through the liberal donations
by the Midwest Refining Company.
Five miles of concrete n been laid
on this project and tile entire project
was completed in August, 1919, being
the second federal mid project In this
section of the country to reach compile
ton and be accepted by the federal
government. The value of this hard
surfaced construction was so apparent
that the Midwest Refining Company
has agreed to pay s300,000 additional
towards extending his work and 1t is
expected that an additional eighteen
miles of pavement will be built during
the coming season.
Horses Will be used as hog feed by
A. r. Kirkland of the ]. X. ranch on
Wind river, who states that many of
his horses will not withstand the win