, 1919-07-24
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western N-ewspaper union News serviee.

Oh Evanston, WyO., was appointed q
member of the International Joint
Commission by President Wilson. He
succeeds the late James A. Tawney Of
Minnesota.
At public auction August 20, 14,0OC
acres of what is declared to be some
of h best land in Wyoming will be
sold to the highest bidder. The tracts
are situated on the Shoshone Indian
Reservation, and many of them are
within a few miles of either Lander
or Riverton. The sales will be made
by the federal government.
The Sheridan postoffice has passed
to the first class, the receipts during
h past year having reached a point
In excess of $4,000, the requirement.
The $4,000 o not include the money
order business, or what is known as
war tax postage. The advancement
will increase salaries of the p~ostoffice
personnel 500 a year each.
X. Gloreda, n tramp, was seriously
injured at Granite Canon when he fell
between w cars of the train on which
he is said to have been stealing a ride,
and was horribly mangled. One arm
was amputated, all out the thumb of
h other hand was taken off, and one
leg crushed to such an extent hat its
amputatiOn may also be necessary.
Earl Moore, who left Cody in 1917
as a member of Company X, Wyoming
National Guard, and who vas reported
killed in action in the official list of
thS War Department, startled his
friends by stepping off the train for a
visit. Moore's relatives live in Iowa,
and also they received q correction of
the report, it had not been
received at Cody.
In spite of the rapid settlement of
the past few years there are still in
wyoming more than 25,000,000 acres
of free government land. The exact
number is 25,434, 1914. For the most
part this is grazing land, and millions
of acres of it have been designated I'M
der the stOckraising homestead law. 1t
lies in every county in the state. DC
casional tracts may be farmed with
profit, and these are also to be found
in every county.
Lorriston Carrier, s~elf-confessed de-
serter from the army, has disappeared
from the Jail at Kemmerer. He made
his escape by prying the bars in the
small window in the bathroom and
managing to squeeze through the small
aperture created. He was two weeks
awaiting the arrival of an officer from
Fort Russell, and during the time *
nlninn1 that hn yuo n cnncriantian
objector n thought it wrong t.
fight
Prohibitive prices for hay are fore
cast with the announcement that much
of the Idaho hay has been contracted
for at $50 a ton in the stack. Twenty
five dollars per ton is a common price
and the local market price on baled
hay has almost reached the $40 mark.
If drouth conditions continue, ranch
ers believe hay may go as high as $50
to $40 n ton next winter. The crop
at kemmerer is exceedingly short and
livestock men are worried, and many
are buying hay in Idaho.
Frances Barber, a %5-year-Old girl of
Wheatland, was seriously injured when
she a dragged a quarter of a mile
by the COW she had roped. The child
is unusually adept at throwing the lar
lat and succeeded in roping a COW
when the other end of the rope was
tied around her waist. The COW bolted.
Mrs. Barber attracted by the screams
of her small daughter, caught the COW
after n quarter-mile chase. The girl
was taken to the hospital where 1t was
found that no bones were broken. She
will recover.
Captain Beverly c.. DAILY, who for
ten years has been head of the mill
tary department at the University of
Wyoming, a received notice from the
Wal Department that he will be re
lieved from duty mt Laramie Septem-
Der l, in accordance with the policy
of the War Department to relieve from
active service all retired officers.
Wadins In the Platte to inspect
some fish lines, Frank Lawson, aged
80 years and employed at the Morton
Ranch near Douglas, stepped into a
deep hole, washed out by the current,
and was drowned before help arrived.
He was with a companion. who man
aged to scramble to the bank. Neither
Of the men could swim and Lawson
was carried out toward the middle of
the stream, where he disappeared.
Frank X. Webb, sheriff of Natrona
county in the days when a man had to
be quick in a stirrup and handy with
a gun, is chief of police of Casper, hay
ing been appointed to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Fred Il.
Place. Webb's program will center
largely in a war on traffic violators
and gambling, now that the saloons
have eliminated N element of vice
md reduced the ~viciousness of others,
Although a heavily loaded wagon
passed ove his head, cutting the scalp