, 1919-09-04
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

ty-fOur oil tanks, line of which were
of 25O-barrel capacity. All were de-
stroyed.
Work has started on the 100000
plant of the Wyoming Dehydration
Company mt Cowley. The plant, which
win he in operation some time in Sep
fember, will handle potatoes and vege-
tables, specializing in "Aristocrat' po-
tato products, including starch and
flour.
The contract for the erection of the
new school building nj Basin has been
let to Hine Bros. of Basin. The plumb
ing was secured by the Big Horn
Plumbing and Heating Company of
Greybull. Work will on the
building as soon as the bonds are filed
and approved by the board.
=. \. Demorest, So years old, one of
the first Casper settlers. is dead. Mr..
DemOrest went to Casper in 1888, while
Casper was still Il tent town, and es-
tablished the first in the
city. He was born in New Jersey. He
is survived by his wife, a daughter and
five sons, three now living at Yanpa,
Colo.
Business at the Wyoming Hide and
Fur C~ompany'S house at Kemmerer
has practically ceased following a tele-
gram from B%essinger 4 Co. of Salt
Lake, telling of a fall in hides from 10
to 10 cents a pound. The message also
said the wool market looked bad. The
company has been shipping about 1900
pounds of hides n week
Lander business men combined and
furnished the women's rest room in the
Commercial club in that city. The
room is for use of the women of FIRE.
mont county and particularly for those
who come in from farms and ranches
for shopping. The Fremont county
farm bureau committee was instru-
mental in securing the new quarters.
E. ]. Sutton of Kansas City, Mo, died
of heart disease near Douglas, Wyo.,
while motoring overland to the Yellow
stone National Park. Mr.. Sutton be-
came ill nearly twenty miles from
Douglas and was taken to a farm
house: Proceeding later, after he felt
better, but the car had hardly started
before he fell dead from the seat in
which he was riding.
Take a chance with $4,000 more or
forfeit all that has beer spent to date
is the dilemma confronting the Doug
las people who have financed the drill
ing of the Reliance well west of town.
The hole now is standing $500 feet and
funds for drilling have been exhausted.
Stockholders have been asked to pro-
vide $4,000 for further drilling and an
effort to raise the money is meeting
with encouragement.
Tine body of Mrs. Robert Little, 36,
was found hanging in the ranch house
of Ed Sheffield neal the Snake river
bridge in Jackson hole. Apparently
she had tied one end of the o p to a
cross brace on the ceiling, climbed on
a chair and jumped off. Her neck was
broken. Ill health is said to have been
the cause. She had been married about
five months N her husband was
working in the bayfield, when she com
mitted suicide.
A valuable cow belonging to w. w.
Graham of Beaver, Wyo., failed to
show up one evening. The boys went
IN oN"i' VI - aiih loDlib liti M
dead in the pasture and a huge RATHER
coiled ut her side. They killed the
snake and summoned the father, who
went to skin the COW. Starting to turn
the carcass he saw another rattlesnake
crawl from beneath the leg and udder.
Examination showed the skin on the
udder N n leg bitten to shreds.
Clarence Eklund of Wyoming, light
heavyweight wrestler, defeated Char
icy Olsen, the Terrible Swede of Mon
tana, in straight falls at Sheridan. The
first was in sixty-five minute and the
second in four.
Sustaining a broken leg when her
horse ran away with her OF a narrow
mountain road, Miss Esther Ashdown
of Alton, Wyo., mounted her horse
with the assistance of her brother and
phone.
Last Friday Gust Sturm, DIR. A. F.
Davis, NJ. j.. Dankowski, James Harris
and Jack Foster, who were out on a
hunting trip on the hills south of Rock
Springs, had n narrow escape. In as
cending n very steep hill the car
stopped. and when an attempt was
made to shift the gears the car started
to back down the hill. The brakes
failed to work and when the car
reached the bottom of the hill 1t fell
off a bridge a distance of about eight
feet. Dankowski and. Harris jumped
and landed safely, but the others were
pinned under the car. Fortunately with