, 1919-01-30
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

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The influenza toll in Wyoming to
Ian. ! totaled approximately 800
1oaths, bringing the states 1918 death
total to 2,913, the highest of record.
The births numbered 3,046.
Plans toward holding especial cleo
lion during the summer for the pur-
pose of voting municipal bonds in the
amount of $35, 900 were discussed at
the meeting of the Casper City Coun-
I'll at its last meeting.
Wyoming wool growers will ask the
State Legislature to appropriate
s100 ,000 for a bounty fund and 10000
for the establishment of a wool-scour-
ing plant in connection with the State
University at Laramie.
Adjutant General w. K. Weaver
mas recommended to the Legislature
a state constabulary to take the place
Of the national guard, now in federal
service and to be mustered out on
their return home.
Lincoln county woolgrowers at the
annual convention in Kemmerer,
unanimously endorsed resolutions ia
voring protection for the American
wool industry, and in this connection
endorsed the Mondell bill having this
for its object.
The Manyille Petroleum Company
is now drilling on its property three
miles south of Manville and within
two or three weeks they will begin
further drilling and continue until
they meet with success. The COM
pany has contracted with practical
drillers with Standard rigs to go
down 5000 feet if necessary.
Shortage of feed on the ranges is
troubling the stockmen of the state,
according to the reports that are be-
ing received daily by the local author
tiles. Last fall was almost without
precipitation and is responsible for
the feed shortage, the range grass
failing to cure properly under the ex-
cessive dry warm weather.
Three thousand four hundred and
ninety-two pints of whisky shipped
from Evanston in a carload of junk
consigned to the Continental Junk
Company were seized by the police of
Salt Lake City. Bootlegging prices of
the haul approximate $4,000, which
doubles the value of a similar ship
ment recently made from Cheyenne to
Denver which the Colorado sleuths
discovered in a carload of waste paper.
That herding sheep is conducive to
insanity is apparently confirmed in
the report of the superintendent of
the state insane asylum al Evanston.
where nine sheep herders are de-
tanned. This is estimated at 6.6 per
cent Of the total number Of men en-
gagged in this business. The report
shows that only IA per cent of the
farmers were apprehended for insan
ity, 1.6 per cent of the housewives,
while mining ~prospectors have only
one man in the asylum. There is also
one editor in the state asylum.
Consolidation of state livestock
boards with the office of the state vet
%erinarian, as recommended by Cover
nor Carey in his message to the Fiji
teenth Legislature, is proposed in a
bill fathered by the members of the
State Board of Livestock Commission
ers n is expected to pass without
much opposition. The enactment of
this bill would combine the two state
boards now handling cattle and sheep
interests, with the state veterinarian,
under one head. 1t would also pro-
vide a local brand inspection in addi-
ton to that made at markets, and
would make it unlawful to ship the
stock of others without the owners
written permission.
Following the installation of John
McGrath as chief of police at Casper
a systematic raid on gambling houses
has been initiated, nightly arrests of
violators made INT heavy fines as
sessed.
The following are bills before this
session of the Legislature: Fl. b. 80,
relating to elections; H. B. 81, provid.
ing for consolidation of the state live
stock and sheep commissioners and
the state veterinarians office; H. B,
32. relating to liens on automobiles;
II. B. 33, relating to the salaries OF
justices of the peace and constables;
III. b. "a, relating to fees charged for
printing; H. B..35. relating to the sal
aries of elective county officials and
of deputy sheriffs n deputy county
clerks; H. j. r. 2, submitting a con.
stitutional amendment relative to pub
lie Indebtedness; II. B. 81, increasing
salaries of elective and appointive
state officers; II. ]. r. 3, submitting
a constitutional amendment relative to
limitations of the salaries of county
officers; H.. b.. SO, appropriating funds
for the maintenance of the hot
springs reserve at Thermopolis and
providing plans for the improvement
of the reserve.
Wyoming's elk are not increasing
as fast as they should, says State
Game Warden Nate p. Wilson of Ian
der. He believes the trouble could b
remedied by shortening the open sen
son to As days and allowing the hun,
ers to engage in the sport only be
tween October ! and November 10.