, 1919-10-23
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

'0a' 80
Nov. 6 and I. 1t will be the first meet
ing held in two years and a r~eorganiza-
ton is planned.
Dorado Contreras, railroad employee,
received injuries from which he died in
falling from n Burlington train six
miles from Bonneville. The wheels
cut through his left thigh and severed
his right leg below the knee
AT a meeting of the school board of
Laramie win all the members present
a flat raise of SO a month was grant
ed to the members of the faculty, from
the superintendent to the teachers, eff
fective as of September 1.
Within another month Hudson will
take its place among the up-to-date
towns of the state with a full equipped
electric light and power plant. The
company has all the machinery on the
ground md work is progressing rap
idly.
What is probably without doubt the
largest gasser in the state was brought
in by the Fargo Oil Company in the
Poison Spider field, twenty-five miles
west of Casper. The gas was brought
in at a depth of 1,440 feet and is ex-
pected to make at least 100000 0 feet.
The body of Harris Woods, promi-
nent business man of Thermopolis and
county commissioner who was drowned
il the Big Horn river while hunting
ducks, was recovered within fifty feet
of the spot where he ost Ms life. One
of six lake divers who We're brought to
Thermopolis to search for the body To-
Gated the remains with a graphing
hook.
The body of George Chandler, Asso-
ciated Oil field superintendent and
prominent in oil circles at Casper, who
persisted in the Red Desert blizzard of
Oct. 8, has been found by searching
parties within three miles of the Assoc
ciated camp. The object of Chandler
when he abandoned his car fifteen
miles distant was to walk the remain
der of the distance. He evidently per-
ished from the cold, which was said to
be intense.
His dog cornering a large black bear
in the clump of brush near Dayton,
william Greub, who was unarmed,
stood guard for an hour before Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Montgomery came
along the road. They were without a
gun but went to n nearby ranch and
secured two rifles. Armed with these
Greub and Montgomery invaded the
brush and flushed the bear They fired
simultaneously and the animal fell
with two bullets through his heart.
Governor Carey. has named ten men
to represent Wyoming at the annual
convention of the American Mining
Congress TO be held at st. Louis Nov.
II to 81. This states delegates are:
p. ]. Quealey of Kemmerer, Martin
Cahlll of Rock Springs, James Buckley
of Cheyenne, w. D. Brennan of Rock
Springs, James Morgan of Cheyenne.
Peter KoOi of Sheridan, Thomas Sned-
don of Kemmerer, w. Schoonmaker of
Cambria, A. X. Craig of Acme, and Z.
c. Mattock of Dietz.
Bert Cole established a record in
Wyoming by flying 1913 miles from
Casper to Riverton, Wyo, in one hour
and forty minutes against a fifty-mile
gale. His time averaged nearly sixty
miles an hour against such a wind. He
carried only n passenger, J. Y. Stock,
the owner of the Curtiss Oriole in
which he made the trip. Mr.. Stock is
a wealthy oil man and has opened an
agency for the Curtiss planes. Mr..
Stock already has one plane on dis
play and has purchased a complete re-
pair shop TO care for the planes.
Postoffice estimates place the opu
latiOn OF Casper now at $4,000 people,
INT 1919 receipts tend to bear out this
claim. Under increased postal rates in
1918 stamp sales totaled $67, 900, while
stamp sales for the first three quar-
tiers this year already aggregate $780,
600, and the largest quarter is still
outstanding.
The Yellowstone Highway Associa-
ton proposes to raise $4,000 by tax
ing every automobile owner $3.50 in
the territory served by the highway.
This action was taken by the annual
association meeting in Casper. Look
ing to future needs, the association
urged towns on the highway to supply
suitable landing places for airplanes in
support of aerial service.
Wyoming counties this year will re-
ceive $5s,550 for roads and schools
from the receipts of the national for
ests. Over $4,000 made available I'M
der the 10 per cent of receipts fund
will also be spent by the forest service
In road building in the forests of the
state. This latter fund is entirely dis
tinct from the $1O,OO0,0O0 forest serv-
Ice road fund provided by Congress in
last years postoffice appropriation
bill.
When the Legislature of 1915 made
IN appropriation of $250,OO0 for en-
largement of the state capitol building
it was assumed that the expenditure of