, 1919-05-01
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Frontier Days-Cheyenne. July 21-2

COMING EVENTS.
Frontier Days-Cheyenne. July 21-26.
Trial of the men arrested for trying
to kill antelope was held in Burns
and resulted in conviction. The bunch
of hunters were fined 500 each.
Because of the rapid growth of Cas-
per and resulting confusion, the city is
put to- the necessity of REMEMBERING
all houses, plans for which were
preached this week.
Although ranges in most sections of
Wyoming are short because of the eN-
IRENE open winter, which permitted
livestock to Craze for the greater part
of the time, livestock has wintered
well, and there is u surplus of feed in
many locations.
Charles Hughes, the man who sew
eral days ago attempted to commit
suicide in his cell in the county Jail AT
Kemmerer by butting out his brains
against the stone wall, was tried be-
fore an insanity commission and ad-
judged insane, when he told the jury
that n mob was trying to lynch him.
With the arrest of A. d. Monger,
the authorities at Casper believe they
have stopped the leak through which
n great quantity of morphine, cocaine
and other drugs have filtered into the
city. A small shaving stick tube filled
with high-grade morphine was found
in his suit case.
After graphing with and disarming
n holdup on the 'sandbar", Casper's
paradise of crooks and harlots, Rich
ard King, refinery worker, was shot
by the hOldup's confederate from the
shadow of a building. One bullet pen
etrated his arm and another slit his
coat, but he made good his escape.
Plans are being drafted for a new
high school building for Casper to
cost 100000 and a grade building of
eight rooms. Despite the fact that
in 1918, the five buildings are again
congested, so rapid has been the in
crease in school enrolment.
To meet the increasing demand for
houses in Laramie, the Home Building
company has been formed, with a cap-
lldl VI 1cO,OOO, " Dullt ht" IOuStSs
the company having prepared plans for
three five-room houses and two four
room houses, modern in every way,
and afterward will build an equal
number of less expensive houses.
Three days snowbound on a home
stead IA miles from town, with moth
ing to eat but pancakes made with
baking powder, makes up an expert
ence that two Lusk school teachers
are not likely to forget soon, unless
pancakes should suddenly disappear
from the menus. They were also com
PEELED to walk the IA miles into town
when the pancake batter ran out.
Mrs. Eta Whitaker, A years old,
of Casper, committed suicide by taking
strychnine. Mrs. Whitaker stepped into
the bathroom, put her arms around her
husbands neck and told him she had
taken poison. He doubted her at first,
but when she showed unmistakable
| symptoms of the drug he called a doc
tor, who ordered Mrs. Whitaker to the
hospital, where she died in a few
hours.
Cody, famous old cowtown, has o
only outgrown the days of the bronc,
but also is getting away from the mo-
tor idea. r. NJ. Daniels has placed an
order for a Curtiss motor plane, with
which he plans to do the country in
the most up-to-the-minute style. He
ordered a plane with a 200-horsepower
motor, built to accommodate three
people, a type of machine which has
been put to the test by the hard US
ages of modern warfare and declared
perfect in every respect.
The business from Manville to
Lance Greek is taking or additional
enterprise this week. Reports say that
25 to 80 trucks are hauling material
to the Oil field.
During the world war the people of
Wyoming established the record of
subscribing to war work agencies, an
average of SIPS apiece. Figures com
piled at Cheyenne showed that the
grand total for Liberty Bonds, Thrift
Stamps, Red Cross, Y. NJ. C. A. and
other drives was $25,437, 214.25. The
states population is estimated at 2OO,-
300. The $~25,437.214 is practically as
much money as the entire assessed
valuation of the territory of Wyoming
in the '"S0's'. Here is how the money
was raised: First Liberty Loan,
S1,56S, 900; Second Liberty Loan,
s5,132,650; Third Liberty Loan, S6,737,-
900; Fourth Liberty Loan, $40, 1873, $50;
Thrift Stamps, S20,1S4.25; War Saw
ings Stamps, $43S, 105 First Red Cross
Drive, S319,190; Second Red Cross
drive, $4,000; First Y. NJ. @. A. drive,
$4,000; Salvation Army drive, $751;
900; United War Work campaign,
$257,0 46. All other forms of war re-
lief (estimated), 100000.
The Ohio Oil mna drilling ON