, 1919-03-13
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

COMING EVENTS.

printing establishment in Sheridan.
Increase by one-third of he i2e of
Yellowstone National park was APP
proved by the Senat public lands COM
mittee, which ordered reported the
House bill to add 1926 square miles
of forest reserve land in Wyoming.
Adjt. Gen. w. X. Weaver has re-
ceived information that Lieut.. Col.
Burke HI. Sinclair and all other Wyo-
ming men holding commissions in the
14Sth field artillery in France had
been transferred and replaced with
regular army officers.
Jennie Petit Bishop of Roundup,
Mont, was run down by a Burlington
passenger train in the cut neal the
Pleasant View hotel at Thermopolis.
The victim was leaf and dumb. Her
skull was crushed. The coroner's jury
has held the engineer blameless.
More than a hundred representative
business men of Casper gathered
around the banquet board at the Hen
ming to partake of the annual Cham
Der of Commerce dinner and to partici-
pate in the election of a board of d.
rectors to serve for the ensuing twelve
months.
The question of voting a 100000
bond issue, 100000 for extension of
the water system, 100000 for sewers
and $4,000 to complete he new city
hall, will be submitted at a special cleo
ton OIL March 30 at Casper, which has
been set by the council. No opposition
to the issue is anticipated.
Feeding of sheep on the ranges was
started generally, following the late
snowstorm and a shortage of forage
grass. Indications point to the most
successful yea in h history of the
range industry. Losses thus far have
been less than under normal summer
conditions, and sheep are in the best
of condition.
An explosion of gas generated from
gasoline spilled in filling the tank of
his sedan car resulted in the complete
destruction of an autO driven by Clint
Nolan of Lingle. Nolan had beer to
town for supplies and in filling his
tank spilled gasoline on the floor of
the sedan. On his way home he at
tempted to light a cigar.
A gas explosion which caught from
a spark given off by the turning of an
electric switch entirely demolished the
offending house at the Midwest re-
finery in Casper, resulting in severe
burns being suffered by l.. E.. Fleury,
who was in charge of the station. The
building, about thirty feet square and
a story and a half high, was reduced
to a mass of ruins, steel beams being
bent double. Not IL brick was left in
place.
Articles of Incorporation have been
field with the secretary of state for
the Tensleep State bank, which will
have a capitalization of $4,000. The
~incorporators are Hans Hansen, L. NJ.
Stryker, III. S. Tuppetts, c. b. King, II.
S. Jolley, l.. V. Stryker and l.. A. Bow
man, all of Lowell. These seven togeth-
er with G. J. Williams of Greybull and
hoy j.. Covert and Elroy H. West
brook, both of Billings, will own stock
in the new concern.
h perhaps unique defense of G..
Il. TarbOx, 20, a former resident of
Denver, that intestinal inactivity for
a period of five days had caused him
to become insane did not avail with
the jury which tried him for the MUIR
der of George Barker. 30, whom he
shot to death at a ranch near Wheat
land the day following a quarrel be-
tween them. The jury returned a YER
dict of guilty of murder In the first
degree and fixed the punishment at
life Imprisonment.
Albert Fisher, chief of police at
Greybull, Wyoming. shot and killed one
Of two alleged holdups when he resist
ed arrest. The dead man Is Otis f..
Wallace, 80.
Wyoming chicken ~fanclcrs who were
interested in a bill passed by the re-
cent Legislature authorizing county
commissioners to appropriate public
funds to pay in part the expenses of
county chicken shows, and providing
for state poultry shows, the first of
which was to have beer held at Sheri-
dan, will be disappointed by the an
n%ouncement that Governor Carey has
vetoed the bill, House Enrolled
Act II.
Because the measure makes no pro-
vision for inspection Of live stock at
market centers to which 1t may be
shipped from this state, and also be-
cause he believes its provision relative
to inspection within ten miles Of the
state boundary is unwise. Governor
Carey has declined TO approve House
Enrolled Act 81 of the recent Legisla-
ture, a bill providing for horse, mule
and cattle inspection. Wyoming, there
fore, will continue the inspection rules
In force prior to the passage of the
vetoed act.
A storm is brewing at the Wyoming
capitol as the result of a report that
the new State Board of Supplies,
which was created by the recent Legis-
lotura and ,Inthod ,,,i.t, .uAH.u- -