, 1919-07-10

The highest price so far paid for 9
wool clip in the Laramie river valley.
SO cents for that of the sheep belong
ing to the experiment station stocb
farm of the University of Wyoming
was paid by ii. Ralph Hall.
Striking u dynamite cap with a ham
mer, Roy Foster, ten-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. j. b. Foster Of Guernsey,
lost the sight of his left eye, and his
left hand badly shattered and his alb
domen ripped open when the cap e.
ploded.
A local post of the American LIE.
gion has been organized at Lusk by
Byron Strickland, temporary county
secretary. At present the post has IA
membership of %, but it is believed
it will increase to 100 when the or
g~anization is perfected.
Police at Rock Springs arrested a
mar giving the name of George Mason
on the charge of Illegally selling
opium. A search of his room, started
at the instigation of the chambermaid,
revealed thirty-seven packages, beside
a quantity which was loosely tied up
In paper.
To ride an automobile off a 150-foOt
cliff after he had ost control of the
machine and live to tell the tale was
the experience of George Scherck,
prominent rancher of Kaycee. Scherck
was thrown out On the first turn and
chung to the sagebrush while the car
went to the bottom.
Charles Eagles, 40, a driller at the
Producers and Refiners' camp in the
Lost Soldier field, was killed when he
attempted to wipe moisture from a
belt driving the drilling machinery.
His clothing caught in the belt and he
was whisked against a pulley, the i'm.
pact crushing his skull.
During the first day of the big
Stampede celebration at Thermopolis
thirty persons were arrested on
charges of Bookkeeping, gambling and
prostitution. The arrests were made
through cooperation of Fred l..
Crabbe, the new state commissioner
of prohibition, and city and county
officials.
INOduS Oh lHt IUWell lldl lEOul
Eagles Nest TO Garland and from the
big bench to the Shoshone river are
in splendid condition as a result of
Good Roads Day observed at Powell.
Business men from town and farmers
on the project devoted one day to the
work. The women aided by serving
community dinners. A systematic
plan of cooperative road work will
be worked out later IN.
The Home Building Company OF
Laramie is making a strenuous effort
TO meet the demand for houses. A
contract has just been let to build
twenty new houses, ten of five rooms,
with all modern conveniences, to sell
for $4,000 each, and ten of four rooms,
for S2,100, lots included. The company
already has ten houses under con
StructiOn.
The Sinks Canyon Hydro Electric
Company has signed contracts for all
needed materials, and rapid progress
is being made toward the completion
of the power plant near Lander. The
pipe line that is to convey the waters
of the Big Popo Agile from the dam
above the Sinks to the outlet where
the power house is located will be a
continuous reinforced stave pipe made
of the best California redwood and
will be buried in the ground for pro-
lection. Applications for power have
been made by the refinery and oil
companies operating at Wyopo, and
the town of Hudson also wants light
and power.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the grain elevator and flour mills of
the DEMO Milling Company at Sheri-
dan. The loss is estimated at $780,
900. The mills and elevator were the
largest in northern Wyoming. Thou
sands of bushels of grain and a large
quantity of sacked flour were de
stroyed.
About 200 students, mostly young
women teachers from the rural
schools of the state, are enrolled fol
the summe school of the University
of Wyoming, which is under the di.
rection of Prof. II. L. Eby, head OF
the department of rural school educa.
ton of that institution. The term
will continue for six weeks, with an
efficient corps of teachers.
Chugwater farmers are looking for
ward to a new grain elevator for the
harvest this fall. Following a meet.
ing Of the board of trustees of the
Farmers Cooperative Association eff
forts have been made to sell add
tional stock and to collect for stock
already subscribed so that funds
might be secured to erect the building
at once. The plant will cost about
$4,000 and will have a storage ca
pacity of 10000 bushels.
The body of Tim Donovan, the
young man who lost his life about 9
month ago while fording the Platte
river on a horse just below the Ev
ans ranch, was located on n sandbal