, 1919-06-26

ogy at the University of Wyoming
since September, 1887, has been elect
ed president of the board of trustees.
Among the visitors who will make
Cheyenne for the Frontier celebration
mer, editor of the Saturday Evening
Post. Mr.. Lorimer will be accompan-
led by II party of friends.
A 100000 hotel called the Tommy
hawk is to be erected at Green River
by j. w. Hawk and Thomas Welsh.
The contract for the building has beer
let to Murphy & Co., of Boise, Idaho.
The building is to be ready for occu-
pancy by January 1, 1920.
Harold Hicks, of Lander, who is a
student at the University of Wyom-
ing, has received an appointment to
the United States Military Academy
at West Point. He gave his services
during the wal and was commissioned
lieutenant just prior to the signing of
the armistice.
Charles Spalding, only son of G. ID.
Spalding, prominent Laramie banker
and a member of the executive COM
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University of Wyoming, took highest
scholarship honors in the graduating
class of the University High School at
Laramie.
The Home Builders Company is pre-
pared to build at least thirty new
houses in Laramie this year. They
will not be built on a rental basis
but will be for sale and any n who
cares to buy one may have his order
booked n will receive the house
within two or three months.
Mystery surrounding the disappear
ance of Dan Miller, 10, of Casper, an
employee of the Niche ranch, on Dec
Grafton Day, was cleared up with the
finding of his body in the Platte riv-
Ell, where 1t washed up on a sandbar
at a point just u quarter of a mile
above that where Tim Donovan's body,
another river victim, was located a
few hours previous.
Architects have been awarded a con-
tract to draft plans for a $120,0 900 vo-
cational training high school building
for Casper. No expense. will be
spared to make it the most modern
and well equipped high school in the
state, according TO the officials. In
addition to this construction a new
grade building will be erected this
year y
Through the enactment of an ordin-
ance requiring persons s%prinkling
lawns to hold the hose in their hands,
the doing away with set s%prinklers,
the city administration las averted n
water famine in Cheyenne. A saving
of more than 50O,OOO,0 900 gallons of
water daily has been brought through
the ordinance which is being rigidly
enforced.
John L.. Thomas, sc, died at his
home in Cheyenne while joking with
his wife, who was in the cellar. Thorn
as went to the top of the stairs, held
his arms across the door and called
down: "They shall not pass" As he
uttered the words he dropped dead,
falling headlong down the cellar steps
and striking and slightly injuring Mrs.
Thomas as he fell.
Thomas S. Sheean, engineer on
Northwestern passenger train, No.
603, westbound, which piled up three
miles east of Casper, is recovering sat
isfactorily from injuries and will sus-
tain no permanent i'll effects. Sheean
vas scalded severely and while it was
first reported that his legs were
crushed to the extent hat amputation
would be necessary, 1t is probable that
he will escape being a cripple.
Among the graduates of the Unlver-
| Cify of IVvnnnfnH rrith fhA lo~u14
bachelor of art, was Rajendra Singh,
a Hindu from the western part of In
dia, who came to this country to fit
himself for teaching in the UNIVERSE
ties of his country.
More than $1,000 have been raised
by the business men at Manville to be
paid in prizes for the winners of va
rious contests to be held in connection
with a Fourth of July celebration
which viii be held at Manville. The
principal feature of the day will be a
broncho busting contest. Ranchers
and cowboys from several surround
ing counties have entered horses which
have Dever been ridden before.
The big shops and offices of the
Union Tank Company, located on the
Midwest OIL and Refining Company
property, few miles west of Casper,
was completely destroyed by fire
which started from a small pool of oil.
The building was of frame structure
and was covered with corrugated iron
and burned to the ground in fifteen
minutes. Eight streams Of water were
played on nearby buildings and kept
the flames from spreading. The loss
is estimated at $4,000.
Twenty six-foot graders have been
assigned to Natrona county by the
state for the maintenance of the Vel
lowstone highway through this coun-
ty. The state will also furnish the la
Dor and proposes to relieve the coun-
ty of all expenses in the upkeep OF