, 1919-10-02
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

The latest quotation on bootleg
whisky is $50 II pint, according to
Archie Campbell, an Indian from the
Wind River reservation, who was ar
rested in Lander for drunkenness.
Whether IL r~attlesnake's rattles lie
flat or stand one edge no longer inter
ests Lusk authorities, but they are on
siderably c.mgrined over the success of
= stranger who garnered $3.50 in bets
with those who thought they knew.
Special rates on cattle shipped to
Wyoming from Texas and other south
ern points will also apply this fall and
winter to cattle and sheep shipped in
the opposite direction, amounting to a
saving of over S130 II car, according to
advices from Washington.
j. B.. Dixie, a cattle and sheepman of
Wyoming, has leased $4,000 acres of
the La MADEIRA grant of land, located
in Sandoval and Santa Fe counties in
New Mexico, for grazing purposes. He
expects TO stock ii with 26,000 head of
sheep and a large number of cattle.
James II. Engle, ~, was almost in
stantly killed at one of the wells of
the Wind River Refining Company at
Wyopo by the fall of a heavy tool from
a pulley. He was struck upon the back
of the head and neck and death re-
suited in n few minutes.
~Ten-year-old Steve Jones, son of
Frank Jones, stockman of Greybull,
was dragged to death when his foot
caught in the stirrup of the horse from
which he was thrown. The boy suf-
fered Il fractured skull and his body
was horribly mangled before the pony
could be caught.
One of the largest deals in the min
ing industry that has taken place in
Idaho Springs for many years, oc-
Cured when five men from Newark.
\. j., took over the Ottawa group at
Alice, ten miles north of that city. They
raid $4,000 for the property, which
includes eight lode claims and a mill
site.
Burglars entered the. Moran building
at Glendo and escaped with about $3.50
in cash from the p~ostoffice and store
tills. They We're surprised at their
work by store employees who entered
the building late at night, but made an
exit by the back door and covered
their retreat with several shots from a
revolver.
The romance of the war was brought
home to Itiverton when Robert Long
of Chicago, for two years with the
aviation corps in France, paid a visit
to his war MOTHER Mrs. Nellie Gil
bert, and decided to make Riverton his
home. Long was left an orphan early
in life and during the war was adopted
by Mrs. Long.
The celebration of the eighty-ninth
birthday 0f Edward Ivinson recently
rivets attention on the oldest man in
the state of Wyoming, Dad" Sherrod
of Hawlins, who vas born in Harrison
county, Ohio, June 26, 1918. He came
YES i'll 1899, when 26 years of age.
For several years he hunted and
trapped, incidentally spending a good
share of his time fighting with the
Indians. He now is spending his de-
clining days at the Riverside farm
near Dixon, in Carbon county.
Wyoming soldiers who fought under
General Pershing, but who never had
the opportunity to see him, much less
greet their leader, are to have that
privilege when the state convention of
the American Legion at
Douglas, Oct. 10th for IL two-day SEES
sion. General Pershing, 1t has been
announced by Maj. A. IL. Beach, state
chairman, has accepted an invitation
to be present, together with Senator
Francis L. Warren of Wyoming chair
man of the Military Affairs committee
of the Senate.
The iron ore mines of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company have been
closed by the company. 1t was ex-
planned that because of the shutdown
of the company's steel plant at Pueblo
the output of the Sunrise mines was
not needed. The Chicago mine, near
Sunrise, owned by the same company,
also was closed.
Just is James Moriarity concluded
that he was conducting n successful
entrance into the Union Pacific Coal
Company store mt Hanna, he collided
with n charge of buckshot fired by
Thomas Jones, a negro %janitor who
sleeps in the building and who had
been awakened by the efforts of Mort
arity and an unknown companion to
break into the place.
More than 1,200 ex-service men at
tended the opening of the state fair at
Pueblo as the guests of the State Fair
Association, and through them tn
guests of Colorado. Gov. Oliver ii.
Shoup was present at the fairgrounds
to extend the welcome of the entire
state to the boys. This he did in "a
lea little address. Most of the ex-
service men We're in uniform and
added a military touch to the scene
Wyoming families are being paid 3d.
az. $40 in War Risk insurance by