, 1919-04-03
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western N%ew.paper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

49, .s'NSf
R. Gardner of Cheyenne received tele-
graphic notice to that effect from the
War Department.
The Wyoming Stockgrowers' Asso-
citation will meet in annual convention
in Basin April 10, IL and IL. Delega-
lions from the Denver and Omaha
stockyards have chartered cars to at
tend.
Plans have just been completed for
a new three-story brick hospital build
ing at Lusk which Is to be constructed
at an approximate cost of $4,000 and
which when completed will have ac-
cOmmodations for over thirty-five pa
tents.
To survive the effects of deadly gas
attacks, bombs, shrapnel n artillery
fire of the west front, only to be in
valided home and fall a victim to
pneumonia, was the fate of Robert G.
Hlxson, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Xix
son of Kemmerer.
lust to show their wives they had
nerve" was the reason given by two
of the three men in jail in Cheyenne
for their attempted robbery of the
Wyoming Trust & Savings bank. Tony
Gonzales and Thomas Delgardo gave
the police the details of their plans,
which they said had been drawn from
a newspaper ccount of a Chicago
bank robbery.
Tony Gonzales, Erp+ Hernandez and
Tomas Delgardo, the th-te Mexicans
who confessed attempting to hold up
the Wyoming Trust and Savings Bank
at Cheyenne have been sentenced to
serve from ten to fourteen years in
the penitentiary. The wives of two of
them-Mrs. Delgardo and Mrs. Con
Zales-who were arrested as accessor-
les, will not be prosecuted.
Mrs. J. Fl. Rebstock vas slugged in
her home in Cheyenne and robbed of
500, which h carried in a bag sus-
pended around her neck. She is una
BILE to furnish a clew to her assailant's
identity beyond the belief that he was
a Mexican. She had just entered the
house and was bending over a trunk
when she was felled by a blow from
behind which rendered her uncon-
Scious.
Threatened blackmail proceedings
took a new turn when Maj. John f.
Leeper received a threat of death. AL
though the full contents of the letter
have not been divulged, it has been
learned that the mayor was threatened
with death by the "black hand" unless
!, he leaves town. The threat is believed
to be the outgrowth of a policy in
augurated by the city to clean up
Casper.
Governor Carey appointed Stephen
III. Sibley of Burns, c. Watt Brandon
Of Sheridan, Thomas ]. Brough of Ly-
man and C. C. Beaver of Thermopolis
members of the State Board of Immi-
grafton. The board will meet to organ
ize n appoint a secretary who will
receive $1,000 a year. The recent Leg
l~slature appropriated $4,000 for the
use of the board, including payment of
the secretary's salary, during the next
two years.
While the Legislature was drafting
a new blue-sky laGy to protect the stock
investor, Newcastle vas proceeding
with the prosecution of o. o. Baker of
the Sun Oil Company under the blue
sky law of 1909, with the result that he
was convicted of making false and X
aggerated statements regarding the fl
!, ~nancial condition and property of his
firm, and was sentenced to n term of
from two to three and a half years in
the state penitentiary.
With the glorious Fourth three
months in the offing Riverton is lay
Ing plans for a celebration that will
eclipse anything ever held in that sec
ton of the state, and for fear of rival
attractions on that date, formal an
nouncement of plans has beer author
lied. The opening of the new Teton
hotel, formal ceremonies attendant up
on the dedication of the new Masonic
temple and the dedication anew of a
mammoth flagpole to R%iyerton's he
roes in the world war will feature the
celebration, which will extend over a
period of several days.
Carbon black manufacturers In Wyo-
ming, assisted by West Virginia oper-
ators, who had contemplated estab-
fishing plants in this state, are prepar-
ing to resist the recently enacted law
prohibiting the manufacture of lamp
black from natural gas. The legisla-
ton prohibits, after Sept. 30 of this
year, the manufacture of carbon black
from any gas well in Wyoming within
ten miles of a town or industry. This
would close down the only W. plants
now operating in the state, at Crowley
and Lowell, representing an investment
of more than 81 100000.
Playfully pointing IL gun at his 4
year-0ld playmate, Maude Ferguson,
with the cry, 'I1I shoot you" a neigh
tor boy pulled the trigger of n small
coUhar rif1a and tha hullpt npnptrated