, 1919-11-20

pH tHe -NoTlHN tSIefE- suffered a DFOk-
en- leg when two freight cars were
smashed and piled up on the track in
the Hudson yards. Logue was on top
of one of the cars when the collision
occurred and was thrown clear of the
wreckage.
Ground will be broken soon for a
new refinery to he built at Usage.
WyO, by the Mcworter oil and Refin-
ing Company To handle part of the pro
duction from the new field. Milton Nc
Whorter of Lusk is head of the new
company. which is capitalized ut $500
600 and which will adopt the McWhor-
ten process used successfully on the
coast.
During the tourist season of Yellow
stone National park. which closed early
in October, all travel records of the
great park were broken. The aGgre-
gate number of persons visiting the
park during the year ended Oct. IL.
1919. was 62.261, an increase of 1O.3GG~
over the former record yea of 1915,
when 51,S95 people entered the gates
of the Yellowstone.
If anyone want to join the "In Bad
Clubs" all he has to do is shoot one of
the deer near Lander. On accoun of
the heavy storms in the mountains all
chances of the deer being able to Sc
cure the necessities of life in their
regular haunts are shut off. Therefore
the game warden may have to feed
them for several weeks as they come
near civilization for food.
Bernace a. Mewnaw. % years old, an
ex-service man who survived a Hun
bayonet wound received while fighting
with the Canadian forces in France for
two years, was killed almost instan-
~taneously when caught in the clutch of
a gas engine on the Kinney lease of the
Big Muddy oil field, near Casper, and
whirled to his death by the striking OF
his body on the floor with each turn.
Captain Beverly DAILY of Laramie
Syho has been the executive officer of
the University O.. T. C. since its organi-
cation, is in receipt of an order from
headquarters restoring him TO active
duty and detailing him as professor of
military science and tactics. The cap
tain, who has been on she retired list,
recently received word that he would
be reassigned. Now comes the official
order. Peyton C. March general chief
of staff, signed the letter.
T. E. Gilbert, mayor of Buffalo, OBJ
tanned a judgment for S7.193 gains
John d. Powers of Sheridan in the
District Court in Newcastle. Judge
kimball of Casper presided. The case
resulted in a transfer of a large num-
Der of sheep from Powers to Gilbert
about two years ago, in which Powers
was charged with double counting
the sheep. The costs in the case.
which Powers must pay, are more thar
$1,000, which is in addition to the judg-
| ment.
Workmen digging an excavation for
a house in Cheyenne. recently I'M
earthed the body of a baby in a crack
er box. The belief is advanced hat
the child was murdered. The police
and the coroner are tracking n pos
sible parent on a single clew that
some time ago the coroner issued a
burial permit to a man who has now
left the city TO bury a baby. The man
promised to return with the corpse,
but when he was informed by the of
fetal that h body must he buried in
the city cemetery he never appeared
and the burial permit was never re-
corded. The condition of The body in
dicated it had been buried possibly
six months.
John t. Hawkes., editor of the GIL
lette News, has resigned his position,
and on Dec. l will move to Buffalo,
Wyo., to become editor Of the Buffalo
Voice, succeeding Hayden NJ. White.
who is retiring. Mr.. White has beer
in Ill health and is giving up newspa-
per work for the time being.
The Laramie City Council has au-
thorized he refunding to former liquor
dealers of the unearned portions of
liquor license fees paid for license
which had not run their course when
prohibition on July 1 stopped the legal
lied sale of liquor In Wyoming. The
refund will total between $500 and
$4,000.
Judge Ralph Kimbnll. at Casper,
overruled a motion to quash presented
by the defense in the case of the state
against Hugh ID. Armstrong, charged
with the murder of Tom Majors and al
lowed the prosecution further time to
prepare affidavits to meet the plea in
abatement presented by the defense.
The attorneys for the defense. Hagens,
Stanley and Murane. indicated that
they would ask a change OF venue after
the defendant has entered his plea.
X. o. George, a ranchman of Tie
Siding, was found dead in bed at u
hotel at Laramie, having shot himself
In the forehead. The chambermaid
found the body. She had been to his
room during the forenoon, but thought