, 1919-06-19

State Fair at Douglas. Sept. 9-12.
Plans are moving ahead rapidly for
the big Frontier celebration to be
staged at Newcastle, June Goth and
9th. The show will depict the from
tier life on the plains of thirty years
g
Following the action of Governor
Shoup of Colorado, Governor Carey of
Wyoming refused to call an extra ses-
sion of the Wyoming Legislature to
ratify the Susan b. Anthony equal suf-
frage amendment to the United States
constitution.
Douglas will soon have a refinery,
even though Standard Oil officials
turn down the proposition offered
them. Local men, heavily interested
in oil development, declare that an
Independent concern will place Il re-
finery in case the Standard officials
do not.
Attempting to board Il moving train
at Greybull. Orvi Vine, a soldier from
overseas, who had been discharged
from the army at Fort Russell and
was en- route to his home in Montana,
slipped and his left leg was crushed
by the wheels of the train. He died
soon after reaching a hospital.
Platte county, Wyoming, will add
thirteen miles of road improvement to
the Yellowstone highway, much trav-
eled by Denver motorists in summer
months, under plans submitted to the
United States Bureau of Public Roads
which nrpNiln for. nynnn1ifurn nf SQl =
600, divided equally between the feder-
al aid fund and the Wyoming State
Highway moneys. This trip runs north
and south from Chugwater.
Charles Carter, representing the
BrOwn-Leland Company, has pur-
chased the three small Pokenville
wool clips, totaling 10000 pounds, at
511h cents per pound. j. III. Mantle,
representing the Union Wool Com
pany, has bought the Millison Com
pany clip of 10000 pounds, at 50 cents.
pounds, has been contracted to an I'M
announced purchaser, it is said, for
about 81 cents a pound.
Speeding home from a fishing trip,
Clarence Stout, a ranchman of he
Prairie Dog district, missed the bridge
at Acme and his car plunged into the
gully spanned by the bridge, pinning
hin down and inflicting injuries from
which he died at the state hospital,
Sheridan, about an hour later. A boy
named Merrill, who accompanied
Stout, was thrown clear of the car and
escaped with a few bruises. A widow
and one small child survive Stout.
A miner, known only as Greek
George, was buried under tons of coal
and rock in the Glencoe mine in n
of the most extensive cave-ins that
ever occurred in the Kemmerer dis
trict. Before workers reached the
body almost 165 airs of rock had been
removed, requiring workmen almost
two days to complete he task. The
body was horribly mangled and one
arm was found twenty fee from the
body.
The engine, express, mail and bag
gage cars and the day coach of west
bound passenger train No. SOB on the
Northwestern railroad from Omaha,
were derailed four miles east of Cas-
per. The engine turned over, but the
cars remained upright. The other
cars of the train, a passenger coach
and a Pullman sleeper, remained on
the rails. Engineer Thomas Shean of
ChadrOn, Neb., was badly scalded. His
fireman was catapulted through the
window of the cab fifty feet, landing
or his feet. The baggageman and ex-
press messenger and mail clerk were
considerably shaker up, as were a
score OF more of passengers,
Organization of a cavalry init of the
Wyoming State Guard was virtually
assured at Casper, at a meeting at
the Army and Navy Club at which re-
turned service men to the number of
thirty-two signed the petition for the
platoon. Six towns will be allowed a
platoon each and the government will
furnish all equipment.
Homestead rights in Wyoming val
ued at 100000 are at stake in an in
quiry initiated by the Department of
the Interior to ascertain how the Big
Horn Sheep Company came into pos
session of them. Special Master c.
NJ. Watts of Cheyenne, Wyo., took de-
positions in Chicago among the $50 in
dividuals who filed the claims in
volved.
Casper merchants are searching pos
sible hiding places in their stores be-
fore closing for burglars, as the result
of two ~burglaries committed by this
method during the past two weeks.
The Holmes Hardware Company and
the NJ. ID. Barnett Quitting Company,
a branch of the Denver store, expert
enced losses. and no trace OF the
thieves was left for the police to work
on.
With a view to erecting Il new grade
school building to supplant the Central
school and which will cost approx
mately lOOOO the hoard Of truetaaa