, 1919-05-08
Brief. News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Frontier Days-Cheyenne, July 2l-2o'
Work on the new city hall in Rlv-
erton is practically finished.
Cheyenne will lose $4,000 in license
revenues when the saloons close, which
is just $1,000 more than sheridan will
lose when the same thing happens.
Prospects for the erection of u new
high school building in Casper to cost
100000 are held out in discussion pre-
cipitated at u meeting Of the board.
The greatest building boom in the
history OF Casper has started, with
the beginning of work on thirty new
houses by Il single contracting firm.
If a suitable landing can be found,
Sheridan will be located ON al air
plane cute established by Il large mo
tor car company for delivering auto
mobile parts.
Casper's 1919 paving program VIII
represent an expenditure of approx
mately $4,000, according to figures
made public by the City Council.
North Center street and CY venue
districts will be paved first.
The body of w. w. Gnbraith, a for
mer Casper man, was found on the
prairie near Rawlins and the coroner
of that county is e~ndeavoring TO 10
cate his two sons. There were no
signs of his having met Il violent
death.
Sheep shearers at the Opal c~orrals,
which will handle 100000 sheep this
season, were raised from l4B to Is
cents an hour, when twenty-seven of
them struck after working II week on
the first contract. The plant is one
of the largest in that region.
The road between Glenrock and the
oil fields is greatly improved as the
result of Good Roads Day, when 125
men from town and the fields, with Il
force of teams and Il grader, gave
their time to the work. At noon ladies'
from the Episcopal and Baptist
churches served mince pie and hot
.offee.
A plant to harness the waters Of
lie Big POpo Agile river in the canon
yy The sinks has beer fully financed
and bids for construction work have
zen called for. The Lander Electric
light and Power Company will con
ract for current to supply the town
nd it will be operating by Sept. l.
! The complete plant will cost 100000,
\ runaway motorcycle struck Mrs.
: 'anche Michael and Miss Ruth Fallei
nile they were walking ON the streets
3 { sheridan, and Mrs. Michael sus-
aimed Il fractured leg and Miss Faller
! severe bruises. Two men were push
ing the motorcycle, which was in high
gear, when it suddenly shot forward
out of their control, jumped he curb
ana crashed into the women.
The Cody entrance TO Yellowstone
I Park will be opened June Goth instead
Of July 18th, as first announced. The
change was made as Il result Of con
rrrcnces between local interests and
officials of the government and rail
-npd. \ tremendous season is predict
ed because of improvements to the
oIlowstune highway from Cheyenne
and Il resumption Of tourist travel in
corrupted by the war.
Isaac OhIuud and his clerk, Walter
Geiger, Of the bridge and building De
/, partment Of the Union Pacific, We're
severely injured when the gasoline mo
Tor car on which they were riding
: left the rails at Il point eleven miles
west of Cheyenne and plunged down
, a steep embankment, carrying both
2 rA.,. r-f.I. IL fpInvr ,sa.t.a rfsl.ai nm Inv
. q passenger train, and rushed to the
hospital here, where both are reported
: seriously injured.
Engineers are at work on The plans
l OF the new tile plant for Lowell. The
plant Will be run by the Big Horn
Clay Products Company. Lines are be
ing run for the ground plans of the
building, preliminary sketches have
been made, and arrangements are 10Y
under way for the necessary tracknge
facilities.
J. II. Rainville was arraigned be
fore Judge ]. F. Hoop, in Sheridan,
charged with having broken into the
warehouse of the Merchants Transfer
Company and stolen forty-two cases
of whlskey, the property of the Omaha
Supply Company, valued at $1,000. II
seems he then hired w. f. Thomas to
haul it away for him. Thomas re
fused to plead guilty of having helped
steal it, but plead guilty TO receiving,
concealing and aiding in the conceal
ing of the forty-two cases of whiskey,
knowing that 1t was stolen goods.
Rainville also pleaded guilty and they
were 10th bound over to the neX term
of District Court, to be held in June,
under bonds of $500 each for their
appearance. Having failed to ecure