, 1919-02-06
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

ucAl htclilS VI tHt lOIduO-W
ming Laundry Owners Association.
The Wind River refinery is to be
enlarged. The company has con-
tracted sixteen new wells to be
drilled in 1919.
The state of Wyoming is now max
its share in royalties from oil taken
from state land.
Cheyenne's record for sending
young men in the service during the
present war has caused the opening
of a navy recruiting station there.
The U. S. Fuel Administration for
Wyoming that from and
after Feb. 1, next, it will cease to reg
ulate the retail margins and selling
prices of retail dealers.
A monster lion measuring 6 feet 10
inches and weighing approximately
300 pounds was killed in the hills near
Sheridan by ]. w. Howell. The body
of a full-grown elk, killed by the lion,
was found nearby.
Neewah, a little brown bear, was
captured in the Big Horn mountains.
kept for awhile at the Aber ranch,
near Sheridan, and sold for $50. the
proceeds going to care for a French
orphan.
Liquor dealers of Cheyenne are
making feverish efforts to dispose of
heavy overstocks of liquor, which
was purchased many months ago.
Stocks ranging in value from $4,000
to $4,000 are on hand in Chey-
nne
The first well to be spudded in in
the Round Butte oil field in Weld
county, eighteen miles south of
Cheyenne, will be in the northeast
corner of section IL. township IL
north. range 50 west. by the Cactus
Company.
Lighting a twisted piece of paper
for the amusement of his year-old
sister, placed in his charge while his
parents went for a load of hay, the
~3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Bussard, dry farmers of Table moun
tain, set the little home on fire. The
baby sister vas buried to death.
Yale Wright, IS, former employee of
the Casper .postoffiee, confessed in
the Federal Court at Cheyenne to rob
bling United States mails of between
$1,000 and $4,000 worth of jewelry and
~valuables and embezzling $4,000 in
cash and War Savings Stamps from
the accounts of fellow employees.
That Wyoming's trout fishing is a
valuable asset, attracting many tour
lists to the state, and that the propa-
cation of fish should be encouraged,
was the consensus of opinion in the
House of the Legislature when two
so-called fish" bills came before the
committee of the whole for considera-
ton.
Because the Wal Department
tailed to release him from army serv-
Ice after it had been recommended
by the chairman of the district ex-
emption board, Lieut.. Lloyd Snyder,
whose home is at Valley. near Cody,
Wyo.. committed suicide by drown
ing in the Tonhue river near Fort
Keough.
A $4,000 community potato stor-
age warehouse will be constructed by
the farmers of Powell for storing the
coming summers crop. B. E.. Eli
oft has charge of the subscription.
which will be confined to growers.
The warehouse will be located at
Powell and will have a capacity of
140 cars.
A vendetta, having its origin in
a ~stiletto thrust made in far-off Aus
tria before the latest victims were
born. and relentlessly pursued for
nearly 100 years, resulted in the
dynamiting of the home of John
Bergtognolli at Rock Springs.
With a record of having shipped
more than 100000 bushels OF
wheat from this section last season,
local farmers have sold stock in a
mutual elevator which will be erect
ed in time for the 1919 wheat crop
at Gillette. The greater portion of
the wheat yield of last year was
from dry lands.
That herding sheep is conducive to
insanity is apparently confirmed in
the report of the superintendent of
the state insane asylum at Evanston,
where nine sheep herders are de-
tanned. This is estimated at Sc per
cent of the total number of men en-
gagged in this business. The report
shows that only Ia per cent of the
farmers we're apprehended for insan-
ity, 1.6 per cent of the housewives,
while mining prospectors have only
one man I'm the aavlum Thera Ia ala0
one editor in the state asylum.
A series of daring burglaries baf-
fling the police goes on uninterrupt-
eddy in Casper. The Casper laundry,
the Casper dairy and the Leidecker
Tool Company offices were success
fully hnrnIod In ono nirh4 .rith M