, 1919-07-17

The two-year-old daughter of G. 0.
Woodhouse vas painfully injured
when kicked by a horse while running
around in the yard at their ranch near
Laramie. One ear was almost torn
off and the child was bruised about
the head.
Clyde Frank Brady, age %, Western
Union lineman working out of Denver
with n crew sent on improvement and
repair work, lost his life by drowning
when seized with cramps while swim
ming in the Platte river below the
bridge at Fort Steele. Companions
were powerless to save him.
While getting breakfast over a camp
fire in the Lodge Grass canon, Francis
Eggart was badly burned when a pot
of coffee suddenly exploded, throwing
the boiling liquid over his head and in
to his face. He and his bride, who was
formerly Miss Helen STUDY of Sheri-
dan, were on their honeymoon trip.
Climbing over n wire fence, julius
Hilber, Jr., of Diamondville, II years
old, was killed when his .22-caliber
rifle was accidentally discharged. He
left home ON a rabbit hunt and after
being absent for two days his parents
organized searching parties. He was
found lying by the fence with a bull
let in his left side.
Ten years ago there wasn't a refin-
cry, in Wyoming. Today there are
eleven in operation, two more. are be-
ing built, and others are scheduled to
be started before the end of the year.
The eleven now running represent an
approximate investment of g 900,
and they handle 11S,5O0 barrels of
crude daily.
With the water unusually low in the
rivers and creeks throughout the state,
Game Warden w. Z. Judkins has an
nounced that some device must be
used by ranchers to keep the fish from
coming through the headgates into
their bitches. HEADACHES must be
screened or otherwise made proof
against the finny tribe.
Plans are under way for the cree
ton of a $4,000 Northwestern depot
at Lusk. The old depot has been
moved about forty feet to the east and
the new one will be on the old site.
The structure will be LA feet long, %
feet wide and will be one story high,
finished in stucco, with asphalt
shingled roof and built with a wide
cornice effect.
What appears to have been a double
murder was brought TO light when the
bodies of Henry and Reuben Winslow,
ranchmen, were found in the charred
ruins of their cabin in the interior Of
the Jackson Hole country. The cabin
supposedly had been fired to hide the
crime. County authorities are investi-
eating, but no motive nor clews have
been found.
Sleeping on h main track while
his freight was awaiting the arrival Of
a special train, Louis Sclief, a fire
man, 81 years of age, a instantly
killed when the special came in at a
high rate of speed at Cowley, Wyo.
1t appears he raised up and attempted
to get off the track when he realized
the train was approaching, but the
pilot struck his head and rushed it
and the body vas horribly mangled.
Accidental discharge of q % cali
Der rifle, carried on the moving ma
IA Nv it vas tO5 liz
life of Raymond ]. Mclaughlin of Buff
falo, aged II years. The gun was dis
charged when the machine struck an
irrigation ditch and the bullet entered
the base of the stomach and ranged
upward. The child was rushed to the
hospital and an operation performed,
but death followed in a few hours.
George w. X. Posvar, erstwhile can
didate for mayor of Casper and for
state representative and who returned
to Casper in March after his friends
believed him to have been buried in
Fort Worth, Texas, hps instituted suits
for damages totaling $4,000 against a
bank and the sheriff of Natrona coun-
ty for the disposition of property to
settle debts n judgments at Casper.
He charges the bank and sheriff with
having made erorrs in his account.
Her mistake in crossing the reins
while driving a team attached to IA
buggy in which she was driving with
Mrs. A. Griggs and the latter's two
children, cost Mrs. Edwin Chase her
life ut her homestead twelve miles
from Gillette. Not observing that the
reins were crossed and unable to ac-
count for the teams actions under the
circumstances, Mrs. Chase caused the
horses to turn SO sharply that the
buggy was tipped over and it's occu-
PANTS thrown out. Mrs. Griggs and
children We're not injured, but Mrs.
Chase was caught beneath the buggy
and dragged about 200 Yards. sustain
ing a fracture of the neck that caused
instant death.
The Standard Timber Company has
begun one of the largest timber pro-
jects in he in-termountain west with
the sending in of thirty men and ten
teams to the country forty miles nortb-