, 1919-01-23
Brief News Notes
From All Parts OF
Wyoming
western N%ewspsper Union News Service.

~,SlS IN 1918. Inc assessed
wealth Of the state is now 1854 per
capita.
Wyoming has a sufficient number
of horses to mount every a wom-
an and child in the state, with $4,000
left over.
Wyoming's 1918 hay crop aggre-
gated 100000 tons valued at $22,-
$4,000; 6,330,000 bushels of wheat
valued at 5000, 200.
A dead man was found in a refrig-
orator a on the Union Pacific rail-
road a few miles IA of Evanston by
a railroad brakeman.
Wyoming coal mines in 1918 shipped
coal to fifteen states and British Col
umbia, the mines producing $500, 900
tons worth $37,1S5,000 at the mine.
Hon. Patrick Sullivan, the man
chiefly responsible for putting Wyom-
ing at the forefront of the patriotic
states of the West during the war,
has resigned.
Wyoming women, having filled the
breach in the absence of husbands,
fathers and brothers during the war,
will surrender their places as fast as
the men return to take them.
Moneys received at the United
States land Office of Cheyenne during
the year 1918 appIoximated 500, 900,
although the number of applications
filed was less than for the year 1917.
Wyoming produced 1885, 900 bar
rels of crude oil in 1918, worth $24,-
4SS, 800 before refining, making its
export value S7s,054, $50. The state
is now producing and refining $4,000
barrels daily.
As a result of last weeks session
of the county assessors of the state,
there will be introduced at this ses-
sion of the Legislature a bill to allow
the assessors an additional $50 a
month in salaries.
The Western Hotel Company, own
ing the Midwest hotel at Casper, has
bought the Henning hotel, which adj
joins the Midwest and both hostelries
will be conducted as one under the
management of j.. G. Nichols.
Bulletins have been received at the
Wyoming division headquarters in
Cheyenne announcing the creation Of
a bureau for suggestion and COM
plants in the Office of the director
general of railroads.
Casper entered the list of good
towns, the result of a reform wave.
Acting on the positive orders from the
City Council, Chief of Police McGrath
closed all cabarets, gambling halls and
tenderloin joints.
Plans are being made by the city
commissioners of Cheyenne for laying
a new floor over the Central avenue
viaduct across the Union Pacific
tracks, which connects the northern
part Of the city with the South Side.
Denied a promise that he would not
be prosecuted for killing a steer that
did not belong to him, Thomas M.
Rodgers, manager of the George E.
Alcott ranch near Gillette, committed
suicide by shooting himself three
times.
1t is expected that a company Of
Twenty-irst Infantry from Monterey,
Cal, and a company from Fort Logan,
Utah, will soon be assigned to Fort
Russell. No definite dates, however,
have been set for sending these de-
tachments to Cheyenne.
Considerable interest has developed
locally in the past week in the work
going on in the Lance Creek oil field
north of Manville. Several Douglas
parties spent several days in that dis
trict during the week and returned
very enthusiastic over the operations
now in progress.
The House Public Lands Committee
has authorized a favorable report on
the Mondell bill extending the bound
aries of Yellowstone National Park.
Miss Rankin, Montana member of the
committee, will file the report, and
favorable action by Congress is ex-
pected to follow in due course.
Wyoming irrigation canals author
lied or constructed in 1918 aggregate
1921 miles.
Representatives of the coal mine
operators of Wyoming and of the
United Mine Workers of America, Dis
trict %, began a conference at Chey-
enne with the state coal mine inspec-
tors which is expected to work out a
new mining code acceptable to all in
terests concerned.
Pioneer Park, an amusement resort,
was swept by fire at Cheyenne. The
grandstand, skating rink and adjacent
structures were destroyed. The loss
is estimated at 10000. Included in
the property burned was a portion Of
the outfit Of Irwin Bros Wild West
Show. The flames spread to the
woods in the park and for a time the
park addition section of the city was
threatened.
A bill fathered by the State High.
way Commission and ready for pre-
sentation at the coming Legislative
session provides for a direct road tax
on all automobiles in proportion to
the weight of the car. Under the bill
an owner Of a small touring car
would pay $40, and a heavy truck
from $40 to $50. Under the present
system the state lcvies a tax of SIS
on each car, the total receipts from
this source for the present year
amounting to s80,750.
Wyoming has once more captured
first hoIors. In the world war it fur.
nished more soldiers, in proportion to
its population, than any other state
in the union. The biennial report OF
Adjutant General w. X. Weaver
shows that this state sent more thar