, 1919-07-31
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

The announcement was made from
Washington.
Richard Roberts and a crew of
twelve men finished the dipping of
1902 head of sheep near Cokeville.
They were on the job thirty days.
+. j. Tuckett, justice of the peace
and one of the pioneers of Cokeville,
committed suicide at his ranch home
four miles from there by putting a
bullet through his brain.
In an automobile accident near Sher-
idan, Mrs. Leroy Simons suffered Il
broken back and was pnralyzed from
the waist down. The machine turned
turtle on Il steep mountain grade, pin
ming her underneath.
Drouth conditions have brought hay
to fancy prices at Sheridan. Stuff re-
ported to be selling at $50 u ton had
jumped to $50 by the time motorists
from town had reached the field i'll
an effort to contract for the crop. De
livered, hay is going at $50 a ton and
probably will go higher until the album
liant Nebraska crop is shipped in.
Ranchers at Casper are predicting
$40 a ton for hay if present drought
conditions continue in Wyoming, ne
c%essitating the removal of live stock
to pastures and feed in other states.
AT a meeting of the Natrona County
Woolgrowers' Association the plan of
shipping livestock out of the state was
favored as against shipping in feed
here.
Climbing on the roof of one of the
grandstandS to watch the fireworks
which were set off at the celebration
given in honor of the men of the 14Sth
Field Artillery at Powell, a number OF
small boys were badly injured when
the roof collapsed, the boards and boys
tumbling onto the heads of spectators.
Near panic prevailed but no fatal in
juries resulted.
William Sewell, 81, youthful ranch
er, accused of the double murder of
Reuben Winslow and John Winslow,
brothers, has been bound over to the
District Court without bail and is be-
ing heavily guarded, as feeling against
Sewell is running high in the Jackson
Hole country of Wyoming, where the
I>alleged double murder was committed
about July 9th.
Natrona, Converse and Platte
ties LAY united In a good roads pro-
gram and delegates who met at Doug
las nave framed an ultimatum that
calls upon the State Highway Commits
sion to concentrate Its efforts on the
Improvement of tine Yellowstone high
way in the counties named, and sub
ordinate all other projects in the coun-
ties to this end.
Contracts are being drafted and will
loon be awarded in Casper for the
erection of two new school buildings,
one a vocational high school structure
to cos $4,000 and the other n grade
building, the cost of which Is estimated
at $4,000. 1t is the aim Of the board
to complete the buildings for use be-
fore the end of the next school year
and at the beginning of the second
semester, If possible.
Under a search warrant secured for
the premises of Fred II. Moeller, on
Liberty bench, ten miles west of Grey
bull, Sheriff Wickwire seized five bar
rels of whisky belonging to certain
Greybull residents who stored 1t there,
and worth, at bootleg prices, about
$4,000. Since starting liquor seizures
about $4,000 worth has been taken
and 1t has been stored in the court
house, one DON and the vault having
been requisitioned to take care of 1t
at Basin.
Sherman ID. Garfield has been re-
appointed postmaster at Sheridan for
a term of -four years. Mr.. Canfield's
first term expired March 4th last and
he. has been holding over since then.
DIR. f. f. Robinson of Chicago was
killed, DIR. J.. w. Bowes of Dickinson,
n. d., was probably fatally injured,
and william Mintlecky of Dickinson
was seriously hurt when a motor car
ran off a bridge near Kaycee Crossing.
The party was IN the way to Casper
from Sheridan to attend a meeting of
the directors of an oil company.
The Big Muddy maintains the repu.
tation of Wyoming for the permanent
cy of its oil fields. Less than three
years old, 1t now has 172 producing
wells and is daily running In excess
of 1900 barrels of crude into the
pipe line. AT the end of Its first year
1t was producing $500 barrels from
seven deep wells, and at the close OF
the second twelve months the output
had increased to 5000 barrels from
about thirty deep wells. Now there
are seventy deep wells and about 1OC
shallow sand producers. The average
for the 172 wells is slxty-four barrels
a day, although some of the deep ones
run into the hundreds.
Stepping into a deep hole while bath
ing in the Wind River at Rlverton
Ethel Blomberg, 10, daughter of Johr
Blomberg of Riverton, was drowned
despite the heroic efforts of compan
ions, who could not swim, to rescue
her. F1oyce Landers, who arrived a