, 1919-12-04


Wendover, getting both the robber and
the goods.
w. J. Emanuel, colored, who stole II
suitcase on a Burlington train in Aug
ust, pleaded guilty to a charge of
grand larceny in District Court at
Sheridan and was sentenced to serve
from eighteen months to WI years in
the ~penitentiary at Rawlins.
Frank L. Fish has been given per-
mission TO trap in the forest reserve
near Riverton. He is putting out n
string of traps and anticipates a sue
cessful season. Mr.. Fish says the hills
are full of lynx, bobcats, fox and coy
ote and several black wolves have been
seen.
Appropriation of S65, 900 for a new
p~ostoffice building Mt Greybull proba-
bly, will be included in the omnibus bill
when it passes the regular session of
Congress, bills having been introduced
in both the Senate and House by Wyo-
ming solons. Favorable action is pre-
| dicted.
Prohibited by his youth from serv-
ing his country during hostilities with
Germany, but managing last June to
get into the army for service in the
occupied area of Germany although at
that time still in his sixteenth year,
Benjamin Wickland of Laramie met
death as a soldicr-although not a SOL
dier's death-in n fire which destroyed
a barracks at Chaumont, n. J..
B. ]. Keys, cashier Of the First Ma
tional Bank of Worland. Wyo., was
arrested after discovery that the funds
of the bank were short $4,000. "Of-
ficers reported Keys had made n COM
plete statement regarding the short
age. Part of the loss is covered by a
surety bond, and directors of the bank
are said to have announced their in
tention to make good the balance.
Late reports from Lance Creek state
that the No. 4 well Of the Buck Greek
company drilled into the sand is hold
ing up to first estimate of 1000 bar
rels a day, although flush production
is greater. Work of completing the
well, which brings other operations in
to favorable prospects, will be contin-
ued. Drilling also will be speeded up
on other wells.
After more than a year sufficient evil
dence has been obtained against Robert
L. Rush and his son Lewis to justify
their arrest on a charge OF stealing
livestock in 1913. The alleged rustling
occurred in the Owl Creek district. Will
liam Eadon, Rush's son-in-law, has
been made defendant to an information
charging him with receiving stolen live
stock.
The Ohio Oil Company has an
nounced ar increase of 25 cents per
barrel in the price of all grades of
Wyoming crude oil. The new prices of
the various classifications are as fol-
lows: Grass Creek and Elk Basin,
$2.10; Lusk, S2.O5; Salt Creek, Big
Muddy and Pilot Butte, Sits; Lander,
S1.50. Pennsylvania crude oil has gone
up so cents per barrel since the last
raise here in 1918.
w. H. Weaver, rig builder and con-
tractor of Casper, and three other men
were taken to Rawlins with frozen feet
after a narrow escape from perishing
in the Red desert. The men were COM
PEELED to spend n night in their auto
mobile when stranded by the storm,
and were picked up the next day by a
sheep wagon. Two days were required
to reach Wamsutter station, where
medical attention was secured.
An ~1S-year-old fire chief, Jack Sedg-
wick, claimed by citizens to be the
youngest in the United States, was APP
pointed head of the volunteer fire de-
partment at a meeting of re%organiza-
ton at New Castle.
Manuel Gonzales and Basilio Abre-
go, the two Mexicans who were found
guilty of burglarizing the Hall store at
Pine Bluffs, have been sentenced In
District Court. Gonzales drew from
eight to twelve years In the state PEN
itentiary at Rawlins, and Abrego got
from five to seven years. II. v. Town
send, the man who was found guilty
of robbing the Schwartz pool hall was
given eight years. All three were
taken to Rawlins to serve their terms.
Joe Clause was probably fatally In
jured and Ryan Bertrand received Sc
rious injuries as a result of a runaway
car at the Deitz coal mine No. z near
Sheridan, where the two men were en-
ployed as miners. The accident was
caused by n coupler boy failing to-
brake a car. The car gained momen
tum and crashed into a string of emp
ties. The collision derailed the car and
It tore out a set Of timbers which fell
on Clause. Bertrand was caught be-
meath the car.
The Jurors in the Ease of Frank
Parkinson, a travelling salesman of
Denver accused of the theft Of an
automobile. didn't like the eating place
selected by the sheriff, L. b. Gaylord
of Fremont county at Lander. Accord
lngly they issued a strike notice and
refused to eat until allowed to choose