, 1919-02-27
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Newspaper Mo News Service.

Noman's husband is under arrest, pen
ling an investigation.
The stare of Wyoming will at once
Construct a state-owned water works
system for the ~penitentiary at Raw
Inns. The Legislature has made an APP
,ropriation of $4,000 for the work.
Bond issues totaling 100000 will
Ne authorized by the council at Cas-
per at its meeting for the extension of
water and sewer service in the city to
keep pace with other construction and
development.
After avoiding capture for more
han seven years, Raymond Hall, col
pred, wanted in Cheyenne for killing
Ernest Lawrence, also colored, on Oct.
-, 1911, is under arrest at Chicago
and confessed the crime.
A hotel to cost 100000 will be
erected in Green River by local cap
i~talists, 1t is announced. The Boyer
potash interests, now erecting a big
plant just outside the city, is under
stood TO be behind the new hosiery.
j.. Rhefnstrom, real estate promoter,
for whom q warrant has aeen issued
charging swindling of Sheridan county
residents out Of 100000 in the sale
of town lots near Bremerton, Wash,
in proximity to the Puget Sound Ma
val Yards, has been arrested in Sc
attic, according to Information re-
ceived by the sheriff at Sheridan.
The first office created by the pres
ent Wyoming Legislature TO be filled
by appointment from Governor Cary
is that. of state commissioner of child
and animal protection. The governor
named Ed. w. Burke of Cheyenne for
the position. Burke will exercise ap-
thority hitherto vested in a State
Board of Child and Animal Protection
and the Wyoming Humane Society.
The arrest at Cheyenne of three
dry farmers" from eastern Laramie
county, charged with killing antelope
in violation of law, brings to light a
peculiar situation. Protected by a
closed season, the antelope have
grown so bold that dry farm crops are
damaged in summer and hay eaten in
winter, the farmers only protection
being a good dog to drive the animals
away.
On a warrant sworn out charging
with fraud, j.. Rheinstrom, a real es-
tate promoter, was arrested Monday
at Seattle, WASH, and will be brought
TO Sheridan for trial. Rheinstrom is
a to hav cleaned up more than
100000 in Sheridan county by selling
lots at Bremerton, Wash, for $500 on
the representation that the land was
located within one-half mile of Puget
sound naval yards.
As a result of bone dry legislation,
he Becker Brewing Company of Evan
stOn has applied to Judge Arnold of
the District Court for the appointment
Of a receiver to wind up its affairs by
Lune 80. According to an announce
men: maze Az PRESIDENT Becker, the
machinery VIII be dismantled and with
the real estate sold, the proceeds will
he distributed among the stockholders.
The Evanston brewery is the Oldest in
the state.
Wyoming oil operators who have
gas wells are marshalling their force.s
against Wyoming House bill 1866, which
prohibits the burning of natural gas
to obtain its carbon contents only.
The principle of the bill is that there
should be no consumption of natural
which dOes not utilize its caloric
properties. The bill, If enacted, would
put out of commission carbon black
manufacturing plants in which a. mil
lion and a half dollars have been in
vested.
Wright Hershey, employed by the
Union Pacific as an engine hostler,
was run down and killed at Green Riv-
er by a switch engine piloted by his
best friend, Engineer Eastman. Her
shey vas walking against the wind in
a snowstorm and neither saw nor
heard the approaching engine. East
man did not see Hershey until it was
TOO late to stop the locomotive.
Converse county is about to lose
control of the Wyoming State Fair,
which heretofore has been conducted
by n state board. A bill introduced in
the Legislature by the ways and means
committee of the Lower House pro-
vldes that management of the fair
shall be transferred to the State Board
Of Charities and Reforms and thnt the
State Fair Board shall be abolished.
Two %yearssago the promise was made
hat, il $4,000 were appropriated for
the fairs of 1917 and 1918, there would
q no deficit. The Fair Board, how
ever. not only came before this Legis-
lature with n request that 1t provide
an emergency appropriation to cover
deficit of more than $4,000, but al
so asked IN appropriation of $4,000
Tor the 1919 fair and a permanent tax
levy of one-sixth of 1 mill to provide
funds for financing future fairs.
The prohibition question is "a closed
question in Wyoming. 1t was put to
sleep for what probably will be all
time to come when Governor Robert
D. Carey affixed his signature to