, 1919-08-14
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

'A' nun iih ny tiC Sbi tAo
Army.
Work has been commenced on the
automobile road from Casper to the
summit of Casper mountains and with
in II few months the motorists will find
a scenic mountain road twelve to six
teen feet wide, with an easy s per cent
grade. Heavy rocks in the road bed
are now being removed. A fun of ST.
900 for this work was subscribed by
Casper citizens.
Suffering from mental affliction that
baffled physicians, Betty Harris of
Longmont, Colo, who was staying at
the Dorman hotel at Worland, scrib-
bled a note to relatives and friends,
bidding them good-by, and then pro-
ceeded to the i've bridge, where she
plunged into the deep water. Men from
II party of autoists who drove on the
bridge as she jumped plunged in after
her and rescued her.
The fact that the people of the
United States are waking up to the
real value Of their national parks is
demonstrated by the travel statistics
just compiled in the office of the SUI
perintendent of Yellowstone National
park. These figures for the season of
1919, to include July 31st, show that
a total of 81 LOGO people entered the
park; and there is every Indication
that this number will be doubled by the
end of the season.
Capt. Arthur Z. Lane of Laramie
City, who served at Camp Funston for
q 0rn ~. 80 + 90 An ill., lf A.
American participation in the war with
Germany as a captain in the medical
section, has been notified of his promo
ton to a major in that section, effec-
tive July 20. He was recommended for
promotion in October, 1918, before the
signing of the armistice, N the pro-
motion was delayed in the office of the
secretary of war at Washington.
The county assessor has just COM
pleted his abstract of the assessment
of the property, real and personal in
Albany county, which will pay the
taxes of 1919, except the railroads, the
telegraph and telephone lines and the
private car lines, which will be fur
nished by the State Board of Equal
ization. The valuation of the real es-
tate in the county amounts to S9,691,-
99S, and of the personal property S.
S71,T45, making a total of S15,563, 743.
Marooned in a house surrounded and
filled with flood waters from Horse
creek, Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Keefe and
three children of Casper owe
their i've to a tree which
serve d to anchor the building,
and incidentally to a piano, on which
they were perched for three hours I'M
til the water receded from its five-foot
mark on the wall. The Keefes were
spending their vacation on a ranch
near Dubois, and lost a $4,000 automo-
bile In addition to their personal eff
fects.
The Board of County Commissioners
of Albany county and the Medicine
Bow national forest have entered into
a cooperative agreement to build nine
miles of road from Centennial to
Brooklyn lake, in the heart of the
Snowy range, nex season, to cost
about $4,000. This roa is intended
to bring the Brooklyn lake section of
the Medicine Bow forest to the use of
the people as a sort of summer resort.
A use permit was granted by the ma
tional forest to E. NJ. McGregor of Cen
tennial to erect some cottages in a part
of the national park contiguous to
Brooklyn lake, for renting to summer
tourists and pleasure seekers. Brook
Ign lake abounds in trout, the fishing
being among the best in the mountains
during the summer season.
1t has become known that Mrs.
Thomas A. Cosgriff, formerly of Chey-
enne, nov of Denver, has sol the con
trolling interest in the First National
Bank of Cheyenne to George f. Alb
bolt. The sale has been confirmed by
the District Court.
Reports from tourists returning
from the Yellowstone tell of the death
of a four-year-old girl who fell into
the boiling mud pots at the Thumb sta
ton. The child was with her grand
parents from New York and got be-
pots. Before she was rescued she was
badly burned and died two hours later
at the Mammoth hospital.
The Clarks Fork irrigation project,
which has not been considered for four
teen years, has been revived again by
the drouth conditions existing this
year. Meetings have been held and
government aid will be solicited to ad-
vance the project. The plan is to d.
vert the waters from the Clarks Fork
river over practically the entire region
lying between that flow and Rock creek
from the Clarks Fork canon to the Vel
lowstone river.
After having stoned one deputy and
relieved him of a "A rifle, shot his
jailer,. Homer Booth, through the arm
and fired on others who formed a posse