, 1919-08-28
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

10 uiltSthf 80 III tlltN liOlii
George Dickens near Basin.
The b~artenders may be out of Jobs
in Wyoming but the Bartenders' Union
continues on the job. Among the rep
resentatives of organized labor of Cas-
per appointed to arrange for observ-
ance of Labor Day, appears Sol Cohen
as representative of the bartenders.
Casper will stage a big Labor Day
demonstration.
Lander Johnson, a wealthy stock
man, was shot and killed by William
Mckinley, n herder, at Leckie, seven
ty-five miles north of Rock Springs.
The herder announced his intention of
leaving Johnson's employ and asked
for his money. Johnson said he could
not pay it until he reached the offices
of the sheep company at Rock Springs.
Thereupon the herder drew q rifle and
killed johnson.
The first fine for the violation of
the bone dry law in Natrona county
brought the minimum fine of 5000 and
costs when Wayne Cellar and George
Hannah were fined by Judge C. L.
Winter in District Court. Both pleaded
guilty. Cellar, who is a bell hop in a
hotel at Casper, was charged with hay
ing liquor in his possession. Both men
had waived preliminary hearing.
With th~irty-four children defective
in speech enrolled in the local schools
last year, the Inauguration of a school
in Sheridan for suffering n stam-
mering children and for pupils other
wise defective is being considered pri-
or to the opening of the school term,
Sept. .. Maintenance of such schools
has been made possible by the passage
of a $1,000 appropriation by the last
Legislature for this purpose.
Cheyenne will have a new high
school building within the text eight
cen months, it is announced by MEM
bers of the school board of trustees.
The present high school building has
a capacity of only 200 students, and
as a result of its inadequacy, a new
building hat will are for 600 will be
erected. The cost of the new build
ing will be close to half a million.
If present plans work Sheridan
may have a half million dollar hotel
under construction in a few months.
Prominent business men are backing
the proposition and a site opposite the
~pOstoffice has beer selected. The site
will cost approximately S22,500. The
plans for subscription will probably be
to raise a certain amount by issuance
of stock, and then sell first and second
mortgage bonds to secure completion
of the building.
Sheriff Wickwire and his force of
deputies captured a truck load of
liquor, consisting of two barrels and
twenty-five cases, on Whistle creek in
the northwest part of Johnson county.
The owner, G. +. Altmark, who claims
to be a resident of Billings and Big
Timber and engaged in the hide bust
ness, was arrested and taken to Ba-
sin, where he entered Il plea of guilty
and was bound over to the next term
of the District Court.
The presence of a latter day Tom
Horn is suggested by the case of Mrs.
I'M NJ. Ritchey, a ranchwoman of the
fossil district suspected of cattle rust
ling, who is in the hospital at KEN
merer with an arm shattered by q bull
let fired by n masked man whom she
encountered while riding the range
near her ranch. The stranger threat
ened her with death unless she con-
fessed the identity of associates in an
alleged cattle theft for which she was
arrested recently. When she spurred
her horse he opened fire, one bullet
smashing her arm.
Wyoming Is about to have a colony
that surpasses everything hitherto OIL
record. Wyoming is to have a colony
"for ladies only" If twenty women IN
Illinois who wrote to Governor Carey
asking about ALLEGATION for the pro-
n come out.
Wyoming's very rapid development
into an agricultural area of import
ance is shown by statistics for the
eleven-year period 190S-191S complied
by state immigration commission. Dur
ing the ~eleven-year period the states
production of wheat increased 277.46
per cent, from 1,775,O00 bushels IN
1908 to 100000 bushels in 1918; hay,
141.65 per cent, from 10000 tons in
1908 to 1,21s,OO0 tons in 1918; oats,
311.59 per cent, from 2,S39,000 bush
els in 1905 to 11,6S5,00 0 bushels in
1918: corn, 1,090.41 per cent, from a.
600 bushels in 1908 to 100000 bush
els in 1918; barley, 692.S6 per cent,
from 100000 bushels in 1905 to 1,110,-
600 bushels in 1918; rye, 1.945.45 per
.1,4 T.... 90 nAn A.,.t.I. L.. 1nnO -
100000 bushels in 1918, and potatoes
374.5S per cent, from 94S,000 bushels
in 1908 to 100000 bushels in 1918.
Officers of the state bootleg squad
seized liquor valued at more than a
quarter of n million dollars in the
rnids at Lusk. Cody and Douglas dur