, 1920-03-18
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Two Colorado ex-soldiers and six
from Wyoming drew farm prizes in
the federal land lottery which was
conducted at %Torrington, Wyo. OF the
eighty prize winners thirty-one are res
idents of Nebraska.
Real estate dealers are responsible
for the statement thai from eight to
city every day due to the scarcity of
housing facilities. The situation is be
coming serious and Il concerted move
ment is under way to remedy the stu
alton.
Judge Raymond, sitting for Judge
Tidball at Laramie. granted the Car
dillO brothers and Walter Newell a
change of to Cheyenne. No date
for the murder trial was set, The
three men were granted separate tri-
ais and John Cardillo will he tried
first.
A brand new enterprise designed to
put Wyoming even more on the map
than it is today, got under way when
articles of Incorporation were filed for
the Wyoming Livestock Loan Com
pany, which will have its headsnar-
tiers in Cheyenne and operate with a
capitalization of 100000.
Insurance companies of the world
are taking c~ognizance of the fact that
Wyoming is a booming and progress
sive state. Some fifteen new concerns
have signified their desire to do bust
ness here and have filed the neces-
sary papers with the insurance COM
missioner, Robert B. Forsyth.
Notice was filed with the secretary
of state at Cheyenne that the Saratoga
been reincorporated under the name
of the Saratoga & ~Encampment Rail-
road Company, and hat the capitafi-
cation would continue to be $1,000,0OO.
Denver interests hold a majority of the
stock.
Attorney General w. l.. Walls has
handed to the State Board Of Land
Commissioners an opinion in which he
states that the land board has entire
and absolute control and jurisdiction
over state lands and that the board is
charged with the management of dis
position of the same. The question
rose out of an application of the nli-
nois Pipe Line Company for a right-of-
over university lands.
Cheyenne, Wyo.-Five prominent
men, including one state official and
two bank employees, have been arrest
ed here on a thigh jacking" charge aft
er the home of George A. d. Abbott,
president OF the First National Bank,
had been broken into and n quantity
of liquor taken. According to the pO-
lice, the five men took eighteen quarts
Of beer and one quart of whisky from
the Abbott residence.
Since announcement of the recep-
ton of bids for road improvements,
the state highway ~totalling 100000 TO
the original list of roads for which bids
to be opened March % have beer
asked, swelling the total value of the
contracts to be awarded on that date
from 100000 to 100000, the largest
amount for road building to be consid-
cred at any single meeting of the high
way commission since its organization
a year ago.
A $4,000 gymnasium has just been
completed at the Crow Indian agency
school, according to William H. Bal,
mer, the coach for the Indian boys
basketball team. The older Indians on
the reservation requested its erection
and asserted That the sum be taken
out of the tribal fund. The gym con
tains dressing rooms, shower bath,
ETC., and is equipped with all gymna.
SUM appliances found in every up-to-
date gymnasium
Committees have been appointed and
the. women workers are enthusiastic In
their efforts to secure a Y. w. C. A.
home at Sheridan as their ultimate
goal.
The recent advance in the price OF
Wyoming crude oil win net the state
Of Wyoming $4,000 a year, or approx.
imately $500 n day, on the crude 1t re-
celves as royalty from leased state
owned lands, figuring on the present
rate of production. Production, how.
ever, is increasing rapidly and the in
creased Income viii, be much larger
than the figure stated. The state now
Is deriving approximately $2,OO0,OOO
annually from royalty crude.
Plans for icehouses at Laramie,
Wyo, and North Platte, Neb., are in
cluded in millions of dollars worth
of improvements announced by the
Pacific Fruit Express of the Southern
Pacific Company. Abandonment OF
the present icehouses and erection IL
a new icing plant and platform, at a
total cost of $464.0OO, is contemplated
at North Platte. Construction of a
modern natural ice storage house OF
$4,000 tons capacity and a new icing
platform, to cost $177,OO0. is provided
for Laramie.
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