The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-08-27
WYOMING
STATE NEWS

10 ~'''l'HIS at uuC lhIlu
plant OF the corporation in Wyoming,
has been placed in commission.
The carnival appearance Of Chey-
'nne has begun to fude and frontier
lays, which always brings With it a
host OF festival trappings, is but
memory for 1920 and an inspiration
for 1921.
Pete COrtlii!O has been taken to the
State Penitentiary ut Rawlins. There
he will serve Il 30 to 40 year sentence
for his implication in the murder Of
Frank Jennings, near Laramie, last
fall.
Officers We've elected and Thermopo-
lis chosen as the next meeting place
by the American Legion at the closing
session of its annual convention ut
Sheridan. DR.. L. g. Newell, Of Sheri.
day was elected state commander.
The comnlercializing of Yellowstone
National Park, which also affects the
Rocky Mountain National Parks, has
been halted ny John Barton Payne,
Secretary Of the Interior, following a
recent inspection trip, when ne op-
posed the Yellowstone Lake dam pro-
ject.
Gertrude Walker, widow Of Fred
Walker, who died recently from gun
shot wound received in the Osage oil
field, has filed suit in the District
Court at Newcastle against Walter N.
Simm and Freel Bros, Simm's EN-.
ployers. for 100000 damages. alleg.
ing that Walker was shot by Slmin ut
the instigation Of Freel Bros.
Unfamliarity with high power ~
rifle which he was examining is held
responsible for the death of Edward
w. Madison, As, who was accidentally
killed at the Il. B. Lucas ranch, sixty.
five miles north Of Douglas when
bullet struck him in the head. He had
been dead about twenty-four hours
when men from Il neighborlng ranch
found his body.
A realistic fight between trappers
and Indians, in which Fort Washable
Indians and the Lander cavalry troop
will take an important part, parachute
drops from an airplane and wild
west card of superior merit will fea.
ture the program Of the Fremont
County fair, to be held ut Lander Sept.
8, Q, 10 and II. Racing will be an
additional attraction.
The state encampment for the Wy
OIning National Guards will be held at
Basin, Wyo.. beginning September l,
and ending on September Is. There
will be over 500 men at the camp and
regular army maneuvers will he gone
over in thorough manner. The
troops are completely equipped with
horses and everything needed for
regiment Of cavalry.
w. H. Holt, 50 years of age, fore.
man of Waterman ut the Midwest re.
finery died in the hospital at Casper
of injuries received when knocked
down and traInpled by team OF
horses which became frightened and
ran away ut the sound of air hammers
being used on construction work. The
din Of the hammers kept the aged
Waterman from noticing the runaway.
Gertrude Walker, widow Of Fred
Walker, who died recently from gun.
shot wound received in the Usage oil
field. has filed suit in the District Court
at New Castle against Walter n. Simm
and Freel Brothers, Silnm's employers
for 100000 damages, alleging that
Walker was shot by Simm at the In.
stigation Of Freel Brothers. The shoot.
ing. the petition of Mrs. Walker al.
leses, was the result of a deliberate
conspiracy to obtain possession of Ger.
tain oil land.
One hundred and fifteen tracts OF
irrigated land, ranging in area from
forty to 100 acres each, will be offered
for sale by the state at Fort Washable,
Fremont County, on Sept. -. The
average appraised value for irrigable
land, unimprOved, is $225O to $40 an
acre; irrigable, agricultural, improved,
So'.aO, and grazing lands. $40 to SD
an acre. The land is nearly all under
the government irrigation system con.
structed Mt cost of Sl,5OO,OOO, and
consists mainly of valley and bench
lands covered with native grass and
sage brush.
The owner of n carrier pigeon. car.
rying an aluminium band marked "173-
g. and with the letters L. c. and an
inverted V, may obtain his property
by addressing Arthur Henderson at
Fort Steele. The Henderson lad cap
tured the bird when it came down on
his fathers farm in exhausted con-
dition. Attached to the pigeons leg
was an aluminium message case, but
this contained no writing. Henderson
is curious regarding the distance the
bird had flown and for that reason has
not released it, but will do so if he
does not hear from the owner soon.
Wyoming stood third among the In.
serhountain states, and fourteenth in
the entire list of commOnweal,hs in