, 1920-01-29
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

mark, Norway, England, Scotland and
Ireland.
William II. Marshall, n f%reighter, met
Il sudden and tragic death about four
teen miles from Opal near the mouth
of Salt creek, when the freight wagon
on which he was riding overturned and
buried him under several tons of mer-
chandiSe.
Fort Russell, the finest military post
owned by the United States. no longer
is dependent on a~ntiquated, hand
drawn hose carts for protection from
fire. An up-to-the-minute automobile
combined hose wagon I'M chemical
has been put into service at the fort.
A $15O,OOO hotel is the latest plan to
be launched to meet the boom of New
castle. The proposition is being pro-
NOTED by Lusk and New Castle CAPT.
talists and Il company is being formed
to put the hotel through. 1t is the plan
to start work on the building as soon
as capital and a site ore secured.
The school election in six school dis
tricts in eastern Mesa county resulted
in the complete rejection of the consol-
ldated plan, through the voters of a
small school at Little Creek rejecting
the plan while five others voted for it.
The vote at Little Greek was % against
consolidation and 10 for. Collbran
voted 40 for and . against.
The coal mines of the Southern
Wyoming fields produced during the
year ending Sept. 30, 1919, approx
mately 100000 tons less han during
the preceding year, according to the
annual report of Inspector Robert F.
sheldon, filed in the office Of Gov
ernor Carey. The production for the
year ending Sept. 30, 1919, says the
report, was 5,232,6S2 tons
An increase of 5000 a year asked by
the teachers of the Newcastle schools
hundred dollars was the amount asked
by the teachers in a resolution recently
presented to the board drawn with the
intention of putting the matter to the
board for an adjustment owing to the
increase in living. The raise was
granted with no hesitancy.
Coyote trapping in the Kemmerer
country is becoming so profitable as a
result of the advancing fur market
that some persons half-seriously are
considering breeding coyotes for their
skins. One local trapper recently re-.
ceived S97.O 0 for the pelts of our coy
otes, the top" skin of the fur bring
ing $500. In addition he collected
a bounty of $1,000 for the killing Of
each coyote.
What was probably the largest land
sale and one of the most satisfactory
in the opinion of Land Commissioner
Baker was held at Douglas. There
were 1920 acres of land sold, the total
acreage bringing in SOL 200. The av-
erage price paid for an acre was S13.11.
The highest price paid for any tract
was S76 an acre paid by Mrs. Mayme
l.. Clough for eighty acres lying direct
ly north Of Douglas.
The annual tournament sponsored by
the University of Wyoming, that occa-
sion to which all the high schools of
the state look forward for a rear, is to
be held the week of March 22-27, ac-
cording to plans formulated by Il COM
mittee of faculty members, in consulta-
ton with President Nelson. The an
nouncement will bring joy to the hearts
of high school students all over Wyo-
ming who look toward Laramie as
their Mecca.
The Wyoming State Board of Live
stock Commissioners met recently with
representatives of the Burlington and
Union Pacific railroads, several live
stock growers also being present, and
requested an extension OF the time linn
it on the special rates granted last
fall for the shipment of livestock out
of and back into the state in the move
ment made necessary by the drouth
and consequent lack of feed. The rail-
road representatives were requested to
extend the limit of the return from
May Is to Aug. l.
That Perry Hulse, in the course of
heated comments growing out'of a dis
pute of alleged nonpayment of a bill,
d%isparaged the character of A. G. Car
ter to the extent Of 81 is the verdict of
the jury in the District Court at Sher-
idan which heard the evidence in Car
ter's suit for $1,000 damages for de-
famation. Under the verdict the costs
of the action canno be assessed
against Hulse, although technically he
lost the suit, the Wyoming law provid-
ing that costs cannot be assessed
against a defendant against whom a
judgment for less than So is returned.
The last will and testament of AIDE
lima Patti, the famous singer who died
recently, reveals that she failed to be-
queath her throat to a London hos
pital as she had promised years ago.