The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-10-29
WYOMING
STATE NEWS
ewspaper Union News Service.

| The store of the Barnes Mercantile
Company at Rock River was robbed,
the thief gaining entrance by breaking
rear window, and goods to the value
of between 500 and $500 were taken.
A deputy sheriff was awakened by an
automobile at 4 o'clock in the morn.
ing and saw the machine leaving Rock
| River, but he could not locate it after
following it to Laramie.
At the last meeting of the Casper
Nurses Association it was decided to
raise the rate of their services. The
new scale put into effect was 81 per
| day, or Il minimum Of $40 Il week. The
old rate was $50 week. The asso
ciation also fixed the limit for work
ut twelve hours, with four hours for
| recreation and six to eight hours for
| sleep.
Tie order Of De Molay, a society
for youths to which only the SONS OF
members of the Masonic order, or the
cllulll> of SONS of members Of the Ma
sonic order, are eligible for member
ship, is to be introduced in Wyoming
Dec. 10, on the day following the semi
annual reunion of Wyoming Consistory
| No. l. when the Cheyenne chapter OF
the Order of De Mo'ay will be insti
tuted under the auspices of the Lodge
Of Perfection of the Scottish Rite.
Bishop n. s. Thomas has Just pub.
lIshed an excellent Record Of the Con
diticns Of the Missionary District of
| Wyoming, From June / to December
81, 1919" The book, as its title in.
dictates, is complete record, with
full and interesting reports Of all SO
cieties and associations connected with
the diocese OF Wyoming. The report
is quite fully illustrated with numer
Gus illustrations of Episcopal churches
hospitals and rectories located through
out the state.
Alabama, South Carolina and Wyo-
ming made substantial gains in pop.
ulation during the last ten years, while
Nevada. the smallest state in the
Union in point Of population, became
the third state to show decrease
wyoming. next to the least populous
state, has a population Of 19I,4O2
which is an increase of 4S,437 or 80:
per cent, compared with the tllir.
teenth census. The state showed its
second largest numerical growth, but
Its percentage increase WAS the lowest
The Laramie Cement Plaster Com
many and tho nf -, y ri,
works building have finally agreed tc
the terms of the transfer of the prop
! erty, and the cement company will be
gin remodelng the building and in
stailinG the plant, getting the cement
from bed lying in the northeastern
part of the city. One of the largest
concerns in the United States has
agreed to take the output of the plan,
for five years. a spur track will be
laid TO the plaster bed to bring the
raw material to the bed. Two cemen,
plants are already operated at Lara.
ME. with plaster of paris plant at
Red Buttes, seven miles away.
Standing in the rear yard at the
home Of Capt. H. G. Nickerson al
Lander is Il lump of stone which is
to be used as reminder of an i'm.
portant episode Of the history of the
REIMBURSEMENT of women. CAPTAIN
NlckersOn is carving on the stone this
inscription: "Site of home and office
of Esther Morris, first woman justice
in the world and mother Of won,an's
suffrage The stone is to be placed
at South Pass, WyO., where, in 1863
Mrs Esther Morris served as ius
tlce of the peace and directed the
campaign for recognition which re-
suited In the first Wyoming legisla-
ture making its first act the equal
suffrage law.
Joseph Enrich, alias Wood, said to
be an escaped ''lifer" from the state
penitentiary at Lansing. Mich, was ar.
rested ut Lander by Fred W. McOown,
state parole officer of Michigan. Ehr.
Itch was serving life term for muir.
dering his sweetheart and had been
confined thirteen years when he es.
capped.
Ihe affection which prompted its
grandmother to hold the two-day-old
child OF Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Crinklaw
close to her breast proved fatal to the
infant. The grandmother was pros.
trated by horror when, some time after
the little one ceased to stir, she dis.
covered that it had been suffocated.
Inc tragedy occurred on a farm near
Pine Bluffs,
Observing Mrs. W. A. Raider at
tempting to crank a recalcitrant auto.
mobile, Emil Moore of Cody CALAMITY
volunteered to perform the work for
her, The automobile, apparently re-
sentlng the interference, promptly
Kicked him, fracturing both bones
OF his right forearm. Moore being hors
de combat, Mrs. Raider resumed the !
job OF cranking, whcreupon the ma
chine kicked" her also, fracturin~ her