, 1920-06-10
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

Mrs. L.. G. Harnsberger of Lander
had two fingers of her right hand Sc
verely crushed while cranking an auto.
making a very painful injury.
Frank A. Hadsell of Rawlins has
been elected warden of the state pen
itentiary by the State Board of Chari-
ties. Mr.. HadseIl, who is a former
sheriff and United States marshal, has
accepted the position.
Will Wallis of Laramie City has be-
gun arranging the program for the
Fourth of July celebration in that city,
to be held July 4 and 5, with the usual
wild west exhibition on July 5, and
baseball games or both days.
More contracts for road and bridge
construction will be awarded by the
State Highway Commission when it
meets at Cheyenne on June 10. Bids
to be opened on the above date have
been asked by the commission and in
volve the construction of roads and
Active drilling work is starting up
in the Red Desert country. Well drill
ing has been resumed on the Horse
Track and Pickett Lake structures.
The roads into that region are much
better than they have been at any
time this spring. The Whiskey Gap
road is still reported to be in bad
shape.
Jealous because his sweetheart rode
on u merry-go-round at the carnival at
Cheyenne with another man, Cresen-
clio Leon, a Mexican, is alleged to have
gone to his rivals house and shot him
through the leg with a revolver and
her had taken another shot at him,
which glanced off his head. The vic
tim will recover.
Brooding over separation from his
wife, E. NJ. Hustled shot and fatally
wounded himself at the home of his
nephew, Theodore Eustler, west of
Manville. Hustled entered the
where his nephew and the latter's two
sons were sleeping early in the morn
ing, took a ~.22-caliber rifle from the
wall and shot himself in the temple.
Work has started on remodeling the
new children's home at Laramie, but it
is expected that 1t will be late in the
summer before 1t is ready for occupan-
cy. Other work on the chapel is 60
ing forward, the bishops house is to
be remodeled for the deanery, and
when the work is all completed, Cathe-
dral square will be one of the most
beautiful spots in Laramie.
G.. III. Snograss of Antelope Springs,
Wyo., suffered three fractured ribs on
tbe Salt Creek road wbi,a rusb,ng to.
wards Casper In n motor COR taking
his brother. w r Snodgrass to a hos,
initial WHARF ba voc 10 re- onar.an -
on for appendicitis. The car in which
the Snodgrass brothers were riding
turned out for a motorcycle and in do
ing so turned completely over.
In the United States District corr.
at Cheyenne Charles A. Bennoit was
given a fine of $500 by Judge Riner
for violation of the Harrison drug and
narcotic act. Bennoit pleaded guilty
to the charge and has been for some
time in the county Jail awaiting sen.
tence. The transaction in which he
had part took place at Casper. Large
amounts of cocaine and opium were
sold.
To secure the of a better
market small sheepmen and woolproy.
ers of the Lander district have agreed
to pool their 1920 clips for the time
being in the hope of securing more at
tractive prices with a larger offering
for the buyers. Heretofore the small
grower has been handicapped in mar
keting, being compelled in some in
stances to take less thar the big sheep
men were receiving for the same grade
Of wool.
n Genera petro,e,m co-.
has COMPLETED tbe instaIine ~ a III
less station in Rawlins and at ,ts Eor
rio oil f,oId boadorartara - ~. -,
on section Ia.