, 1920-12-16
Brief News Notes
From Al Parts of
Wyoming

lulh tut cowboys next year.
Seventeen of Chugwater's prominent
business men have formed the Chug-
water Light and Power Company, and
bought the equipment recently owned
and operated by r. NJ. Grant.
People of Lyman had cause for great
rejoicing on Thanksgiving day for on
that day the water was turned into the
pipes of he new water system which
cost h town about $4,000 to install.
Disappearing from a Sundance hotel
while authorities of the law were en-
gagged in shadowing her movements,
Mrs. Fred l.. Grubb, who was brought
from Moorcroft to be held as a witness
in the case of the Coins Russell store
robbery of Moorcroft, has not been
found.
The state highway commission has
awarded the contract for construction
of a reinforced concrete bridge across
the Big Horn river at Thermopolis to
Il. Nj. Templeton of Thermopolis. This
bridge is estimated to cost $4,000, of
which amount 30 per cent has been
promised by the Federal Bureau of
Roads.
Expenses of the Wyoming Republi-
can state committee in the recent cam
paign totaled $44,307 .33, and those of
the Democratic state committee S4,S73.-
80. This is revealed by reports filed
with the secretary of state by Z. Blake
Kennedy, Republican state chairman,
n ]. r.. Hylton, Democratic state
chairman.
H. King of Laramie has been elected
president of the American Rambouil-
let Association for the current year.
h King flock at the Chicago nation
al livestock exposition, in the face of
the largest crowd ever assembled
there, and some of the stiffest compe-
tition 1t has ever encountered, received
a great number of premiums.
A sensational case of alleged cattle
stealing was brought to the attention
Of County Attorney j. A. Christmas
and Sheriff Oakley of Kemmerer.
which, after investigation on their part
resulted in the arrest of william Bro
die of Big Piney. He is being placed I'M
der bonds to insure his appearance at
a preliminary examination.
Thomas V. Carroll, private, Fifteenth
United States cavalry, Fort Russell,
has been convicted by a fury in the
Laramie County District Court of the
crime of felonious assault on Lewis
Failer. a taxicab driver, last July. The
penalty for the offense may be from
one to fourteen years in the peniten-
tiary. Two alleged associates of Car
roll in the attack on FaiIer will now
lie tried.
The Cheyenne police have submitted
to the state chemist for analysis a SAM
Pile of alleged grape juice" which
three boys, members of the Young
Mems Christian Association, who are
attending a conference, claim they
were served in a Cheyenne
The boys became uproarlously inebri-
ated and created a sensation in confer
ence circles. Later they became very
sick, n of them dangerously so.
When f. c. Titus, real estate man.
went onto the stage at the Iris theater
in Wheatland, where a wrestling match
vas being held between George Nc
Leod of Casper and Joe Stake of
Wheatland, and knocked Mcleod down
a near riot was narrowly averted. Most
of the audience swarmed INTO the stage
and formed a protecting circle about
the injured Mcleod, after the specta-
tors had seen the Casper wrestler
kicked following n swing Titus made
at his head as he stood wrestling.
What is undoubtedly the most re-
markable speed record ever made in
the history Of air travel was claimed In
Cheyenne when Jack Knight, an aerial
mail pilot, declared he had Travelled
forty-five miles In seven minutes. He
was I'm n De Haviland four plane,
equipped with n 400 horsepower Lib
erty motor, and was travelling at an al
ttude of 5000 feet, with an extremely
high wind. Knight, who wal ATTEMPT
Ing a flight northward from Cheyenne.
took of In the face of a seventy
mile gale.
The distinction Of topping the mar
ket' at Chicago with a shipment OF 500
s'eers n few days ago did not lnfuse
the soul Of Hon. A. S. Mercer of Hyatt
VILE. Wyo., with bubbllng defight-nor,
FOR that matter, with any variety of
delight whatsoever. The "top price"
paid for the shipment was ST.75 per
hundredweight. Merely three of the
many tens Of expense associated with
the production and marketing of this
beef-transportatIon, feed and com
mission-had cost SIS per head. Hence
the total absence Of enthusiasm on the
part OF the owner when he topped the
market
Henry V. Johnson, rancher, charged
with the murder Of Mrs. Nancy Wales
last August, Mt her home near Split
rock. eight miles southeast OF here, was
found guilty Of murder In the first de-