, 1920-12-09
Brief News Notes
From An Parts of
Wyoming

of the Wyoming Wool Growers Associ-
alton will be held in Casper beginning
Jan. 6 and continuing three days.
Mrs. Peter Mohes was killed at her
home in Rawlins when her 7-year-old
daughter accidentally discharged a ri
file. The bullet struck the mother in
he heart.
Several Wheatland men are engaged
in making a systematic investigation of
the extent of the asbestos deposit tina
was recently discovered in the hills,
twenty-five miles southwest of Wheat
land.
Possibly it was sa%crifegious and
certainly it was not in conformity to
parliamentary procedure, but that re-
gardless perhaps the most novel prayer
that ever assembled in Wyoming was
voiced by Oliver Hover, a farmer, at
a school district meeting in a church
near Cowley.
The Union Pacific has received au-
thority from the Interstate Commerce
Commission to build forty-three miles
of new line through Scottsbluff county, |
Neb., and Goshen county, Wyo., at an
estimated cost of S3,S35,O00. The line
will serve lane of the North Platte irri-
CATION project.
Colorado's state penitentiary will re-
ceive another woman prisoner soon as
the result of the sentence imposed by
Federal Judge Riner of Cheyenne upon
Minnie c. Brown. Following her plea
of guilt to a white slave charge, the
judge ordered her imprisoned for n
year and n day at Canon City.
The Wyoming Public Service Com
mission was notified that Sweet, eau
sey & Foster of Dencer, owners of the
Sheridan, gas plant, who had served
notice that the plant would be
raise in rates, had consented to keep
the plant in operation until application
for an increase in rates can be taken
to the state commission.
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
n preliminary examination.
Building operations at Casper, exclu-
sive of those in progress at the two oil
refineries, for the first eleven months
of 1920, totaled $2,137,O56. This in
cludes buildings started and completed
since Jan. / and those still under con-
struction, n also those for which per-
mits have been issued but on which
work has not yet begun.
The mystery of the fate of Walter
Sim, alleged murderer of Fred Walker,
after Sim broke Jail at Newcastle, Aug.
II last, may have been solved by the
finding, twelve miles northeast of New
castle, of the skeleton of n man, with
two bullet holes in the skull. The bones,
stripped of flesh by predatory wild ami
mails, are believed to be those of Sim.
The Socialist party has lost the right
to n place On the ballot in Wyoming as
the result of the November election,
failing to cast a vote equaling 2 pei
cent of the total vote cast. The Far
mer-Labor party, by polling a vote
equal to 10 per cent of the total, won
IA place on the primary and general
election ballot, official canvass dis
closed. Senator Harding had a major
lily of 1917 over the combined vote
of his opponents. Harding's vote was
85,O91 II that for Cox 17,42o. Repre-
sentative Mondell was elected by a
majority vote greater than that given
Hnrdlng. Mondell polled 1859 votes,
against 14,592 for Wade II. Fowler,
Democrat.