, 1920-12-30
Brief News Notes
From An Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

1t is reported Carbon county, Wyo.,
wool growers have cut sheepherders'
wages from $3.50 to $40 per month to
500.
A countrywide search for Maude
Moore and Martin Hunter, wanted in
connection with the murder of Leroy
Hart, n wealthy man of Knoxville,
Tenn, bore fruit at Casper when Hun
ter was arrested by Sheriff Pat Royce.
DIR. Frances NJ. Lane Of Cody was
elected secretary-treasurer of the
Northwest Wyoming Medical Society
at the annual meeting ut Lowell DIR.
]. II. Carder of Greybull, president.
and DIR. Chester Harris of Basin, vice
president.
An air mail plane from Cheyenne,
piloted by Pilot Cox, crashed into the
wireless station at Omaha while Cox
was attempting to make a landing.
The plane was wrecked, but Cox, max
ing his first trip from Cheyenne to
Omaha, escaped injury.
Professor G. Il. Maxwell, head of
the department of education of the
University of Wyoming, has returned
from a trip of inspection over the
state, during which he visited several
high schools which are seeking admis-
sion to the North Central Association.
Yee Geow, who is sentenced to hang
for a double killing, again attempted
to cheat the law after he had been
sentenced to be hanged for double
murder. He took off his belt, fast
ened 1t to a beam near the ceiling of
his cell at the Cheyenne Jail, then tied
1t around his neck and jumped.
The Bank of Lusk, Wyo., and the
State Bank of Meetteetse, Wyo., have
been voluntarily closed by their Of
ficers and directors because of low re-
serves, according to an announcement
by State Bank Examiner Hoffman. The
Lusk institution had a capital of $780,
600 and $1,000 surplus, while the
Meeteetse institution had a capital of
$4,000 and $4,000 surplus.
The annual conference of the extern
sion workers of the University of
Wyoming will be held at Laramie, jan
uary 9th and continue until the 18th.
In connection with this meeting there
is also a meeting of Farm Bureau
heads, with a large attendance of pres
idents and others from the several
counties. The Farm Bureau meeting
will be held January G, Z, and s.
Every effort to battle the attempt
to remove the western dry securing
plant of the United States Wool Com
pany from Casper to Denver will be
made, according to the action taken
at a conference at Casper of stock
holders of the company, following an
announcement to the effect that this
company had listed its plant site in
Casper for sale and planned to dis
mantle and move it to Denver.
The Half Moon Mining and Milling
Company, which owns n copper mine
at Jelm and n vein of mica at Fox
park, is hauling machinery to the lat
ter place to begin the development of
the property. The vein is said to con-
sist of mica of a very high grade. The
price of the product is expected to sell
from 81 to $24 a ton, depending on
the size of the pieces, while the other
wise waste material, when ground to
a powder, will bring $3.50 a ton.
Mrs. L. d. Mcdonald of Greybull has
begun action in District Court for $1O,-
600 damages against tne proprletors
Of the Ideal pool hall In Greybull. The
petition recites that her husband is an
employee of n Greybull refinery and
that his earnings were gambled away
In the establishment of the defend
ants, thereby deprlvlng the family of
~sustenance. This is the first suit of
the kind In the courts here and will
be watched with much interest.
A movement to make State Land
Commissioner A. Baker commissioner
Of the general land office at Washing
ton has been launched in Cheyenne.
Fred Black, 80, a resident of the Cody
section for many years and a ranch
owner of the Carter mountain district,
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the mouth with n high-powered rifle.
The bullet pierced his head. No reason
is given for the act. The man had
been summoned for jury duty and aft
er reporting at the court house he went
to the alley, sat down on a pile of dirt,
and putting the gun in bis mouth,
pulled the trigger with n string he had
adjusted around the end Of the barrel.
The recent decision of the United
States Supreme Court regarding the
carbon black industry will shut down
the plant now being operated at Cow
ley, Wyo., as well as the plant ut
Lowell. where n like situation is said
to exist But the law will not inter-
fere with the plants located out In the
fields, 1t is said. The law does not
prohibit the manufacture of carbon
black In the state, but only at such
places MS are within or deriving their
gas supply from fields within ten miles
OF n town or city.
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