, 1920-08-05
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


Der IA, Is, 16, II, 1920.
The Wyoming Flour Mill Company,
with an authorized capital stock of
100000, was organized under the laws
of Wyoming.
A deal was closed at Lander last
week by which the United States Oil
& Refining Company is to take over
the leases, wells and refinery of the
Wind River Company.
Three men were killed and two
others probably fatally injured when
a powder magazine blew up at Sublet
mine, twelve miles from Kemmerer.
Eight others were seriously burned.
John b. Ecker, 76, a ranch employee,
blew out his brains with Il rifle, while
standing beside the bunk OF David
Burch, in the Henry Wostenberg bunk
house near Rawlins.
A. Il. Baker, after lodging arrest
from Siberia to Thermopolis, gave him
self up Mt ThermopOlis as a deserter
from the United States Army and will
be turned over to the militory authori-
ties.
Martin Agnew, treasurer of the II.
C. Snyder Realty Company, died at
Lusk from poisoning caused by eating
ripe olives. He lived only a few hours.
Agnew was also secretary of the school
board.
After preparations have been many
months in making, Cheyenne is be-
decked in splashes of color made by
flags and tons of colored lights, and is
CaIahro finn tho hiuuaat axynpt Of &c,
Frontier days.
Marshall l.. Wilson,. a Chicago &
Northwestern brakeman, was killed at
Lusk when he fell while working on
a freight train. One arm and one leg
were severed, and the foot of the
other leg and his head were crushed.
Wilson is survived by a widow and
young son.
Carl Denton, "a, and L. w. Grow, AZ,
employed in the coal mines at Crosby,
met instant death when they were run
down by a loaded car, which broke the
cable and plunged down an incline to
the mine which they were climbing.
Two companions of the victims es-
capped injury.
Nellie Kabis, widow of the late Gen.
eral Leopold KabIs of this city, acted
INT properly when, in con-
formity with a verbally expressed
wish of the deceased she scattered his
ashes to the four winds, is the finding
of Judge w. c. Mentzer, Of the Dis
trict Court at Cheyenne.
Learning in Casper, Wyo., that her
b-year-old son, Jimmie" Powell, had
placed in the detention home in
Denver, after being turned over to
Juvenile Court authorities as an ADAM
dOned child. Mrs. Evelyn Powell. the
child's mother, sent a frantic appeal by
wire to the Juvenile Court to protect
the boy until she could come to Den
e and get him.
Harry F. Rollman, %, was drowned
at Granite Springs reservoir, twenty
six miles west of Cheyenne, while bath
ing in the lake. His body was recov-
ered and brought to Cheyenne. Roll
mans death was the first tragedy in
Granite Springs reservoir, which is the
principal source of ~Cheyenne's water
supply, since the reservoir was created
nearly a score of years ago.
Accompanied only by Patricia 10y,
9-year-old sister of the dead child, the
body of Alys 10y, age 8 years, who
was scalded to death at Cheyenne
March 10, 1919, passed through Raw
Inns, where Charles v. 10y. of Casper.
father of the children. is serving a life
term in the penitentiary for the MUIR
der of William Ashford, a negro, here
In 1919. The baby's body is to be re-
inferred at Tacoma, Wash.
W. l. Rehr of Casper. Wyo., won a
s~ensationally played tennis final at
Denver, 3-6, SO, 81 and O., becoming
vested thereby with the title of city
champion and temporary possessor of
the beautiful challenge trophy.
Captain r. C. DAILY, military COM
mandant and professor of military
science and tactics at the University
of Wyoming, who has been on special
duty at Camp Kearney. San Diego,
Calf, has gone to Camp Perry, Ohio,
in charge of n detail from the Califor-
MIA camp. Students from the Univer-
sity of Wyoming. who are to take part
In the rifle practice by the War De-
partment, are in the detail.
When Edward Logan, proprietor of
a garage at Egbert, undertook to SOL
der up a leak in a large, underground
gasoline tank, he neglected the precau-
ton Of emptying the tank of its expIo-
sive contents. He applied melted sol
der TO the leak, and when witnesses
Of the catastrophe picked Logan up a
score OF feet from the place where the
tank had been, he was found to have
a fracture of the skull, his nose was
broken and his collar bone was splin-
tered. He will recover.
Forty-four hundred and eighty ncres
Of public domain, between thirty and
forty miles northwest OF Cheyenne,
have been located under the stock