, 1920-03-25
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

10 De sent to the Ferris
field where they are to be erected on
sites already selected for drilling.
State Game Warden William T. Jud.
kins has issued a warning to all ditch
owners that he expected to proceed at
once to prosecute them for violation OF
the law requiring them to see that fish
are kept out of their canals.
With the return of railroads to pri-
vate management, the Union Pacific
is understood to contemplate some big
changes at Cheyenne, Laramie, and on
the Kansas district. These changes
have not beer given out or confirmed
officially.
A new publication devoted entirely
to the Big Piney oil fields in Wyoming
is to make its appearance in Salt Lake
within a few days, reports say. The
new publication is to be called the Big
Piney Oil News and will be devoted to
the Lincoln county oil fields.
billiard r. Ridgely of Cheyenne
lost a valuable and treasured keep
sake when alleged high jackers broke
into his home Il short time & and
made away with a revolver. The gun
in question was carried for years on
the hip of Buffalo Bill, and was per-
sonally presented to Mr.. Ridgley by
the famous p~lainsman.
Application for n charter in the
American Legion by Evanston, wyo.,
makes the fifty-first post in Wyoming
to be granted a charter. With the re-
ceipt of this application at the state
headquarters at Casper, the Legion
membership in Wyoming has passed
the 1900 mark, State Secretary Marry
Fisher announced.
A committee has been appointed to
purchase lots and supervise the cree
ton of a new chapel for the l.. ID. S.
Church to cost $4,000 at Evanston.
A church architect of Salt Lake is
now working on the plans for the new
building and it is the intention to be
gin in a few days and push the work
| vigorously to completion.
From official advices received in
Casper it has peer learned that the
Northwestern Railroad Company will
erect twenty-five houses in Casper
during the coming summer to accom-
modate part of the demands for EN-
ployes of the concern. The houses
will be four and five-room structures
and the company will rent them for
$40 and $50 per month.
The change in the old pipe line from
Casper to the Salt Greek oil field is
rapidly nearing completion by the Mid
west Refining Company. The main
change in the route of the pipe line is
the section known as the ''loop'' which
extends half way from the field TO the
Teapot station, Il distance of six miles.
The loop change should be completed
within Il few weeks, it is expected.
AS a direct result of the five deIe-
gates who attended the good roads
conference of eleven Western states,
held in Washington during the first
week in February, Wyoming will re-
ceive approximately $1,000, 900 annual
iy for IA construction from the fed
eral government during the next four
succeeding fiscal years, if the bill in
troduced by Senator Chamberlain is
passed by Congress.
The c. B. & Q. Ry. win commence
the construction of Il new depot at
Grin within the next few weeks. Con
siderable other business will be done
there by the company this summer, the
improvements to include the building
of "A stock yard on the company's right
of way and the laying of several stor-
age tracks which have been made nee
essary by the ever-increasing transfer
business being carried on there.
Provost Marshal General Crowder in
his final report to the secretary of war
on the operations of the selective sexy-
ice system gives the statement of e
penses of operation for the local draft
board for Laramie county as follows
Total pay of board members, 81, 0 80
pay of employees, S3,629.1c; pay for
physical examinations, nothing: travel
ing expenses and drayage, $74.09. Mis-
cellaneous expenses, $23.70; net cost
of operation $6,32S.s5.
Three murder cases were tried at
the District Court in Green River.
Stanko THAN, who shot and killed his
wife at Blairtown after following her
to n neighbours house where she had
fled for refuge and dragging her back
by the hair of the head, was found
guilty of first degree murder without
capital punishment. Joe Omeye, the
boy who shot John Buxton, deputy
game warden, in the hills near Rock
Springs, pleaded guilty TO murder in
the second degree. Frank Jones, col
ored, who shot his sister-in-law while
intending to shoot his wife, at SUI
perior, was found guilty of first de-
gree murder with capital punishment.
The shortage I'm forage crops in wy
oming, occasioned by the drouth, and
the necessity of feeding grain to live