, 1920-09-02
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
we.tarn %New.paper Union New. service.

which has been doing Il small refining
business in the smaller Wyoming oil
fields.
Struck by a bolt of lightning while
building Il new barn IN his ranch near
Dayton, Thomas A. Cobb, a prominent
resident of Sheridan county, was in
s,antly killed, and his partner who
was working with him at the time, but
who was about ten feet from him, was
stunned
Mary Bradis, four-year-old daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. 2. G. Bradis, lost her
right hand in an electric meat grinder
i'm her fathers store at Casper, and
suffered excruciating pain for more
than an hour before her arm could be
released from the vice-like grip of the
machinery.
A cavalry troop will be organized at
TOrrington within the next few weeks
rs an addition to state military forces,
the designation of this point for such
IL unit having been promised by Adj.
Gen. Il. j. Mccoy on the strength of
assurances received from prospective
recruits there.
Carl Christensen, SO years old. was
clectrocuted ten miles south of Tor
rington, while working on a dead"
transmission line of the federal re-
clamation service system. For some
unknown reason the high tension cur
rent was switched on and passed
through Christensen'S body. He fell
thirty feet TO she ground, and died two
hours later.
Donald Ashton. the secretary of the
Laramie Council of Industry, has been
appointed by the city council to select
II site for II Laramie park at the top of
the Snowy range, at Brooklyn lake, and
when ii has been selected it will be set
aside for n park by the Medicine Bow
national forest. improvements being
undertaken by the city and the Coun-
ell of Industry.
The most expensive piece of road
ever built in the United States, 1t is be-
lieved, except in the mountain dis
tricts. will shortly be constructed be
tween Casper and Salt Creek, Wyo.,
according to officials of the federal
aid road bureau of Denver. Four miles
of the highway, nine fee wide only
and paved with concrete, will cost
more than $36S 700, or $92, 900 per mile.
Frank Prayer, vino came to Colorado
from Germany in 1859. settling in the
region oil Pixies Peak, and to Albany
county. Wyoming, in 1869, died at Lara
mie City. He was 81 gears old, and
fought Indians and wild beasts in his
effort 10 establish n home in the West
for his family of three boys and three
girls. His wife and six children were
with MIN when he died.
]. Roy Colvin of Cheyenne, deputy
dairy, food and oil commissioner for
Wyoming, caused the arrest of the
managers of two restaurants in Lara
ME city for violating the pure food
laws, alleging that The managers al
lowed their pies and other bakery
products TO remain exposed TO the
flies, dirt II dust. One was fined
$40 and costs and Two so and costs
each.
Scattering of ii flock of sheep on the
summer range along Enos creek re-
suited in the finding of the body of
Frank l.. Belcher. fifty-five years old,
n herder for the l.. u sheen Comnanv
near Thermopolis. and evidence thai
he had been murdered in his camp. ap-
parently while he slept. Robbery is be-
heved to have been the motive for the
crime, as no money or other valuables
were found in the sheepherder's eff
fects, though he possessed II watch and
II considerable amount of money.
Either Casper or Buffalo ar. nossihIa
locations for the Odd raIIows sta,e
bom. occord,,y ,o ,,,,,oo. 1T.
ruo,m ~
grand lodge IN ;nvastigoto s,tas TIL
sentiment is s,id m ba In so,o, nf p,f
falo because n tract of land connrisira
BOD acres ON Clear creek has been 81,
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