, 1920-08-26
Brief News Notes
From All Paris of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union News Service.


Sporting events predominated on the
program of the big %three-day celebra-
ton which was held at Riverton in
honor of its fourteenth birthday.
Marion Waegle, 20, who committed
suicide at Buffalo by taking poison, a
week g confessed that she poisoned
her father-in-law. Fred Waegie,
wealthy ranchman, in April, 1919, ac-
cording to the police.
The forest service has approved a
plan for consolidation Of the Wyoming
and Bridger national forests with
headquarters at Kemmerer. The local
forestry offices will still be main
tanned at Alton and Pinedale.
b. q. England has been placed in
the county Jail at Laramie, wanted in
Illinois for %assaulting a young woman,
and will be taken to that state for
trial. He was arrested at Medicine
Bow by Deputy Sheriff G. L. Cooper.
Charles b.. Boyce, secretary of the
Wyoming State Board of Livestock
Commissioners, addressed to Jess Yo-
der, chairman of the board, a letter re-
siBiilnk hHs billCty tlltCtlNe StHltlllbti
[. Mr.. Boyce has been secretary of the
board since Feb. "a, 1919.
Thirty-two head of excellent saddle
horses and equipment for as many men
have been shipped by the state for the
use of RivertOn's troop G in Ii WyO-
ming national guard. The troop will
ride overland to basin early in Septem-
hn,. For thu &; rct annual .a /, Of trnonS
from six towns to be held there.
The first fatality on the Wyoming
railway, the line connecting Buffalo
with the Burlington at Clearmont, Oc-
Cured, when the locomotive on a train
was overturned four miles east of Buff
falo. Il. Lewis, %, of st. Joseph, Mo,
a member of the Buffalo baseball club,
was so severely scalded that he died.
John H. Seeley of Cokeville, pioneer
stockgrower of Wyoming, owner OF
large pedigree Rambouiilet sheep and
Hereford cattle herds, was stricken
with apOplexy while on a fishing trip
to Fish lake INT died within an hour.
His wife, younger son, Oliver, and two
married daughters were with him at
the time.
Large classes in the Riverton public
schools that cannot be accommodated
in present buildings will be held in the
city hall again this year until proper
facilities can be provided. Construc-
lion of a new building has just been
started, and until it is completed part
Of the high school will make use OF the
municipal building.
Construction of two irrigation pro-
Jects, M a lOw-line ditch fed from a
~fifteen-foOt dam of the Platte river in
Bessemer canon, west of Casper, and
the other a nighttime proposition which
would have its source at AlcOya in a
125-foOt dam, are being fostered by the
Casper Chamber of Commerce and sur
veyed by the state engineer.
Adjutant General Timothy j. Nc
Coy, on return from a trip of inspection
during which he visited the towns of
the northern part of the state which
have troops of the Wyoming National
Guard. reports that all guardsmen are
arranging their affairs so that they
may attend the state camp Of instruc-
ton which is to be held at Basin Sept.
1 to IL.
The grasshoppers around Sundance
have grown so vOraciOus they have
taken to eating the binding Irvine on
the wheat shocks. They have proved
such a nuisance in cutting the Irvine
that the Irvine is now being treated
with sheep dip. which is claimed to
stop their forays. With the coming OF
cool weather they are expected to be
less active.
Friends of w. II. Newby. who fell
ninety feet down a mountain side near
ThermopOlis and was stopped from an
additional descent only by a ciump of
cedars, declared that it is a w0nde he
IL nlive TO tell the tale of his marrow
escape.
No. l mine of the Union Pacific Coal
Company at Cumberland. which was
flooded by a cloudburst four years ago
and since has been idle, is being unwa-
tered and production will be resumed
as soon as the workings can be nut in
to proper condition. Fivesand one-haif
entries are now clear Of water. In all
twelve entries will he unwatered under
the plans now progressing.
A "horse marathon" Is 10 be run be-
tween Sheridan and Clearmont Sept.
II. h contestants starting the forty
mile endurance contest at the county
court house at Sheridan at 9 a. M. and
finishing Mt Clearmont. A time limit
Of six hours has been set, but IL is ex-
.'ected that the winner will finish ia
less than four hours. The state hu-
name authorities viii inspect all horses
before the start with a view of disqual-
flying any not fit for the grueiIIng test,