The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-07-23
WYOMING
STATE NEWS

/ "es'e'h newspaper Union News Service.
Walter Ulrich, Go, was killed almost
instantly at Cheyenne when he was
crushed between the bumpers of two
freight cars while working in tile
Union Pacific railroad yards.
The grasshopper plague which is
threatening grain and alfalfa crops of
the Lander region this year is being
combated with poison which has
been found effective in years past.
Jack Brown of Lusk, Wyo., was seri.
o,isly injured at Chicago during the
Elks' cowboy contest when thrown
from 'bucking broncho." Physicians
at first feared his back had been
broken.
Three hundred and fifteen thousand
ties belonging to the Wyoming Tie and
| Timber Company have started on their
way to the treating plant at Riverton
from seventeen miles above the town
of Dubois, Wyo.
John Hernandez, a Mexican employ
ed at the Lee Simpson ranch near
Thermopolis, killed himself when the
revolver he was handling accidentally
went off. The bullet passed through
his body entering his left lung.
After confessing they were the mod
ern bad men" who revised the old
time scene on Kemmerer's famous tri-
angle, by firing three revolver shots
In the night, Homer Adams, foreman
OF the Green River Live Stock Com
pany, and Harry Wood, commissary
man Of the same outfit, were fined
800 and $50 respectively, by Police
Judge John w. Sanmon.
BY sticking to their wagon although
1t was being washed down stream by
flood waters, Earl Leake, Mrs. H. U.
Ticker and her small child, were res
cued quarter of a mile below the
point where they were washed away
while attempting to ford a swollen
stream near Hudson. The horses broke
away from the wagon and were
| drowned,
Robert Frank Scott, one of four men
sent to the county Jail at Laramie,
charged with shooting up caboose
on the Union Pacific railroad, when
they were elected from a train for
stealing rides. is deserter from the
United States navy, the sheriff de-
clares, and will be taken to Mare ISL
and navy yard and delivered to the a,,-
| thOrities,
Carpenters have finished the Basin
free camp ground buildings recently
authorized by the Basin Chamber of
Commerce. The grounds have been
enlarged to accommodate 100 more
| cars at q time and another modern
Kitchen built which together with a
new wash and bath house will pro-
vide ample accommodations for all
tourists and makes this the r ost mod
ern camp ground in the west.
Herbert McA1ichaels of Lincoln, Neb.,
and Miss Elizabeth Bresnahan Of Chey-
enne, were drowned, and n. c. Fearles
OF Omaha and Miss Isabelle Bresna-
han narrowly escaped the same fate
when boat in which they were row.
Ing on Alinnehaha lake in the munich
pal park at Cheyenne sank. McMich-
aels was student of the University of
Nebraska who was spending his yaca.
ton in that city. He lost his life in
attempting to save that Of the girl.
Basin has been chosen as the place
for the first annual encampment of
the Wyoming cavalry. General Mccoy.
upon recommendation of Major Col.
ley. who inspected the Big Horn
county fair grounds decided that Basin
was the most central town, and that
the fairgrounds offered an ideal site
for the encampment. Seven troops
and 500 men will be there under the
command Of General Mccoy and an
army officer from Fort Russell. The
encampment will be held from Septem.
Der to IL.
Lieutenant G. A. Stanten, the soldier
who lost his mind while serving in
France and who escaped from the care
OF +. L. Ralston, a friend, while being
taken to Buffalo, Wyo., was found near
the Midwest refinery and taken to a
hospital in Casper.
The Colorado & Southern is consid-
ering the erection Of three story de-
pot and office building at Cheyenne to
replace in part the rambling structure
which now serves 1t as depot. The
new building, it is proposed, shall
stand on the western half Of the site
OF the present depot, and the eastern
half OF the present structure will be
left standing and will be utilized for
storage purposes.
Albert Mcconnell Of Laramie, arrest
ed on charge of receiving stolen
property when he had in his possess
sion ten pairs of shoes. seventy-two
pairs of socks and two tarpaulins said
to have been taken from a Union Pa.
clfic car in transit, was discharged, i,
having been shown that he purchased
the goods from Ormond Weir, brake
man, who is being held in connection