The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-06-25
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STATE NEWS
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| Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Mrs. l.. c. Harnsberger Of Lander
had two fingers Of her right hand Sc
vcrely crushed while cranking an auto.
making very painful injury.
The General Petroleum Corporation
has completed the installing Of WIRE
less station in Rawlins and ut Its Fer
ris oil field headquarters at the welt
on section Is.
| Free, Walker, an employee Of, the
Briggs OH Company ind contestant for
| an oil lease on section 1868 in the
Usage oil field, near Newcastle. was
shot from ambush and wounded, fol-
lowing repeated alterations over title
to the oil lease. He was rushed to II
hospital ut Sheridan.
Active drilling work is starting np
in the Red Desert country. Well drill
Ing has been resumed on the Horse
! Track and Pickett Lake structures.
The roads into that region are muc'.
better than they have been at any
time this spring. The Whi>key Gap
road is still reported to he in bal
shape.
Jealous because his sweetheart rode
on a n,erry-g O-rOuntl ut the carnival at
| Cheyenne with another man, Cresen-
| clio Leon, a Mexican. is alleged to have
gone To his rivals house and shot him
through the leg with revolver and
then had taken another shot at him,
which glanced off his head. The vic
tim will recover.
Five thousand acres Of land owned
by the University Of Wyoming will he
| offered at public sale ut TOrrington on
| June 20 ut 10 a. IN. One thousand acres
| of this land, all of which is in Goshen
county, is under ditch and is some ut
the richest in the North Platte valley.
All the water needed can be obtained
from the government.
Ned Frost and his party of bow amt
arrow hunters passed through Cody
last week on their way from Sylvan t"
Gardner, Mont, In an attempt to en-
ter Yellowstone National Park by way
Of Red Lodge. They had attempted 10
60 through Sylvan pass, and also by
way of Red creek. on the upper north
fork. but the snow proved too deep to
permit the trip.
In the United States District Cour:
at Cheyenne Charles 4. Rennoit was
given Il fine Of $500 by Judge Rinpr
for violation Of the Harrison drug AMI
narcotic act. RennOit pleaded guilty.
to the charge and has been for some
time in the county Jail awaiting sen.
tence The transaction in which he
had part took place at Casper. Large
amounts Of cocaine and opium We
sold.
In the capture Of Lee Putnam ami
Carl p. Hansen in Iusk, WyO., federal
narcotic agents believe they have two
of the largest drug slnugglers and ped
dlers In the West. They were arrest
ed by F. $. Martin and Louis Gustaf-
son Of the Chicago 4 Northwestern
railway secret service. Putnam anil
Hansen are said to have had over
100 in drugs in their possession
when arrested. They were released on
5000 bond each for appearance be-
fore the November grand jury in Chey-
enne.
The fifteen graduates Of the univer-
sity high school were given their GER
tificates by DR.. Aven Nelson, the pres
ident Of the University Of Wyoming
These were Louis l.ongslsOre, Buck
num-; George Hunt, Laramie: John
Chamblin, Laramie; Orville Johnson.
Robertson; Margaret Rae, Gebo: Don
aid Sweitzer, Pinedale; David Breiscl.
Cheyenne; Thomas Miller. Laramie:
Helen Temple. Battle Creek, Colo.
Francis Chcdsey. Coalnlont, Colo:
Rose Burri, Dunlap, Kan. Estelle Tu-
son. Laramie; Blair StOuffer, Laramie:
Helen Morris, Wheatland; John Jones,
Ogden, Utah.
Lincoln county, regarding the dvi-
sion OF which there has been much
agitation during the last two years.
may he presented to the legislature Of
1921 rs the nucleus of four counties.
involving three divisions instead Of the
two heretofore discussed. A move-
ment has been launched ut Jackson fol
the organization of jackson county
from the greater portion Of Lincoln
county. leaving Lincoln county merely
narrow strip along the Oregon Short
Line railroad.
BEFORE the Spanish.American wa
Reginald Pitney. cashier Of the First
National bank of Rock River, Wyo.
and Mrs. Myrtle Brewster. now OF
Pennington. ILL.,. were sweethearts.
Pitney enlisted when the Spanish
American war broke out and when he
returned three years later he found
his sweetheart we'd to another. The
world war came and Pitney entered
an officers training camp ut Camp
Pike. Mrs. Rrewster's husband had
died, and she entered war work. After
the war Pitney went to Peoria ami
called on Mrs. Brewster on the ,el...
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