, 1920-07-15
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

murder in the second degree after
seven hours wrangling by the jury at
Cheyenne.
The largest realty and business
transaction of the year was concluded
in Casper with the sale by w. r. Sam
pie of the Iris and new Rex theaters,
the latter now nearing completion, to
the Rex Investment Company for
S325,OOO.
Henry G. C%ovington of Hot Springs,
Ark, was instantly killed and four
others injured when Covington's auto
mobile overturned on a hill on Horse
Creek road, thirty miles north of
Cheyenne and plunged down a 20-foot
embankment.
G. S. Brown, a fireman, was scalded,
fatally, when three Union Pacific
freight engines piled into a ditch. The
wreck occurred IN the west end of the
yards at Cheyenne when an extra
double header freight train bound for
Laramie was backed into by a third
engine.
Cheyenne is behind the aerial mail
service. At a conference between
members of the city administration,
the Chamber of Commerce and Col.
John A. Jordan, chief of construction
of the service, definite steps were
taken toward putting the city on the
air map.
The alfalfa cutting is now under
way in Albany county, ranchmen
claiming that it is the best crop ever
grown there. One ranchman at Bos-
Ter, who cut $50 tons from his
meadows last year, expects to have
300 tons this year, and believes he will
get the third crop.
Mrs. Gerhart, a ranchwoman living
seven miles southeast of Shawnee, was
struck and killed by lightning. On the
approach of the storm the woman and
her young son had gone out to drive
the chickens to shelter when the bolt
came. The boy was stunned, but not
seriously injured.
Jesse Bragg shot his wife and then
killed himself In a dance hall at Du-
bois. The couple were sitting at a
table and had been quarreling for some
time. The husband drew his revolver
without warning and shot the woman
through the neck. She died within a
short time and he shot himself in the
vein.
Robert Frank Scott, M of four men
sent to the county jail at Laramie,
charged with shooting up" a caboose
on the Union Pacific railroad, when
they were elected from a train for
stealing rides, is a deserter from the
United States navy, the sheriff de-
clares, and will be taken to Mare ISL
and navy yard and delivered to the au-
thorities.
Herbert McMichaels of Lincoln, Neb.,
and Miss Elizabeth Bresnahan of Chey-
enne, were drowned, and N. g. Fearles
of Omaha and Miss Isabelle Bresna-
han narrowly escaped the same fate
when a boat in which they were row.
ing on Minnehaha lake in the munich
pal park at Cheyenne sank. McMich-
aels was a student of the University of
Nebraska who a spending his vaca-
ton in that city. He lost his life In
attempting to save that of the girl.
The Colorado & Southern is consid-
ering the erection of a ~three-story de-
pot and office building at Cheyenne to
replace in part the rambling structure
which now serves Ii as a 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.
The Magoon store and the Young
woman postoffice, in the Lance creek
oil field, were burned to the ground
from fire of unknown origin. Homer
Davis, the manager of the store and
Willard Magoon escaped from the
building in their night clothes with
part of their personal belongings.
Albert Mcconnell of Laramie, arrest
ed on a charge of receiving stolen
property when he had in his posses
sion ten pairs of shoes, seventy-two
pairs of socks and two tarpaulins said
to have been taken from n Union Pa
cific car in transit, was discharged, IT
having been shown hat he purchased
tue SouuS rum OriuoHu weir, IL Drake-
man, who is being held in connection
with the alleged Illicit manufacture of
intoxicating liquor at Rock River and
Elk mountain.
According to an announcement made
by the Wan Department, four army
aeroplaues, one of them driven by
Lieut.. Clifford C. Mutt of Denver, will
leave New York on July Is for a flight
to Nome, Alaska, and return, a dis
tsnce of $500 miles. The purpose of
the trip will be to demonstrate the
practicabillty of commercial air lines
to Alaska.
With continued efforts Of post adju-
tants In the state. the American Le-
gion In Wyoming is rapidly coming
into Its own. Latest reports Of the