, 1920-01-15
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

$500 -NN"S 70 itS
Nine thousand cattle, belonging to
United States Senator Kendrick of
Wyoming, have been moved into Texas
to escape the Wyoming drought.
The state convention OF the inter
church movement will be held in
Douglas Jan. ~ with over 100 pastors
representing all protestant denomina-
lions in attendance.
Without II dissenting vote the Ere
mont County Woolgrowers' Associa-
ton at the annual meeting in Lander
endorsed the recent action of their ex-
ecutive board in protesting aga INST Il
raise of approximately 30 per cent in
the price of school lands leased from
the state for grazing purposes.
The initial step towards Harvesting
he Platte river neal Douglas for u
power plant was marked by the forma-
ton of an organization of Douglas
business men to promote the move
ment. The property is to he turned
over to h city for operation if the
proposition is carried out as proposed.
Playing in sand near their home
nearly proved disastrous to the two
young boys of Mr.. and Mrs. George Al
len at Casper when the big sand bank
caved in on top of them. The screams
of Alfred, brought aid, and Godfrey,
the 6-year-old boy, was pulled out from
beneath the sand pile. 1t required
some time to eXtricate the younger
boy. -.
Leone Powers, aged sixteen years,
who shot and is alleged to have killed
her stepfather, Jack Brown, at the
ranch house near Ember December 4,
has been held guilty for the death
without any comment being made as to
the p~rovocation leading up to the kill
Ing. The %coroner'S jury had the case
under consideration for nearly three
weeks.
The Western Airplane and MotoS
Company, capitalized at 100000 and
organized to promote plans first I'M
dertaken by the Curtiss agency at
Casper, controlled by ]. Y. Stock, mil
lionaire oil operator, has been incor-
pOrated and has ordered two eight
passenger ships to be used in serv-
Ice between Casper and Denver and
other points.
Another big source of revenue for
the Wyoming state treasury during
1919 was the incorporation fees
charged by the secretary of tate.
Deputy II. NJ. Symons that
the totals for the year just closed were
SS3,O62.1O, as compared with $49,762.65
for 1918. This is a gain of not quite
$4,000. 4 large majority of the new
companies are in the oil game.
Denver-Forty thousand dollars will
be distributed in prize money to exhi-
bitors of the National Western live
stock show which opens in this city in
January. OF this sum $1,000 is given
by the Colorado State Board of Agri-
culture N $4,000 by the Denver, Civic
and Commercial Association. The re-
mainder Is met by the stock show man.
agement and by entry fees. 1t is es-
timated that 900 pure bred whitefaces
and shorthorn cattle will be on exhi-
bition in the new building.
George Osborne, 80 years old, man
ager of the "C-Y" ranch, is in a criti-
cal condition in n Douglas hospital suf-
fering from seven bullet wounds.
David Knighten, prominent cattleman
hof Douglas, is being held in the local
jail charged with the shooting. The
shooting took place in Douglas, while
crowds were passing through the
streets. Knighten came upon Os-
borne, it is alleged, while the latter
was unarmed and fired point blank
at him. Witnesses declare that Os-
borne got up to his feet after the first
shot, stumbled across the street, and
then Knighten fired several more
shots.
Two hundred gallons of whisky,
seized by the authorities in various
raids, have mysterlously disappeared
from the county Jail at Glenrock and
the authorities have not the slightest
idea who the thieves are. The whisky
was stored in the county Jail for safe
keeping and had n bootleg valuation
of $4,000. The stuff was hauled
away during the night in an automo-
bile or auto truck.
Entries have closed for the National
Western stock show the week of Janu-
airy IT to 18th md a comparison of
figures shows that the 1920 exhibition
will be at least one-flfth bigger than
the n n year ago in the number of
pure bred animals shown. Compare
tive figures are as follows:
1919 1920
Breeding Cattle 1856 64S
Dairy Cattle ia 301
Fat Steers 60
Breeding Swine sos 545
Fat Barrows ...............111 80
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