The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent., 1920-08-13
WYOMING
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The Wyoming State Fair and Stock
Show will be held ut Douglas, Septem.
ber IA, Is, 16, II, 1920.
The Wyoming Flour Mill Company,
with an authorized capital stock of
$5OO,OOO was organized under the laws |
of Wyoming.
Members Of the BOilermakers' union |
at Casper, have called off the strike |
at the Midwest Refining Company and |
have gone back to work.
Furnaces in the factory of the Big !
Horn Glass Company at Lowell, the !
first plant of this industry in the
West, have been blown in. The plant !
will employ 800 men.
It ia reported by tourists from vari-
Gus sections of the state that the roads
throughout Wyoming are now in excep-
tiOnally good condition and greatly ex-
eel those Of adjoining states.
School bonds voted at a special elec-
ton last June amounting to $15OOOO
were sold to the state of Wyoming last
night at a special meeting Of the
school board for district No. 2.
The death toll from the explosion
Monday of powder magazine at No. 9
mine of the Kemmerer Coal Company
at Suhlet, Is eight, all persons injured
by the explosion having succumbed.
A. f. Baker. after dodging arrest
from Siberia to Thermopolis, gave him.
self up at Thermopolis as deserter
from the United States Army and will
be turned over to the militory authori-
ties.
Martin Agnew, treasurer Of the H.
G. Snyder Realty Company, died at
Lusk from poisoning caused by eating
ripe olives. He lived only few hours
Agnew was also secretary of the school
board.
Alfred Mercer, employe of the Engle.
stone Lime Company, met death while
ut work In the company's quarry near
Horse Greek, when large rock falling
from Il considerable height. crushed
his head and body.
The Oriole airplane, owned by
the Western Airplane and Motor
Corporation Of Casper, piloted by Tom
Ledbetter, was disabled at Wales field
near Fort Russell while taking off for
flight with passenger.
Standing on keg and straining to
see what was beneath blanket COW
ering the top Of a barrel Of rainwater,
Boyd, 2-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Baniel BennOr Of Gillette, lost his bal.
| ance, plunged head foremost into the
! barrel and was drowned. His body
was recovered in few minutes by his
| mother.
Curiosity of the small son of Jake
| Hegert, Clear creek homesteader, to
see what would happen if he raked
| burning coal from a stove into Il wood
box, resulted in the Hegert home, In
cluding all its contents, being burned
to the ground at Buffalo, and the Sc
we're burning about the hands and face
Of the 5-weeks-od Hegert baby.
That 95 per cent of the more than
three and II one-half millions of acres
Of public lands in Wyoming which
We're filed on under the homestead
laws during the year ending June SO,
1920, We're taken by ex-service men is
an interesting statement by State I'm.
migration Commissioner Charles S.
Hill, who also is state commander OF
the American Legion.
Midwest Refining Company has
broken ground at Salt Creek for a
twenty-four room hotel, with refrigera.
ton plant and dining room capacity
| for 300, which is to be erected and
equipped at cost of 100000. The
hotel will he primarily to accommodate
employees of the company in the Salt
Greek oil field, but will be open to
transents.
Learning in Casper, Wyo, that hel
5-year-old son, Jimmie" Powell. had
been placed in the detention home in
Denver, after being turned over to
Juvenile Court authorities as an aban
doned child, Mrs. Evelyn Powell, the
childs mother, sent Il frantic appeal by
wire to the Juvenile Court to protect
the boy until she could come to Den
YER and get him.
Harry f. Rollman, %, was drowned
at Granite Springs reservoir, twenty
six miles west Of Cheyenne, while bath
ing in the lake His body was recov
cred and brought to Cheyenne. Roll
mans death was the first tragedy il
Granite Springs reservoir, which is the
principal source of Cheyenne's watel
supply. since the reservoir was created
nearly score Of years ago.
Captain Il. c. Daily, military com
mandant and professor of militar!
science and tactics ut the University
OF Wyoming, who has been on specia
duty ut Camp Kearney, San Diego
Calf. has gone to Camp Perry, Ohio
in charge of detail from the Califor
mia camp. Students from the Univer
sity of Wyoming, who are to take par
in the rifle practice by the War De