, 1920-02-05
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

william Numrich, Is, of CareyhurSt,
was killed at the ranch of Gov. Robert
d. Carey, when he fell under the heels
of a team and was kicked to death.
Collector of Internal Revenue Leslie
A. Miller announces that William G..
Irvine of Ross, Converse county, is the
first Wyoming citizen to file an in
come tax report.
Masons at Lusk are to begin work
on the erection Of a $4,000 tenn
pie 500 to replace the structure wiped
out by the big fire this winter. The
Odd Fellows lodge also has announced
It's intention of erecting Il new club
house as soon as weather is better.
The Rock Springs council have Or
dered all the former saloons which are
still open for the sale of soft drinks
to remove screens from the front win
dows and all partitions from the inside
SO that the whole interior of the prem
ises can be viewed from the outside.
James A. Chapman, Midwest employee
and veteran Of the Spanish-American
war, who died of pneumonia at Cas-
per, was accorded a military burial by
former comrades. The Fifteenth Cav
airy band of Fort d. A. Russell, Chey-
enne, occupied a prominent place in
the funeral cortege.
Dirt is ut last flying i'll the Riverton
irrigation project after suffering many
delays since it was initially planned in
1906. Two huge drag machines are
being used in preliminary work.
Though United States government has
cut the appropriations for this project,
but some progress is to be made this
year in placing the land under water.
william latham, n wealthy retired
ranchman of Laramie, walked off a
passenger train near Bosler, Wyo,
while the train was going fifty miles
an hour. He was found unconscious
beside the track soon afterward, but
his injuries were not serious. Mr.. Ia
than had been to California and was
on his way home. Friends said he was
suffering from mental ailments.
A city ordinance barring the SHIN
my dance has been passed by Sheridan
under penalty of a fine of 800. In
placing the ban on vulgar and indie
cent" dancing the ordinance defines
dancing positions which are prohib-
tied, such as dancing with cheeks too
close or touching, with arm or arms
about neck of partner or with shaking
or jerking of upper body while taking
short steps or standing"
Charles Young, Pau Essert, Thomas
Nicholas, Murray Kline, Arthur Fran
els and Glenn Parker, with Nelson Nc
| Kaig and Wilmer Stevens as alter
mates, have been selected by the fac
ulty t represent the University of
| Wyoming in the debates to be held in
Laramie with Colorado Agricultural
| College, and at Colorado Springs with
| Colorado College on Feb. 20, on the
| question "ResOlved, That all disputes
| concerning public utilities hould be
settled by compulsory arbitration"
Approximately 10000 acres of re-
| claimed land in Wyoming and Nebras-
ka will be opened to homestead entry
early in March. Applications for en-
try upon irrigated farms comprising
a tract of about 5000 acres in the
1Noilh Il lattC oAits oJott
ing a large section of the border areas
of each state, will be accepted from
Feb. % t. March ., it was said, while
applications for entry upon another
5,OO0-acre tract on the ShOshOne, Wyo'
ming, project, will be accepted during
the week following. Drawings will be
made to determine the right of entry
in each case where two or more appli'
| cations are made for the same farm.
John Corbett, AZ years old, a wealthy
| pioneer stockman of NatrOna county,
was found murdered at his ranch home
| six miles southeast of Casper when
| county officers made an investigation
of his premises which had been de-
| serted for days. Robbery is believed
| to have peer the motive for the muir
| der, according to officers, but the iden-
| tlty of the slayer is shrouded in mys
terry.
The opening of about seventy-five
| farm units under the South Side canal
will take place in TOrrington, March
9th. These lands lie south of the riv-
err and extend from a point about south
| of that place and extend west to a
point south of Lingle. These lands
will be drawn for by a plan being for
mulated by the reclamation service
and will be allotted to those given wa
ter rights from the canal through a
system of drawing the water rights be-
fore filing on the land. The prize
| fixed for a water right for eighty acres
of this land will be in the neighbor-
hood of $500 as initial payment. The
total payments on the water rights will
be something like 500 per acre, ex-
tending over a period of nineteen
years.
The carload of fat cattle exhibited