The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-30
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The Board OF Education of school
| District No. 1. Rock Springs, has
| adopted IL new schedule of salaries
! for the coming year. which more Lear
| ~ conforms to the increase in til" cost
| OF living.
One of the largest business deals
| ever transacted On Snake River Mas
! coils,,,nl,n,cd ut Eagg> when j, ".
barr sold to the Salisbury Brothers
| all lands and practically all the live
| stock for SloI.NW
For the time being. ut least, there
will he no pardon for Frank Ford,
| Lincoln county holdup and former pro-
| feSSional actor. At Il meeting OF the
| State Board of I':lrdonS at Cheyenne
| his application for relief failed 10
meet with the approval of the menu
berS and no action was taken
Judge Melville {. Brown. ju>li'c OF
til" peace and police judge Of Laramie,
| who WAS the first mayor OF Laramie.
| in 1865 and who is the oldest member
of the Albany County Bar .AsSocia,i"n,
! has been granted leave of absence for
Il month or two. OH account of ILL
/ health. and will take !, lnuch-nteded
| rest.
Albert Del .Iunco aged 26. who op-
Grated the transfer between Sho>honi
| and Bonneville. WAS instantly killed
! when an auto driven by W. J. Watson
overturned Il half mile from town.
| .luncO was thrown several feet and
t.n..
ley, other occupants of the car. were
slightly injured
District Judge Ralph Kimh;,li at Cas-
per decided tina, the will of Lille lh,,
who died in 1918, was good and that
the signature was not Il forgery, as
alleged by Mona :. Iba of Salt Lake
City, plaintiff in the case The suit
involved some $4,000 worth of valu-
able oil lands in the Salt Greek oil
fields known as the Iha Eighty
Judge Ralph Kimball in an opinion
ut Casper decided that the will of Lii
lie lba, who died in 1918. was good
and that the signature not II forgery.
as had been claimed by the plaintiff.
Mona :. lba OF Salt Lake City. Utah.
The case involved some $4,000 wortl,
of valuable oil lands in the Salt Creek
oil field, known as the iba eighty.
The Buffalo Manufacturing Com
pHny suffered the loss of q flour mill
valued II, SlOMU by fire recently. The
first had gained such Roadway before
discovered that the only things saved
We're some books and valuable papers
from the office. also flour and grain
that We're carried out of the mill after
being partly destroyed hy water
Three Cheyenne boys We're found in
Il snow drift near Sperr station, nine
miles southwest of Cheyenne Two
We're unconscious when found and The
other WAS weak from exposure. The
Youngsters lief, Cheyenne CA their hi
cycles in quest of trout over the pro-
tests of their parents and We're caught
in the recent blizzard thai swept tl.;lt
country.
De>l"l,dent Oh account of his bad
physical condition. Robert Morrow, 60
years old. committed suicide in Il hos
lital 1T Thernopoli>, where he had
gone for relief. \ four-nch dull blade
OF an old p"cketknife was used hy
Morrow in >labhing himself in the left
breast. lie WAS hot found until the
next morning, when IL nurse Went tn
his room.
Two persons We're seriously njurr,l.
one probably fatally. and Il dozen 9th.
er> received minor injuries ut Casper
when Il gaS"lin" tank on top al IL
+ street pop corn stand exploded. The
explosion occurred III II time when Il
large number nj persons We're ii, The
street. Windows in many adjoining
buildings We're broken by the fore. of
| the explosion.
The annual budget for 1921 rs
PASSED by the city council for the city
of Casper amounted Ia Sl69. 4Ou. this
I amount not including S77.O61 It's >pe-
cial assessments To he levied to care.
tor city bond issues. The budget Will
NOW he sent to The county commissions
"rS To set the annual lax levy.
County Attorney Patterson III Al
. hany county has been Informed that
: the trial of John torhllo. charged
with the murder of Frank Jennings
neAr l.aralni" Cily. September eth has
: been sci I"r TU">day. April 10th. 1T
n thrA vnur before Judge ". G. MentZ.r
. on chang" Of Neiltlr irons Albany cnlIn=
~. IN" trial Of Pcle cur,illo am.
Waiter \rWril oh the same charge will
= follow.
: \ party from ST. Louis will inune-
, nlal"lA r">iilnr work On The big irri-
-hiI"h project i'll the upper Green EiN-
"r valley. Th" party is headed hN f..
l.. Mckee. who is president OF llle
Cottonwood Development Company. a
81. Louis corporation. which will com
pier" the work necessary To prayi,!.
ample water for The irrigation OF IN.
'hN acres of the best land in Lincoln
| county. which lies in the vicinity ot