, 1920-04-15
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

for the coming year, which more near.
ly conforms to the increase in the cost
Of living.
One of the largest business deals
ever transacted on Snake River was
contaminated at Baggs when J. w.
Darr sold to the Salisbury Brothers
all lands and practically all the live
stock for S125,OO0.
The Congregational church at Lusk
has decided to work out plans for a
new community and club building to
cost approximately $4,000. A Denver
contractor has practically beef decid-
ed upon to carry out the plans for the
structure.
For the time being. at least, there
will be no pardon for Frank Ford,
Lincoln county holdup and former pro-
fessional actor. At a meeting Of the
State Board of Pardons at Cheyenne
his application for relief failed to
meet with the approval of the men,
bers and no action was taken.
Albert Del Junco, aged %, who op-
Grated the transfer between Shoshoni
and Bonneville, was instantly killed
when an auto driven by w. ]. Watson
overturned a half mile from town.
Junco vas thrown several feet and
his neck broken. Watson and Crow
ley, other occupants of the car, were
slightly injured.
Contract for the paving Of twenty
four miles Of the Casper-Salt, Creek
highway with concrete, at a cost of
100000, half to be borne by the state
and half by the Midwest Refining Com
pany, will be awarded by the State
Highway Commission at Its meeting on
April 20, when bids on $4,000 o worth
Of road work will be opened.
The Buffalo Manufacturing Com
pany suffered the loss of a flour mill
valued at $4,000 by fire recently. The
first had gained such Roadway before
discovered thai the only things saved
some books and valuable papers
from the office, also flour and grain
that were carried out Of the mill after
being partly destroyed by water.
Roy Edward Bergstrom told a cor
oner's jury at Laramie that it was he
who killed his wife, shooting her first
in the back and then in the breast as
her body, shooting her through
the head. The jury held him for the
killing and he will be charged with
murder in the first degree.
John Cordillo will not go on trial in
the District Court at Cheyenne On a
murder charge until the new city
county administration building is fin
ished. "We cannot try criminal cases
in this court until the courtroom is
finished, and I do not know when hat
will be-" Judge Mentzer said. Hence
1 cannot say when John Cordillo will
face trial"
Despondent on recount of his bad
physical condition, Robert Morrow, go
years old, committed suicide in a hos
pital at Thermopolis, where he had
gone for relief. A four-inch dull blade
Of an old po%cketknife was used by
in stabbing himself in the left
breast. He was not found until the
next morning, when a nurse went to
his room.
The largest shipment of opium, NOR
phine and cocaine ever sent through
the Denver United States Internal rev.
enue office arrived from Rock Springs,
Wyo., in charge of A. B. Westover and
Fl. b. Williamson, revenue officers. The
narcotics are valued at $4,000 and
will be sent to the Bureau of Technol-
ogy, Washington, ID. c., to be billed to
the army and navy.
District Judge Ralph Kimball at Cas-
per decided that the will of Lille Iba,
who died in 1918, was good and that
the signature was not q forgery, as
alleged by Mona s. Iba of Salt Lake
City, plaintiff in the case. The suit
involved some $4,000 worth of valu-
able oil lands In the Salt Creek oil
fields known Al the Iba Eighty.
In an effort to cut down the high
cost of living through reduction In the
cost Of rendy-bullt houses, the wyo-
ming Building and Apartment House
Company has planned the erection this
summer in Casper of fifty to sixty
small three and four-room houses to
sell for as low as $1,000. the maximum
price DelnB S4,OOO. The company al
ready has lots in all sections of the
city.
Rollin Ormsby, 14-year-old son of
Major ormsby, wealthy stockman of
Natrona county. is suffering from q
fractured skull received when he was
knocked down by an automobile
driven by Hugh Giffen In Casper. His
condition is serious. Young Ormsby
was struck by the Giffen car while
trying to dodge n taxi approaching
from the opposite direction. His head
struck the pavement.
The annual budget for 1921 as
passed by the city council for the city
of Casper amounted to $3.50, 400, this
amount not including S77,065 as spe.
cial assessments to be levied to care