The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent., 1920-07-30
WYOMING
STATE NEWS

dnOtneF Dig industry. Inc plant Will
be built at the south end of Sheep |
Canon, and the function of the indus
try will be lime and limestone.
Wyoming is growing old. Thirty !
years ago, July 10, 1890, the act ad-
Wyoming as a state was passed
by Congress. Cheyenne was then and
still is the largest city in the state.
. Henry c. Covington of Hot Springs,
Ark, was instantly killed and four
Others injured when CovingtOn's auto
mobile overturned on hill on Horse
Greek road, thirty miles north Of
Cheyenne and plunged down 2O-foot
embankment.
The Royalty and Producers we'll on
No. on section 16-39-78 which was
drilled in about month ago in the
Salt Creek field has been shot and
cleaned out. 1t is estimated by Of
fictals of the company that the well
will make about 200 barrels.
c. s. Brown, fireman, was scalded,
fatally, when three Union Pacific
freight engines piled into ditch. The
wreck occurred in the west end of the
yards at Cheyenne when an extra
double header freight train bound f.
Laramie was backed into by a thirt!
engine.
Cheyenne is behind the aerial mail
service. At conference between
members of the city administration,
the Chamber of Commerce and Col.
John A. Jordan, chief of construction
of the service, definite steps were
taken toward putting the city on the
air map.
The alfalfa cutting is now under
way in Albany county, ranchmen
claiming that it is the best crop ever
grown there. One ranchman at Bos-
Ter, who cut $50 tons from his
meadows last year, expects to have
300 tons this year, and believes he will
get the third crop.
Mrs. Gerhart, ranchwOman living
seven miles southeast of Shawnee, was
struck and killed by lightning On the
approach of the storm the woman and
her young son had gone out to drive
the chickens to shelter when the bolt
came. The boy was stunned, but not
seriously injured.
The Magoon store and the Young
woman postoffice, in the Lance creek
oil field, were burned to the ground
from fire of unknown origin. Homer
Davis, the manager Of the store and
Willard Magoon escaped from the
building in their night clothes with
part of their personal belongings.
The New York Oil Company's gas
line from Casper to the Poison Spider
and the South Casper Creek fields is
being completed rapidly. The first
fourteen miles of the line, beginning
at Casper, is made up Of Pinch pipe
and the remaining ten miles to the
Poison Spider field is 1O-inch pipe.
Jack Radovich, died in hospital at
Lusk of injuries received when he fell
under train which he was trying to
board at Van Tassell His right leg
was cut off and his left badly mangled
He was taken to Lusk on the train
which interrupted its schedule to make
the run back in hope of saving his
life.
1t has been announced at Cheyenne
that during June more than S125.OO(
from oil royalties alone was turned
over by State Land Commissioner \
| Baker to State Treasurer A. u. Hos
| kins, to be placed to the credit of tn,
| permanent school funds and perna
nent university fund. This huge sun
is divided in proportion to about fou
to one, the common schools gettin:
approximately $lOO,OOO and the univer
sity $4,000.
Jesse Bragg shot his wife and ther
killed himself in Il dance hall at Du
bois. The couple were sitting at ;
table and had been quarreling for some
time. The husband drew his revolver
without warning and shot the woman
through the neck. She died within ;
short time and he shot himself in tn,
! jugular vein.
More than million dollars in build
ing permits were issued in the city o
Casper for the first six months o
1920, according to figures kept by tn,
city engineering department. The tota
amount of building as shown in til
building permits issued totalled 81.
O75,59O for six months ending witt
June 30. This is in spite of big de
crease in building during June.
Clarence England, a conductor on tn
Union Pacific. who was arrested OF
a United States warrant charging hin
with the theft of twenty-five bags 0
sugar from the Union Pacific on Jun
81. in connection with the allege,
"moonshine" case at Rock River an
Elk Mountain gave bail in $3.50 to az
pear before the United States gran
jury at Cheyenne and was discharged
| With continued efforts of post adju
| tantS in the state the American If