, 1920-01-22
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

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The frequently raised question of
how much crude oil Wyoming is pro-
ducing is brought to the fore again by
irreconcilable estimates at the end of
1919. State Immigration Commission
er Charles S. Hill estimates that the
production during 1919 was approx
mately 13,5OO.000 barrels.
Colorado Springs Is II of the TWEEN
ty-two cities in the West and Far
West to be placed on the itinerary of
a ~6,000-mile trade extension tOur to be
undertaken in February by members
of the manufacturers and wholesale
merchants board of the Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce.
Charged with forging checks aggre-
eating several hundred dollars on Riv-
erton business men. Marvin Hassell
was placed under arrest Mt Bonneville
while on the point of making away
with the gains of his Illegal operations.
He was bound Over to the District
Court for trial and was unable to give
bond.
Searching for Il stolen dressed pig
at the home of Sam Boone, colored, at
Sheridan, whom neighbors charged
with the theft of the pOrker, Under
sheriff Ira Kirby found so much evil
dence indicating that the place was a
"blind pig" thai he arrested Boone on
Il charge of violating the prohibition
statute.
Not until March 10 will the people of
the state have any additional light
thrown upon the widely-talked-of Car
dillO case. The preliminary hearing
was to have been heard before Judge
Brown at Laramie this month, but by
agreement of the attorneys by both
sides, the case was continued until
March 10.
The Pinedale Roundup has again
made its appearance in newspaperdom.
The roundup was established about
sixteen years ago by C. Watt Brandon,
and at the time of its suspension in
October, 1917, was edited and pub
lished by c. f. Patterson. The new ed
itor, who has purchased the plant, is
F. C. Marshall, formerly a publisher of
South Dakota.
Acting under instructions from
Washington, d. c., Nowlin, local Of
ficial of the biological survey, pur-
chased 643 tons of hay for local elk at
Jackson. State game warden has
been instructed TO buy from $50 to 800
tons more. A baIer and force of men
are at work baling the hay as fast as
it can be brought to the feeding
grounds at Jackson.
Accusing suspicion by unwittingly
pulling II gun on n car sweeper who en-
tered IL baggage car in which he was
guarding two trunks full of booze, w.
II. Mann, former salOonkeeper of Du-
bois, was seized by the sheriff of Ian
der and the liquor was confiscated. On
pleading guilty in local court he was
fined $500 for having booze in his pos
session and paid another 500 for
threatening the Il sweeper.
Negro residents of Sheridan horse
whipped and drove from the city a ne
gro named Ben Gordon, who had been
charged with making an insulting re-
mark to a white woma Gordon was
arrested upon complaint of the wom-
an. The latter then refused to prose-
cute him, because she did not wish the
attendant publicity of a court action.
When informed that Gordon had been
the edge of town, horsewhipped and
sent him out of the city.
1t has been announced at Cheyenne
that G,0O0 acres of irrigated homestead
land will be opened for entry in the
North Platte project in eastern Wyo-
ming and western Nebraska. The date
has not been definitely set, but it prob.
ably will be the latter part of Febru
airy. Torrington, -Wyo., and Mitchell,
Neb., have been designated as places
where filings may be made.
A naturalization class under the di
rection of the Laramie high school and
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, has been started in Laramie
with the slogan, lone Hundred Per
Cent Literacy in Albany County, the
effort being made to induce every
foreigner to learn the English Ian
guage, whether he intends to become
a citizen of the United States or not.
Figures issued at Cheyenne show
that the clearings of the Cheyenne
banks for the month of December, 1919,
were $S,000,000. This was twice the
totals for Colorado Springs, more than
twice the Pueblo figures, and three
times those for Kansas City, Kan.
Cheyenne has less than $4,000 popula-
ton, and its clearings are said to be
the highest of any city of its size in
the country.
Frederick IL. Harvey, II, pioneer
Douglas lawyer, and formerly mayor
of Douglas. is dead after a period of
i'll health extending throughout sew
eral years, during Il portion of which
time he was partly paralyzed.
Allen Braip Of Chugwater accident