, 1920-10-21
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
IN Newspaper Union News Service.


John Moss, who says his real name
is Angus Wills, pleaded guilty in the
District Court at Rawlins to robbing
the residence of Warden f. A. Had
sell of the state penttentiary, and
awaits sentence. His partner, Ray
mond Peterson, arrested mt the same
time, is to be tried Nov. 16.
]. A. Delfelder, mayor of Riverton
and one of the best known flockmas-
ters of Wyoming, who recently was
reported desperately sick at Mayo
Brothers hospital at Rochester, Mimi,
has recovered sufficiently to return to
Riverton and his complete recovery
eventually now is anticipated.
While Wyoming has never had a
branch of the Woman's Suffrage AS
ISOLATION, the state will take active
part in the work of the League of
Women Voters, which is the successor
to the National Woman's Suffrage AS
ISOLATION. A Casper branch of the
state league has been formed.
Joseph Ehrlich, alias Wood, said to
be an escaped 'lifer' from the state
~penitentiary at Lansing, Mich, was ar
rested at Lander by Fred w. McQown,
state parole officer of Michigan. Ehr-
Itch was serving a life term for muir
dering his sweetheart and had been
confined thirteen years when he es.
capped.
Ben Mcintosh, a yardman, lost his
life in Rock Springs. Mcintosh was
engaged in switching when the cou-
pling lever on one of the cars, which
was damaged in a recent wreck, re-
fused to work and he got between the
cars to %uncouple them. His foot
caught in a frog and he fell just as
the train moved and the wheels
passed over his body.
Roy E. Bergstrom, % years old, must
spend the rest of his life in the state
penitentiary at Rawlins for numbering
his wife, Gladys NJ. Bergstrom, in the
upstairs corridor of the Miller building
in Laramie on April 3. 1920. Such is
the decree of the District Court, follow
ing a verdict of guilty Of murder in the
first degree without capital punish
ment.
The store of the Barnes Mercantile
Company at Rock River was robbed,
the thief gaining entrance by breaking
a e a window, and goods to the value
of between $500 and $500 were taken.
A deputy sheriff was awakened by an
automobile at 4 o'clock in the morn
ing and saw the machine leaving Rock
River, but he could not locate it after
following it to Laramie.
Prosecuting Attorney Charles e.
Lane has filed in the district court
at Cheyenne a 30,000-word answer to
the suit against him of Mrs. Minnie
Gagnos, who claims $4,000 damages
for alleged SANDER and assault. The
greater part of the reply is given over
to exhibits intended to establish that
Mrs. Gagnos was %adjudged insane
while Il resident of Texas and that
while in that state and elsewhere. she
exhibited "A penchant for filing per-
Bonal injury actions.
Three men, giving names of T. w.
Whear, Frank Kelly and Charles Jack
son, about thirty years of age and al
legged to be hoboes and members of
the l. w. W. were arrested near Fort
Russell by deputies of the sheriff's Of
flee and lodged in fhe county Jail at
Cheyenne on charges of maliciously
holding up eighteen other alleged ho-
boes a short time previously on south
bound Colorado & Southern freight
train between Wheatland and Chey-
enne. After robbing the victims at
the point of n large pistol. they are
said to have elected them from a fast
moving train, with threats Of violence.
Three of the four classes in the
Wyoming University have completed
the class organizations and elected of
ficers for the coming year. The fresh
men, who can boast the honor Of be-
ing the largest class in the history of
the university, nave chosen as their
guides for the initial college year,
Harold Essert of Laramie as president,
Florence Lommed of Chicago as vice
president, and Rowena Hasbrouck Of
Sheridan MS secretary-treasurer.
The Laramie Cement Plaster Com
pany and the owners of the old glass
works building have finally agreed to
the terms of the transfer of the prop
erty, and the cement company will be-
gin remodeling the building and in
stnlling the plant, getting the cement
from a bed lying In the northeastern
part of the city. One OF the largest
concerns in the United States has
agreed to take the output of the plant
for five years. A spur track will be
laid to the plaster bed to bring the
raw material to the bed. Two cement
plants are already operated Mt Lara
ME, with n plaster of paris plant at
Red Buttes, seven miles. AWAY.