, 1920-08-12
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union New, Service.

oAe
have gone back to work.
The refinery of the Midwest Rein.
ing Company at Laramie, the third
plant of the corporation in Wyoming,
has been placed in commission.
Furnaces in the factory of the Big
Horn Glass Company at Lowell, the
first plant of this industry in the
West, have been blown in. The plant
will employ 300 men.
1t is reported by tourists from vari-
GUS sections of the state that the roads
throughout Wyoming are now in excep-
tionally good condition and greatly eX-
Gel those Of adjoining states.
school bonds voted at a special cleo
ton last June amounting to S15O,O0O
were sold to the state of Wyoming last
night at a special meeting of the
school board for district No. 2.
The Franz Company's test well on
Seven Mile, near Colony, which has
been drilling under difficulties since
last February, now is at a standstill
and the drilling crew has been dis
banded.
The carnival appearance OF Chey-
enne has begun to fade and frontier
days, which always brings with 1t a
host of festival trappings. is but a
memory for 1920 and IN Inspiration
for 1921.
Pete Cordillo has been taken to the
State Penitentiary at Rawlins. There
he will serve a 80 to 40 year sentence
for his implication in the murder of
Frank Jennings, near Laramie, last
fall.
A forest fire, believed to have start
ed from a camp fire, burned about
an acre of timber on the Woods
Creek road, in the Medicine Bow Ma
tional Forest, three and a half miles
above Woods landing.
Mrs. G. A. Woodland, of Lingie, who
was at the point of death from per-
nicious anemia, is improving as the
result of an operation for blood trans
fusion. Her husband provided the
necessary virile blood, about one quart
being transfused from his veins to
hers.
]. B. Burn of Newberg, as he was
known in Powder River, where he kept
Powder River, Wyo., where he kept
the citizens on edge for one whole day
with his peculiar antics, has been iden-
titled by Louisiana state authorities
as being an escaped prisoner from the
insane asylum at Pineville, La.
Official notification has been re-
aofCnl from DraciInpf L, L, c.I -
the Union Pacific system, that $780,
600 has been set aside for improve
ments at Rock Springs. The improve
ments include a new park addition for
employees, eighteen new modern DWELL
ings and a $4,000 club house.
Wyoming stood third among the In
termountain states, and fourteenth In
the entire list of commemorative in
the number of men who volunteered
for service in the world war, accord
Ing to a revised statement issued by
the War Department. The states
total Of volunteers was S,94s and g.
700 were drafted.
Curiosity Of the small son of Jake
Hegert, Clear creek hOmesteader, to
see what would happen if he raked
burning coal from q stove into u wood
box, resulted in the Hegert home, In
Guiding all its contents, being burned
to h ground at Buffalo, and the Sc
we're burning about the hands and face
of the 5-weeks-old Hegert baby.
Gertrude Walker, widow Of Fred
Walker, who lied recently from a gun
shot wound received IL the Usage oil
field, has filed suit In the District
Court at Newcastle against Walter N.
Simm and Freel Bros, Simm's EN-.
pioyers, for 100000 damages. alleg-
ing that Walker was shot by Simm at
the instigation of Freel Bros.
The state encampment for the wy
oming National Guards will be held ut
Basin. Wyo.. beginning September 1,
and ending on September 10. There
will be over 800 men at the camp and
regular army maneuvers will be gone
over In a thorough manner The
troops are completely equipped with
horses and everything needed for
regiment of cavalry.
That 90 per cent of the more thar
three N a one-half millions of acres
Of public lands in Wyoming which
were filed on under the homestead
laws during the year ending June 30,
1920, were taken by e~x-service men Is
an interesting statement by State I'm
migration Commissioned Charles s.
Hill, who also Is state commander of
the American Legion.
Standing on a key and straining to
see what was beneath a blanket COW
ering the top of a barrel OF rainwater,
Boyd, 2-year-old son OF Mr.. and AIRS.