The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-08-20
WYOMING
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The Wyoming State Fair and Stock
Show will be held at Douglas, Septem.
Der IA, Is. 16, II, 1920.
| The Wyoming Flour Mill Company,
with an authorized capital stock Of
$500, 900, was organized under the laws
of Wyoming.
| Members Of the Boilermakers' union
at Casper, have called off the strike
ut the Midwest Refining Company and
have gone back to work.
Furnaces in the factory Of the Big
Horn Glass Company Mt Lowell, the
first plant Of this industry in the
West, have been blown in. The plant
will employ 800 men.
1t il 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 $4,000
were sold to the state Of Wyoming last
night ut special meeting Of the
school board for district No. 2.
The death toll from the explosion
Monday Of II powder magazine ut No. 8
mine Of the kemmerer Coal Company
at Sublet, Is eight, all persons injured
by the explosion having succumbed.
A. f. Baker, after lodging arrest
from Siberia to Thermopolis, gave him
| self up ut ThermOpolis as a deserter
| from the United States Army and will
| be turned over to the militOry authOri-
| ties.
Martin Agnew, treasurer of the H.
c. Snyder Realty Company, died at
Lusk from poisoning caused by eating
ripe olives. He lived only few hours.
Agnew was also secretary Of the school
board.
Alfred Mercer, employee of the Engle.
stone Lime Company, met death while
ut work in the company's quarry near
Horse Greek, when u large rock falling
from considerable height, crushed
his head and body.
The Oriole airplane, owned by
the Western Airplane and Motor
Corporation Of Casper, piloted by Tom
I.edbetter, was disabled mt Wales field
near Fort Russell while taking off for
flight with passenger.
Standing on keg and straining to
| see what was beneath blanket COW
ering the top Of n barrel Of rainwater,
Boyd, 2-year-old son Of Mr. and Mrs
Baniel Bennor Of Gillette, lost his bal
ance, plunged head foremost into the
barrel and was drowned. His body
was recovered in few minutes by his
mother.
| Curiosity of the small son Of Jake
Hegert. Clear creek homesteader, to
see what would happen if he raked
burning coal from a stove into a wood
box, resulted in the Hegert home, in
GLIDING all its contents, being burned
to the ground at Buffalo, and the Sc
we're burning about the hands and face
Of the :'-weeks-old Hegert baby.
! That 95 per cent of the more than
three and a one-half millions of acres
of public lands in Wyoming which
were filed on under the homestead
laws during the year ending June 80.
1920, We're taken by ex-service men is
an interesting statement by State I'm.
migration Commissioner Charles S.
Hill, who also is state commander Of
the American Legion.
Midwest Refining Company has
broken ground ut Salt Creek for a
twenty-four room hotel, with refrigera-
tion plant and dining room capacity
for 300, which is to he erected and
equipped at Il cost of 100000. The
hotel will be primarily to accommodate
employees Of the company in the Salt
Greek oil field, but will be open to
transientS.
Learning in Casper, Wyo., that her
5-year-old son, Jimmie" POwell> had
been placed in the detention home in
Denver. after being turned over to
Juvenile Court authorities as an ADAM
doned child. Mrs Evelyn Powell, the
childs mother, sent a frantic appeal by
wire to the Juvenile Court to protect
the hoy until she could come to Den.
YER and get him.
| Harry F. Rollman, %, was drowned
at Granite Springs reservoir, twenty.
six miles west Of Cheyenne, while bath.
ing in the lake. His body was recov.
cred and brought to Cheyenne. Roll.
mans death was the first tragedy in
Granite Springs reservoir, which is the
principal source of Cheyenne's wafer
supply, since the reservoir was created
nearly a score of years ago.
Captain II. C. DAILY. military COM
mandant and professor of military
science and tactics ut the University
| Of Wyoming, who has been on special
duty at Camp Kearney, San Diego,
Calf, has gone to Camp Perry, Ohio,
In charge of detail from the Califor.
mia camp. Students from the Univer.
sity of Wyoming, who are to take part
In the rifle practice by the War De-
partment, are in the detail.