, 1920-09-23
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.


ty OF Cheyenne, will be the haif-mil-
lion dollar Masonic Consistory cathe.
dral at the intersection of Capitol and
Twentieth street.
John b. O'Leary of Douglas, who
was the victim of a peculiar accident
u month ago, Is dead from his injury,
death having come suddenly, long aft
er it was believed he was well on the
way to recovery.
Mrs. Dewey Kester had barely time
to seize her baby and escape when she
awoke to find her home at Lusk in
flames. Before an alarm could be
sounded the building vas nearly con-
sumed, but neighboring property was
saved.
Edwin A. Hoadly, 6-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. +. Hoadly of Chey-
enne, died in a Denver hospital from
pneumonia which developed after the
air passages to his lungs had been OBJ
structed by a large nail he swallowed
last week.
While returning from Superior to
Rock Springs with three passengers In
his car, William Lewis drove off an
unprotected bridge, his brakes failing
to hold in coming down a hill at the
approach. The car was overturned
and badly damaged, the driver and
passengers escaping serious injury.
Byrl Market, ID years old, of Buff
falo, Wyo., riding Buck" a bay horse
belonging to Clyde Lawyer, won the
forty-mile marathon race from Sher-
idan to Clearmont, Wyo., in two hours
and twenty minutes. He captured a
$3.50 prize offered by citizens of Clear
mont. Sixteen riders participated.
Yellowstone park is rapidly gaining
in popularity as a national playground.
This is shown by the great Increase in
travel for the year 1920 over that of
1919. The number of tourists visiting
the park for the year 1920 up to Aug.
81, is shown to be 72,121; while the
year 1919 shows a total of 1921, CIV
ing this year an increase Of 1890.
Fred Royal of Chugwater, who was
crushed beneath n four-room house,
sustaining a fracture of the back just
below the shoulders, is still alive at a
hospital at Wheatland and hope for
his recovery is held. The fractured
vertebra was removed by an opera
ton and Royal is beginning to have
sensation in his lower limbs.
Wyoming did it's share in the rec
ord-breaking number of new oil wells
completed during August, but Of the
forty compilations in the state, nine
were dry and three were gassers and
new production Amounted to only q
S45 barrels a day as against $3.50
barrels from thirty-one wells, COM
pleted in July, of which six were dry
and two developed gassers.
More than $50 bankers from every
part Of the state were in attendance
when the Wyoming Bankers Associa-
ton met at Casper for its twelfth an
nual meeting. Many flnanciers of
Denver and Omaha were present, and
Richard 8. Halves, president of the
American Bankers Association and
vice president Of the First National
bank of st. Louis, was a guest of the
convention.
Harry E. Cheeseman, living on a
ranch near Sunshine, Park county, had
the interesting experience of being a
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During a recent electric storm of
unusual severity at Guernsey the pub
lie school building and three resi-
oehces were struck by lightning.
Midwest has been benefited by the