, 1920-07-08
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Newspaper Union News. Service.

htoa hSS
Walter Ulrich, 65, was killed almost
instantly at Cheyenne when he vas
crushed between the bumpers OF two
freight cars while working in the
Union Pacific railroad yards.
The grasshopper plague which is
threatening grain and alfalfa crops OF
the Lander region this year is being
cOmbated with a poison which has
been found effective in years past.
Three hundred and fifteen thousand
ties belonging to the Wyoming Tie and
Timber Company have started on their
way to the treating plant at Riverton
from seventeen miles above the town
of Dubois, Wyo.
Mrs. Eugene Wilson of Lusk has
been appointed as one of the home
representatives of the Cathedral Home
for Children at Laramie. This APP
pOintment was made by Bishop Ma
thaniel S. Thomas before his depar-
ture for Europe.
Lieutenant G. A. Stanten, the soldier
who lost his mind while serving in
France and who escaped from the care
of +. L. Ralston, n friend, while being
taken to Buffalo, WyO, was found neal
the Midwest refinery and taken to a
hospital in Casper.
BY sticking to their wagon although
ii was being washed down stream by
flood waters, Earl Leake, Mrs. III. u.
Ticker and her small child, we're res
cued q quarter of a mile below the
point where they were washed away
while attempting to ford a swollen
stream near Hudson. The horses broke
away from the wagon and were
drowned.
After confessing they were the mod
ern bad men" who revised the old
time scene on Kemmerer's famous tri-
angle, by firing three revolver shots
in the night, Homer Adams. foreman
of the Green River Live Stock Com
pany, and Harry Wood. commissary
man of the same outfit. were fined
500 and $50 respectively, by Police
Judge John w. Sammon.
Dahney NJ. Scales, a lieutenant-com-
mander in the Confederate naval
forces, who was reputed to have Civ
en- the last official Confederate order
during the Civil war, died in a local
hospital at Sheridan recently. Mr..
Scales, who was n graduate of the
Naval academy at Annapolis, served
the United States as a naval officer in
the Spanish-American war.
Caught in a cavern of coal in the
Diamond Coal Company mine at Dia-
mondville, Batiste Gillardi was in
stantly killed and David Armstrong s.
badly crushed that he died four hours
later. Gillardi was 40 years of age,
and Armstrong 4S. They were among
the Oldest residents of the camp in
point of service in the mines, each
having been employed there more than
thirty years.
The Union Pacific has begun the
work of laying six miles of additional
siding in the yards at Laramie to add
to the efficiency of this district ter
minal in getting freight through that
city. Work was also started on two
miles of side track to be used by the
Pacific fruit express for its receiving
station. J. A. Gilman, the Wyoming
division r~Oadmaster, is in charge of
the work.
Carpenters have finished the Basin
free camp ground buildings recently
authorized by the Basin Chamber of
Commerce. The grounds have been
enlarged to accommodate 100 more
cars at Il time and another modern
kitchen built which together with a
new wash and bath house will pro-
vide ample accommodations for all
and makes this the most mod
ern camp ground in the west.
John Hernandez, a Mexican employ
ed at the Lee Simpson ranch near
Thermopolis, killed himself when the
revolver he was handling accidentally
went off. The bullet passed through
his body entering his left lung.
The establishment of q fund of $780,
600, 900 t extend financial aid to west
ern wool-growers, while awaiting the
re-estnblishment of the wool market,
was considered at q conference in Chi
cago recently of western bankers and
sheep ranchers. Chicago bankers were
asked to displace Boston banks in fl
nancing the annual wool clip of the
country, which plan would make Chi
cago the wool center of the nation.
At the John Bare ranch, about fif
teen miles south of Lusk, little Leroy
Moore, the 6-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jesse Moore, was accidentally
shot through the abdomen by a bullet
from a .3S-caliber automatic pistol in
the hands of his uncle, a boy about o
years. The loaded gun was In the side
pocket of an automobile at the ranch
and In playing around the boys found
1t and were handling it when 1t went
off. entering the boys body and pass
ing completely through 1t.