The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-10-22
WYOMING
STATE NEWS

Daughters Of the American Revolution
at the state convention Of that body
held in that city.
After year in which many other
towns have been combating the So
called "shimmy" evil, Cody's town
council has decided to prohibit the
Skinny" and ''other lascivious"
dances.
1t looks as If the University Of
Wyoming would have the heaviest
football team in it's history. The
coaches are now selecting men from
the list for the different positions on
the team.
Emmett Doyle, aged 81 years and
married, committed suicide at Laramie
by swallowing poison. He was born IN
Leadville, and went to Laramie last
May from Denver as pipe filter for
the Midwest Refining Company. The
body was sent to Denver for burial.
Virginia Mudd of Beaver expert
enced singular accident. On enter
ing hotel ut that place, the child
attempted to caress a large Maltese
cat sleeping In chair near the door,
which resulted in the animal spring
ing at her face and biting her OH the
cheek and lips.
Because baby swing" in City park
Mt Cheyenne collapsed last July and
caused the death Of 8-year-old CLAIR
ence Ramirez, the father of the boy,
DR.. Joseph NJ. Ramirez demands $lO,.
600 from the city Of Cheyenne. He has
filed suit for this amount of damages
in the Laramie county District Court.
Grief over the death of his son was
held responsible for the death Of
James O'Leary, seventy years old, at
Douglas. The son, John O'Leary, died
from injuries received when horse
kicked p!tchfork that he was using.
The father refused to be consoled and
began to decline in health rapidly.
Prizes have been offered by the
Worland Mercantile Company for the
largest specimens of sugar beets taken
to the store. The first prize being 100
pounds Of flour, fifty pounds for the
S>>chNAS NiN AHSA -AiNC pouilNS AoI VIC
third. Worland is in the midst of one
Of the greatest beet llarres,s in the
state.
j. NJ. Kilfoyle, the assistant master
Of the Union Pacific, has rendered
his resignation and will return to
Texas, after connection of several
months with the road at Laramie. His
headquarters were at Cheyenne, but
he had jurisdiction at North Platte,
Sidney, Cheyenne and Laramie.
Fire destroyed twenty-five tons OF
hay and 300 bushels of wheat at the
farm of Guy l.. Shipmen, north of
Basin, besides burning tractor. A
threshing crew was at work threshing
wheat when spark from the tractor
fired the stack. The separator was
saved, but the fire spread so rapidly
the tractor could not be gotten away
Three men, Oren Hall of Salt Lake
City, w. Bigler Of Kemmerer and j.
V. Geutirrez of Bingham, Utah, were
instantly killed near kemmerer when
an automobile in which they were rid
ing rolled over an embankment. The
machine was rounding curve at the
time of the mishap and it is believed
Hall, who was driving, lost control.
Father Hugh Cummiskey, admins
traitor of the Cheyenne diocese of the
Catholic church and pastor of local
church for nearly forty-two years, is
dead at Laramie, following an opera
ton that was performed for appenIi-
citts. Father Cummiskey was born at
Iowanda, Pa, Aug. 10th, 1854, and
wah ordained a priest at Scranto, Pa,
Nov. 22nd, 1877.
The board of trustees Of the Cniver-
s'ty of Wyoming ut its quarterly ses-
sion at Laramie, confirmed the APP
pointment of Robert II. Zeigler as
county agricultural agent for Laramie
county.
Claude TeanOr, cafe cook, who
shot and killed his wife after arous-
ing her from bed in Casper, died in
hospital from Il bullet wound re-
ceived in the head when he turned
MS gun upon himself.
The guardians of Mrs. Mary l.,
Smith, insane widow of the late Amos
w. Smith of Big piney. have agreed
to settle litigation Involving the Wild
ow's rights in the estate of Smith
by accepting $4,000 The remainder
OF the estate, Which has been esti-
mated at from $4,000 to 100000, will
go to seventeen other heirs, the prin-
cipal of whom are three nieces of the
deceased.
To fOrestall the possibility of a hi.
luminous coal shortage anywhere in
the country this winter coal operators
are bending every effort to attain a
weekly output of more than 10000. OUU
tons Of soft coal from now to Dec. |,
said statement by the National Coal
association.
Officials of eight foreign countries
and SavQnfpQn SfntnS nc wall ,s ia,