, 1920-04-22
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Lusk, Wyo., was selected as the meet
ing place for the 1921 convention of
the Wyoming Stock Growers Associa-
ton just before the adjournment of its
twenty-fourth annual meeting at Chey-
enne, and ]. C. Underwood of Under
wood, WyO., was elected president for
the coming year.
Judge Melville c.. Brown, justice of
the peace and police judge of Laramie,
who was the first mayor of Laramie,
in 1868, and who is the oldest member
of the Albany County Bar Association,
has been granted leave of absence for
a month or two, on account of ILL
health, and will take a much-needed
rest.
The Burlington railroad is made de-
PENDANT in a damage suit for $4,000,
Instituted in the District Court of Big
Horn county for the death of her hus-
band, Ross NJ. Sullivan, d freight con-
ductor in the employ of the railroad,
who succumbed to injuries from burns,
gas and smoke, suffered in fighting
flames which broke out in a string of
forty box cars near Neiber.
Judge Ralph Kimban in an opinion
at Casper decided that the will of Lii
lie Iba, who died in 1918, was good
and that the signature not a forgery,
as had been claimed by the plaintiff,
Mona S. Iba of Salt Lake City, Utah.
The case involved some $4,000 worth
of valuable Oil lands in the Salt Greek
oil field, known as the Iba eighty.
Three Cheyenne boys were found in
a snow drift near Speer station, nine
miles southwest of Cheyenne. Two
were unconscious when found and the
other was weak from exposure. The
youngsters left Cheyenne on their BIZ
cycles in quest of trout over the pro-
tests of their parents, and were caught
in the recent blizzard that swept that
country.
Two persons were seriously injured,
one probably fatally, and a dozen 9TH
ers received minor injuries at Casper
when a gasoline tank on top of a
street pop corn stand exploded. The
explosion occurred at a time when u
large number of persons were in the
street. Windows in many adjoining
buildings were broken by the force of
the explosion.
Following an address by L. E. Eppich
of Denver, who spoke before the real
estate board of the Chamber of Com
merce at Casper, the latter voted to re-
tain q city planning expert who will
be consulted in all schemes for the
Identification of the city, the laying
mi Of porRS and nnrnvananfC anh
''zoning" measures designed to control
the growth of the city's industrial, bus
mess and residence sections to the best
advantage.
The Burlington Railroad Company
has been sued for $4,000 in the Dis
trict Court at .Greybull by Mrs. Ross NJ.
Sullivan, whose husband was killed
while working as a freight conductor
on the railroad. 1t was during a bat
tie against flames which broke out In
a string of forty boxcars near Neiber,
Wyo., that Sullivan lost his life. In
juries from burns, gas and smoke
caused his death.
Following his announced policy of
giving the fullest publicity to the af-
fairs of the state land office In order
that the people of Wyoming may be
awakened to the value of their land
grants and their income possibilities,
Land Commissioner Baker gave out Zig
ures for February, 1920, showing that
the receipts in his office for that
month from oil royalties alone in
creased the permanent land Investment
funds of the state, the income from
which only can be used, to the extent
of $135, 956.SS.
Erection Of a $4,000 Y. w. C. A.
building at Casper, in which the Bust
ness Women's Club, as well as other
branches of the "Y" organization, will
have headquarters, is assured with the
negotiation of a ninety-nine-year lease
on a site owned by Natrona county.
The nominal rent of 81 a year will be
charged for this property, which is
valued at about $4,000.
The beginning of operations at the
$4,000 plant of the Lorimer Minerals
Company, which Is now working the
uranium mines at Lusk, has paved the
way for the location of a sanitarfum
there that will utilize the product of
the mines In treating cancer and other
Affections cured by radium. The
project is already partially financed
and a site has been selected.
A gasoline still house at the Midwest
refinery at Greybull was blown to
pieces, with a loss of $4,000, and two
men were injured by an explosion re-
sulting from gas ignition. Sam Has
lett, who was ascending the iron
stairs outside the building. and William
Kunkle, who was inside the structure,
narrowly escaped death. Altho severe
iy burned they will recover from their
Injuries.