The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-12-10
WYOMING
STATE. NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

~ C"NISN IeSuIteu LII Tie capture "
Kemmerer of Joe O'Brien, wanted in
two eastern states for the alleged muir
der Of two men.
What is said TO have been the first
instance OF an Indian receiving citizen
ship papers took place in the District
Court ut Lander. Under the federal
law, IN Indian is as much an alien as
though born on foreign shore. Until
recently there was no provision by
which he could become citizen.
Roy Freel was convicted Of man.
slaughter Ivy a jury at Newcastle and
his brother, Earl Freel, was acquitted.
Both were on trial for the staying of
Fred Walker IN Osage oil field last
June. Charges We're also lodged against
Walter Simms hut he escaped from the
county Jail a short time agO.
Plans for million dollar housing
project for the benefit Of its Casper
employees WIS announced today by the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana,
which operates refineries at Casper,
Ereybull, Laramie and Florence, Colo.
Two hundred modern five-room houses
are to be built the first Of the year
"n forty acres of tract southwest of
Casper and the homes will be sold to
employees ut cost.
Peter Bodice pleaded guilty to the
rnarge OF felonious assault in connec-
ton with the attempt to hold up II par
ty carrying the pay roll Of the Poposia
Coal Company from Lander to the
mines. Barnoff Galinslzi and Eli Svilar,
charged with aiding in the same Of
Tense, pleaded not guilty and will stand
trial in the District Court. One man
was seriously wounded III the attack
upon the pay roll party.
l.. l.. Newton Of Cody again heads
the Wyoming State Good Roads Assu-
citation. He was reelected ut the an
nual meeting of that body. Ezra l.. En-
cry Of Cheyenne succeeds himself as
secretary. and in addition will have the
duties OF treasurer. Nels Pearson Of
Sheridan is again vice president; Os-
car Nicholson of Riverton leaves the
treasurership to become second vice
president. Under the associations con-
stitution the next meeting will be held
in Cheyenne in November, 1921.
United States Department of Agri-
culture ut Douglas gives following crop
report for Wyoming: Weather condi-
tons during September and October
were very favorable for maturing corn,
harvesting crops and all farm work
generally. The average yield per acre
OF corn this year is ~ bushels. COM
pared with 1G bushels last year and %
bushels for the year 1918. Preliminary
production for this year of 100000
bushels. compared with S32, 900 BUSH
els last year and 100000 bushels for
the year 1918. The quality of this
years crop is 81 per cent Of normal.
Approximately "a per cent of the total
acreage will be cut for fodder and
silage. The stocks remaining on the
farms are estimated at per cent COM
pared with 3 per cent last year. The
following gives the yield per acre and
production Of several minor crops, to-
wit: Flaxseed, average yield per acre.
81 bushels, compared with 6 bushels
last year. Quality, % per cent Of nor
mai. Apples, average per cent OF total
production 60. compared with 100 per
cent last year Quality. 80 per cent,
compared with ~ per cent last year.
ClOverseed, average yield per acre, 4.5
bushels, compared with 3 bushels last
year. Acreage harvested. ~ per cent.
Field peas. per cent Of normal yield of
grain 81 per cent. Per cent Of normal
yield for age 81 per cent. Sugar beets,
condition is 100 per cent, compared
with G. per cent last year. Preliminary
production for Wyoming this year is
nearly $4,000 tons.
Yee Geow, Chinese. held in Chey-
enne Oh charge of having
murdered two federal officers, aft
er having been on hunger
strike for six days, changed his mind
and called for food. He was furnished
a hearty meal but still was not salts
fled and wanted more.
Sugar beet acreage all over Wyoming
il On the increase. Representatives
Of the sugar company are already TAX
ing the field to contract Il still greater
acreage for the 1921 season. Ii Is au-
stated that If Il sufficient
acreage can he contracted along the
Platte between Wheatland and Tor
rsngton that Il sugar factory and refin-
cry is practically certainty for one
town or the other during next fall.
Wealth came into Wyoming when
the Great Western Sugar Company
paid farmers Of the Platte valley and
the district of Wyoming which is irri-
gated by the Tri-State canal for their
1920 sugar beet crop. An official of !
that company declared that the total
paid to farmers Of the Torring.
ton district would be between $1,000
QUO and $1.MN.OO. gratifying in
crease over the 1919 figure. which was
n little more than $35OO,OOO.
In the first eight months OF 1920,