, 1920-12-23
Brief News Notes
From An Parts of
Wyoming

Nesteth NeWbpaper Union News Service.
Residents of the Walker Creek dis.
trlct are now being served from Doug
las by a private mail route twice eacs
week.
Burglars entered the ~postoffice Il,
Dletz, Wyo., II coa mining camp IN
Sheridan county, II opened all first.
class mail in the office.
Dispatches from San Diego related
hat John Murphy of Cheyenne shot
and seriously wounded Mrs. Mary Cd
um, also of Cheyenne, there, and then
gave himself up TO the police.
Clarence Melody and his son, VIII
liam Melody met their deaths in an ac-
cident at the Slavery coal mines, near
Baggs, when they we're struck by n
fall of coal as they were going down
to their work.
Upon the recommendation of Con
gresham Frank w. Mondell, the post
office at Hammond will not be discon-
tinued. 1t is understood that a sulta-
Bile candidate for the postmastership
at that office has made application for
the position.
Figures given out by the United
States geological survey covering pro-
duction of crude oil for August, Sep
TENDER and October, 1920, show Wyo-
ming in firm position as the sixth state
In amour of production and steadily
creeping up on its next nearest com
petitor, Louisiana.
The minstrel show presented at
Douglas under the auspices of the
Woodmen of the World was n success
financially, resulting in a net profit to
the lodge of about 500. The cast was
selected from local talent and includ-
ed about thirty people. The show was
also presented at the Empress theater
in Glenrock.
E. V. Salisbury of Shawnee stated In
Douglas h a one of the large oil com-
panies had already completed Its bank
and cook houses on his ranch, prepar-
atory to commencing drilling opera
lions early in the spring. Material
for h rig is already on the ground
and work on the structure will be
started soon.
Following an investigation which
disclosed, 1t is alleged, that the records
and cash of the Casper postofflce did
not balance by ut least $1,000, Post
master w. w. Sproul and Assistant
Postmaster Charles Parker were re-
moved by postofflce inspectors. In
spector Frank Frawley has taken
charge of the office.
The first doubling of the Cheyenne
Salt Lake City section of the air mail
route In N day has been accom-
plished by Pilot james +. Moore.
Moore's flying time was eight hours
thlrty-two minutes, of which the trip
to Salt Lake City consumed five hours
tw~enty-eight minutes and the return
to Cheyenne three hours four minutes.
Maintaining until the end that he
had never seen Frank Jennings, the
man he is alleged to have killed, and
that he is being railroaded TO the peni-
Tertiary, Walter Newell, former Den
yer barber and later third member of
the Cordlllo bootleg squad in wyo-
ming, was sentenced by District Judge
MentZer to serve from fifteen to TWEEN
ty years Mt Rawllns.
w never did anything like this be-
fore" pleaded o. r. Pierce, confessed
automobile thief, when he and Albert
Biscaro, who also pleaded guilty, stood
before Judge w. G. Mentzer of the
District Court to receive sentence.
"You'l not do 1t again-for a long
time" responded Judge Mentzer, who
sentenced the pair TO serve from eight
to ten years In the penitentiary.
The gas situation ut Sheridan has
now clarified Itself and there is no
danger or need of immediate worry
as to the closing down of the local
plant. and the prospects are better
that 1t may be continued by the pres
ent management.
Mrs. William A. Shultz, formerly OF
Denver and now of Casper, wyo., Is
held In Cheyenne without bail, charged
with murder In connection with the
deaths Mt the Cheyenne private hos
pital, on Nov. 10, of week-old daugh-
ters of Mr.. and Mrs. John Zoranovich
n Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley J. Law. She
was taken into custody at Dalton,
Heb.. and returned TO Wyoming with
out the formality OF e~xtradltlon.
%InJunctions obtained by the Mid
land Carbon company and the Occl-
dental OIL and Gas Company restrain
Ing Wyoming authorities from lmpos-
Ing heavy penalties under an act
passed In 1919 relating to conservation
or natural gas were dissolved by the
Supreme Court. The complainant com
panles alleged the act WINS directed Mt
them alone and was 30 drawn M to
make 1t impossible for them to op-
crate.
In spite of the rejection of n mum.