The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-11-26
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chief to the city council. Mr.. EllithOrpe
has been chief Of police since January.
Andc;ts Soto, Mexican beet field
worker. IL In Il serious condition ut
Lowell from bullet wound in the hip.
The wounded man says he was shot
while walking along the street after
midnight and has no idea who fired
the bullet.
A report from Washington brought
the Information that Secretary Payne
Of the Department of the Interior, hau
granted application Of the COlumbine
Oil Company and the Ohio Oil Com.
rany for IL lease on the east half Of sec
ton 12-:9-79. one Of the most valuable
tracts claimed by ''indelnn,lcnts" in
the Salt Creek field.
In the first eight months Of 1920
ended August 81, Wyoming had pro
duced 11.OjO,OOO barrels Of oil, or more
than was produced in the entire calen-
dar year of 1919. The states yield by
months was as follows: Januar-. ILL.,.
March, 1.3l6OOO; April, 100000; May,
1.sGSoOO: June, 1,625OOO; July, 1885,.
900: August, 1,5o4,OOO.
With assets totalling $35. GG3 ,91547,
the most important item of which is
households valued at S24, S61 ,976,54, the
third annual report Of the Producers
\ Hefincrs corporations diSclOses Il
continuance of the expansion and prog
ress Of this company as recorded in
HE tw" preceding years Of it's history.
Surplus held in reserve at the end Of
1ile year ,otalled $J,2O7,5 1G1Y.
A new gas safety ordinance and Il
Tx ordinance We're passed at the
regular meeting Of the Casper city
council. The milk ordinance is termed
as being as good as any in the state
1t was passed and requirements made
according to the recommendations of
DIR. J. +. ODonnell, who made inspec.
lions aud tests, and those Of J. Roy
CUlvin, state dairy inspector.
Resolutions urgently requesting the
President Of the United States to place
an embargo upon 'all foreign rags,
woods and frozen meats" declared to
he the cause Of low prices and conse-
Guent losses to the stOcknen of this
country, We're adopted at meeting Mt
Casper OF the Natrona County Stock
growers Association. The resolution
sets forth that the United States is
heing "innhe the dumping grounds for
large quantities of foreign rags, woods
and frozen meats
rS n..0 -
lis has been notified that she will
shortly receive $1,000 from the War
Risk Insurance Bureau. and $l7. 80 per
month thereafter Mrs. Houston was the
fostcrmother Of Daniel l.. Lallie and
named as the beneficiary in his war risk
insurance policy. AS the government
regulations prevented the payment Of
insurance to any hut blood relatives,
AIRS. Houston'S claim was denied. Be-
fore she could be- paid it was necps-
sary to secure special legislation by
Congress.
Trial by telephone on IL charge Of
hunting within the boundaries OF Vel
lowstone Park resulted in the pay
ment by &. 4. Paterson, an empluye
ut Pasi,aka tourist lodge. of II fine Of
S1Oh!h, and in payment by Clay Tyler.
Cody grocer, and John Stillwell Of
Texas. OF fines Of $2277l. The defend
ants. whose defense was that they
were not aware tl.st they had crossed
int" the park, accepted the Judgment
and paid the fines in order to avoid a
trip OF several hundred miles around
from the east entrance of the park to
headquarters ut Mammoth, where n
formal hearing would have been held
had they insisted ON entering pleas of
not guilty.
The jury in the case of the State VS..
Mrs. Georgia Brenning returned, Il YER
diet of mot guilty." Mrs. Brennin.
was charged with felonious assault in
connection with the killing of james
clark. wealthy ranchman of Douglas,
last summer
The body Of John 4. Woodward. air
mail pilot. has been found in the wreck
age OF bis plane at Tie Siding, forty
miles west Of Cheyenne ana fifteen
miles southeast Of Laramie, Wyo. A
snowst"rrn was in progress throughout
the section. 1t was believed Wood
ward fell while attempting to make a
landing. The discovery of Woodward's
body and his wrecked plane was the
result OF thirty-hour search on the
part OF peace officers, railroad section
hands and groups of citizens who had
been securing the country between
Cheyenne and Laramie, following
W"odvard's failure to arrive in Chey.
enne on schedule time. WCodwar,l's
body. strapped in the seat of his
wrecked machine, was found in small
pocket Of rock. 1t was found by a
searching party from Laramie, after
other parties had passed within 100
feet Of the scene.
The first annual convention of the