, 1920-10-14
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

sion at Laramie, confirmed the ap-
pointment of Robert II. Zeigler as
county agricultural agent for Laramie
county.
For the first time, the players in
the University of Wyoming football
team wear numbers, enabling the
spectators to keep track of the men,,
the numbers being attached to the new
uniforms.
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 a pipe filter for
the Midwest Refining Company. The
body was sent to Denver for burial.
The first unqualified offer for a
Lincoln county wool clip made this
year was received by II. ID. Boomer
Mt Cokeville. 1t is thirty-two cents a
pound for the clip, which is stored at
Boston. Flockmasters are profound
ly depressed as a result of the offer
the first indication of what they
might expect to get for their clips.
At the last meeting of the Casper
MUSES. ASSotlullOH IL was utNlutu W
raise the rate of their services. The
new scale put into effect vas 81 per
day, or a minimum of $40 a week. The
| old rate was $50 a week. The asso-
citation also fixed the limit for work
at twelve hours, with four hours for
recreation and six to eight hours for
sleep.
The affection which prompted its
grandmother to hold the two-day-old
child of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Crinklaw
close to her breast proved fatal to the
infant. The grandmother was pros
trated by horror when, some time after
the little one ceased to stir, she dis
covered that it had beer suffocated.
The tragedy occurred on a farm near
Pine Bluffs.
Father Hugh Cummiskey, admins
traitor of the Cheyenne diocese of the
Catholic church and pastor of a local
church for nearly forty-two years, is
dead at Laramie, following an opera
tion that was performed for appendi-
citis. Father Cummiskey was born at
Towanda, Pa, Aug. 18th, 1854, and
wah ordained a priest at Scranto, Pa,
Nov. 22nd, 1877.
Observing Mrs. w. A. Raider at
tempting to crank a recalcitrant auto
mobile, Emil Moore of Cody CALAMITY
volunteered to perform the work for
her. The automobile, apparently re-
senting the interference, promptly
Kicked him, fracturing both bones
of his right forearm. Moore being hors
de combat, Mrs. Raider resumed the
job of cranking, whereupon the ma
chine kicked her also, fracturing her
right wrist.
The order of De Molay, a society
for youths to which only the sons of
members of the Masonic order, or the
chums of son of members of the Ma
sonic order, are eligible for member
ship, is to be introduced in Wyoming
Dec. 10, on the day following the semi
annual reunion Of Wyoming Consistory
No. l, when the Cheyenne chapter of
the Order of De Molay will be insti-
tuted under the auspices of the Lodge
of Perfection OF the Scottish Rite.
Bishop n. S. Thomas has just pub
lished an excellent Record of the Con-
ditions Of the Missionary District of
| Wyoming, From June l to December
81, 1919" The book, as its title In
dlcates, is a complete record, with
full and interesting reports of all So
cieties and associations connected with
the diocese of Wyoming. The report
is quite fully illustrated with numer-
Gus Illustrations of Episcopal churches,
.-G -l NA. .
out the state.
Alabama, South Carolina and Wyo-
ming made substantial gains in pop
ulation during the last ten years, while
Nevada, the smallest state in the
Union in point of population, became
the third state to show a decrease
Wyoming, next to the least populous
state, has n population of 194,402,
which is an increase of 4S,437 or 33.2
per cent, compared with the thir-
teenth census The state showed Its
second largest numerical growth, but
its percentage increase was the lowest.
Standing in the rear yard at the
home of Capt. ii. G. Nickerson at
Lander is n lump of stone which is
10 De USED as q reminder or an I'M
portant episode of the history Of the
REIMBURSEMENT of women Captain
Nickerson Is carving OF the stone this
inscription "Site of home and office
of Esther Morris, first woman justice
in the world and mother of woman's
suffrage The stone is to be placed
ut South Pass, Wyo., where, in 1869,
Mrs. Esther Morris served as "A jus
tice of the peace and directed the
campaign for recognition which re-
suited In the first Wyoming legisla.
ture making its first act the equal
suffrage law.
Hugh l.. Foster, forty-two, of Port
land, ore, died In n hospital at Cas-
per of internal injuries received when
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