, 1921-01-06
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union News Service,

Two masked men held up N robbed
a freight train at n point between Lar
annie and Cheyenne. The train was
in charge of Conductor John O'Don-
nell.
Mrs. Anna Marie Davis, 60, is lead
from injuries sustained when she fell
from the roof of a low shed at her
ranch home near Worland. She had
gone upon the roof to repair a leak.
Mrs. Anna Marie Davis, 60 years old,
is dead from injuries sustained when
she fell from the roof of a small shed
at her farm home neal Worland. She
had one upon the roof to repair q
leak.
Governor Carey has requested the
Wyoming Public Service Commission
to investigate the prices charged Wyo-
ming for coal, the action re-
sulting from resolutions recently
passed by civic organizations.
Mrs. Mabel Louise Anderson Mac
donald, formerly connected with the
English department of the University
of Wyoming, has beer appointed as
sistant professor of English at the
University of Kansas.
Surrounded by the ashes of Christ
mas gifts he had received from
friends, the charred body of Joshua
Thompson, 20 ear old and Il pioneer
of Rock Springs, was found in the
ruins of his cabin home, which was de-
stroyed by fire. The origin of the fire
is not known. Thompson had no rela-
tives.
District Judge Ralph Kimball of Cas-
per has been appointed by Gov. Rob-
ert Carey as associate justice of the
Wyoming Supreme Court, succeeding
the late Chief Justice Cyrus Beard.
who died recently. Judge Kimball,
who is 40 years old, is the youngest
man ever appointed to the Supreme
Court bench of the state. He will take
rffice Jan. A.. His successor on the
bench of the Sixth district will be ap-
pointed by Governor Carey.
There were ~ninety-nine forest fires
in the Medicine Bow national forest
for the year 1920, the presence of snow
acting as n preventive from my addi-
tional fires this winter. The report of
the supervisor for the year shows that
one of the fires was started from care
lessness on the part of campers In not
putting their fire out properly, one was
caused by lightning and ninety-seven
were caused from sparks from engines,
the Colorado, Wyoming & Eastern road
passing through the forest in going
from Laramie city to Walden, Colo.
The estimated acreage of winter
wheat in Wyoming is placed at 10000
acres, 1000 less han last year, and the
condition of the crop is S5 per cent of
normal, compared with 96 per cent last
year, according to n report compiled
by the Department of Agriculture.
Twenty-seven thousand four hundred
acres have been sown to rye, it is also
shown, and the condition of the crop
Is estimated at SO per cent of normal,
compared with 10000 acres harvested
IN 1920. Which at this time last year
showed % per cent.
The Laramie council of industry,
composed of the business and profess
slonal men of the city, has undertaken
a discussion of two bills which are to
be introduced at the coming session of
the State Legislature, and ut a meet
ing of the executive committee, with
one legislator and the county commits
sioners present, talked of the bill to
consolidate the State Board Of Sheep
Commissioners, the State Board of
Livestock Commissioners and the state
veterinarian, to increase the efficiency
of h state work along he lines of
the two boards and to effect Il consid-
cradle saving In the expense of the
state in the administration Of the three
departments.
The men in charge of the so-called
"shove down" In the hills above Snake
river, near Baggs and Dixon. are ex-
perienclng some difficulty In getting
the cattle showed down from the hills
on account Of the warm weather, the
cattle showing n disposition to turn
bnck at every opportunity for the good
grazing. The cattle are being taken to
the winter ranges in the valley.
Clarence A. Barnard, county com
p's,.oner, and his wife of Globe. wyo.,
wore killed when the motor car they
were driving home from Thermopolis,
after attending II theater, went over an
-embankment near Thermopolis, and
fell fifty feet on to the Burlington
railroad tracks. Ranchers removed
Mrs. Barnard's body, but Barnard was
pinned underneath the machine.
zee Geow will not attempt to take
his Owl life 10y hanging In the Lara
nile county jail nc more. The double
murderer, who thrice attempted to
take his own life by hanging, was talk
en- to the state penitentlary Mt Raw
Inns, where he has been sentenced to
hang March IL. Geow. who is very
weak from self-inflicted punishment,
offered no resistance on the trip to the
station.
To be attacked by n vicious cat