, 1921-03-10
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union New, Service,

80 A,t bliAi'G II hlluNs Mis- IDlllu
over to the District Court without bond
following his preliminary hearing in
Justice of Peace Court at Thermopolis.
He is charged with murder in the first
degree.
Mayor c. H. Poole of Rock River
has rendered his resignation, alleging
as the cause that he is leaving that
place soon. His time would have ex-
pired In May, until which time A.. ].
Denny, the president of the council,
Will act as mayor.
William Blaney. 40 years of age. an
engineer at the municipal light plant
at Glenrock was instantly killed when
he stumbled and fell into the flywheel
of II of the engines. Irby Lam, the
engineer who was going on shift to
relieve Blaney, witnessed the accident.
The first fatality to come to the
Powell community as a result of the
many cases of scarlet fever that have
prevailed here during the winter was
the death of Iva Barr after n four
weeks illness. She was the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. j.. NJ. Barr and had
lived at Powell for h past six years.
The new county of Sublette, created
by act of the Legislature has been
added to the Second judicial district.
consisting of the counties of Albany
and Carbon, with Judge V. j. Tidball
as the judge. The statute provides but
one term n year shall be held in the
new county, the date for holding that
term to be left to the judge.
A wish to make his chickens more
comfortable in the frigid weather of
winter prompted Chester l.. Nelson of
Gillette to put n pan of hot ashes in
his chicken coop. The ashes set fire
to the building, which in turn set fire
to the stable. Two cows, one yearllng,
fifty-five chickens, twenty-four ducks
and eight geese were burned to death.
Miss Elsa Friebel, who resigned her
position as a clerk in the offices of the
university two ear ago to become u
teacher at st. Michael's Indian school
at Ethete, near Lander, has beer elect
ed private secretary to the Rt. Rev. G.
Frank Mosher, Episcopal bishop of the
Philippines. and will accept, going to
h islands within n month or two.
Casper and Sheridan will get the
branch state hospitals situated in
those cities, but not until the end of
the present year. There has been some
misrepresentation over the terms of the
bills passed by the recent Legislature,
providing that the State Board of
Charities and Reform be authorized to
dispose of the Institutions after De-
cember 81, 1921.
Informations filed against Winfred
Koenig n william Sherman, charged
with taking $4,000 worth Of jewels
from the Smith drug store at Lingle
several months ago, were quashed
when the case came up for trial in the
Goshen County Court and n continu-
ance until June 20 was granted in each
case for the prosecution to correct
technical errors which entered into the
complaints.
Rev. L. f. Carter, pastor of the
Methodist church of Laramie to teach
the principles of stewardship and
tithing, gave each Of four boys in the
Sunday school % cents, requesting
them to trade with the money for two
weeks, n then report their gain. The
four boys, Oscar Blair, Roger Deland,
Joe Carter ana Willard Hansen, have
reported, the earnings amounting to
$3.50, o%ne-tenth, or S1.99 being turned
into the missionary fund of the Sun
day school. The boys bought and sold
newspapers, popcorn, apples, candy
and the like. The 25-cent pieces we're
returned to the pastor, they having
been only temporary loans, as business
kcapital.
The old story of the "unloaded" gun
was re-enacted at Lowell, Wyo., when
Essie Rich, 10, was hot and killed by
her Syear-old brother. Orville, who
was playing with a target rifle, sup
posedly broken N unloaded. The girl
walked to the home of her sister a
short distance away after she had been
shot, but died a few minutes later.
DR.. George G. Rafter, 81 years old,
known throughout the West for nearly
half a century as rector. and later as
rector emeritus, of st. Marks EpIsco-
pal church of Cheyenne, il lead at
Cheyenne. DR.. Rafter was an uncle OF
Miss Adele Rafter, well known opera
singer and actress. For the past thlr-
ty years DIR. Rafter was chaplain of
the Wyoming Senate
County Treasurer FcatherstOne has
received from State Auditor Jefferis a
stnte warrant for S7,O5O.S9, Albany
county's share of the forest reserve
fund for 1920, about $1,000 more thar
for the year 1919. This sum will be
apportioned by the county commits
sioners to the rond and bridge fund
and the common school fund, In the
proportion OF about ga per cent to
roads md bridges and 8 per cent to
che schools.
Clarence. Scharen. tweive-year-old
son of Il. f. Scharen, remained uncon-
scious nearly t~wenty-four hours as a
result of falling from a horse he was