, 1921-09-15
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union News Service,

ms litlAS VI lHt Slhlt. Inc lever
bench between Big Piney in Marbleton
gives 1,S00 feet of ground which have
been fenced and leveled.
Adolf Pfunder and Herman ]. Ku-
sci, charged with the attempted rob
berry of the Chugwater, Wyo., bank,
were arraigned at Wheatland, pleaded
not guilty and were remanded to jail
In lieu of S25, 900 bonds.
Alfred II. Walker, Jointly charged
with Walter Moss with the murder of
Louis Tailor, a taxicab driver, last
spring, was found guilty of murder In
he first degree by IL jury mt Chey-
enne. The penalty is hanging.
On his plea of self-defense, Horace
f. Adams, aged postmaster and her
nit of Hecla, Wyo., was acquitted by
"A District Court jury at Cheyenne of
the charge of numbering Frank Brown,
young rancher, ut The formers home
last June.
A race track is TO be built on the
banks of the Powder river, about thir-
ty-five miles north of Gillette, by he
Luton brothers. This firm expects to
put in some cOrrals and chutes for the
purpose of having bucking and riding
contests.
y. j. Hardenorff, field manager for
an oil company operating in the Boil
ton Creek field. south of Casper. was
located and dragged from n pool of
oil just in time TO save his life. after
he had been knocked unconscious by
missiles hurled from ii well which he
had just uncapped.
Building permit for the construc-
ton of the new Moose home and of
flee building to be erected on the
northeast corner of Wolcott and A
streets, at Casper, has been issued by
the city engineers office. The permit
calls for the construction Of a $780,
0 structure and work is to start at
once.
The dates for the state convention
of the women's clubs which is to be
held in Greybull have been %nnounced
for Oct. 4 to Z. This is expected TO he
the largest gathering of representatives
of women's clubs ever held in the state
and several workers of national repu-
tatlon are expected TO be there and de
liver addresses.
Sale of 755.OOO railroad ties by the
United States forest service to a Wyo-
ming tie and timber company financed
by Denver men, is said To be the larg-
est deal of It's kind ever consummated
in the Rocky Mountain region. The
ties will be driven down the Wind riv-
er from the Wasbakie national forest
to Riverton. Wyo., a distance of about
1876 miles.
Mrs. O. G.. Miller was painfully
wounded at Sheridan by the accident
nj discharge of a revolver in the hands
OF her 6-year-old son. The child had
been playing in the house, found a re-
volver and carried 1t to his mother.
As he approached her the revolver was
discharged, the bullet entering Mrs.
Miller's hand, passing through the
fleshy part of the hnnd and striking
her face mt he cheek bone. glancing
up under the skin. stopping just above
the temple. She will recover
County Assessor W. A. Comfy has
completed the assessment Of the prop-
erty in bany county for taxation pur-
poses, and finds hat 1t will amount to
S20,595 COS, II slight decrease from
1920. due to the cutting of the valua-
ton Of the sheep and certain kinds OF
land by the State Board Of Equallza-
tiOn. The assessor found SOB. us Of
property exempted from taxes as be-
longing to veterans of the several wars
in which the United States has been
engaged.
Alvaron Snlcido was convicted by n
jury of murder in the second degree
at Cheyenne for the Staying of Joe
Gomez, whom he shot to death when
Gomez objected to his attentions to
Mrs. Gomez. Snlcido was captured six
weeks after the crime, after he had
tnken refuge on M island in the Platte
river, near Scottsbluff, Neb.
Mornings twenty-one counties will
not be reimbursed by the state for the
taxation exemptions allowed their war
veterans under the provisions OF an
act passed by the 1921 Legislature
not unless somebody brings suit in the
Stnte Supreme Court to compel such
payments and wins out before that
tribunal. w. l.. Walls. state attorney
general, has handed to Governor
Carey a written opinion advising the
chief executive that that portion Of the
law which provides that the state
treasurer shall reimburse ench of such
counties to the actual umount of the
county tax on such property exempt.
ed, less poll taxes so exempted by
such counties" is In contravention of
and In direct opposition to the state
constitutional provisions prohibiting
donations by the state to any lndivid
uals, institutions or corporations no
under the direct control Of the state.
William l.. Barker. official forest
service road logger for the second dis.
trict, with headquarters at Denver,
has Just completed the logging OF the