, 1921-03-24
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

Nlcioison, II former IN of the
Casper police force.
Back royalties due the state of Wyo-
ming on July /, from oil land leases
on government lands in that state, will
amount to more than 81, 100000.
A verdict of not guilty was returned
by the jury in Casper which tried Mrs.
Jessie Alderman, accused Of the muir
der of Adelbert Hoffay last October.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nations of ]. fsa Kirby of Sheridan as
receiver of he Buffalo land office and
Irving w. Wright of Thermopolis as
register of the Lander land office.
Damages of one cent In
for indignation was awarded ex-Coro-
ner w. b. Longwith as the result of
his suit against County Coroner Harry
Pepper, which has Just been completed
in the District Court at Wheatland.
Formal announcement has been
given out by Acting Governor Chaplin
of the granting of the county and
prosecuting attorneys request that a
reward of $3.50 be offered for the cap
ture of the murderers Of the taxi
driver, Louis Failer. who was killed on
he Fort Collins road at Fiye-Nile
Draw, March 5.
Much damage was don't to ranch
property near Baggs. including fences,
bridges, headgates and meadows, and
to stacked hay ON the meadows, when
the dam on Undertake creek, erected
last year, collapsed, permitting an
eight-foot flood of water to pour down
Undertake and Four Mile creeks 70
the Snake river.
Superintendent o. n. Baldwin of the
federal fish hatchery at Saratoga has
been notified that the sundry civil ap-
preparations act recently passed by the
Congress contains an item of $4,000
for improvements at the hatchery in
Saratoga and thu s~ub-station on Sage
creek. The money will be expended
during the coming summer.
A. J. Cunningham, millionaire bank
er of Casper, is under police protec-
ton following the receipt Of q letter
demanding that $4,000 be placed at a
designated spot The letter, 1t is said,
threatened the life Of both Cunning
ham and his wife unless the money
was forthcoming Neither Cunning
ham nor the police would discuss the
matter.
Two hundred carpenters, painters,
plumbers and electricians went on
strike in Cheyenne, and as a result all
building operations have stopped The
building crafts have refused to con-
tinue negotiations with the new build
ers' and contractors association on
the ground that the association
planned to pack the jury which was
to arbitrate wage differences.
The old COW country adage that q
s~heepherder has no business on the
back of a bucking broncho was tragi-
cally vindicated Mt the Willard Ripley
ranch, nea Hulett, when Raymond
Recard of Powell, s. D., Il s~heepherder,
undertook to ride an outlaw broncho
by the horse, sustained u broken neck
and died seventeen hours later.
Archie Huntington Saki. a Japanese,
On trial In the District Court Mt Raw
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Dependency is supposed to have
led to the suicide of Mrs. Florence v.
Amos, a telegraph operator for the
nu,nhs.on railronn at hirby' VINO shot
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Driving along a dangerous road af-
ter the lights ON their car had failed,
a party consisting of John Dametti.