, 1921-12-15
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

dead in his bed recently. He had suf-
fered a severe Illness a few weeks be-
fore, but was believed to be nearly re-
covered.
Gus Ephner, 33 years of age, a WyO-
ming miner, was blinded and danger
ously injured, and two other miners
severely injured in IN explosion at Nc
Grath, Wyo. The men were taken to a
hospital at Ogden, Utah.
The Colorado, Wyoming & Eastern
CHAINS Peak") railroad went into
the hands of a receiver when, upon ap-
p~lIcation of the bondholders, Federal
Judge II. Blake Kennedy appointed
Fred B. Miller of Laramie receiver.
Resto Yelick, a M~ontenegran, SEN
fenced to serve a term of from thirty
TO forty years in h p~enitentiary for
murder, died at Rawlins as the result
Of drinking some d~isinfectant that was
supposed to be used in the cells. This
man had been sen up from Sweetwa-
ter county.
Night schools are to be opened at
Casper under the direction of James
r. Coxen, state director of vocational
education, according to plans outlined
at a preliminary conference. The
courses to be offered will include
Americanization, Industrial studies
and home economics.
William Rebbalt, convicted at Lusk
on a charge of rape, on a change of
venue from Goshen county, Wyo., has
been denied a new trial and instead
will serve from three to five years in
the state penitentiary at Rawlins. sem
tence was pronounced by Judge Lewis
Tidball of Laramie, before whom the
case was tried.
New construction work started in
Casper during November, exclusive Of
refinery operations, totalled $21S, 400,
or a little less than twice the total of
permits issued by the city engineer
during October. November of this year
also exceeded November of a year ago
by 100000 IND set a new high record
for early winter months.
With work on the hydro-electric
power plant at the big Shoshone dam
above Powell progressing satisfactorily
the reclamation service has started
stringing wire for the transmission
line that will run through the valley,
and yer five miles of this work has
been completed. Three hundred and
thirty poles of the 100 that will be
used in erecting the line from %Shoshone
to Beaver. a distance of fifty miles,
are now in place and prospects are
that the job will be completed before
Feb. 1.
Waldo Olson. manager Of the r. G.
Ord ranch, sixteen miles south of
Lusk, is suffering from a bullet wound
In the abdomen caused by the acct
dental discharge of a .45-caliber re-
volver In the hands of Dutch Meyers.
The accident happened at the ranch
house when Meyers took the pistol from
a shelf Inc pulled back the hammer
to see II 1t was loaded. The hammer
slipped from his finger and the bullet
ricocheted off a fork lying on the ia
BILE, to strike Olson, who was standing
in the doorway.
Assessment of fines amounting to
$3.50 for violation of city ordinances
at Casper, made up for the reduction
In the number of offenders during the
month of November as shown by the
report of Chief of Police Sheffner.
While nearly 400 arrests were made
during the previous month, only 220
were recorded during November and
these paid $4,614 into the city treasury
on arraignment in Police Court. Sixty
arrests were made for Bookkeeping and
violation of the prohibition laws, and
twenty-one traffic violators were
fined.
Beginning Dec. 1, Laramie was al
lowed an additional letter carrier, max
ing five on the force, and Postmaster
Beltz Is now mapping the districts to
be assigned to each. There will be
three deliveries In the business dis
trict instead of two, and the resIden-
tinl section will get two instead OF one.
Earnest Baker, 10. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. q. A. Baker, Is in the state hos
pital In Sheridan with his throat
slashed from ear to ear as n result OF
injuries sustained while coastIng on n
sled down Hospital Hill. The boy col
lided with other boys and the inner
OF his sled slashed his throat. Forty
stitches were taken by physicians in
treating him.
Tax liens against real and personal
property held by forty-three i%ndlvIdu-
ais and firms at Sheridan and valued
at $103,9l9.06 have been levied by the
federal government to enforce, II is
announced, the collection Of liquor IL
cense fees from persons alleged to
have been engaged In the moonshlne or
Bookkeeping business. The attempt to
collect license fees is in addition to
fines which have been levied against
those who have been convicted in
court.
johnson county's assessed valuation
has been increased $469,O44 by the ad-
dition Of 2G2 new ~homesteads 10 the