, 1921-02-17
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union News Service,

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oil, have announced a reduction of 25
cents a barrel on all grades.
Amang the measures offered in the
House was one by the entire Sheridan
county delegation recommending the
submission to the electors of the state
at the next general election the ques-
ton of calling a constitutional conven-
ton.
Approval of the Cheyenne Lions
Club bill allowing Wyoming cities to
adopt h city manager form of gov
eminent, the nine councilmen to serve
without pay, "a given by the House
without debate and almost without dis
cussion.
Fire Of unknown origin destroyed
the blacksmith and machine shops of
the Ohio Oil Company at Parkerton, in
the Big Muddy oil field. Officials es-
innate the loss at 100000. Company
officials said the buildings would be
rebuilt at once.
Another bill would provide for the
passage of a bank guarantee law in
Wyoming and the creation of a depos-
AioAc Sudi luDu Sllh aIOtiltI
would permit the erection of a new
building Mt the Industrial Institute at
Worland In order to relieve the crowd
ed conditions now existing at the peni-
Tertiary at Rawlins.
Dairy men and the veterinarians
now at work in the Star valley esti-
mate on tests already made that there
will hn mora than sDln hao1 Of oatfIa
diseased with tuberculosis found as a
result of the testing of about 5000
head of dairy stock near Alton. Out
of $50 cattle tested thirty-four have
been pronounced diseased.
A special train, through the courtesy
of General Manager w. NJ. LETTERS of
the Union Pacific, was run from Lar
annie to Cheyenne with the entire stu
lent body of the University of WyO-
ming, for the purpose of greeting the
Sixteenth State Legislature and ex-
pressing appreciation for the friendly
interest displayed in the university.
The Paul II. Moore Realty Company
has awarded to the p. H. Grounds Con-
%struction Company of Cheyenne the
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new houses, to cost from $500 up, on
lands owned by the Moore Company
near the Standard and Midwest re-
fineries at Laramie. The Laramie
Realty Company is having plans
drawn for a number of more preten-
-tious houses, in other sections of the
city.
Ru virtrtn nf GAnnfn hfII Affnra1
Wyoming would get a new judicial
district and hence Il new district judge.
The Eighth would be made up of Mo-
brara and Converse counties; Mo-
brara is now n part of the First, pre-
sided owe by William G. Mentzer of
Cheyenne, and Converse is a part of
the Sixth. of which C. o. Brown of
Douglas is the judge. Mr.. Brown
would be in line for the new position,
lnasmuch as he already has charge of
n section OF 1t.
Unexpectedly taking up the state
budget bill after it had lain dormant
on the general file for eight days fol-
lowing a revolt by members of the Re-
publican majority against the magni-
tude of the proposed appropriations,
during which interval efforts had been
made to adjust Republican differences
in private, the House of the Wyoming
Legislature reduced the bills total APP
preparations from approximately So
100000 to Approximately $500, 900,
cutting a total of $435, 900 from the APP
preparations listed in the original bill.
Bitter debate, In which the lone Dem
ocratlc member made himself heard,
accompanied the pruning process.
SO great has been the offering of
ranch eggs on the Sheridan market
that farmers who bring produce to
town were unable TO dispose of them
the other day. The Commercial Club
made a special appeal to housewives to
buy them. Wholesale prices dropped
to 30 cents, and retail prices TO 80
cents, the lowest point since last sum
mer.
That the town of Nefsy, wyo., win
have another railroad In the near flu
ture is now practically assured, ac-
cording to reports from Rapid City,
where an enthusiastic meeting was
held recently by capitalists for the
purpose of setting In motion the ma
chinery which had for Its purpose the
building OF the Milwaukee railroad
from that city to Nefsy.
One Of the largest liquor raid cam
palgns In the history of Wyoming has
just been finished. according to Fed
eral Agent NJ. @. Wachtel of Denver.
The raids were directed from more
than a dozen Wyoming towns and
cities, including Rock Springs. Sheri-
dan, Hartyille, Evanston. Glenrock.
Lusk, Basin and Lymon. federal agents
say.
Wyomlng's prohibition law would be
repealed, and a new one, conforming
as closely as possible to the volstead
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