, 1921-06-30
Brief News Notes
From Part of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union News serrice.)
COMING EVENTS.

The Big Piney rodeo was held June
., "a and % and a full Wild West pro-
gram was carried out.
Work has begun on the state high
way between Pinedale and Eden, with
District Engineer Goyne Drummond in
charge. 1t is the plans of the state to
rush the work and complete the road
this year.
The board of county commissioners
has authorized al advertisement for
the sale of $4,000 On July 8 of the
road bonds voted in Albany county on
May 10, to be used in making some
permanent roads in the county. The
authorization was for 100000, but the
bonds Will be issued as the money is
needed. This bond issue is expected
to reduce the tax levy for road pur-
poses his fall.
\ %coroner's jury called to investigate
The death of Frank Charles Brown,
ranch hand, who was shot to death by
Horace Il. Adams, president of the
Eagle Mining Company. at Hecla,
Wyoming, returned a verdict that Adj
ans had II criminal agency in the
tragedy. Adams, therefore. probably
Will be charged with murder in the
first degree. He asserts he shot Brown
in self-defense.
Hundreds of members of the Span
ish-American War Veterans of Colora-
do n Wyoming are red-marking their
calendars for July 80 with intention
of spending those days in Casper,
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ment of the organizations department
of Colorado and Wyoming. The pro-
gram arranged for is one of the most
extensive the veterans nave vet pre-
pared for such a gathering.
John w. Delury, age about As, was
shot and so seriously wounded that he
died before a hospital was reached
while he apparently was starting out
to enjoy an evening at a street carnival
In Casper. A woman who gave the
name of Ida Durham, and who since
her arrest has refused to talk to the
county authorities, drew a .3S caliber
Colt revolver, and aiming well, fired
one shot which killed Delury.
September Morn" effects must
ttaot at oIte tlut > DdillltE ItSOTIs
Mercury beach. Following complaints
by numerous shocked citizens of femi-
MIN sex that they have observed mas
culine forms entirely unadorned at III
beach, the city commissioners of Chey-
enne have instructed the police to ar
rest any person, male or female, adult
or juvenile. who goes in swimming at
the beach without conventional bath
ing raiment.
Capt. f. S. Jackson. 30 years old,
commander of Troop b, Wyoming Ma
tional Guard cavalry was shot and
killed near Glendo, by Doug Roberts,
n rancher, 1t is alleged. Roberts went
to Glendo, notified the sherlff's office
by telephone of the homicide and
awaited the arrival of Sheriff Homer
Payne of Wheatland, who went to
Glendo accompanied by Coroner Harry
III. Pepper. The prisoner and Jack
sons body were brought to wheatland.
Seven piles of melted, twisted steel
In the Midwest Refining Company's
tank farm west of Casper is the only
reminder of the spectacular fire
started by lightning which DESTROYED
some three hundred and fifty thousand
barrels of crude II fuel oil and their
containers. The Midwest Refining
Company has started to take stock of
its loss and declined to make estimates
pending an accurate check on the oil
saved and its valuation. 1t is believed
that some sixty thousand barrels we're
salvaged.
Paul Hammontree, 10 years old, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Hammontree,
was seriously injured when he was
struck by the large 6,O0O-pound ar
mored truck owned by the State High
way Department offices of Sheridan,
and operated by Hansen Horney, one
Of his personal friends.
The p%ostofflce at Pltchfork, wyo.,
on the Greybull river. was robbed by
two masked men. who forced the post.
mistress, Mrs. Henry Sayles, at the
point Of revolvers, to open the safe,
from which they took $179. The rob.
bers then bound and gagged Mrs.
Sayles. in which condition she was
found unconscious.
Edward McCrouther. former en-
ploye of the corporation in Its shops,
In Cheyenne, has filed suit against the
Union Pacific Railroad Company in
the District Court, claiming $4,000
damages for Injuries alleged to have
been sustained while In the company's
employ. McCrouther's petition sets
forth that while he was working In the
Union Pacific shops a heavy piece of
steel fell, resulting In injuries to his
back and legs which caused him to be-
come partly paralyzed.
Michael Foraker, 35 years old, died
at n Casper hospital of injuries re
ceived when he was run over by n
switch engine o. an Industrial spur.
Both legs were mangled and had 10 he