, 1921-03-17
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union News Service,

pose of authorizing the state to issue
road bonds to the extent of 81, SOC, 900.
]. G.. Burbank, manager of the opera
house at Laramie, is completing a deal
for the erection of a theater at Green
River, for both motion pictures and
vaudeville.
Word has been received that forty
citizens at Evanston were fined So
each for failing to secure 1921 auto Ii
censes. Sheriff Christen says his ac-
ton was prompted by an order from
Governor Carey.
The tangle of red tape that has held
Up construction work ON the federal
aid project bridge across the Big Horn
river on the state reserve at Thermop-
oils has been unwound and Contractor
II. Nj. Templeton has started putting
in the piers.
Six men returning on n railroad
"speeder" to work in a quarry east of
Lander, after attending a show in that
city. struck a COW on the track. Oscar
Nelson, one of the men on the speeder,
was killed and the others were injured,
two probably fatally.
George d. Hunt, elder son of Mr..
and Mrs. G.. A. Hunt of Laramie, has
been appointed by Senator Warren as
a cadet to the naval academy at An
napolis, Md. He graduated from the
University of Wyoming high school
last year and is at present in the aca-
demic department of that institution.
Charles Carter, a negro, pleaded
guilty in the District Court of Raw
Inns to manslaughter, before Judge
Tidball, and was given a sentence of
from five to ten years In the state
prison. Carter was in a general gam
bling melee. and when someone struck
him he grabbed his gun to avenge the
assault, killing a Mexican by mistake.
Governor Carey's action in vetoing
Senate Bill No. 36, caused widespread
comment. The bill was designed to re-
peal a law passed by the last Legisla-
ture prohibiting the making of carbon
black from natural gas. Owing to the
veto the old law will stand, and the
manufacture of carbon black, largely
used in the manufacture of printing
inks. will be prevented.
Gov. Robert D.. Carey has sent a
message of disapproval of House Bill
No. 1I2, an important irrigation meas
ure, to the secretary of state. The
measure was designed to allow the
state to virtually underwrite irrigation
district bonds. Among the reasons
given by Governor Carey for his disap-
proval was that the measure was un-
constitutional.
Four of n band of six wolves which
have preyed upon herds for many
years in the vicinity of Hanging WON
an and Big Badger in northern Wyo-
ming. have been exterminated, it was
disclosed when L. +. May, n trapper of
that territory brought In two monster
female wolves which he trapped dur
ing January. Several months ago Gov
eminent Trnpper Williams succeeded
in trapping the first two wolves of the
pack.
A sensational attempt at wholesale
Jail delivery was frustrated in Casper
when passersby discovered flames
bursting from the county ~treasurer's
office. which adjoins the county Jail.
The blaze was controlled before any
prisoners escaped. County authorities
declare that J. Il. Mitchell of Denver,
held on n charge of raising bank
drafts. and Joe de Frantz, arrested for
robbing homesteaders' cabins, set the
fire in an effort TO free themselves and
mnny other prisoners held in the jail.
The Wyoming Public Service Com
mission has authorized the Cheyenne
Light, Fuel and Power Company to In
crease its charge for gas 10 per cent,
but denied a petition for authority to
increase Its charge for steam for heat
ing purposes. The corporation sought
authority to increase gas rates approx
imately 81 per cen and steam rates
approximately SO per cent.
An attempt was made to force the
safe OF the Greybull Lumber Company.
The combination was spattered up and
the knob on the door twisted. The on
ly tools left were those kept In the Of
flee. The letter files had been ran
sacked either In the hope OF finding
the combination TO the safe or that
change Or something OF value had been
hid there.
A permanent injunction preventing
the city Of Casper from collecting as-
ssssments for completed assessment
work in grading district No. 4 was Is
trict Court there. as n result OF the ac-
sued ny Judge q. q. Brown In the DIE
trict Court there, ms a result OF the nc
ton by the property owners In bring
fng suit against the city against the
collection OF the assessment.
Buffalo has the distinction of having
the most complete amateur wireless
outfit in the northern part OF wyo-
ming. The outfit is the property OF