, 1921-07-28

jaws were ulSlOClleu. she WAS I'M
conscious several hours.
The Evanston shops of the Union
Pacific Railroad Co, closed several
months ago, when an order for re-
trenGhment was put into effect, are to
be re-opened August LIST. About 80
men will be put back to work.
The Lowell Carpenters Union has vol
unfairly reduced wages from SS to 81
per day. Reduction in the cost of liv-
ing and a desire to do everything pos
sible to bring about a revival in build
ing operations are given as the reason.
The marking of the Rocky Mountain
highway between Denver and the
southern entrance to the Yellowstone
National Park has been started, and
will be continued until the entire route
is marked with the official green and
white markers of the association.
The entire wool clip of the Sayles
Sheep Company of Cody, 5000
pounds, has been purchased by VIII
loan Il. Miner, Jr., for j. Batman &
Co. The price will net the company
around 20 cents. The wool will be
shipped East and will fill ten cars.
Horace E. Adams, president of the
Golden Eagle Mining Company, who
on June IS shot and killed Frank
Brown during n dispute over u line
fence, was bound over to the District
Court at Cheyenne for trial in Octo-
her on a charge of murder in the first
degree.
Estimated acreage of potatoes in
Wyoming this year is 31,000, as COM
pared with 27,000 acres last year, De
cember estimate. The condition of this
crop is 81 per cent. of normal, as COM
pared with "a per cent. last year same
date and 80 per cent. for the ten-year
average.
Asbestos properties on a tract of
land comprising 800 acres in the vi
cinity of Wheatland will be developed
by a Colorado syndicate, according to
the terms of a deal recently completed
by Fl. w. Hugo of Casper. The prop
critics are known as the old Matson
locations and are said to contain ex-
tensive deposits of high grade ashes
tos.
As the outgrowth of an explosion
which destroyed the home of Tom Lux
at Frontier, Wyo., Lux has zee ar
rested. Officers allege that Lux
placed a stick of dynamite under the
house, following n fit of jealousy. He
had accused his wife of familiarity
with another man, officers say. No
one was in the house, which was shat
tered by the explosion.
The rush of applications for army
discharge has stopped ut Fort ID. A.
Russell, according to Col. Thomas Du-
gan, commandant. Poor chances of
getting IA job in civilian life are respon-
sible. Three-quarters of the enlisted
personnel having applied for discharge
under the recent order reducing the
army strength to 100000, but a large
number of these men are asking to
withdraw their applications.
The title to the Hot Springs prop
erty at Saratoga has at last been per
fected, and the state will now take
owe the place as provided for by the
last Legislature. For several months
the matter has been delayed, and it
was feared that the former owners
would be unable to clear up the title
so that the transfer could be made.
However, the attorney general has now
passed faVOrably ON the abstract pre-
pared by the Hot Springs Company,
and the state is now in possession of
the spring and surrounding land.
Decapitation by mine cars was the
form of suicide selected by w. X.
Anada, Al years old, a miner at KEN
merer, when, discouraged by his in
ability to refrain from Intoxicating
liquor, he decided to end his life. He
accomplished his purpose by tying his
neck to the track of the mine, in which
he was employed.
How family homesteaders near the
Montana line, in the northern part of
Sheridan county, kept an all-night
vigil over the dead body of j. p.
Pierce, n %neighbor, to fight off coyotes,
was revealed when Charles Champion,
undertaken. returned to Sheridan with
the body. Pierce lived alone on a
homestead and dropped dead while ON
his way to a neighbours place.
Wyoming is now In possession of the
Hot Springs reserve near Saratoga,
AtiOTntg btltIhl w. IL. vans nhNlng
found that the title to the land was In
satisfactory shape n all other OBJ
stacles having been removed. Flaws
In the title held the transaction up for
several months, until trouble about
several lots owned by the Saratoga 4
Encampment railroad could be stright.
ened out. The last Legislature pro
vided that the state should buy the re
serve.
Buffalo, Wyo., through Its offer OF
some 400 or more acres OF land subject
To irrigation, won the location for the
Odd Fellows home and orphanage
which is to be the Wyoming state
home for the lodge. Buffalo was the
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