, 1921-09-01
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

pieHrOck aItef ne WAS brought TO town
for medical attendance, from acute
peritonitis caused by a large roller
bearing which he swallowed while at
play.
Rawsins, heretofore merely an emer-
gency station, has been designated u
regular intermediate stopping point
for the air mail. All air mail planes
operating between Cheyenne and Salt
Lake now stop at the local landing
field.
Johnson cOunty's fair will be held
at Buffalo, Sept. I, 8 and o.. Exhibits
from this fair are to be sent to the
state fair at Douglas and the Sheri-
dan county fair ut Sheridan. Friday,
Sept. 8, has been designated as "Sher-
idan Day"
Potato blight is unusually prevalent
in Sheridan county and elsewhere over
the state this year, according to X.
j. Hale, county club leader, who has
completed an inspection of potato and
grain fields with T. S. Parsons, state
agronomist.
]. W. Johnson, vice president of the
<AiDdnN @Nhllbilall nunhf NE Sldlt
senator from Albany county and a
Wyoming pioneer, died at Laramie
City. He is survived by two sons Ell
wood Johnson Of Laramie. and Mel
win Johnson of Idaho Springs, Colo,
and a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Carruth.
Of Laramie.
George Sherrard, S year old, of Mil
Ter Creek, was instantly killed when
the horse he was riding fell into Il
deep rayine while he was going TO n
pasture to drive in some cows. The
boy vas crushed to death. His body
was found by a sister who went to
investigate the reason for his pro-
longed absence.
Cheyenne officers who arrested
james McNulty and Il. L. Osborne a
few days ago on a charge of threat
ening n train crew, rejoiced that they
had not handled the prisoners rough
ly. A quantity of liquid found on their
persons was Analysed and found TO be
nitro glycerine. Officers announced
hat the men nave been identified as
former c%Onvicts with a record al
Leavenworth. Kan.
That If the rate of increase in re-
ceipts from state school lands during
the last five years continues during
the next five years, the state of wyom-
ing will be receiving between $4,000
900 and s20.OO0.OO 0 annually from
such lands. or about six times the
present cost Of conducting the state
government, is an interesting state
ment made by A. Baker, state com
missioner of lands at Cheyenne.
H. ID. Ingalls, of La Crosse, Wis,
has assumed duty as manager of the
aviation field for the United States
aerial service at Rock Springs, reliev-
ing A. G. Poetz, who has been field
manager for the past few months,
Since the service was started, and who
Will report TO the field at San Fran
cisco. The Rock Springs field has be-
come one of the most important along
the aerial mail route and improve
ments are rapidly being made.
Fred Brewster, ii years old, son of
T.. L. Brewster, was literally cut to
pieces when the team of young mules
he was using to pull u moving ma
chine at his fathers ranch, ten miles
west OF Glendo. became
and bolted. The body was thrown on
the sickle bar of the machine and
mutilated from head to feet. His neck
was broken also. The mutilnted body
was found later by of the
family who went TO the field to as
certain why moving had topped
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