, 1921-05-26
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union News servloej

~ III htAbihit Il Sdhit VI bdStDtu
with the Wyoming Cowboys on May
80, if nothing occur 10 prevent.
Frederick Morris has resigned his
position with the United States ship
ping board and returned to Cody to
improve his ranch and further develop
the tourist business which he had SO
well established at the outbreak of the
war.
n. :. Glass and n man whose iden-
tity Sc far has not been established
were literally blown to pieces near
Bonneville when the truck load of nj.
tr~o-glycerine which they were driving
exploded and nearly blew Bonneville
off the map.
The Grand Canon Mining & Develop.
ment company, which long ago has
been preparing Tor development of an
immense placer deposit on the Snake
river near the Wyoming-Idaho boun.
dairy, expects to puts its plant into OPP
Grafton within six weeks.
The athletic department of the Uni.
Versity of Wyoming at Laramie is plan.
ming for n big interscholastic track and
field meet Il year hence, when the new
athletic field has been finished, in
which most of the Wyoming high
schools will participate.
The Detroit-W Wyoming Oil Company,
drilling in INFESTED ground between
Glendo and Grin, struck a heavy flow
of gas at loo feet. The oil sand is be-
lieved to lie mt about $500 feet. The
; strike is about midway between the
Big Muddy and Lance Creek fields.
The Wal Department has formally
transferred to the public health serv-
lee Fort Mackenzie, Wyo., together
with all buildings, property and sup
plies there available for use hereafter
as a hospital for disabled men who
served in the World war. The transfer
was authorized by Congress last ses-
sion.
Two men, one of them unidentified,
were blown to pieces and the Burling-
ton railroad station at Bonneville, with
several other buildings, was damaged
by the explosion of twenty-five quarts
of nitroglycerin which was being trans
ported from the manufacturing plant
at Casper to the storage plant at Their
mopolis.
W. w. Sproul. former postmaster at
Casper, Wye, was arrested ut Casper
on n suppressed Indictment returned
by the United States grand jury
charging embezZlement of postal
funds. He vas arraigned before Il
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bail Of $1,000. His alleged embezzle-
ment is 5000.
Laramie, Wyo., May 15.-The com
mencement exercises of the Laramie
high school will be held Thursday eve
ming, June ., the schools closing for
will consist of II, with Mollie Morris
as president, George Greene as vice
president. Edna Christensen as secre-
tary-trensurer.
W. W. Sproul. until last December
postmaster mt Casper, has been arrest
ed on the charge of embezzlement of
postal funds. 1t Is alleged the amount
is $4,000. He was released on $1,000
bail pending trial. lie was indicted at
Cheyenne by the federal grand jury,
but his name IA suppressed until the
arrest could be made.
A mail car attached to Union Pacific
train was broken into recently after 1t
left Cheyenne for the west and eight
mail pouches were stolen. Postoffiee
authorities denied registered mail was
involved. They declared the loss would
be small. The stolen sacks contained
mail from Omaha and points east for
San Francisco and Alameda. Calf.
Arrangements for the fourteenth an
nual encampment of the Spanish
American War Veterans from Colorado
and Wyoming. to be held in Casper
July 3 to ., are rapidly taking form
now. Marin Plestina now seems n GER
tainty as the feature wrestler on n big
wrestling and boxing program being
arranged by J. q. Vogle and the Amer
lean Legion.
James Gates. Jr., nine-year-old boy,
may ose both hands us result of an
explosion of n dynamite cap which he
picked up on n road near Sheridan.
The lad Is now confined In the Sheri-
dan hospital. The had picked up the
dynamite cap which had been aban.
doned by road workers and lit n match
to see what 1t would do. The explo-
sion occurred.
Instructions have been sent to the
forest rangers In the Medicine Bow
forest To Resume reporting of fishing
conditions. These reports are submit
ted weekly to the district forester at
Denver, who furnishes the Information
to the public In the form OF a bulletin,
SO that the prospective fishermen are
Informed through the local papers
whore fishing Is best.
Hot wrath that had smouldered for
a dozen years has been famed into
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