, 1921-04-14
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union News Service,

81 ,SOO.OO0 TO continue the highway CON
struction in this state, the election to
be held May 10.
Attorney Genera w. l.. Wells, in
terpretlng statutes passed by the last
Legislature. holds that prior registra-
ton will be necessary in connection
which Is to be held May 10.
A plunge into the ice-laden waters
of the North Platte river and IL swim
clear across brought freedom TO four
negroes who broke into and robbed the
Union Pacific railroad section house at
Fort Steele, near Hawlins.
Ray e. Lee. former state land COM
missioner of Wyoming, chairman of
the Democratic state central commit
tee, and me of the foremost lawyers in
the state, and A. n. Walker. both of
Cheyenne, We're seriously injured and
are not expected to live, as the result
of an automobile accident on the yell
lowstone highway. seven miles north
of Cheyenne.
l.. Ii. Nicholson. wealthy coal dealer
of Casper. was bound over to the Dis
trict Court to answer Il murder charge
following IA preliminary hearing. He
is charged with the murder of Edward
Shuster. a taxicab driver, In Casper on
March 10. According to testimony,
Nicholson and Shuster quarreled when
Nicholson charged the chauffeur with
attempting to run him down with his
automobile.
The Universal Pipe Line Corpora
ton, organized by Riverton, Wyo., in
terests identified with the Riverton-
Wyoming Refining Company and said
to be almost fully financed. has an
nounced plans for the construction of
a forty-five-mile pipe line from the
Maverick Springs field, Fremont coun-
ty, to Riverton. The project will be
carried out this summer, it is indicat-
ed, and work will start June L.
Governor Robert d. Carey has issued
a proclamation designating April Doth
Arbor day and calling ON the people
Of the state to observe the day by
planting trees and shrubs. An at
tempt during the session of the last
Legislature to eliminate Arbor day
from the list of Wyoming legal holt
DAYS. and to add Labor day and Armis-
tice day to the list. was unsuccessful.
the bill for that purpose failing to get
out of the lower House.
Mrs. l.. c. Harnsberger has received
word that n nine.inch g,n wsighino
| 1000 pounds has been Skinned from
San Francisco to Lander and will ar
rive In the course of three or four
weeks. This gun will be used to helm
decorate the soldiers memorial to be
erected in Lander by the Women's
Patriotic League, and it is through the
efforts of its president. Mrs. Harms
berger, that a town as small as an
der was able to get this gift from the
War Department.
The cement work at the artesian
wells In Riyerton has been comnleted
the base for the engine is ready and
the machinery is now being nut In
place, and it is expected that the ar
tesian water will soon he flowing
through the city mains and tbe neonIe
of Riverton will Mt last be done with
river water. The wells have hean hold.
ing I'D to expectations. and there an
pears to be no doubt but thar the two
present wells will take care of tho
present demands of the Town with eose
from the natural flow into the basin
prepared and from which the water
will he pumped into the stand nine
contracts hovo haar srna, 49,
wbeatIond fornnors for oror 80 a.,
sand ocres ~ sngor hoa,s aooor,,nm ~
q n coodrtc, rIatI n.a,~as
Great Western Sugar Company.
Hugh fhomas, who deposited an al
legged worthless draft for So. 900 With
the Citizens National bank I'm Cbey-
enne recently, and attempted to draw
against 1t. has been formally charged
with utternnce of n fraudulent chacL