, 1921-04-07
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
! western Newspaper Union New. Service. ,

thrills resulting from n contemplated
oil boom. y representative of several
large oil companies has been there
signing up leases. He claimed these
companies had appropriated one and
one-half million dollars to experiment
in the new field.
State and Commissioner A. Baker
has announced that on April 1 the ap-
praiser for the state land boards be-
gan the examination and appraisement
OF applications to purchase state lands
In counties In the state continuing the
work until all the applications on file
are examined and reported upon
DIR. J. H. Jeffrey, president of he
wyoming Chiropractic Association.
convicted In Natrona county on a
charge Of practicing medicine without
a license, VIII serve ninety days in the
county Jail in Casper as punishment
for the Offense. He chose this method
rather than pay a possible fine imposed
by the court.
After n trial in Casper lasting almost
a week, the w. Sheep Company was
awarded 81 Judgment against the Pine
Dome Oil Company, the Western Ex-
ploration Company and r. j. Mosher in
a suit for $4,000 damages based on
the alleged loss of sheep from streams
polluted with oil from n well owned
jointly by the three defendants.
Further sitting of the ashes of the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Shurtz Of
lbonplnE whnGn chorrnl Ioltz- 1T
with a bullet hole in the skull, were
found in the ruins of the house. has
brought to light n ring set with a dia-
mond and several other rings custom
arily worn by the couple. This leaves
the investigating authorities without
anything on which to hang a theory or
motive for the crime.
Pouf! Just like that vanishes the
dream of l.. G. Lesher, Thermopolis
garbage hauler, of a fortune of S.
OOO,OOO which he was informed a few
days ago had been bequeathed him by
the VIII of a distant Philadelphia rela-
tive, and with a portion of which he
had announced he would build a home
for INDECENT common laborers. II has
developed that Lesher is merely one of
n great number of persons selected as
dupes for the Baker estate" fraud, a
swindle as widespread as the famous
Spanish" fraud Of a few years ago.
The first virgin wool blankets manu-
featured at the order of the Wyoming
Wool Growers Association in an effort
to create Il discriminating demand for
merchandise made not from shoddy
that-possibly had been used half a
dozen times previous-but from wool
direct from h sleeps back, have been
placed on exhibition In Rawllns and or
ders now are being taken. The assoei-
is able to offer the virgin weol
that demanded for blankets made from
or reworked woods, the fiber of
which virtually has been destroyed
through repeated use in the manufac-
ture of other articles.
An agreement has just been com
by Paul ii. Dupertius. State
Club Leader, and Armour's Bureau of
Agricultural Research and Economies,
which again provides for free trips to
Chicago and the International Live
Stock Exposition for the Champion
Sheep Club members of the state. The
winner will be selected by the State
Leader and three members of the
State College staff, who will pass ON
the records OF the various club mem
bers. The winners will be announced
about three weeks before the trip Is to
be made. The only requirements are
the winner must take the trip and
then prepare a brief story of his or
her experience Mt the stock show.
Thermopolis faces the prospects of
being without water. lights or electric
power for several days ms n result of
the destruction by fire OF the Thermop- |
oils Electric Company's plant. The wa.
ter plants pumps are operated by cleo |
trio current and officials were unable
ascertain how soon substitute power
could be obtained.
Claim of Wyoming to eighty acres Of
oil lands was upheld by the United
Supreme Court In deciding a IT,
tie suit against the government. The
were acquired for the support OF
schools on admission OF Wyoming to
the Union and oil quantities was dis. |
covered later, causing the Interior De
partment to reject the list OF state Sc
lectlons.
A movement Intended to defeat au-
thorizatlon OF an issue OF 81, 100000 of |
highway bonds, the proposal to
issue which Is to he submitted ut a