The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-09-30
WYOMING
STATE NEWS


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Harold Brinker in his Revere racer,
despite two sOmersaults, won the 1871
mile race from Cheyenne to Douglas
In 3 hours IL minutes and secOnd-a
record-smashing, blood-tingling dash.
c. H. Larson, parachute jumper Of
Casper, Wyo., was instantly killed near
Glendive, Mont. when after landing
on the top of high butte he was
swept over 1OO-fOot cliff by sixty
mile gale.
Petite Leckie, 45, was kicked and
trampled to death when he attempted
to drive fractions team to hayrake
in field of the Gas Larson ranch
near Halfway. There was no witness
Of the accident.
The last Of the 100000 young fish
Matched at the state hatchery ut Lara.
mie, about $4,000. will be planted in
Sibylee creek. at two places on Horse
creek and in Brooklyn lake, Of the
Medicine Bow range.
One of the largest gas absorption
plants in the United States will be
speedily built at Casper, it is an
nOunced by Producers and Reftners
corporation. The plant will have Gu
pacity for handling no less than 3d.
100000 cubic feet of gas daily.
Though no official confirmation has
been made as to the new faces that
have appeared in the refinery plants
ut Wyoming as the result of the con.
templated taking over of management
Company of Indiana October l, X. +.
Woods, former master mechanic. has
succeeded Wallace Leavitt, resigned,
at the Midwest refinery. Leavitt is to
90 into a private enterprise. Other
changes are expected soon to effect de-
partment heads.
Arthur ]. Forrest of Hannibal. Mo-,
who Is to be one Of the twenty-five
wearers Of the congressional medal of
honor at the gathering at Kansas City.
Mo-, of the annual convention of the
American Legion during the autumn,
was formerly the manager OF the Lara.
! mie baseball team of the Midwest
league. playing with Laramie last year
and returning when the league was
formed and having part in the first
matches. He is the only medal man
from the west in the list.
All the unused stock cars on sidings
between Omaha and the West have
been ordered to be got ready and sent
to the Pacific Northwest, where there
are a large number Of head Of cattle
to be shipped to market over the
Union Pacific in the next few weeks.
There are said by railroad men to he
not less than 100000 bushels OF
wheat in that section. large amount
Of which will be sent to market over
this road. Much of the live stock will
be unloaded Mt Laramie for feeding;
diversions being made there for the
Denver market. Special trains have
been provided from Laramie to Den.
yer to accommodate these shipments
Judge II. v. S. Groesbeck Of Lara
ME. prominent attorney Of the Al
bany county bar, has begun a suit
against the city Of Laramie to recover
sos paid to the city as an occupation
tax. under an ordinance passed few
weeks ago. G. II. Mcconnell, another
attorney. resisted the payment Of this
tax and gained decision in the Pc
lice Court, Judge Brown holding tina,
the charter did not specifically EN-
power the council to levy tax on pro
fessional men, but also held that the
law was applicable to merchants ant
the city have paid and n large par
of the professional men also paid, thu
exceptions being Mcconnell and Groes
beck. The suit is brought to get rul
ing on the matter in the form Of al
agreed statement Of facts.
Ida Durham. one time 'lady barbe
of Burkburnett," who was convicted o
manslaughter in connection with tn
shooting of Jack Delury before a car
nival crowd last June, was sentence,
by Judge c. O. Brown of Casper to
term of from twenty-One to twenty-five
years in the state penitentiary.
The property Of the Hereford Cor
poratiOn of Wyoming, including 400
acres of ranch land near Cheyenne an
the largest herd of registered Here
ford cattle in the world, is to he sol
Oct. Il, 1921, to satisfy judgmen
against the corporation obtained b
Henry p. CrOwell. The property Wi
be offered to the highest bidder as
whole, no bids for any part being col
sidered.
County Attorney Patterson state
that the reasons for the delay in til
trial of Ada King. charged with shoe
ing the wife of the county cOmmi
sioner, v. NJ. Woolf, of Albany coul
ty, are that Mrs. Woolf Is not yet el
tirely out of danger and that If si
should die within the year, the charg
Of felonious assault would be change
to murder. The case has gone owe
| To the March term of the DiStri,