, 1921-04-21
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union New, Service,

TO JOIN the progressive towns
of Wyoming. On May 2nd the people
of Chugwater will vote on n proposal
to bond the town for $4,000 to obtain
funds TO build a w~aterworks system,
and for $1,000 to finance an electric
lighting system.
Governor Robert d. Carey and sew
eral other state officers, including
President Jess Yoder of the State
Board of Live Stock Commissioners
n Oscar Beck, a member of the
board. attended the two-day- conven-
ton of the Wyoming Stock Growers
Association which was held at Lusk.
Entirely naked as a result of having
his burning clothes cut from his body
by a boy companion in an effort to
put ou flames, resulting from a pow
der explosion, Jack Lewis, 12-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Claude A. Lewis,
walked a mile near Cowley for medi-
cal assistance, only to die about twelve
hours later.
BY n vote Of 330 ballots for and IL
against, the bond issue for $685., 900 for
the erection of a new high school build
Ing in Cheyenne was carried. Bonds
for that amount will be sold, bids will
be advertised for and work started
about June 1, in order that the school
may be ready for occupancy n year
from next September.
w. e. Harris, who claims to be from
Ottumwa. Iowa, and who Is under ar
rest In Omaha for burglaries there and
in several other cities, is believed to
be a paroled convict from the wyo-
ming state penitentiary at Rawlins, and
1t is regarded as not improbable that
he will be returned to the prison here
instead of tried and sentenced for his
crimes elsewhere.
James D. Miller, arrested April 1
and held in the county Jail in Casper
secretly, In solitary confinement, since
that time on a charge of blackmail in
connection with the sending of letters
to A. ]. Cunningham, president of Cas-
per's oldest bank, the Casper Nation
al, has been allowed to see an attor-
ney for the first time. He denies hav-
Ing written letters to Cunningham or
making any threats against his life.
A keen rivalry for whatsoever met
ropolitan advantages are to be derived
from the construction of a Union Pa
cific spur from the North Platte val
ley line in Nebraska into the Goshen
Hole region OF Wyoming has sprung
up between the embryo towns of
Springer and Lacy, each of which de-
sires to be the chief railroad town"
of h Hole. Neither of the rivals at
present consists of much more thar a
townsite plat.
The body of Frank Fayler, auto mail
carrier between S%outhpass and Pine
dale, Wyo., who disappeared during
the terrific blizzard which ragged in
this section was found in a snow drift
on the public oad near the Burnt
ranch, not far from Lander, by search
Ing parties. Fayler froze to death aft
er making IA desperate effort to reach
h Burnt ranch and was practically
In sight of food and shelter when his
strength gave out.
Frank Wilkinson was convicted at
Gillette of murder In connection with
he shooting of James +. Carleton, a
prominent rancher, and was sentenced
to life imprisonment. The jury was
out n hour. Carleton was shot to
death on his ranch on Trail creek,
near here, in June. 1919. Soon after
the killing, Ralph Wilkinson. brother
of Frank, was tried for the crime and
acquitted and the state dismissed the
charge against Frank. Later he was
arrested.
Jack O'Rourke was killed and three
were Injured when the automobile in
which they were riding turned turtle
on the old mine road east of Glenrock.
o'Rourke was driving the machine
and was crushed TO death under the
steering wheel. The car was complete
ly wrecked, the driver having lost con-
troll of the machine while speeding.
Vocational rehabilitation conducted
under the provisions OF acts passed by
b recent Wyoming Legislature will
be directed by James II. Coxen, who for
several years has been director of vo-
c%ational education at the University of
Wyoming. That Coxen should direct
the application OF the provisions of
h Industrial rehabilitation act was
decided by the State Board Of Educa-
ton.
The arrest OF James l.. Hand and
Mont Flint. On Colorado federal war.
rants charging fraudulent sale OF the
stock of the Tractor and Implement
Company, has brought to light infor-
nation that sixty farmers of the Pine
Bluffs district were victimIzed with
stock OF this concern, each purchasing
four shares at S25 a share. The trans
action took $4,000 out of the Pine
Bluffs section.
The right OF the county and state
to reopen old trails which have been
fenced across by homestead l~ocators
again has been upheld. this time nv