, 1921-10-20
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper unIOr News Service.

WIZ lloll Tile
safety deposit boxes.
With N irrigation, J.. d. Car
michael harvested a crop of barley
which yielded eighty bushels to the
acre on lane just north of Riverton.
The crop establishes a new record for
that section.
Frank Jordon was convicted of
~manslaughter by a jury in the District
Court at Douglas. Jordon was charged
with h murder of Joe Rum, whom
he shot and killed during a quarrel
at Glenrock, Wyo., May %.
Rentals charged on Wyoming state
owned lands has been reduced by the
State Land Board to the pre-war level.
The reduction will be of great import
ance to stockmen and flock masters,
who are the chief renters of state
lands.
Despondent over financial reverses
which made his prospects in old age
dubious, John NJ. Bishop, 65, COM
mitted suicide at Fort Bridger, shoot
ing himself through the head with a.
.3S-caliber revolver. He recently had
tried r%anching, after teaching schoo
In the Bridger valley for eighteen
years.
The township on the Cherry Creek
branch of the North Platte irrigation
project will be christened Veteran il
a movement undertaken by the numer-
GUS ex-service men who have taken I'D
land In that district is successful. The
townsite will be one of the new towns
on the Union Pacific extension into
Goshen county.
Miss Lorraine Lindsey of Centen-
NAL, who was the fire lookout on
Medicine Bow Peak, the highest look
out held by a woman in the United
States, which is the primary control
point for the Medicine Bow national
forest, has resigned her position and
VIII re-enter the University of Wyo-
ming.
A box car on the Union Pacific was
broken into at Green River and three
men, Theodore X. Merritt, Martin
Ramp and Lawrence Knight, boxcar
tourists, were arrested the next day
and placed in the Rock Springs Jail,
and were arraigned before Judge John
r. Arnold of the District Court and
sentenced to the penitentiary.
Howard Harold Mcdonald, 11-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred McDon-
aid, died Mt Thermopolis of Injuries
received when he accepted a dare of
his schoolmates and attempted to ride
his bicycle down a steep grade. The
lad suffered u fractured skull in ad-
difion to a broker nose and minor in
juries, when thrown from the wheel
at n sharp turn.
DIR. 1. w. Blake of Buffalo, suffer-
ing from a bullet-shattered arm, was
carried fifty miles over a mountain
trail from a wild canon on the Upper
Poudre river, where he was accident
ally shot. Blake, who was on a hunt
Ing trip, climbed a tree to observe the
surrounding country. He was mis-
taken for a bear by another hunter,
who fired On him.
By a vote of 915 to II the water
users of the North Platte valley APP
proved the project to construct a
reservoir dam and power plant at
Guernsey, Wyo., at n cost of more
than $2,0OO,O00. Work Will begin with
In a few months and will, when fin
ished, make that part of the North
Platte valley Independent Of the Path
finder dam for water and also will
provide cheap electricity for light and
power for hundreds of miles. The cost
will be taxed against the land, but pay
ments will not begin until 1894 or
1896.
James Dunbar and Lloyd Dye, said
to be wanted in Crawford, Seneca and
Alliance, Neb., on burglary charges,
were arrested at Crawford after hav-
Ing been headed off In n flight to Cas-
per and being forced to double back
on their trail. The two men had found
safety repeatedly by coming to Casper,
according to advices from Nebraska
authorities, who had officers there
posted ON their actions when they we're
found to have started for that place
the last time.
Resolutions urging the setting aside
and observance OF Dec. 10 as "wyo-
ming day." as a means of promoting
good citizenship; requesting that
school children be instructed more
thoroughly In Wyoming history; In
dorsing protection of the wool Indus
try, and urging the establishment of a
state home for delinquent girls as soon
as Its need is apparent. are among
those adopted by the Wyoming FEEDER
alton Of Women's Clubs convention at
its closing session In Greybull. The
convention also went on record against
commercializing the resources Of yell
lowstone park, and called for the con
servation Of state beauties and re-
sources.
Quail propagation in the valley near
Powell has proved immensely success
full In spite Of many handicaps, lnclud.
Ing sparrowhawks, which have preyed
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