The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-07-08
WYOMING
STATE NEWS
COMING EVENTS.

Western Nswspspss Union Nsvs Gesvice.)
COMING EVENTS.
Cheyenne. Wyo.-Annual Frontier
Days Celebration. July Is to 20.
The Big Piney rodeo was held June
u, "a and % and full Wild West pro-
gram was carried out.
Work has begun on the state high
way between Pinedale and Eden, with
District Engineer Goyne Drummond in
charge. 1t is the plans Of the state to
rush the work and complete the road
this year.
Paul HammOntree, Is years old. son
IF Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Hammontree,
was seriously injured when he was
struck by the large 6OOO-pound ar
mored truck owned by the State High
way Department offices of Sheridan,
and operated by Hansen Horney, one
Of his personal friends.
Michael Foraker, IS years old. died
Mt Casper hospital Of injuries re-
cefved when he was run over by q
switch engine on an industrial spur.
Both legs were mangled and had to be
amputated. Shock and loss of blood
caused his death. Little is known of
the dead man in Casper.
The board of county commissioners
has authorized an advertisement for
the sale of $4,000 on July 8 of the
road bonds voted in Albany county on
May 10, to be used in making some
permanent pOads in the county. The
authorization was for $780, 600. but the
bonds will be issued as the money is
needed.
Kit Carson, Colo, and Cheyenne mu-
sicians have organized the Frontier
Days Cowboy" band, under director
ship of f. w. Stevenson of Cheyenne,
and the organization left recently for
months concert tour of the middle
western states to advertise the From
tier Days celebration in Cheyenne,
July 20, n, % and %.
Wyoming crude oils of all grades
nave been cut Is cents a barrel in
price. The announcements were made
by the Midwest Refining Company at
Casper and the Ohio Oil Company at
Findlay. This brings the price Of
Wyoming crude to the lowest point
since 1914, when the price If Salt
Creek output was quoted at so cents a
barrel.
Capt. E. s. Jackson, 80 years DID,.
commander Of Troop B, Wyoming Ma
tional Guard cavalry, was shot and
killed near GlendO, by Doug Roberts,
a rancher, 1t is alleged. Roberts went
to Glendo, notified the sheriff's office
by telephone Of the homicide and
awaited the arrival of Sheriff Homer
Payne of Wheatland, who went to
Glendo accompanied by Coroner Harry
H. Pepper. The prisoner and Jack
sons body were brought to Wheatland.
Edward McCrouther, former EN-
ploye of the corporation in its shops,
in Cheyenne, has filed suit against the
Union Pacific Railroad Company in
the District Court, claiming $4,000
damages for injuries alleged to have
been sustained while in the company's
employ. McCrouther's petition sets
forth that while he was working in the
Union Pacific shops heavy piece Of
steel fell. resulting in injuries to his
back and legs which caused him to be-
come partly paralyzed.
The school board Of Laramie school
district has awarded to William Du-
Bots, an architect Of Cheyenne, the
for the plans and. specifica-
tons for new building to house the
manual training and domestic science
Of the city schools, and
rs soon as the plans and specifications
have been prepared, and estimates se-
cured as to the cost of the structure,
a special meeting of the electors Of
the school district will be called to
vote $685. 600 in bonds to furnish funds
for the work.
With the favorable endorsement by
the State Board Of Charities and Re-
form. Manager Bolin Of the Wyoming
state fair will be able to relieve a bit
OF the congestion which occurs at the
fair every year, and Is going ahead
with his plan, for increased space in
the Arts building at Douglas.
Inc wyoming state convention OF
the American Association for Recog-
milton Of the Irish Republic, in session
In Casper, voted a resolution to be
wired to President Harding. Senator's
Warren and Kendrick and Congress.
man Mondell, urging them to give
their full support to the Norris resolu-
ton c0ndemning British atrocities In
ireland, and asking that this govern
ment recognize the Irish republic.
September Morn" effects must
cease at Cheyenne's bathing resort,
Mercury beach. Following complaints
by numerous SHOCKED citizens Of femi-
nine sex that they have observed mas.
culine forms entirely unadorned at the
beach. the city commissioners OF Chey.
enne have instructed the police to ar
rest any person, male or female, adult
or juvenile, who goes In swimming at
the beach without conventional bath
Ing raiment.