The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-07-22
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COMING EVENTS
Cheyenne, Wyo.--Annusl Frontier
| Days Celebration. july rs to 20.
Bitten by rattlesnake, Clara, the
l7-monti,s.old daughter Of Mr.. aud
Mrs. Ray Spencer, r,lnchers residing
at Orchard Mesa. is dead. The reptile
| wsx hidden in u pile1na ri - IN It
~ estii,i:
A man named Griffin, hearder.
employed by the Warren Livestock
Company. was struck by lightning
while ut his post in charge Of flock
pastured in the hills east Of Laramie,
and il IN serious condition.
Circuit drOves Of army worms have
arrived near Cody and are working
southwark. When these pests reach
an irrigation canal they cross the near
est bridge IN some instance the drOves
separate but continue south. They
destroy every young plant In their
march. Great fields Of sugar beets are
cleared In single night.
An increase Of $2,296, 365 in the
monthly clearings Of the Casper banks.
since February Of this year Is shown
in the statement of the Casper Clear
ing House Association. Clearlngs for
February totalled 1880. $4,000, and the
increase continued until the high mark
ness and financial conditions In gen.
eral have continued good there.
Approximately three-fourths of the
| 1000 men stationed at Fort D. A. Rus
sell have applied for a discharge. ac-
cordng to Col. T. A. Dugan, COM
nlantlant. Since receipt Of orders from
Washington to reduce the strength Of
the standing army. company officers
have been swamped with requests for
discharges. Colonel Dugan said.
The next meeting Of the Wyoming
Bankers Association will be held IN
Sheridan, August 3 and 4. w. p. G..
Harding, governor Of the Federal Re
serve Bank. has accepted an invita-.
ton to be present. Sheridan is max.
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bankers a splendid reception and the
program will be one Of unusual merit.
Found guilty of attempting to SNUG
gle revolver and Il can Of red pepper
to her husband. in Jail awaiting trial
on n charge Of automobile theft at
Cheyenne. Mrs. Malcolm Almond was
fined $50 and sentenced to sixty days
in JAIL Police claimed that the wom-
ans attempt to smuggle the gun and
pepper into the Jail was part Of Il plan
for u wholesale jailbreak.
Mrs.i Hattie Almrkd, who recently
emulated Mrs. Al Biscaro's tragic
achievement by attempting to smuggle
an automatic pistol, cartridges and red
pepper to her husband. Malcolm AL.
lnOnd, in the Laramie county Jail. has
been nQde defendant to an infOrma-
ton charging attempt to enable a pris-
oner to escape--a felony under the
Wyoming law.
Wyoming Consistory No. will place
in the Frances Pershtng Warren Me-
mortal Hospital, now under cOnstruc-
ton at Cheyenne, bronze memorial
tablet to the wife OF Judge John A.
Riner Of the United States Court for
the District of Wyoming, a thirty
third degree Mason. Mrs. Riner died
recently. The memorial. which will be
tablet, will be placed on the door Of
an operating room.
Fifteen aliens who made application
for citizenship In the United States
District Court ut Cheyenne each re-
ceived an American flag from the pa
triOtic education committee Of the local
chapter Of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution. Mrs. W. C. Mentzer,
chairman OF the committee, accom-
panied the presentation with an ex-
preston Of the hope that the citizens
to-be would realize the value of citi.
xenship and the obligations which Il
imposed.
S. L. Freehafer Of Henry w. Law.
ton camp, No. /, Denver, was elected
commander Of the United Spanish
American War Veterans, department
Of Colorado and Wyoming, ut the four
teenth annual encampment at Casper
After he had made high dive into
, the waters Of Bessemr lake, near Salt
Greek. the body Of E. Q. Yount was
found with wound on the head. inilt
, eating that he had struck some metal
, lie object ON the bottom of the lake
/ which knocked him unconscious. YOun1
. was swimming with several compan
ions when tlle fatality occurred. AfreI
} his dive he did not reMppear, and hi.
companions began search for him.
J The body of Andrew Brae. Ranch
employee. who was drowned in an ut
tempt to ford the Platte river a few
miles east Of Casper on July 2. was re
covered in Big Muddy. after being
: washed twelve miles down stream,
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