, 1921-09-29
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

49, ~ haSNaf
despite two somersaults. won the 1871
mile race from Cheyenne to Douglas
In 3 hours II minutes and l second-a
record smashing, bl~ood-tingllng dash.
c. II. Larson, parachute jumper of
Casper, Wyo., was instantly killed neal
Glendlve, Mont, when after landing
on the top of IL high butte he was
swept over a 100-foot cliff by q sixty
mile gale.
A yield of S71s bushels per acre for
dry land onts was the record made
by b. W. ~Scogglns, n farmer near Ian
der, as revealed by the harvesting and
t%hreshing of his crop. No irrigation
was used.
Petite Leckic, ~, was kicked and
trampled TO death when lie attempted
TO drive Il fractions team to a hayrake
in "A 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 at Lara
mic, about 10000, will be planted in
Sibylee creek, ut two places on Horse
creek and in Brooklyn lake of the Med
icine Boz range. a large number went
to streams in other counties.
Mahlon s. Kemmerer of Pittsburg,
Wyo.. sold 10 himself that part of. the
Wyoming x Missouri River railroad
lying in Wyoming. He paid SOL, 200 for
the property in order to satisfy judg-
ment of S34S,O0O obtained by him
against the railroad company.
One OF the largest gas absorption
plants in the United States will be
speedily built ut Casper, it is an
nounced by Producers and Refiners
corporation. The plant will have ca
pacity for handling no less than 3d.
100000 cubic feet of gas daily.
Mrs. Mary A. Gregory, arrested in
Wheatland on a charge Of being ac-
cessory to arson Mt the Graham ranch
and who went on a hunger strike at
the Platte county Jail there, has de
cided to eat after eight days of absti-
nance from food. She rapidly is re-
gaining her strength.
The use of airplanes in locating the
haunts of moonshiners was introduced
in Wyoming for the first time when
Sheriff Harry Holdredge chartered a
machine to take him forty miles into
the hills at Thermopolis. No announce
ment was made on his return as to
whether the hunt was successful.
The carrying out of road and bridge
Improvement work authorized for Wes-
ton county In a special election on May
10 last by the voting OF bonds to the
amount of $4,000, was assured when
the First National Bank of Newcastle
purchased the issue at a considerable
saving t. the taxpayers In comparison
with bids from outside sources.
Frank James, who vas found guilty
of the murder of u woman at superior
"a year ana a matt ago n sentenced
10 DE nnhse" ana VINO vas granted a
' Z =. u "'"Ve supreme court'
rma" 49,. us
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VII was chosen as the next
meeting place of the Wyoming grand
~ ny n.'n u '"o-
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enth animal communion was nro.
sided over by Grand Master w n WI
son Of Casper and there were In Mt
tendance ten past grand masters of
the lodge.
Ida Durhom ana rim. 41.dv h,rhor
of -Rurkhurnett +" who wos cony,c,od %
m-onslouyhter i, conncct,on with Tho
sbo,t,ny a, Iocr noInr, harora -
nivnl crowd last June, was sentenced
nv Judge G. q. Brown of Jasper 10 n
term of from twenty-one To- TWENTY-FIVE
years in the state penItentiarv.
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