, 1921-08-04
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Ms.tern N@er.p.per unloa Ner. ssr,lce.l

stone during n heavy storm recently
in that city.
District No. 20, the Garrett school
district, will build four schoolhouses
this summer for use of the pupils of
the district next fall, and Olive Kafka,
the clerk, is now receiving bids for
he lumber and work of erecting the
structures.
Mrs. Killman, 30, and her daughter,
I months old. were drowned ten miles
west of Rock River on the Lincoln
highway, recently. Mr.. Killman and
another daughter, 2h years old, were
rescued after n hard struggle. us. they
were en- route from Albert Lea, Mimi,
to California in an automobile.
The postofflce of Pitchfork, Wyo,
was robbed recently for the third time
in four months. The first robbery oc-
CURED in April and netted the robber
$50. The second was in June, when
$50 was taken and the assistant post
mistress bound and beaten. The lat
est robbery resulted in Il $50 loss.
The Medicine Bow forest service has
revoked the pool room permit granted
to John Erickson of Fox park, who
was convicted in the state courts at
Laramie of conducting a gambling
| place and was fined $500, and against
whom a federal charge is pending of
selling liquor, Fox park is located on
lands belonging to the reserve, and
n clause of the permit is that the
permittee shall at all times conduct a
place in conformity with the laws of
the state and the United States.
Pinned down beneath his over
turned light automobile, Clyde Mullen
of Newcastle was compelled TO choose
between voluntarily subjecting his
arms to scaldlng or to be scalded
about the head and face. Water from
the radiator gushed down toward his
head, which was held immovable by
the weight of the machine, but he was
able to draw his arms across his face
IL to endure the agony of the scald-
ing limbs until the radiator was
empty. He vas rescued by passers-
by. His arms are badly burned.
Attorneys Mt Laramie have been in
formed that the now famous Wyoming
Colorado water right case, which has
been twice argued before the United
States Supreme Court, has been
placed on the docket for reargument
before the full bench of the Federal
Supreme Court, at a date not definite
ly decided on. The case involves the
ownership Of the waters of the Big
Laramie river. Colorado claiming the
right to all the water in that river
rising within that state. Should Colo
RADIO be granted the right to take such
waters it will deprive Wyoming own
ers of water rights of the water, even
when their rights are prior to those
in Colorado. The case was first ar
gued before the Supreme Court in 1914
and again in January, 1918.
Two hundred N seventeen irri-
gated farm units of approximately
eighty acres each on the North Platte
project viii be open to entry by all
honorably discharged soldiers, sailors,
marines and nurses who served in the
world war. said word received in
Cheyenne by State Immigration Com
missioner Charles s. Hill from Wash
ington. The drawing win he held Sep
tember o at the Goshen county court
house at T~orrington. Another draw
Ing will be helda at Powell, In Park
county. for land under the Shoshone
project. where approximately fifty
seven irrigated farm units. comprising
about 5000 acres. will be opened I'm
the vicinity of F%rannie. This will
make about 10000 acres opened for en-
try within a month in Wyoming.
A young man., II or IS years old.
whose identity has not been estab-
llshed, fell from n train two miles
east OF Wamsutter, while stealing a
ride. and was instantly killed. 1t was
believed that he was Arthur Salmon
OF Everett. Wash, but descriptions
from that city do not seem to tit him.
Harry Noll, IL years old. who was
employed. with his mother. by "A carni-
val company, was found dead, his head
terribly crushed, in a vacated barn In
Cheyenne. That the boy was muir
dered is the belief expressed by Sher.
if f. George of Laramie county, who
said the lad had been beaten on the
head with a heavy iron bar.
Liberty bonds totaling $4,000, prop
erty Of the First National Bank of
Rock Springs. wyo., missing since last
January, have been traced Mt last. IL
Is reported, and as n result a promi-
nent Denver man-promlnent In go
clety as well ns in husiness-may face
civil or criminal action, or possibly
both, because of his alleged connec.
lion with the matter. His wife. who
occupies an enviabls position In Den.
yer society, also hns been brought into
the case.
Wyomlng's share OF the 100000 0
stock loan pool, which WINS formed n
short while ago by stockmen and bank
ers Of the western states for the re.
lief of the livestock interests. f. no,y