The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-07-29
WYOMING
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING; EVENTS

COMING EVENTS
Cheyenne. Wyo.-Annual Frontier
Days Celebrations. jury 26 to 20.
While fishing in Lewis Lake. yell
iowstone Park. Otto KOenig of Cody.
using light tackle. landed II 1871
pound Al,ckinawi trout.
Miss Mae Fife of Evanston fell with
such force when she tainted that her
laws were dislOcate,. She was UNI
conscious several hours.
Horace Il. Adams. president of the
Golden Eagle Mining Company. VIII"
IN June IS shot and killed Frank
Brown during Il dispute over II line
fence, was bound over 10 the District
court at Cheyenne for trial in OctO-
Hcr on a charge Of murder m the first
degree,
The Lander drug store was burglar
red recently and cash and jewelry
aiken ia the amount of 81. 100 To s 200.
rom the footprints there We're two of
he men. The. broke the plate glass
ioor III the back and. reaching through
he bars. turned back the bolt that
held the door.
Drcapilatiun by mine ears was the
form nf suicide selected by w. Il.
Anatla. AZ years old. miner ut KEN
nerer. when. discouraged by his ill.,
taility To- refrain from Intoxicating
uuur he decided to end his life. He
accomplished his purpose hy ,yin" his
meek 10 he track of the mine. in which
he was employed.
There is Il large epidemic "f tire
theftS in Casper according To records
on file III the eli! police station. Seven
nave been stolen since July :. it was
reported III police headquarters. Some
uf the thieves have not taken the
wheel hut have taken wheel and tire
in one fell >woOp.
The acreage Of corn this year is
1000. as compared with 5000 acres
last year. showing an increase Of ~
yer cent. The condition Of this crop
is 9G per cent. of normal. as compared
with ~ per cent. year ago same
date Forecasts a production of about
l.7S7 900 bushels. compared with l.ItD.-
coo bnShels last year, December, 1920.
estimates.
Because ou, side bidders for $780,
600 of Wyoming state highway bonds
are lacking the state of Wyoming will
buy the bonds for itself. In other
words. the state will purchase bonds
Of its highway department as invest
men,S for its educational department,
paving for the bonds funds accumu-
lated from the lease and sale of St;Ite
the state will pay 6 per cent. interest
to its school fund.
The grand encampment of the indie
pendent Order of Odd Fellows of
Wyoming. in session 1T Casper. elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year: Grand patriarch. Fred \. Proc
tor. Cheyenne grand high priest A. L.
Phillips. Casper: grand senior warden,
Thomas coltle. Green River; grand
treasurer. =. l.. Darr. Basin: grand
senior warden. Louis Il. Schmidt, Cas-
per: grand representative for 1922
1922. David McCullaugh. Laramie.
The title To the Hot Springs prop
eriy Al Saratoga has at last been per-
fected. and the state will now take
over the place as provided fer by the
last Legislature. For several months
the matter has been delayed, and it
WAS feared that the former owners
would be unable 10 clear up the title
SO that the transfer could be made.
However. the attorney general has now
passed favorahly on the abstract pre-
pared by the Hot Springs Company.
and the state is now in possession of
the spring and surrounding land.
How family homesteaders near the
Montana line. in the northern part OF
Sheridan county. kept an all-night
vigil over the dead body of j. +
Pierce, Il neighhor. 10 fight off coyotes
was revealed when Charles Champion
undertaken, returned to Sheridan with
the body. Pierce lived alone on q
homestead and dropped dead while or
his way to IL neighhor's place.
Sheriff Lee Martin and Coroner Lew
NJ. Gay returned TO Casper from the
Bad Water country, seventyfive miles
northwest. with the body of an Arme
nian, name unknown. and Ed Holmes
IL ranch employee, who gave himself uI
to the authorities for killing the Ar
menian. Holmes declared he shot iI
self-defense, after being fired upon b.
his victim and suffering slight wound
The rush Of applications for army
discharge has stopped Mt Fort d. A
Russell. according to Col. Thomas Du
gan, commandment. Poor chances OF
getting Il job in civilian life are respOn
sible. Three-quarters Of the enlisted
personnel having applied for discharge
under the recent order reducing the
army strength to 10000, but a large
number of these men are asking Il
withdraw their applications.
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