The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-07-15
WYO MING
STATE NEWS
(westesn Newspaper Union News Sssvice. }
Cheyenne, Wyo.-Annual Front
Days Celebration. July 26 to 20.


COMING EVENTS.
Cheyenne. Wyo.--Annual Frontier
Days Celebration, July 26 to 20.
Casper entertained the sixth annual
encampment Of the United Spanish
American War Veterans, department
Of Colorado and Wyoming, recently.
| Hundreds were in attendance, includ-
ing large delegations from Colorado.
| Announcement of the sale of Wyo-
ming sheep to the Japanese govern
ment was made recently ny the King
Bros. Sheep Company, which owns
ranch near Laramie. The lot includes
fifty ewes and fifteen bucks. They
were purchased for the animal hus
handry department of the japanese
government, the announcement stated.
Reduction Of the transcOntinental
air mail service from four divisions
to three. effective July 1, has been an
:ounced by A. Il. Dunphy, superintend.
ent Of the Chicago-ROck Springs, WyO,
division. The new divisions will be:
New York Chicago. Chicago Rock
Springs, Rock Springs-San Francisco.
Salt Lake and Cleveland will be elfmi-
mated as division points, he said. The
central division will be approximately
LOO miles air line and the others
each 500 miles.
| William Stewart, colored, Is in a Sc.
rious condition at st. Johns hospital
in Cheyenne from four bullet wounds
| I'm, In, i,,f h,,
Joe Mayo, who is in the county Jail.
Two negresses. Susie Brodaus and
Clara Williams, to the former of whom
Stewart was engaged, are held as wit.
neSses. The shooting occurred in the
negro quarter in n house to which it
is alleged Stewart was decoyed by
Mayo. who, it is said, was jealous OF
his engagement to the Brodaus woman.
Three violent deaths occurred in
Sundance within few hours recently.
Ralph McIlenry. 81 years old. suffered
Il broken neck and died soon after,
when the automobile he was driving
sldded and turned over. pnning him
underneath. Walter Atkinson, Is
years old, of New Haven. Conn. was
dragged TO death by a horse he was
attempting to ride. The boys father
witnessed the accident, hut was power.
less to save him. Louis Schneider, 20
years old. proSpector, was found dead
in his cabin, shot through tie heart
The coroner's jury returned Il verdict
of suicide.
Pet!icoat government initiated in
Jackson for the first time anywhere
in the United States when an all
women administration was elected here
Il little over Il year ago aud reelected
again this spring probably will be ex-
tended To cover all of the famed Jack
sons Hole country, one time rem
devious for bandits and bad out
laws. Returns compiled on the recent
| specia! election show that the pro-
! posed division of Lincoln country has
carried by seven hundred maiority
and that Jackson has been chosen as
the county seat for the newly created
| Teton county.
The Midwest Refining Company. as
ISOLATED With the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana, has announced sus-
pension of its new construction pro-
gram at the Casper plant and the lay
! ing off Of between 900 and 700 men.
Lack of Il market for refined products
and steadily increasing stock. was
given as the reason for the suspen-
sion by II. S. Allison, vice president of
the company, who pointed out that
production had made the oil
business highly uncertain. All de-
partments of the plant will continue
to be worked at full capacity, how
ever, and some 800 men will be en-
ployed.
Miss Margaret Grier, prominent
young society girl of Cheyenne and
former student Mt the University of
Denver. died from injuries received
three weeks ago when she was shot
down by Sam Underwood, her former
sweetheart, who is alleged to have
been crazed by jealousy when he saw
her in company with another man.
A second death resulted in Wheat
land from the Staying at Glendo of
Capt +. S. Jackson by Doug Roberts.
The second victim was Coroner Harry
II. Pepper, who took charge of the
body of Jackson, and who, while pre-
pairing 1t for burial, accidentally cut
himself with scalpel. Infection of
the wound caused blood poisoning, and
Coroner Pepper succumbed.
The sheriff's office of Basin, in con.
nection with the police department of
Greybull, made raid on Chinese
joint in Greybull and arrested two
Chinese, Toy Sooy and Tom Coon, and
secured about $1,000 worth of mar.
cotics, including cocaine and morphine.
';oom was under the influence Of
drugs when arrested. 1t is stated that
the Chinese had been Sallinr ,lnn., a.