, 1921-10-13
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union News Service,

peace Officers In southern Wyoming,
dropped dead of heart trouble on the
street at Laramie City.
Offices have been opened in Chey-
enne for the N~onpartisan League by
Harry NJ. Lux, league organizer. Lux
has ordered stationery for a Wyoming
branch of the league and has hired of
flee assistants.
Announcement from Omaha that a
woman there had given birth to twen-
ty-four children has brought out the in
formation that Mrs. John O'Mara of
Cody is the mother of eighteen chill
dren, the last born this year.
Clyde w. Atherly of Basin was nom
mated by President Harding to be sur
veyor general of Wyoming. The fol-
lowing were nominated as postmas-
tiers: AT Bisbee, Ariz., Charles w.
Hicks, and at Ogden, Utah, Rufus A.
Garner.
Tripping while playing near q bon
fire, Stana, 3-year-old daughter of
Charles Vaughn, plunged face fore
most into the flames and died a few
hours later, after she had beer taken
to he state hospital at Rock Springs.
While making Cheyenne's water
supply safe for human consumption,
Leonard Hines, an employee at the
Cheyenne city filter plant, almost lost
his life. He was "chlorinated" by
fumes from the filters and was uncon-
scious for two hours. He was resus-
citated through use of a lungmotor.
Rev. Morten Joslin, rector of the
Holy Communion Episcopal church at
Rock Springs, Wyo., and formerly a
Presbyterian minister, died at his home
in Rock Springs. During the World
War he was acting dean of the cathe-
dral at Laramie. Bishop N. s.. Thorn
as of Cheyenne was with him at the
end.
Claude Grouse, % years old, was
drowned in the Platte river at a ford
thirty miles above Casper when the
current carried him from his horses
back and washed him downstream.
The horse refused to go into the
stream until forced by Grouse to en-
ter the water. The body was recov-
cred.
Stocks of brook trout in streams of
the Cheyenne district may be de-
pleted for several years to come as
the result of a condition existing this
fall. All streams are so low that
trout are unable to spawn under ma
tural conditions, but are held in pools
where the eggs when deposited sink
into mud and as n result perish.
Mrs. Lin /. Noble of Thermopolis
was reelected president of the wyo-
ming Federation of Women's Clubs at
the state convention at Greybull. She
was elected general federation direc-
tor, n other officers were chosen as
follows: Mrs. w. U. Gage, Worland,
vice president Mrs. Albert Rochelle,
Lusk, recording secretary Mrs. c. f.
Stewart, ThermopOlis, corresponding
secretary Miss Elizabeth Wiley, Grey
bull. treasurer; Mrs. G. f. Hamilton,
Sheridan, auditor
Three games alleged to be gambling,
being conducted at Crosby, a mining
camp near Thermopolis, proved un-
profitable to all concerned when three
holdups made a $1,000 haul at an
early morning hour and effected their
escape. The places held up were CON
Quoted by Gus Taylor, Ben williams
and Mike Todonvich, and n complaint
regarding the robbery led to their ar
rest and release on $1,000 bonds.
Their trial will be heard at the next
term of court.
Charles Burnley of Riverton, one of
the fifty men TO receive permits from
the state to shoot n bull moose this
season, was the first to return from
the hunt with an animul of the kind
specified. He bagged his game on the
second day of the season eight miles
south of Black Rock in the Dubois re-
gion. The moose tipped the scales at
about 1000 pounds.
Robert Tisdale, u recent arrival In
Cody, succumbed to the Effects of al
coholic poisoning from drinking moon
shine whisky. according TO authorities
who investigated his sudden death.
His hands were %clenched, Indicating
that he had died in agony. Four bot
ties were found in the room. one of
which continued enough moonshlne to
determine the cause of his death.
Wearing the brand and earmarks of
the Kenneth Macdonald ranch on
Powder river, n five-polnt buck deer
which In its younger days had been
roped and branded by n cowpuncher.
wns bagged by II. H.. Klock-
STEM Of Casper, thirty miles from the
ranch where the hot iron was applied.
Roy Harrell roped the deer three years
ago and released It after scorching It
with the quarter circle s of the ranch.
A verdict of "justifiable homicide"
was returned at Casper by Il coroner's
jury which investigated the shooting