, 1921-01-27
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
WestefB Newspaper Uni0n Nr.s service


W. 4. Sims. 30, who lived alone in
a cabin near Esterbrook was found
dead in his bed. Death occurred from
natural causes, the coroner said. Sims
had made his home in that region for
about twenty years.
Five men arrested in raids upon
stills bootleg joints at Hudson, Wyo..
paid fine of $500 apiece in District
Court at Lander. This total of $500
is the greatest amount ever paid into
the county treasury here in one day.
Government agents who spent two
weeks in gathering evidence assisted
in the raid.
That high credit as well as high
wages has been the lot of the laborer
for the period now pending, is in
dicated in the petition in bankruptcy
filed at Cheyenne by Louis Adam Mil
lard ofWorland, Wyo. The petition
sets forth that Willard, a "laborer,"
has liabilities of s1O,921 and assets of
s275.
Jesse Paul Atkins, alias Rec Liv-
ingston, 10 years of age, confessed
slayer Of John J. Corbett, wealthy Ma
trona county rancher. on Jan 20. 1920,
pleaded guilty to second degree muir
der and was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment in the state penitentiary
by Judge C. o. Brown in the District
Court at Casper.
Arthur Nave, identified by Mrs.
Daisy Odom from his voice and cloth
ing as one of two negroes who at
tackled her at her home Dec. % at
Cheyenne. has been released from Gus
tody by order of Judge W. H. Ed
wards, at the end of a preliminary
hearing wherein the court held the
prosecutor had not produced sufficient
evidence to justify binding the accused
over. Nave produced numerous cred
ible alibi witnesses at the preliminary.
With arteries in both wrists sew
cred and a bloody knife lying beside
it, the corpse of W. +. Tinckum, 60.
formerly chairman of the board Of
commissioners of Crook county, vas
found in a wood shed at the home of
his son, Ralph Tinckum. forty-five
miles from Hulett. About two years
ago the deceased suffered a stroke of
apoplexy, which resulted in a mild
form of dementia. and recently he had
been depressed and morose. A cor
oner's investigation resulted in a YER
dict of suicide.
Wyoming's first budget was submit
ted to the Legislature by Governor
Carey. 1t recommends that the total
appropriations to be paid out of the
general fund for the coming biennium
shall be 50, $50. 1851. While this is
an increase of s1s7. Ss5 over the appro-
priations authorized by the 1919 Leg
islature. the governor points out that
1t should be borne In mind that, con-
sidering the fac that the assessed val
uation of the state has increased from
S29S, 53S. 1872 in 1918 to S42i,S66,617 in
1920, the increase is small in proper
ton to the assessed valuation of the
state.
While working alone at the bottom
of a well forty feet deep on his home
stead, Lee Arneson of Thermopolls
was nearly sInothered by a fall Of
dirt which dlsIocated one shoulder.
His injury made impossible his usual
process of getting in and out Of the
well he had beer digging by shining"
up the bucket rope. But realizing that
this was his only meal of escape
after a tedious performance, Arneson
in some "a managed to climb the
rope with only one hand by wrapping
a loop around his body n pushing
the sides Of the hole with his feet.
IL required nearly three hours to make
the forty-foot climb.
The jury list for Albany county.
which contains the names Of all males
eligible for jury service during 1921,
contains no women's names There are
1,527 on the list. II has been many
years since women were drawn for
jury duty there, this being the first
county IN the United States to have
women Jurors and grand jurors.
a huge mountain lion. 0 feet 4 inches
in length was killed in the Sunlight
district of the Shoshone forest near
Cody by hunters Of the Biological Sur
vey. The lion was killed shortly after
- ~ NAhFhth w htAAu a lAIEt GIN.
The same day the hunters killed a
large timber wolf. one Of the four re-
ported to be making the Basin country
their home this winter.
President Aven Nelson and the
faculty of the University Of Wyoming
are already making arrangements for
the fourth annual high school week. to
be held In Laramie March IA, 10, 10,
II, is and 10. with the annual basket
ball tournament, when all the high
schools in the state are expected to
send can to the competition for the
state championship, second place,
third place. and individual prizes to
players.
Laramie and Albany county has
started a new campaign In the inter