, 1921-11-17
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union News s.r.lce.

Delaware, 2S to 6, at Newport, r. l.
A Chicago group of business men
are placing in the immediate vicinity
of M~eeteetse standard rigs with which
they propose to sink several wells.
They are working night and day.
of Albany county, has been appointed
an officer of the Wyoming State Board
of Child and Animal Protection by its
commissioner, w. G. Harris of Chey-
enne, and has entered upon his duties.
w. A. Blackmore, wealthy pioneer
oil operator, was elected mayor of
Casper by a plurality of about sixty
votes over j. J.. Giblin, who was
backed by organizations of church and
temperance workers.
The Cheyenne lodge of the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks has
appointed a committee to work out
plans for the erection of a new Elks'
home at a cost of at least S250,000.
The lodge long ago outgrew its present
home, a snowy structure built twenty
years ago at Il cost of $25,0 600.
Fremont county beekeepers produced
through their apiaries not less thar
100000 pounds of honey during the
season just closed, according to esti-
mates compiled by the Beekeepers' AS
ISOLATION. The majority was from al
falfa INT clover and commanded the
highest market price, which was excep-
tionally low this season.
George II. Cross and other property
owners of Converse county, who
sought redress through court action
against alleged excessive taxation, lost
the first round of their fight when
Judge c.. A. Brown in District Court
at Douglas sustained the demurrer
filed by Converse county through its
attorney. The action was brought to
ecove taxes upon lands, the value of
which had been raised, illegally 1t was
stated, by the state.
Jack Gordon, arrested at Mitchell,
S. D., for the theft of an automobile
stolen from Attorney H. b. Durham of
Casper has been convicted and SEN
fenced to three years in the federal
p~enitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans.,
following a trial in the United States
District Court at Sioux Falls, accord
ing to information received. Gordon
was prosecuted under the federal law
making it a felony to transport ii
stolen car from n state to another.
After a lapse of several years, activ-
tiles have been resumed in the Rocky
Mountain h%erbarium inc the univer-
sity is in line to assume a position of
considerable Importance as n botanical
enter for the West. The herbarium
was begun shortly after the establish
ment of the university and its develop
ment has beer under the direction OF
DIR. AVIAN Nelson since its foundation.
Almost the entire collection of some
10000 specimens has been brought to-
gether under DIR. Nelson's direction I'M
til now the herbarium is the most COM
plete and representative collection of
Rocky Mountain plants to be found.
An examination of the camping
ground at Mirror lake, within the
Medicine Bow forest, revealed that a
thoughtless visitor had carved his ini-
tails, "P. b." in very large letters
upon an Englemann spruce tree. This
act, while not of great importance in
itself, would, If repeated by others at
different locations, seriously disfigure
the trees and destroy the attractive
ness of the camping places. The iden-
tity of the owner of the initials was
determined and he was required to
paint out the initials and to eliminate
the unsightly conditions and the tres
pass case then was closed without
prejudice.
Andrew Olson of the Wyoming Tim
Der Company has completed the deliv-
cry of 100000 railroad ties to the
Union Pacific at Fort Steele. The
ties were cut In the Medicine Bow
national forest and floated down
Douglas creek and the North Platte
river to where they are taken from
the water and loaded for shipment to
the tie preserving plant at Laramie.
Jose Johnson, one OF the six men
delivered from the Natrona county
jail recently when l.. Il. Nicholson,
convicted slayer. made his escape, and
one or two who were r%ecnptured by
the police. pleaded guilty to a charge
of robbery In District Court and was
sentenced by Judge G. o. Brown to a
term of from one to two years In the
state p"entltentlary at Rawlins.
Many reports have been received
this fall. according to DR.. Elder, at
the State Agricultural college at Lar.
annie. from different parts of the
state, telling of the early occurrence
OF blackleg among cattle. The early
occurrences in different parts is prob.
ably due to the climatic conditions
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