, 1922-01-11
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

oAA VtlA ~ Z HG-9t
at the corner of Seventeenth n Cap
itol streets. The building will cost
100000
Riverton's new $4,000 high school
building was opened for school pur-
poses beginning with the second SEM
ester on ian. 8. The new structure
will greatly relieve congested condi-
lions.
Fire Of undetermined origin de-
stroyed h main tipple of Dietz No. z
mine camp neal Sheridan. Officials of
The Peabody Conl Company. owners of
the mine. announced the loss would ex-
coed $4,000.
Judge J.. NJ. Mott, one of the best
known characters In Kemmerer, died
at the Lincoln County Miners Hos
pital. He Ind been IN poor health for
some time luz to rheumatism and 9th
er ailments.
Suit has been instituted against the
city of Casper In District Court by
Gilbert Bros. for $6.S3S.0S, alleged to
be due the firm for grading work per
formed under contract. The case in
wolves a street fill carried out in ex-
cess of original specifications.
Cattle thieves have been operating
for many months in the vicinity of the
state line north OF Gillette, and east
as far as the Dakotn line Mt more or
less frequent intervals. Some OF the
stock shortages have been slight, while
numerous s.nes have been ON a rather
large scale.
Leaving his big Mercer car near the
OR ranch, near Lusk, while hunting.
$. w. Boyd returned TO find II had
been completely destroyed by fire and
an acre Of grass land burned over.
Quick response by four ranch employees
had kept the prairie fire frorn spread
ing further.
Governor Carey appointed William
A. Riner, Cheyenne attorney, to be
Judge of the first judicial district,
vice William c. Mentzer. resigned.
The appointee Is a nephew of John A..
Riner OF Cheyenne. until recently the
Oldest federal judge in point Of serv.
ice in the United States.
p. c. Chapman, alleged to have ali
seconded on Nov. 10 with a 81, 900 pay
roll OF the Midwest Refining Company
and who was captured in Jacksonville.
Fla. Is In the Natrona county jail fol-
lowing his return to Casper In the Gus
tody Of Deputy Sheriff John Powcrt.
Chapman has admitted his guilt and on
his arrival said: Il was Just a fool"
The baby son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Gum
Of Maverick Springs was badly scaId-
ca as a result of playing with n Their
mos bottle. The bottle, filled with
boiling hot water. had been placed In
the baby's cab. In some way the child
got the cap off the bottle and spilled
the contents over its body. The child
was badly burned about the legs and
hips.
Out Of approximately 1000 arrests
made by the Casper police department
during the year Just ended. oyer 90
per cent VERGE for violation of the
liquor and drug laws, according to In.
formation just compiled. Fines nggre
eating S39.S01.50 were paid into the
city treasury during the year and u
large amount was worked out on the
streets.
That Superintendent Albright and
others connected with the admlnistrn-
ton OF the Yellowstone National Park
are Interested NIL the time In the Wild
life of the park Is evidenced In the re-
cent vaccination OF eighty calves OF the
buffnio herd. The vaccination was to
prevent hemorrhaglc septicemfa, a dis
ease which is common to domestic
stock In the mountain regions.
In District Court at Basin IL. b..
Richardson was appointed receiver of
the Big Horn Glass Company Mt
Lowell upon petition of the trustee for
the bond holders. It Is proposed to
foreciose on the plant, r~eorgnnize and
make 1t impossible to resume opera.
lions.
Police authorities at Casper have
been unable to find n clue to the
identity of burglars who robbed Mrs.
Lee Stock, from whose hand an $500
ring was removed while she was
asleep in her apartment. A gold
wrist watch valued at 500 and some
cash was also taken from a dresser
In the room. Mrs. Stock awoke to
find the v%niunbles gone.
James s. Harris and Oscar Robin.
son have completed the delivery Of
20 400 feet of mine props to the
Poposla Coal Company, and have al.
ready cut 100000 feet more on their
two years contract. The tImbers
were cut above Dubois. floated down
Big Wind river TO Riverton and
ghtODcd from thara hv roll a.