, 1922-08-10
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
w YOMING

was caught under her horse.
Edward ~Blattenberg. Ii, suffered IL
fractured leg, broken in three n ces.
when IA horse fell with him on his
fathers ran. in the .5ates Hole Gun
try.
The governments plan for ousting
oil drillers from the Teapot Dome ma
val reserve will not be altered. Gov.
Robert D.. Carey of Wyoming was in
formed in n telegram dispatched from
Washington at the direction of Presi-
lent Harding.
Tumbling into an abandoned well
while IN II visit to his grandfather's
place ut Vaughan, Leonard Ray Hage-
man, 2-year-oId child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Hageman, who reside north of
Torrington. drowned before his abb
sence at the house was noticed. The
well has been fenced, but the baby
crawled thru.
Four hundred and sixty thousand
ties cut during the winter at the for
est camps of the Wyoming Tie and
Timber Company are moving down the
Big Wine river at a point twenty
miles this side of Dubois in the annual
drive. They will be brought to the
camp at Riverton of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway Company for
treating before being put to track use.
Goshen county should have Il state
agricultural college, in the opinion of
f. o. Sinnard of Yoder, who is IA can
didate for state representative of
Goshen county. says the News. Sin
nard, who recently announced his can
dldacy for representative, has prom
Used. if elected, to work in behalf of a
state agricultural college to be located
in Goshen county.
Calvin Matthias, 30, operating en-
gineer at the Casper plant of the Ma
trona Power Company, was %electrocut-
ed and died instantly when he
grounded a strong current while max
ing repairs on the switchboard. Math-
las, it was id by company officials,
neglected TO throw off the switch
which would have protected him. Is
widow and two small children survive
him.
The period of stagnatlon thru which
the Rawlins wool market has passed
for the past month came to an end
recently, when practically the entire
unsold balance of the clip of 1929
passed from the growers hands TO
those of the dealers or middleman.
says the Rawlins Republican. The av-
erage price secured was far below the
June, this being due to a variety of
conditions, local, eastern and financial.
A terrific wind and hail storm struck
about twelve miles south of Gillette,
doing much damaye to crops, gardens
and buildings. John Smelzer probably
suffered the heaviest loss by hail. His
entire crop was cut to the ground, and
is estimated by those who have seen 1t
to be a 100 per cent loss. Henry
Schmidt. c. I. Heater and the Hell
lands also suffered severe losses. At
the Heater place the wind blew the
roofs off several buildings, and the
hail killed about $50 chickens.
The hottest election fight of the
Wyoming American Legion convention,
which closed at Torrington recently,
developed over the choosing Of the ma
tional executive committeeman.
Charles b. Plummer of Casper defeat
ed VIII G.. Met: of Sheridan, "A to II,
after IL battle in which units of the
rallied to the side of the two
largest post in Wyoming. Other of
ficers elected were: DIR. A. B. Yonk-
en-, Riverton, commander; DIR. Il. J.
Goppert, Cody. vice commander: Lloyd
II. Herrln, WJrland, fihance officer.
md II. H.. Meyer. kemmerer, state ex-
ecutive committee chairman.
Traffic over the Union Pacific west
of Laramie was delayed for several
hours II few days ago by II washout at
Ridge. neat Medicine --ow, 1000 feet
OF the e%astbound track and 300 feet g
the w%estbound track having gone out.
Railroad electricians ave returned
to work ut Gillette. According to in
formation received, they were Informed
that they neNer did come under the
shopcraft u ION, says the Gillette Rec
ord. So far passenger trains have been
m king their re "- runs, althUv 4 in
some instances "A few hours late.
A. X. sIatheson. %, of Lander, was
found lying dead On his bed in II room
OF the skinner apartments ut Tier
mopolls, when the door was forced
open after the landlady became
alarmed on not oeing able to get n re-
Spouse TO calls nj the door. Under the
mattress on his bed was found n small
powder box which had contained Al
lnrge quantity Of strychnlne, ind two
empty bottles which had
been filled with chloroform. The poi
sons had beel purchased the dny be-
for under the gulse that they were To
be used for making prairie dog hr''
and for cleaning clothes, and had evil
IDENTIFY been taken by young ms
Mrs. L. s.. King of Cheyenne was
olaetna praeIlppf nf tho AuOnrt.,,