, 1922-10-05
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
w YOMING

lightning.
Royalties accruing to the federal
government from oil, natural gas and
natural gas gasoline amounted IN
August to S7IS,37S, of which S3SS,S19
was credited to Wyoming.
Two tool dressers employed by
Jesse Walker, IL contract driller. work
ing for the Midwest Oil Company, met
4; horrible death at Casper in u fire
that destroyed u rig in the Salt Creek
oil field.
Andy Angellousz, charged with as
sault with intent to kill Bruno Meri-
adj, was bound over to the District
Court under $500 bono following his
preliminary hearing. The alleged as
sault occurred in the mining camps
near Sheridan.
With 545 students registered to date
for the present school year, the Uni
versity of Wyoming shows an increase
over the enrolment ut this period last
year of 132 students, or about 80 per
cent. This increase presages the early
attainment of the 1000 enrolment
goal. for the state school is becoming
better known each year.
The Thermopolis Gas Company has
turned gas into its mains at Thermop-
oils, supplying nsume of Thermop-
oils and neighboring towns for the
first time. For a number Of months
work of laying the pipes in the alleys
and back streets has been going on,
and many homes and manufacturing
industries of the city are ready for Its
use.
The Great Western Development
Company, recently financed to con
struct irrigation projects adjacent to
Basin. will begin construction work on
the first unit in October. G. W. John
son has the contract for h earth
construction at a cost of $4,000. The
first unit will water 10000 acres with
in seven miles of Basin and Will be
settled under a colonization plan.
Joe Trombello, Italian coal miner of
Kleenburn, Wyo., is in the Sheridan
county Jail at Sheridan, charged with
the murder of Fred Hoffman Is, at
Kleensburn. Trombello was captured
by a posse at Decker, Mont, where he
was in hiding at the ranch home of
Pete Bambaca. He fled from the home
as the posse approached n a chase
extending over two miles ended. His
body was riddled with buckshot.
Mrs. A. r. Schultz of Salt Creek
lies at a Casper hospital In n serious
condition from injuries received when
ar auto in which she was returning
to Salt Lake with her husband
crashed into a heavy truck loaded
with casing that had been left stand
ing on the highway without a light
to warn night travellers. Although ex-
pected to recover. Mrs. Schultz suf-
fered a conclusion and decorations
about the head.
Suspension of all drilling operations
in the Salt Creek field between Dec.
! of this year und May / of next, ex-
ccpt such work us Is needed to meet
government requirements under the
Leasing law. was agreed upon by rep
resentatives of a great majority of
operators In meeting at Casper, when
recommendations drawn up by a COM
mittee of seven were unanimously up
proved.
Frank Frodlng, recently of Denver,
wus s%uffocated In Cheyenne when the
sewer trench In which he was work.
ing caved in and buried him under
five feet of earth. Yellow employees
worked frnntlcnlly in an effort to
reach him before he s%mothered. The
trench was ten feet deep. Froding
WIS u newcomer In Cheyenne, was
unmarried n was believed to have
II father residing in Denver.
After crawling under n car at the
reicing station of the Pacific fruit ex-
press ut Laramie. an unknown tres
passer stepped on unother truck anu
WIS ground 10 pieces by an engine.
Fred Hoffman. 10 years old. was
shot and killed at kleenburg, near
Sheridan. Sheridan police declare
the shooting was lone by Joe from
bello. II miner. In II quarrel following
n raid on the lntter's watermelon
patch. Trombello fled Immediately
after the shooting. Officers sny the
Hoffman boy went TO the miners
home to protest his innocence OF stenl-
ing watermelons and thnt the shooting
followed.
The creation OF a new national park
may result from a joint picnic held at
the summit OF the Lincoln highway.
forty-two miles from Cheyenne nnd
ten miles from Laramie. by the lnrn-
inie and Cheyenne Kiwnnis Clubs. AT
this gathering the project of having
the summit OF the Lincoln highway.
which Is on the Fort d. A. Russell
mnneuver reserve. designated u nn-
tiOnal park, perhaps TO be known ns
kiwanis Pnrk. was born. II probably
will be taken up with the Wyoming
delegation In Congress Mt once.
Chris Salvescn was killed by the