, 1922-04-27
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
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j.. w. Dillon and j. II. Housh of Co
lumbus, o., have been in Laramie ar
ranging to establish a glass factory in
that place.
Albert Q. Clark, convicted at Lara
mic of murder in the second degree for
killing his wife, March II, was SEN
fenced TO from twenty-five to forty
years in the p%enitentiary.
The Gun Club of Green River met
recently and decided on he location of
II new field and the installing of new
equipment that will make it one of the
most modern and up to date in the
state.
The semi-annual meeting of the AL
bany County Cattle and Horse Grow
ers' Association was held at Laramie,
April 26. w. G. Thomas, the HEREFORD
cattle breeder, arranged an interesting
program.
Marshall S. Reynolds of Kemmerer,
Wyo., internal revenue collector for
the district of Wyoming, has an
nounced his candidacy for the Repub-
lican nomination for representative in
Congress.
Claire Gordon, chief of the Cheyenne
field division of the United States gem
eral land office during the last two
years, has resigned His position will
be filled temporarily by w. Il. Burt of
Phoenix, Ariz.
During the last half Of the present
year S322,0 600 will be available for car
rying on construction work on the Riv-
erton reclamation project. Last year
only 100000 was available for the
same purpose.
One Of the best evidences that Raw
Inns is beginning to experience a re
turn to normalcy, and that the cor
ner has been turned is shown in the
revival in building which has taken
place since the first of the year in
that city.
A verdict for the defendant, in the
$4,000 damage suit brought by Joseph
NJ. Ramirez against the City of Chey-
enne, was returned by a jury in Dis
trict Court by direction of Judge VII
liam A. Riner. Ramirez had sued for
the death of his S-year-old son, killed
July II. 1920, by the o%verturning Of a
swing in City park in Cheyenne.
In the exactly seven years it has
been in operation the Wyoming work
mems compensation department has
paid out to injured workmen more
than a million dollars, and last year
alone the awards totaled nearly two
fifths of a million. This is shown in
the annual report of State Treasurer
A. ID. Hoskins, made in Cheyenne.
Walter King, erstwhile rancher from
the Decker, Mont, country, but for the
past two and a half months a guest of
Sheriff Thomas and incarcerated in
the county bastile at Sheridan, has eff
fected his escape and also established
escape from the county Jail al Sheri-
dan since its erection ten years ago.
DIR. w. A. Robertson, secretary of
the State Board of Sheep Commission
ers, has announced that the Wyoming
dipping law is to be rigidly enforced
this year, even though its enforce
ment was waived last year. Dipping
takes place annually from April to No
vember. DIR. Robertson said the neces-
sary blanks could be obtained from his
office in Cheyenne.
The fate of two young trappers,
missing since the latter part of Feb
ruary, may become known by the time
warm spring suns remove from the
mountain sides the deep snow in Jack
son Hole country. The trappers, James
Smith, 10 years old. and Harvey Tay-
Tor, p Il old, left on "A fur hunting
expedition from their homes near Kel-
ly, intending to return March 10.
Excitement over the discovery Of
what promises to be the biggest find
in oil field circles in the Rocky Noun
tain region is running high in Doug
las and Casper, The new dome is
known as Crater Basln, located forty
miles northeast of Douglas.
Mornings public schools. with ~
314 pupils enrolled and 2,33S teachers
employed, are in receipt of nearly half
n million dollars, representing the
semi-annual distribution OF both the
state school land income fund and the
government oil land royalty fund.
BY unanimous vote the Kemmcrer
city council passed an ordinance which
compels the labelling OF clothing and
fabrics. for sale by Kemmerer stores,
with accurate wool content. This is
one of the first cities in the state TO
adopt a ''rruth-ln-fabric" ordinance.
Immediate construction of n railroad
from Wamsutter to tap the rich Snake
River valley and the immense coal
measures of northern Colorado, insur-
Ing early completion of two irrigation
projects watering 10000 ucres, has
been assured those who have been
working on the matter quietly for two
years. This statement was made by II.
w. Reader OF Baggs.
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