, 1922-03-02
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union New. Service,

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son.
The regular spring term of court in
Natrona county has been set to begin
March 10 by Judge @. o. Brown. The
anne of sixty jurors will be drawn
for trial cases, and for the first time
in years there will be no murder hear
ing on the docket.
Governor Robert d. Carey, on whom
the honor of "tenderfoot" scout was
recently conferred Mt Cheyenne, was
elevated to n Boy Scout of the first
class when 100 Casper scouts des-
cended upon him as he was about to
take the train for Cheyenne, and mad
the presentation. Scout Philip Ed
wards pinned the badge on the COVER
nor.
Attempting to cross the Big Horn
at Thermopolis on the ice after dark,
Clyde b. Woodring, ~10-year-old son of
Mr.. n Mrs. b. II. Woodring, stepped
into open water and was drowned.
Searchers who went out to look for
the lad traced his steps to the brink
of the ice and recovered his body SOME
uioAuhNt btiON IA punt Nitlt hC
fell in.
Charles Wilcox, one of the men In
jured In the Grass creek explosion last
May, in connection with which Alfred
Lampitt was recently convicted for the
death of Harry Foight, was killed re-
Gently. The stage driver from Nee
teetse found the body of Wilcox at the
head of G~ooseberry creek, pinned un
der n truck which he had been driving.
The truck apparently had skidded and
overturned.
Plans of George Woods of Oklahoma,
jobless and broke, to get his family to
Oregon by sending his wife and twin
babies as train passengers, while he
rode the blind baggage of the trains Oh
which they Travelled, went awry some
where in Colorado. when Woods was
chased from the train. At any rate,
Mrs. Woods and the twins have ar
rived in Cheyenne, broke and hungry.
The Red Cross has taken charge of
them until Woods catches up. Woods
had planned to stop Mt points en- route
to earn sufficient money to pay the
passage of his wife and the twins, 1t
Is said.
-Four members of a family were
burned to death and the only surviv-
ing member is suffering from exposure
as a result of n fire which destroyed
the home of l.. A. Dove, one-half mile
from Hartville Junction, twenty-three
miles north of Wheatland. The dead
are l.. A. Dove, 90 years old, section
foreman for the Burlington railroad,
and his children, Orval Dove, %;
Mabel Dove, 10, and Cleo Dove, Is.
and walked half n mile in her night
clothing, barefooted, to the home of
David Miller to inform n%eighbors Of
the tragedy.
Charging hat faulty construction
and installation of bathroom fixtures
was responsible for the death Of A. J.
Morton, who died from dIoxide poison
ing while taking n bath on December
%, Emil Dyer, as administrator OF the
Morton estate. has instituted suit In
District Court ut Casper for 1921 400
damages against III. Il. Miller, wealthy
owner of nm apartment house. II S
set forth In the complaint that two
persons previously had been overcome
by fumes while taking baths, MS the re-
sult OF poor ventilation. The fumes
are said TO have come from n gas
stove, the only means OF hentlng the
room.
Elmer Mays, %, colored, formerly a
porter at n Casper hotel, will spend
the remainder of his life In the state
penltentlary Mt Rnwlins MS the result
of n sentence passed In District Court
Mt Lander by Judge c. o. Brown when
Mays entered n plea Of guilty to the
murder of J. Morisukl and Retlgio
Vlllegos, Japanese and Mexican, re-
spectively, nj SchoenIng station In
eastern Fremont county.
Twenty-Five Wyoming cities on the
national park-to-park highway are re-
spending TO the membership campaign
Intended TO stimulate tourist trnvei
this summer over the G,OOa-mlle won
der loop that passes through Denver.
Word That Cheyenne aud several other
cities already have raised their part
of the states $4,000 quota was received
by Gus Holmes, managing secretary OF
the National Park-to-Park Highway
Association. The Wyoming cnmpulgn
Is under the direction Of l.. T.. Newton
of Cody, state director. and several
other association members. Cltugwn
ter, Wlicailpnd, Glendo and Douglas
have their members and Indications are
That Glenrock. Casper, Whitman, Mon
eta. Shoshonl and Thormopolls are al
so "oyer the top
Dr. i. l.. Beck, Cheyenne surgeon, rs
critically sick with blood poisoning
contracted when he dropped IN lnstru-
mcnt while operating on a patients
ear. The instrument grazed his knee
and the slight Injury resulted In blood