, 1922-10-25
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NEWS ITEMS

Buffalo and vicinity the largest coal
mine 1t has ever had, 1t was announced
in the Buffalo Voice.
Bliss Bayne of Cheyenne, the assist
ant state game commissioner Of Wyo-
ming, has issued a proclamation clos
ing the Little Laramie river to all fish
ing from Oct. Is to Dec. 81 OF this
year.
The train dispatcher's office for the
sixth district of the Union Pacific,
from Laramie to Rawlins, closed on
January %. 1921, has been reopened
at Laramie with 0. H.. P. Robinson
as the chief dispatcher.
Advice calling for the boiling Of all
Casper water used for drinking pur-
poses hal been rescinded by health
authorities at Casper, following
analyses showing that the water is
again safe to drink.
The town of Cody has employed
counsel to defend Hurry L. Wizard,
town marshal, who was shot recently
by Bruce Hodges, federal prohibition
. officer, when Wizard was arresting the
latter on a charge of being Intoxicated.
Young women from Denver. Greeley
and Loveland, Colo, froL Cheyenne
and other towns In Wyoming, and from
Kansas. Nebraska and South Dakota,
have been accepted into the several
sororities at the University Of Wyo-
ming and have been pledged under the
rules Of the Pan-Hellenlc Association.
After an investigation lasting more
than seven months, the murder of
Jesse Sitton, former sheriff at Sidney,
Neb, and later a Union Pacific watch
man at Cheyenne. promises to be
cleared, following the arrest of Moses
-Reeder, a Cheyenne mulatto. and Vir-
ginia Thomas, an Omaha white
woman.
Despite reports of an apparently au-
thentic character which have been
emanating from Casper and other To-
callties in Wyoming to the effect that
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Company Is to construct a
railroad from Casper to Sheridan, this
to late reports.
Because one man, in taking oath al
legiance to the United States, is said
to have made q mental reservation of
allegiance to the German emperor and
the German empire, ami because an
other returned to his fatherland with
In five years after becoming an Amer
lean citizen, naturalization papers of
two former Wyomingites were can
celled by Federal Judge T. Blake Ken
nedy.
The Glenrock Independent claims to
have solved the mystery of why open
gambling is permitted in Glenrock. A
delegation of women appeared at a re-
cent council meeting and asked that
gambling be stopped and that slot ma
chimes be put out of business. The
mayor is quoted as refusing on the
grounds that women played cards in
their homes. He promised, however,
to stop gambling whenever the ladies
decided to lay aside their cards and
card tables.
Despite repeated statements to the
contrary, 1t is still being said In Chey-
enne that those who voted at the pri-
mary election this year. do not have
to register. That is incorrect, accord.
ing to the Cheyenne Tribune. Regard.
less of whether you voted at the pri-
mary or not, registration Is 1requlred
of every voter who will cast his vote
at any of these places: Cheyenne,
Pine Bluffs, Carpenter, Burns, Hills
dale or Egbert. Those who count on
their primary vote to qualify them for
a vote at the November election, and
do not register, win not be allowed to
vote hat day.
Movement of feeder lambs from Ne.
trona county to the northern Colorado
feedlots Is in full swing and 1t is esti-
mated that a total of ITO cars will
have been shipped from Casper soon.
Thirty-five cars of lambs were shipped
to Fort Collins in enc lot consigned
from Bishop and Bucknum stations on
contracts negotiated earlier In the
year..
A party Of Grow Indians from Pryor,
Big Horn and Lodge Grass went to
Cody in the hope Of obtaining permits.
sion to hunt. but found that they were
unable to do SO without paying the
usual $50 license and hiring a guide.
They argued that fifty years g they
had signed a treaty with the govern
ment wherein 1t was agreed that they
should be allowed to hunt anywhere
they desired A Supreme Court judge
had. however, decided In a case
brought against a Bannock Indian that
the game belonged to the state and
that therefore Indians must take out
licenses as well as citizens. The Crows
were disappointed. as they said this is
the first time any of their tribe have
ever asked the privilege OF hunting. As
they had no money to buy licenses or
hire guides they had their. long trip to
Cody for nothing. @