, 1922-08-24

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Seventeen persons were arrested
Federal officers swooped down upon
Kemmercr, raiding pool halls. hotels
and stores where, it was alleged, IL
quor was being sold
While A. c. Watches was handling
a stallion in his barn at Basin. the
horse struck at him and grabbed him
by the lower lip and chin, the flesh of
which was bitten away.
Grant Malvern, foreman at the Sho-
shone dam, was taken to Cody suffer
ing from serious Commissions about the
head as the result OF the bursting of
a pipe near which he was working.
The highest price ever received by
Wyoming in the sale of state land was
recorded when IL real estate firm pur-
chased IN eighty-acre tract adjoining
the city of Casper for ST51 an acre.
Mrs. Asa Nomer, % years old, is
dead; Mrs. J. Upton and Mrs, NJ j.
Rice are seriously injured, the 4-year-
BIZ sol of Mrs Nomer is probably IA
tally injured and a son of Mrs Upton
is suffering from bruises and cuts as
the result of an automobile backing
into an abandoned well near Glenrock.
Paul Wilbur Nichols, is, persisted in
the waters of the Big Wind river when
logs on which he was riding in the
big tie drive OF the way to Riverton
from the Dubois country were swept
into a whirlpool and caused him 10
lose his footing His body was recov-
cred an hour later by fellow employees
An unusual exhibit in the form of
eight aquariums filled with all species
of fish common to Wyoming stream
is being prepared at Lowell for the Big
Horn county fair and will be one of the
main attractions which hat region
will contribute to the state fair at
Douglas. The fish Will be secured from
the Paintrock hatchery and the Big
Horn river.
A tax of two cents a gallon on gas
oline was proposed by u. +. Sevison,
state highway engineer of Wyoming,
in his address before the third an
nual convention of the Custer Battle
field Hiway Association, as a most
equitable means of providing funds
for Il better maintenance # motor
highways in Wyoming.
An unidentified rancher was killed
near Gillette. according TO word re
ceived in Sheridan, calling for Cnarles
A Champion, undertaken, to go to that
city TO embalm the body. With only a
short time in Gillette to care for the
body, Champion was not given p%articu-
lars of fhe case further than that the
man was a rancher and had been shot
in a quarrel with another man.
Tax exemptions granted former serv-
ice men in Natrona county this year
will aggregate $4,000, according to
the report of County Assessor Lyle +.
Jay, which shows that 246 veterans
took advantage of the state law which
exempts all property of service men
TO the amoun of $1,000 from assess
ment for tax purposes. OF this num-
Der I'D were men who enlisted from
this state and ia came here from 9TH
er states.
w H Wallace of Sheridan was re
elected president of the Custer Bat.
tlefield Hlway Association; w. ID.
Fisher Of Sheridan was reelected sec.
rotary and +. Il. GLADDEN. of Hardin,
Mont, was reelected treasurer mt the
concluding session of the annual con.
vention OF that organization in Sheri.
dan. Sioux Falls, ). D.. was selected
as the next meeting place for the con
vention over Billings, Mont, which had
bid for the next meeting.
Park county. Wyoming, is to have
the second herd of Karakul, or Rus
sian milk sheep in the United States.
The only sheep of this breed now in
the country are near Denver. The
karakul sheep ranch will be located
near Powell, in the heart of the Sho-
shone irrigation system, which was
constructed by the United States gov
eminent. The movement To import the
animals is headed by ". II. Edley, re-
Gently receiver Of the United States
land office at Lander. Plans are be-
ing perfected to have Harry Hecht, a
Rumanian living OF the project, jour
ney to his native land and close the
deal for o head Of the animals. The
purchase price will be $50 per head.
which Is about one-tenth Of the price
asked In this country. Senator Ken
drick and Congressman Mondell have
arranged through the United States
consular service for passports for
Hecht and also for the shipment Of
the sheep from Rumania. The milk of
knrakul ewes Is used chiefly in the
manufacture of Roquefort cheese,
which industry will be established nj
the ranch. The sheep also have very
long. beautiful wool and produce NUT
ton of high quality.
The nationwide organized campaign
for amendment of the Volstead net 10