, 1922-04-13
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
twe.,ern Newspaper Union New. Service,

Some 1000 miners in Wyoming alone
were affected by the nationwide strike
order.
Auto license fees so far his year
nave passed the 100000 mark, which
is in excess of any former like period
by $4,000 Deputy Secretary of State
II. NJ. Symons recently announced.
Howard Eaton, pioneer of the West
and founder of the Eaton Brothers
famous Dude ranch" Mt Wolf, Wyo,
dltd at Sheridan recently. He was II
years old. Mr.. Eaton was widely
known as a sportsman and hunter.
The first joint s~tock-land bank of
Cheyenne was organized by Il group of
Wyoming bankers and will operate I'M
der federal supervision in Wyoming
and Colorado for the making of au-
thorized loans on lands in the two
states.
A special election has been author
lied by the Casper school board for
May 20, to vote on a proposal for the
issuance of 100000 in bonds to erect
a new high school building which will
be made the most elaborate in the
state.
Left jabs and right hooks, choice
stock of the vigilant Cowboys from
Wyoming University, established them
as the gloved kings of the Rocky Noun
tain conference in the annual tourna-
ment in the University of Denver gym
nasium mt Denver.
Plans for the establishment of a Y.
NJ. G. A. Older Boys camp in the Big
Horn mountains his summer are be-
ing worked out by committees appoint
ed in the central and northern sections
of the state covering districts recently
organized for this work.
Lyle Il. Barton is not a "dollar-a-
year. man, but he is almost so, for he
will serve twelve years in the state
penitentiary at Rawlins for obtaining
SIS on n forged check at Cheyenne.
Barton was given such Il sever sen
tence-twelve to fourteen years-be-
cause his offense was his third.
There is ii persistent rumor afloat
that the Mt. Streeter-Wamsutter rail
road project is to be revived and that
the Snake River valley is to have a
railroad within ninety days. However,
it is but a rumor 20 far, although
quite n bit of agitation is being started
in connection with this proposition.
Fire believed to have been started
from a gas flame used by employees
working in the refrigeration room
caused a loss estimated at between
$4,000 and $4,000 to the commissary
and general store of the Midwest Re
filming Company at the Salt Greek
field, forty-five miles north of Casper.
THE epidemic of influenza that has
gone through Wyoming did not make
any serious inroads on the mortality Of
the population" according to DR.. A. Il.
Tonkin, state health officer. 'The to-
tai number of deaths for January and
February, 1922, was about the same as
for the corresponding months of last
year"
Robbers who entered the First State
Bank of Kane, a small town north of
Greybull, battered the safe but failed to
effect entrance and secured nothing
for their trouble, according to reports
received ut Greybull. Tools used by
the robbers were taken from the tool
house of railroad section workers
nearby.
Notices published over the signature
Of ]. l.. Marquis, sheriff, in Casper
newspapers, call for the remova OF
fences or other barriers from stock
trails. Prosecution is threatened I'M
less the order is complied with. Nu-
merous trails have beer fenced by
homesteaders and 1t is possible that a
test case may be developed.
Standard Refining Company forces
at the Casper plants have been reduced
by approximately 125 men during the
last two weeks, following the compile
ton Of special construction work that
has been in progress.
Sheriff George J. Carroll Of Chey-
cnne and his deputies are working on
n peculiar case in which Mrs. james
DAILY, bride of the manager of an ARM
goods store at Cheyenne, claims she
was abducted by three women and a
man on a street In the residence dis
trict in broad day, bundled into an au-
tomobile, choked and beaten by the
three women and then dumped on the
prairie at the edge OF the city.
Governor Il. d. Carey of Wyoming,
In addressing the Colorado River Com
mission, pointed -out 1t was Impossible
to do anything without compromise.
Insofar MS Wyoming is concerned"
said the governor, " desire TO pro-