, 1922-02-15
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Wesssrp Newspaper Union Ne-. s.r,ic.,

rive employees OF the hemmeref
Coal Company sustained superficial
burns by ignition of a small quantity
Of gas in mine No. 8 in Sublet.
Unemployed men in Casper number
almost 1000 at the present time, &C
cordlng to the employment bureau re-
Gently established by the Red Cross.
Following up warnings issued, the
sheriff's office at Casper. on its first
days campaign, rounded up fifty vic
lators OF the automobile license law
and initial fines of $21 and costs were
assessed in several cases.
Torrington entertains three state
conventions this year. First come the
Lions in May. In August the state
convention of the American Legion
will meet there and in October the
town will entertain the annual con-
vention of the State Federation OF
Woman's Clubs.
Explaining he wanted to burn the
schoolbouse so he would not have to
study any more, Arthur Ward, 16-year-
old sophomore, pleaded guilty to u
charge of defiling and partly destroy
ing the high school at Pine Bluffs,
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ten years in the state industrial insti-
tute at Worland.
Matt Naskali who was born in Fin
land, January 20, 1854, was found dead
In his cabin in an isolated section of
the country, at Black Buttes, forty
miles east of Rock Springs, by a trap
per. The body of Naskali was found
on the bed, fully clothed, except his
shoes, and frozen. The man had been
dead, Coroner Earl Sprowell decided.
fully two months.
Ray Fisher, f. l.. Van Horn, Fred
]. Wright and Robert Inkston, all of
the big game region near Dubois, were
acquitted of a charge of Illegally kill
ing elk at he conclusion of a hearing
in court at Rawlins. The quartet was
arrested by a deputy game warden
who found the hind quarters of an elk
cached near their property and suspi-
cious circumstances pointing to their
guilt.
Settlers under the LaPrele irrigation
project, embracing over 1000 acres of
irrigated lands lying a few miles west
of Douglas, will within the next few
"NSho NC iccuCQ PutCnlS " llciI ldnu5,
according to reports received from
Washington by G. d. Zimmerman of
the Douglas Reservoirs Company.
which company tool over the project
a few years ago and completed the
work necessary upon it.
Reports from Millbrook and other
points in the Little Laramie valley are
coming of V suffering of the cat
tle, especially among the young ami
mails and the early calves. from the
heavy and very cold wind that fol-
lowed the recent storm, a rather I'M
seasonable condition in this part of
the state. There is little snow in that
valley, but the cold has been biting,
and men have had trouble in keeping
the cattle from dying in some places.
The dates for the eighteenth annual
Wyoming Free State Fair at Douglas
have been set for Sept. IL to 10, inclu-
sive, 1922, according to an announce
ment made a few days ago by Manager
Otto III. Bolln. As will be noticed
there will be no gate admission
charged this year and it is hoped that
the attendance this year will be at
least double that of any former year.
The stock show will again be one of
the big features of the fair and other
departments will be augmented to a
large extent for the 1922 exposition. Il
number of new feature attractions will
be included in this years show.
Neither the Standard Company of
Indiana nor associated companies
have immediate plans for the disposal
Of surplus crude oil produced in Wyo-
ming, over and above h refinery ca
pacity of the plants in this state, ac-
cording to statements authorized oy
refinery officials. The statement was
made in di%scounting reports that the
construction of an Interstate pipe
line from the Salt Greek field was
contemplated, to early production out
of Wyoming.
There has been placed on foot I'm
Cheyenne what is believed to be the
first practicable movement to furnish
the dirt farmers of Wyoming with
credit machinery whereby they may
secure adequate longtime loans upon
their land at 9 per cent interest and
without either delay or red tape. The
plan calls for the organization, per-
haps in the very near future, of the
Wyoming Joint Stock Land Bank, a
quarter million dollar concern which,
under the law, Will be authorized to adj
vance farm credits to the extent of
$4,Oo0,000 and which VIII attempt to
lend all the money needed to tide the
farmers over not only their present
emergency but all other emergencies.
J. d. Woodruff of Shoshoni has been
organizing the lessees on the Shoshone
Indian reservation into a compact uni
ty with the idea of sending represen-
tatives to Washington In order 20 de-