, 1922-01-04
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
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the ice reached q thickness or twelve
inches. Six thousand five hundred
tons of Ice are to be stored.
Greybull citizens voted on a S70.-
000 bond issue for water works extern
sions. The bond issue carried by the
vote of 427 to Ill. Tit improvements
contemplate an addition north of the
refining plants.
Robert Newton was sentenced to 100
day in the county jail and Herman
Barson assessed a fine Of $3.50 on con-
viction in District Court on bootleg
ging charges at Casper. Newton had
spent sixty days in jail awaiting trial,
and the court ruled that this should
apply On his penalty.
Fire partially destroyed the outbuild-
ings o the r. o. ranch, thirteen miles
north Of Cheyenne and owned by the
estate Of Arbuckle Brothers, million
aire coffee merchants OF New York.
The damage is estimated at $1,000,
partly covered by insurance. The
blaze was caused by explosion of a
lantern In n barn.
Martin Benson, an employee at the
- ~ puboiH anu u OAiBdhdttN
stranger, committede suicide by plac-
ing the muzzlc of a high power rifle
in his mouth and blowing the top of
his head off. He was found in a cab
in by members of the camp who had
gone TO town and returned. No reason
for the tragedy is known.
Margaret Cogdil and Samuel
Vaughn were placed under arrest at
Greybull and search is being made to
find a third person in connection with
the finding of a body of a baby boy
in the cellar of a house belonging to
Hugh Dickie in Thermopolis. The ba-
by, according to the coroner's verdict,
came to Its death from violence.
Adolph Kerr was elected command
er of Donal Garbutt Post No. Z, Amer
lean Legion, at Sheridan, succeeding
George w. Scales at the annual cleo
ton of officers of that organization.
Kerr is a naturalized Dane and was
one of the first Sheridan men to en-
list In the World War. He was a SER
geant in the 303rd Battalion, Tank
Corps.
George Otto Boche and "John Doe"
whose real name is unknown, came to
their death at the hands of officers
who fired In tine discharge of their du-
ties, according to a verdict returned
by a coroner's jury at Casper which
investigated the killing of the two
holdups by Deputy Sheriffs A. E.
Brown, Charles F. MiskeI and Jack
Weddell, in the attempted robbery of
the NJ. L. Small grocery store.
A message from Grass Creek, an oil
CAMP forty miles from Thermopolis,
states that 1~5-year-old Alberta Woods
shot herrsIf through -se heart with a
.22-caliber revolver when she was re-
proved with a leather strap by her fa-
Their for dipping her spoon into a jam
pot at the family supper table. The
girl went into an adjoining room and
shot herself after writing a brief note
which said: Dear Papa: 1 an Civ
ing up my life. You can take your
spite out on someone else. 1 ara
through for a while"
Announcement was made from the
national headquarters of the Woodrow
Wilson Foundation that Il. G. Diers of
Sheridan, Wyo.. chairman of the foun-
dalton in this state; Charles ID. Carey
of Cheyenne; John B.. Kendrlck of
Sheridan, and Mrs. Robert ID. Hawley
of Douglas, had accepted appointments
TO the national committee of the foun-
dalton, the body which has general SUI
pervision over The campaign TO raise
S1,000,000 or more, starting Jan. 16,
and which will also select the per1ma-
nent boara of trustees.
The "machine switching plant of
the Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph Company has beer installed
at the Laramie office, the company oc-
cupylng its new building in that city
for the first time. A large part Of the
service wires are now under ground,
and the installation has followed the
expenditure of u large amount of
money.
Earl Lambert, held in the Natrona
county Jail for two weeks in me
ton with the theft of a diamond val
ued ut $4,000 from Henry Wyatt, was
bound owe to the District Court for
trial following a hearing In Justice
Court. james Hall and John Fitzger-
aid, the pair who admitted the holdup
Of Wyatt mt his home IN Casper, testi-
fled that Lambert was an accomplice.
Pat 0'Connor, johnson county ranch
err, owes his life TO the poor aim of a
s~heepherder wha is reported to be in
Jail mt Buffalo. The herder, whose
name IS not known, is an employee of
Roy Hall, and the shooting is said to
have been the outgrowth of past trou-
Bile and threats made by o'Connor over
range disputes. In the recent alterca-
tion the herder fired at O'Connor, 1t is
alleged. and killed the horse he was
riding, the ranchman escaping injury.
Z S. Dabbs, formerly cashier of the
Carl, nd State Bank, will serve from
three TO seven years in the Wyoming
-ncniinntIar undar .antanco ~