, 1922-08-17
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
w YOMING

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when attempting to ford the river.
Mike Yokel, the famous wrestler,
whose home is ut Wilson, in Jackson's
Hole, has thrown his hat in the ring
for the office of sheriff of the newly
created Teton county.
Extension of the Custer Battlefield
highway from Omaha, Neb., to St
Louis was urged by the Custer Battle
field Highway Association at its an
nual convention in Sheridan.
At Il special meeting of the board
of trustees of the University of Wyo-
ming, DIR. A. G. Crane. president of
the State Normal College at Edinboro,
Penn, was elected president.
w. 1. Rehr, Jr., of Casper, won the
singles championship of Wyoming by
defeating Roderick Tower, 10, 6-3, 81,
in the finals of the state tennis tourna-
ment. Rehr is a former Colorado
state II Denver city champion.
Tri-weekly airplane service between
Casper and the Salt Creek field has
been established, with two trips daily
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Satur-
days. The distance is about forty-flve
miles and the round trip is mad in
about an hour.
Calvin Matthias, 81, operating EN-
gineer ut the Casper plant of the Ma
trona Power Company. was electrocut-
ed and died instantly when he
grounded a strong current while max
ing repairs on the switchboard. Math-
las, it was said by company officials,
neglected to throw off the switch
which would have protected him. His
widow and two small children survive
him.
The old bell which is to be mounted
oven the new st. Marks Episcopal
church at Hanna, thus to enter a third
period of service when it rings to an
nounce the visit of the special train of
Episcopal convention delegates mt Han
ma in September. 1t vas donated by
Mrs. Mary Il. Cox to st. Thomas
church of Carbon, not then construct
ed. The bell is thirty inches in dame
ter, weighs 300 pounds and was re-
puted to be one of the most harmoni-
Gus bells ever cast.
The seventh annual convention of
the Wyoming Pharmaceutical Associ-
alton, which met in Laramie, adopted
"A resolution which the secretary was
asked to send to members of the Wyo-
ming congressional delegation, asking
h Senate to include in the tariff bill
a provision for Il protective feature for
American Industries, by the shutting
out of drugs and dyestuffs which do
not carry American labels. The reso-
luton carried an answer to the charge
that druggists have been p~rofiteering
because of the cost of some of the
drugs, the fact being pointed to that
prices are lower than they were during
the war.
All bids were rejected for the clips
offered at the sealed bid sale Of the
Lincoln county wool pool at Cokeville.
The sale was discontinued, because 1t
was seer that buyers and
were far apart in their ideas of values.
The committee in charge of the pool
is considering the proposition of con-
signing the million pounds to some
eastern house to be graded and sold
when the market is more favorable.
Eight or ten of the eastern wool deal
ers had representatives at the sale.
The high bid of 33M cents was made
by Jeremiah Williams x Company of
Boston. The high bid for the cheapest
clip was 25B cents. The prices offered
averaged about one-half cent higher
than vas bid for the same clips when
offered a month ago, and were about
on n par with the current quotations
published in the Boston papers.
That construction work on the
Guernsey dam will be started within a
short time-possibly less than ninety
days-is an assurance resulting from
Il personal inspection Of the proposed
project by Congressman Mondell, Ar
thur L. Davis, director of the reclama-
ton service, and Andrew Weiss. gov
eminent engineer, says the Wheatland
Times.
The first fatality of the chicken
hunting season was reported nj Casner
when the body of John Il. RYAN. %
years old, of Casper, was returned
from Waltman, sixty miles west. where
he died from a wound received by the
~ccldent discharge of Il shotgun In
the hands of Lee Flynn of waltman, a
Drotherln-law, at whose home he was
visiting.
The wyoming Wool Growers Asso-
elntion' ut its concluding session at
sheridan adopted the report Of Its mar
ketlng committee, recommending that
wyoming sheepmen continue and de-
Veiop their local wool pools and that
the state association appoint n COM
mittee to coordinate the work of the
iocai pools n study the situation in
relation to the eventual formation of "A
statewide pool.
Bombarded with bullets as they sat
In n depot whiting roam ,,yo ,.aa--,