, 1922-06-15
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union New. Service. ,

roundup days in Wyoming, will be held
in Yoder on June 23, "a and %. The
forst days program will include horse
racing and a bucking aeroplane. A
daredevil cowboy will ride on a saddle
strapped to the body of Lieutenant
Toncray's airship. This is the first at
tempt ever made to ride IA bucking aer-
oplane. ON Saturday and Sunday
there will be a real Wild West show
bucking, rope riding and bull-dogglng.
Yoder is a new town on the Union Pa
cific North Platte extension. The cit
liens have subscribed literally for this
affair, and the town of Yoder is pre-
pared to accommodate the crowds that
will undoubtedly attend their first ex-
hibition of this kind.
Brig. Gen. William III. Sage, 60 years
old, commanding officer of Fort d. A.
Russell, Wyo., died at a hospital in
Omaha recently.
Fire which started from a defective
flue completely destroyed the residence
at Yoder of w. II. Smith. Most of the
furniture was removed.
Cheyenne's 1922 Frontier Days cele-
bration will be formally opened July
% by Hanford McNider, national com
mander of the American Legion.
To realize a cherished ambition. Mrs.
c.. w. Young, mother of two children,
returned to high school at Sheridan
after eighteen years, and received her
diploma with a class of ninety-nine Sc
niors.
James Keenan,, driver of the automo-
bile in which Miss Peggy Myhre, school
teacher. was killed on the Big Horn ce-
ment road at Sheridan. surrendered to
the sheriff five minutes after a war
rant charging him with involuntary
manslaughter had been filed in Justice
Court.
The treacherous waters of the
Hamsfork river claimed a victim,
Frank Fem, 2~0year-old son Of VIII
liam Fem. a rancher, who resides at
the Home ranch, between Water Fall
and Opal, having met his death while
attempting to drive a horse across the
stream.
Coincidentally with the announce
ment by the Interstate Commerce
Commission of freight rate reduction
approximating 10 per cent, the Wyo-
ming Public Service Commission is
sued an order reducing %intrastate
freight rates on a scale ranging as
high as 30 per cent on commodities
and "A per cent on class tariffs.
Twenty-four head of cattle stolen by
a rustler from the Iba ranch and
shipped to Chadron, Nebr., where he
sold the lot for $1,000, put failed to
collect on the check, have been re-
turned to their home range near Cas-
per. No further trace of the rustlers
has been found since he stole a horse
and escaped from the Chadron dis
trict.
S. E.. King, So. city editor of the
Sheridan Post, who died recently fol-
lowing an illness of several weeks, was
laid at rest in Mount Hope cemetery
at Sheridan. Mr.. King was a veteran
newspaper man. He came to Sheridan
fourteen years 6 to accept a posi-
ton on the city desk of the Sheridan
Enterprise, later going over to the
Post.
T%hirty-four thousand pounds OF
wool purchased by S. Silberman &
Sons of Chicago was attached at Cas-
per in connection with suits filed by
the Keystone and Mccarthy Sheep
companies in which the Silberman
firm is charged with breach of con-
tract in purchases said to have been
negotiated here in 1919. Damage is
asked by the sheep companies.
Casper young men to the number OF
seventy have made application for en-
trance to the Citizens army training
comp at Fort Douglas, Utah, July ~ to
Aug. 20. The acceptance of "a great
majority of them is expected.
Two hundred Lions and forty Lion.
esses attended the second annual con
vention of Wyoming Lions clubs al
T~orrington. All twelve clubs in the
state We're represented also there was
n delegate from Billings. Mont. TWEEN
ty-four from Lusk and twenty from
Cheyenne. A. Baker of Cheyenne wa.
ic'it'A'h hiStiiVt EoNeInOTs anu Lush
was chosen as the place for next years
convention.
IinwlIns is rejoicing over the pros
poet OF renewed activity in the Ferris
oil field. Frank Kistier, president OF
the Producers n Refiners' Corpora
tIon II. f. wertz. superintendent. and
+. A.. Miller, field manager, have beer
at Rawlins for several days, They an,
nounce the early installation Of sl1
strings Of tools for drilling seventeen
wells this season. The operations Will
be in the east portion of the Ferris
dome and comparatively nea Rawlins
One child of Joe NJ. Osborn. living
eight miles south OF jay En-. is dead
and another Is i'll from the results OF