, 1922-02-16
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union News Service,

now open for daily use.
Five employees of the Kemmerer
Coal Company sustained superficial
burns by ignition of a small quantity
Of gas in mine No. . in Sublet.
Unemployed men in Casper number
almost 1000 at the present time, ac-
cording 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 vio-
lators of the automobile license law
and initial fines of sd and costs were
assessed In several cases.
T%orrington 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
ventlon of the State Federation of
Woman's Clubs.
Explaining he wanted to burn the
schoolhouse 50 he would not have to
study any more, Arthur Ward, 16-year-
old sophomore, pleaded guilty to a
charge of defiling and partly destroy
Ing the high school at Pine Bluffs,
Wyo., recently, and was sentenced to
ten years in the state Industrial insti.
tute at WOrland.
Matti Naskali who was born in Fin.
land, January 26, 1854, was found deaf
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. i. Van Horn, Sired
J. Wright and Robert Inkston, all of
the big game region near Dubois, were
acquitted of a charge of Illegally kill
ing elk at the conclusion of n hearing
in court ut 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 11,000 acres of
irrigated lands lying a few miles west
of Douglas, will within the next few
weeks be issued patents to their lands,
according to reports received from
Washington by G. ID. Zimmerman of
the Douglas Reservoirs Company,
which company took over the project
a few years ago and completed the
work necessary upon 1t.
Reports from Millbrook and other
points in the Little Laramie valley are
coming of severe suffering of the cat
tie, especially among the young ami
mails and he early calves, from the
heavy and very cold wind that fol-
lowed the recent storm, a rather UNI
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 mt Douglas
have been set for Sept. II to II, lnclu-
sive, 1922, according to an announce
ment made n few days ago by Manager
Otto ii. BOlln. As will be noticed
there will be no gate admission
tAitA ~ liiH HfAA nv I - hblltl INIT
the attendance this year will he ut
least double that of any former year.
The stock show will again be one of
the big TEXTURES of the fair and other
departments will be augmented To II
large extent for the 1922 exposition. A
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 the refinery ca
pacity of the plants in this state. ac-
cording 10 statements authorized oy
refinery officials. The statement was
made in d%iscountlng reports that the
construction of an Interstate pipe.
line from the Salt Creek field wa
contemplated, To early production out
Of Wyoming.
There has been placed on foot In
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 o per cent interest and
without either delay or red tape. The
plan calls for the organization, per
hnps in the very near future. of the
Wyoming Joint Stock Land Bank. n
quarter million dollar concern which,
under the law, will be authorized to ad-
vance farm credits to the extent OF
$4.OO0,O0O and which will attempt to
lend MI the money needed to tide the
farmers over o only their present
emergency but aIl other emergencies.
j. u. Woodruff Of shoshonl has been
organizing the lessees on the Shoshonc
Indian reservation into n compact uni.
ty with the idea OF sending represen-
tatlyes 10 Washington In order 10 de-