, 1922-07-26
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NEWS ITEMS

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heart failure at Fort ID. A. Russell
while participating in a cavalry review.
Colonel Longstreet plunged from his
horse and was dead when picked up.
The Sheridan County Fair will be
held in Sheridan September 4, 5 and 6.
Twelve thousand dollars in prizes and
premiums are to be awarded. The
fair board has opened permanent head
quarters in the court house, with G. s.
Mills in charge as secretary.
Old Faithful, Yellowstone's most
famous geyser, has slightly changed
the period of its eruptions. Accord
ing to the observations of the park
naturalist and the rangers, the geyser
now spouts on an average every GAG
minutes. Last year the average period
was sixty minutes.
Frank ~Kitzenberger, who has led the
life of a hermit for thirty years on
squatters' land near Sheridan, ended
the lives OF. his four horses and then
turned a gun on himself. His body
was found lying among h
of the animals. Little is known of
Kitzenberger. He was believed de-
ranged.
Five cooks and walters, shipped to
Casper from Omaha by an employment
agency of the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad, were mistaken for shipments
strike breakers and thrown out of the
laborers' camp by railroad employees.
Two were beaten and all handled
roughly until the situation was ex-
planned.
David Alplanalp, lessee of the Hold
en- ranch Mt Fontenelle, was bound
over TO the District Court in the JUS
tice of the Peace Court at Kemmerer,
after a preliminary hearing on the
charge filed by +. j. Pomeroy of hav-
ing tempered with the brands of ten
head of sheep belonging to the latter
and being run by Orval Allen.
Marjorie, the 1S-months-old daugh-
ter of air. and Mrs. b. A. Willard of
Lander, was drowned when she fell
into a rain barrel. The child was
playing about the home unnoticed by
its parents. When 1t did not appear
for several minutes a search was
started and the baby's body found
pitched head first in several gallons
of water.
d. w. NJ. Palmer, Casper plumber, and
Thomas O'Donnell. drayman, were
burned to death on the Yellowstone
highway near Casper, when the auto
mobile in which they were riding
turned over and caught fire. Court
Martin and G.. A. Baughan were less
seriously injured and were able to
crawl from beneath the car when 1t
turned turtle.
Copies of the program n rules of
the Wyoming State Fair, which will
be held at Douglas Sept. IL, IL, IA and
10 under the direction of the State
Board of Charities and Reform, are be-
ing received from Secretary Otto II.
Bolln. The program this year includes
a larger number of divisions n
prizes than even before. In addition to
the program the book contains a brief
review and history of Wyoming writ
ten by State Immigration Commits
sioner Charles S. Hill.
j. G. Stewart, cashier of the First
National bank of Basin. has instituted
suit in District Court for $4,000 dam
ages against S. j. Hardison, nag
of the E. G.. Lewis Oil Company. The
petition alleges that the defendant
made defamatory statements regard
ing the plaintiff in Casper, Wyo., rela-
tive to the closing of the Big Horn
bank at Basin sometime since, alleg-
ing that the plaintiff was responsible
for the failure. The case will be tried
at the next term of court at Basin.
A last word in publicity is being got
ten out by the Frontier Days commit
tee this year in announcing the dad
dy of them ALL here the last week in
July. The advertising consists OF a
button telling of the big celebration in
addition to the automobile banners al
ready gotten out.
Dismissed = defendant deceased
This entry on the docket of the Dis
trict Court of Lincoln county ended
the case of Mrs. Annie Richey, the on
ly woman convicted II Wyoming of
cattle "rustling." This was the date
on which Mrs. Richey was to have
been arraigned for re-sentencing 70
from one to six years in the peniten.
tiary. She was murdered, however.
late in May.
Guilty of harboring wheat rust. is
h verdict of Ayen Nelson, president
of the University of Wyoming Mt Lara
mic, who recently inspected the bar.
berry hedge at City park in Cheyenne.
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