, 1922-02-23
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union N.~s Service,

Rocky Mountain Gas Company, and
this company is expected 10 lay its
plans in the nea future to bring gas
10 Cody.
Fire Quilted the main building of the
Hammond picking plant recently in a
spectacular blaze that drew hundreds
of persons To the scene on the out
skirts of South Cheyenne.
The bridge across the Platte river
south of Guernsey, has been COM
pleted. The structure is a pile span
and will eliminate inconvenience to
traffic endured for a long time.
The contract for a steel bridge
across the Big Horn river at Ther-
mopolis was signed up by the county
commissioners and the Monarch Engi-
neering Company. the price $1S.IO0 and
the work to be completed in three
months.
At an election at Basin recently, a
school bond issue carried, which pro-
yides $4,000 for construction of an adj
dition to the Basin high school build
ing. Work is expected to start On the
building as soon as the frost is out of
the ground.
Forced to meet the payment Of out
standing warrants for which there are
no funds available, the Town Council
of Guernsey is considering plans for
the issuance Of bonds TO retire them
OF pay them off in five annual INSTALL
ments with money raised by direct tax
alton.
Frank j.. Wiffler, secretary of the
Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce for
the past two and o~ne-quarter years,
rendered his resignation to the board
OF directors. 1t was accepted, and Jay
j. Showalter, former secretary and
former city clerk, was elected to fill
the vacancy.
Albert Lampitt, on trial ut Basin for
the murder of Harry Foight last April,
the crime involving the Staying also
of Morley Seaton, was convicted of
murder In the first degree, without
capital punishment, and has been SEN
fenced TO life Imprisonment in the
state penitentiary at Rawlins.
For the first time In five years the
semi-annual ceremonial of the Shrin-
80 Va NttAAAhk - ~ bt Htl III AIt
capital city. Arrangements were com
pleted recently by the Cheyenne
Shrine Club for staging the big event
in this city March 81, and to make 1t
an event long to be remembered.
At the meeting of the Sundance
council Mayor NJ. G. Roberts rendered
his resignation to the councilmen, his
reason being that his duties as receiver
of land office will soon claim his time
at Newcastle. After accepting the res
ignation the council unanimously elect
ed Edwin Rounds to fill the vacancy.
A special Frontier Days miniature
is to be presented by Cheyenne June
10 for the entertainment of 1000
Shriners en- route to the Pacific coast,
who will stop here ut the invitation of
h Chamber of Commerce. The show
will be given to advertise the regular
Frontier Days celebration. which will
be held the last week of July.
There Is now in the hands Of the
county treasurer of Albany county, to
be apportioned to the several school
districts in the county, 3 9,750.49,
which will be distributed to the vari-
Gus schoo. districts by the county SUI
perintendent Of schools. OF this
amount, S39,I67.52 is from taxes col
lected for general county school pur-
poses and S291 .96 being 3 per cent of
the sum received from the United
States Forest Service as the share of
Albany county, the other % per cent
being apportioned to the county road
fund. The mount received from the
Forest Service was S5,S39.40.
Sheriff Sanders of Carbon county
was called to Wulcott from I,awlins
recently TO take charge of the body
of n man found beside the river at
that point. The body was In n frozen
condition, and the sheriff was of the
opinion that II might he that of n man
drowned there last summer, the body
just now having been cast up.
Ruby Dixon, IL years old, was
brought 10 Casper from Salt Creek
suffering from a bullet wound in the
fleshy part Of the leg between the
knee ant hip. The wound had been
inflicted by her little brother, Alfred,
about the same age, but It was only
recently that the seriousness OF the in
jury became apparent. Young Alfred
WAS playing with a rifle which he
found In the house.
Bishop n. s. Thomas OF the Episco.
pal diocese of Wyoming Is offering d
prize OF $50 for the BEST sermon on
the text, But We know that the law
Is good II n man use II lawfully" The
contest Is open 10 all Wyoming clergy
men, regardless Of denomination. The
Judges OF the sermons will he Chief
Justice G. n. Potter OF the State SUI
preme Court and Associate Justices
Ralph Kimball and Fred II. Blume.
Representatives of the Wyoming
Stockmcn's l.oan Company-represen-