, 1922-10-04
SHORT
WYOMING
NEWS ITEMS


Henry Cathcart was killed at the
Megeath mine at Rock Springs by a
fall of rock. The body was sent to
Proctor, Texas. for burial.
Two tool dressers employed by
Jesse Walker. a contract driller. work.
ing for the Midwest Oil Company, met
a horrible death at Casper in a fire
that destroyed a rig in the Salt Creek
oil field.
A. w. Newcomb, a coal miner at
Crosby, near Thermopolis, was in
stantly killed while working In the
shaft when a rock weighing half a ton
fell without warning and caught him
beneath Its full weight.
The Albany County Cattle and
Horse Growers Association elected H..
e. Maddox as president, William
Rathje as vice president. Oliver Wallis
as secretary and John H. Davis as
treasurer at a meeting In Laramie re-
Gently.
Suspension of all drilling operations
in the Salt Creek field between Dec.
] of this year and May l of next, ex-
cept such work as is needed to meet
government requirements under the
leasing law, was agreed upon by rep
resentatives of a great majority of
operators in meeting at Casper, when
recommendations drawn up by u COM
mittee of seven were unanimously ap-
proved.
Edward Moon, negro, was shot by
IA Cheyenne posse at Pole creek, fit
teen miles north of Cheyenne, when
he refused to stop an automobile al
legged to have been stolen at Casper.
A bullet penetl tied his thigh and he
fell from the cur, which overturned In
the ditch. Rod LoQue, accompanying
Moon, leaped from the machine as the
officers appeared in the road and was
taken Into custody.
Frank Froding, recently Of Denver,
was suffocated In Cheyenne when the
sewer trench in which he was work
ing caved in and buried him under
five feet of earth. Fellow employees
worked frantically in an effort to-
reach him before he smothered. The
trench was ten zee deep. Froding
was a newcomer in Cheyenne, was
unmarried and was believed to have
a father residing in Denver.
Fred Hoffman, 10 years old, was
shot and killed at Kleenburg, near
Sheridan. Sheridan police declare
the shooting was done by Joe from
bello, a miner, in u quarrel following
a raid on the lntter's watermelon
patch. Trombello fled Immediately
after the shooting. Officers say the
Hoffman boy went to the miners
home to protest his innocence of steal
ing watermelons and that the shooting
followed.
The creation of a new national park
may result from a joint picnic held ut
the summit of the Lincoln highway,
forty-two miles from Cheyenne and
ten miles from Laramie. by the Lara
mie and Cheyenne Kiwanis Clubs. At
this gathering the project Of having
the summit of the Lincoln highway.
which is on the Fort d. A. Russell
maneuver reserve, designated q MT
tional park, perhaps to be known as
Kiwanis Park, was born 1t probably
will be taken up with the Wyoming
delegation In Congress at once.
Contract for the construction of
eighteen miles of paving on the Cas-
per-Salt Creek highway at a cos Of
$516,S62.50 has been let by the Wyo-
ming State Highway Department, ac-
cording to announcement made at the
district office In Casper. The new
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ready constructed north of Casper and
will be nine feet wide. SIxty-five per
cent of the cost Will be borne by the
government and 80 pc cent by the
state. The highway leads from Cas-
per to the Salt Creek oil field.
John L. Maley of Denver. an attor-
ney, has apple, to Mrs. Cornelia Mills
of Cheyenne. the secretary of the State
Board of Pardons, for blank forms for
the preparation of u petition asking
for the pardon of John and Pete Cor.
dello and Herbert Newell, sent to the
Rawiins state prison for the killing OF
Frank Jennings nea Laramie, Sept. 7.
1919. George w. Patterson, the coun-
ty attorney for Albany county, who
secured the conviction of the three
men at Chey enne, on a change OF
venue from this county was notified OF
the action Of the Denver attorney, and
will oppose the pardons.
Little change from prospects a
month ago Is noted in September es-
Inmates of Wyoming crop production.
Wheat and oats held their own, but
corn, barley, potatoes and hay lost
slightly. Excessive heat prevailed
during August, but good showers
brought relief quite generally over the
northern half of the state. In the
southern counties, rainfall has been
deficient since Tune and crons HAYS