, 1922-06-28
WYOMING
STATE NEWS
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pared with assets amounting to onlv
S4,OOO. were listed by Mrs. Eta NJ. Ir.
win of Cheyenne in filing a voluntary
bankruptcy petition with the clerk Of
the Federal Court at Cheyenne.
Forty-eight hundred dollars In the
harness classes and running events
will make up the purses for this at
traction at the Wyoming state fair at
Douglas in August, according to the
announcement Of Otto Boln, fair man
ager. OF this amount, $1,000 will be
given the
Two attorneys who have beer buy-
ing up the claim rights of what are
declared to have been original loca-
tons on oil lands in the Salt Creek
field, have filed suits against the Mid
west Oil Company and associated cor
porations and individuals for the pos.
session of oil leases valued at many
millions of dollars-some place the
value as high as S%40,O00,O00.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Company is making surveys
for a railroad line which will be built
to the Salt Creek and Teapot oil fields,
forty-flve. miles north of Casper with
In the next year, according to admis-
sions OF high railroad officials, who
added that Harry f. Sinclair of the
Mammoth OIL Company was financial
ly interested in the project and that
II would be carried out unless unfor-
seen circumstances should arise.
BY direction of Attorney General
Walls. following an investigation he
made recently, the county commits
sioners of Hot Springs county de-
clared a vacancy in the county attor-
ney's office. On motion unanimously
carried, Fred Wyckoff was appointed
to fill the unexpired term of Major
John l.. King, who has been absent
claimed that Kings present where
abouts is unknown in Thermopolis.
d. d. Zack of Rock Springs is all
smiles these days, and he has very
good reasons for wearing one that will
not come off. Last year lack in
vested $50 In a lease in the Pacos
county. Texas, oil country. lack for
got about 1t until the other day, when
he received a notice for taxes amount
ing to SO on his oil land. He sent the
taxes and received a wire from a San
Francisco oil company offering him
$1,000 per acre for his lease of forty
acres, which he promptly accepted.
The Cody Memorial committee is
jubllant over news concerning the
statue of Buffalo Bill, which news has
been received from Mary Jester Allen
Of New York City. Mrs. Allen, who is
Ia niece of the late Colonel Cody,
writes that after n conference between
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney and James
West, executive head OF the Boy
Scouts of America it is PR ctically set
tied that the Boy Scout of America
will take up the matter ~ raising the
money and make 1t a great inserna-
tional movement with the statue to be
made by Americas famous woman
sculptor.
Study of the decision of the SUI
preme Court of the United States in
the case of Wyoming against Colorado,
involving the waters of the Laramie
river, an Interstate stream, reveals
that the judgment of the court lays
down u policy full of possibilities ms
affecting the future of the West. The
progress of the case hash cen watched
progress of the ease has been watched
carefully than by residents of states
in which the Colorado river forms a
part OF the drainage. The decision will
go far toward clarifying the situation
wherever Irrigation is practiced on in
f~erstate streams, which means practi-
cally wherever irrigation is practiced-
Decision to hold a county fair in
Sheridan again this year has been defi-
nitely reached. The county commits
sioners have appropriated $4,000 for
the fair on the condition that the
business men and Commercial Club
appropriate a like sum Committees
are now out securing pledges from the
business men.
A construction crew was unloaded
at Wamsutter recently, consisting of
about thirty-five teams, ten or twelve
wagons. all loaded to capacity with
grading and ditching machinery and
household goods. 1t also has n large
~excavator to be used In ditch work.
This construction outfit will
work on the Dolan reservoir project
Just as soon as IL can get its camp set
up.
Thomas e. Tubb, his wife and S. S.
Magnuson are dead and two other per
sons, including Deputy Sheriff John
Mcpherson, are seriously wounded as
a result of a battle at Grin Junction
recently, between Tubb, the officers
and citizens. Mrs. Tubb was slain by
her husband, who is believed to have
become suddenly insane. Tubb was
killed by an unknown resident OF
Grin and the three others were
wounded by Tubb.