, 1922-02-09
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union News serrice.l

flatte county r0nkS among the
leading counties of the state in tax
returns before Jan. /.
The Underwood Lumber Company
has filed articles of Incorporation with
the secretary of state for a general
building and construction business in
Gillette.
The period from Feb. S to IA has
been set as Boy Scout week in Casper
by proclamation Of the mayor, and
elaborate plans have been made for
its observance.
Policemen in searching a laundry in
Cheyenne for opium came upon a bat
tered trunk that looked suspiciOusly
like a depository for contraband. In
stead it proved a treasure vault. The
policemen found $4,000 in gold and
bank books showing deposits of
$10,S00.
S. Surzurki, foreman of the Diamond
Mine Company at Oakley, near KEN
merer, and his wife were shot dead
by two men who attempted to get 49,
500 with which Suzurki was to have
paid off employees of the mine. The
AAhAhtA tStdBth ahld ait ptiAChtu "
be hiding in the hills.
Wolves recently attacked a band of
sheep belonging to John DAILY of Gill
lette and killed forty head, including
~thirty-seven lambs and three ewes.
Tracks in the snow showed hat the
killing was done by a pack of three
wolves, many OF which infest the
northern half of Campbell county.
Steady growth of the business of
the Casper Packing Company is shown
by the fact that on one day thirty
five beeves and ninety-seven hogs were
butchered for the trade. Fourteen
men are now employed at the plant
east of Casper, which was placed in
operation only a few months ago..
Offer of the bonding firm of Ben
well, Phillips & Company of Denver
to purchase refunding bonds in the
moun of $130,000 carrying 6 per cent
interest, has been accepted by the city
council of Sheridan and resolutions
have been adopted in%structing the
preparation of ordinances, forms, etc,
for the immediate issuance of the
bonds. Floating of a refunding bond
issue is designed to place the city on
n cash basis,
Creditors or the defunct Bank of
Lusk petitioned to have an ~investiga-
ton of the business prior to the clos
ing of the doors of the institution. and
presented the petition to District Judge
William A. Riner Of Cheyenne upon
his recent visit to Lusk. They were
advised to get up another statement
and present it to the state examiner,
whose duty 1t is to investigate, audit
and otherwise look into such cases.
This will be done shortly.
In the midst of n pillow fight and
friendly scuffle with two playmates
in his home in Hanna, Elmer Hill, II
years old, crumpled to the floor and
called for his mother. The other chill
dren considered it part of the sport,
laughingly dragged him to the door
and threw water on him. A second
time he called for his mother and rom
planned of illness. When the mother
arrived the child was dead. The ply
stefan called said his neck had been
broken.
The small automobile in which they
were travelling from Baggs, Wyo., be-
coming stalled in n snowdrift between
Hanna and Rock River, Mrs. John
Steele and two children, the youngest
an infant in arms, were exposed to
bitter cold throughout the night, with
the result that the baby froze to death
and the mother and other child were
$ severely frosted that their condi-
tion is critical. They were rescued by
occupants of n passing automobile and
brought to n hospital in hanna.
w. II. Summon, one of those killed
in the Knickerbocker thenter in Wash
ington, was deputy state treasurer OF
Wyoming. when he resigned last sum
mer TO attend Georgetown University
In Washington. lie also had been one
of the leaders in the american Legion
In this state. He was Il son of j. w.
Sammon Of Kemmerer, Wyo.
in order to stimulate business dur
ing the present period Of depression.
Mark IL. Shields, president of the
Bank of Gillette. has maue an offer
to the farmers of Campbell county to
assist them in buying suitable mich
cows. His plan is to develop dairying
In his vicinity and at the same time
provide n weekly pay check for those
who have suffered from the hard
times.
The business section Of Lusk was
threatened recently when flames gut
ted The old Goddard property, now
owned by the Lusk Development Com
pany. The Faust building, adjoining
the structure ablaze, was in grave
danger. In this structure is located
the postofflce, Lusk theater and dance
hall. and apartments on the second
floor. The total loss was about thirty
thousand dollars.
Fred l.. Lapnsh. az years old, pio-
paar ~efagkmnu nf ChaNpuua dr,ppaH