, 1922-05-18
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union News ser,ics.)

80 49,
nounced his candidacy for a second
term.
The women's auxiliary to Morgan f.
Knadler camp, Spanish War Veterans,
has been formed at Laramie, with
eighteen charter members.
For nm attack ON his brother-in-law,
Charles Wilson, who is suffering from
severe knife wounds, Frank Walton is
being held in the city Jail at Casper,
pending determination of Wilson's con-
dition. "A family row." is the police
version of the affair.
The Bank of Manville and the First
National Bank of that place have been
consolidated and the former has closed
Its doors. The banking affairs of Man
vile will hereafter be in the hands of
the First National Bank, which is the
name of the consolidated institution.
Cokeville has Joined the list of towns
that have turned to femininity for bet
ter government. The woman's ticket
headed by Mrs. Ethel StoEer for may
or was elected by a plurality of 80 out
of a total vote of 160 votes. Mrs. J.. d.
Noblitt and Mrs. Richard Roberts were
elected CONDITIONER.
DIR. William Boeck, for the past year
associate professor of zoology at the
University of Wyoming, has rendered
his resignation at Laramie and &C
cepted Il position on the faculty of the
University of Washington at Seattle.
DIR. and Mrs. Boeck will leave Laramie
at the end of the present school year.
William A. Robinson, a rancher, has
been arrested on a charge of %felonious-
ly shooting two horses belonging TO
Glen Cooper of Lander. He has been
placed under $500 bond to appear
before the District Court. 1t is al
legged that the horses shot had been
running at large on Robinson's prem
ises.
Following a period of turmoil, DUR
ing which he made many accusations
regarding the lack of law enforcement
in Evanston and which eliminated re-
Gently in his being slapped and
Knocked into the gutter by Mayor John
T. Roaick, the Rev. George Chalmers
Richmand has abandoned Evanston for
all timR.
On May 81 Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Willis
of Peare, N. NJ, will celebrate their
golden wedding anniversary and they
are endeavoring to locate three Of
their sons, Ernest, Scott and Leander
Willis, who are supposed to be some
where in Wyoming. The aged couple
desires the IONS TO attend their fiftieth
wedding celebration.
Harry S. Bruce will not be hanged
for the murder of slim" Smith, al
though a jury found him guilty of muir
der in h first degree and set the
penalty as death. Instead, he will go
to the penitentiary for a life term.
Technical errors during Bruce's trial
resulted in District Judge Metz of
Thermopolis setting the death verdict
aside and accepting a plea of guilty
of murder in the second degree.
The financial affairs of Lincoln
county are not in good condition, NC
cording to information submitted at
a meeting of the board of county com
m%issioners at Kemmerer. A skeleton
statement read by County Treasurer
Ben C.. Bell showed that certificates
of Indebtedness outstanding after the
collection of the 1921 taxes amounted
TO $40, 77T.34 md that certificates
amounting to Sal ,014.12 have been is
sued this year to cover the expenses
Of running the county for the first
three months of the year. making a
total Indebtedness of SLAB, 791. AZ on
the last of April.
That Wyoming bred polo ponies and
hunting horses are in demand else
where is established by the shipment
from the Diamond ranch seventy miles
north Of Cheyenne, within the last few
days of a carload of polo ponies billed
TO San Antonio, Texas, and six hunters
billed to Ithaca, N. Y.
Secretary Fall has that
the Yellowstone National park will be
opened June 20. and Will remain open
until September Is. on the opening
date, the park hotels and camps will
be ready to accommodate visitors, and
all motor trips will be operated daily
until the closing dates. Reduced
%round-trip rates on the railroads TO
and from the parks will go into eff.
feet about the first of June.
A huge fire, later assuming the pro-
portions of a conflagration, swept the
tow OF Newcastle, starting In the
Thompson garage, burning several
buildings nearby, and for n time
threatening the entire town. The dam.
age is estimated at more thnn $780,
900. Besides the Thompson garage
and nearby commercial houses. twelve
automobiles and trucks. including two
large army trucks, were destroyed In
the blaze. The fire burned several
hours.
Speeding her husbands departure
with n bullet, when he fled from their
home after n martial disagreement.
cost Mrs. NJ. Brown $25 when she was