, 1922-11-08
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NEWS ITEMS

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United States Senator Francis f.
Warren of Wyoming. in Casper re-
Gently, promised TO lend every assist
ance for better postoffice facilities in
Casper.
Members OF Sheriff George Carrolrs
force found the hide of u freshly
slaughtered black yearling calf recent
ly. hidden away under u culvert, near
Cheyenne.
-Four thousand persons attended the
first annua automobile show in Cas-
! per. according TO figures made avail
able with the closing of the four day
motor festival.
Fred Mnclane, who went to Cody
from Kirwin, recently drunk II lot of
lemon extract and grape juice, and
then retired 10 his room and shot off
The top of his head.
A bond issue for 100000 for the
enlarging and improving of Sheridan's
water system, is 10 be voted upon by
the people of Sheridan in connection
with the general election, November Z.
a definite proposal for the building
of II $780, 600 hotel for Sheridan is I'M
der consideration by u committee APP
pointed by Mayor Charles w. Sheldon
and representatives of the Commercial
Club.
b. f. Perkins, of Sheridan, has let
Il contract TO n. A. Pearson for the
erection of u $4,000 business block
and tieater which will be built on
1 AfnIr etr.at .lf,tpfpr tho Rank NJ
Commerce.
The Teapot dome and surrounding
territory is declared positively proved
as an oil-bearing district, by the bring
ing in of the first big second Wall
creek producer with a flow of approx
imately 1900 barrels per day.
John Thomas, oil field worker, has
been returned to Casper from Buffa-
10, Wyo., where he was unprecedented
IN n charge OF having nude off with
an automobile belonging TO an employs
in the Salt Cr~el district.
Charles d. McFetridge Of Longmont,
Colorado. convicted of the theft of live
stock belonging to the Hereford Ranch.
Inc, was sentenced by Judge w. A..
lhlAtE, III III DlStllOt SOult ~
from four to five years in the peniten-
tiary.
Z. b. Wise was convicted in District
Court at Casper of grand larceny ON
charges preferred by william E. Schle-
der of Salt Creek, who presented evil
dence to show that Wise robbed him
of both jewelry and clothing while
thn ftyp x-nrn arpnlnvad In tho NIX
camp.
Joe Sullivan, advertising manager of
the Sheridan Post, sustained u fracture
of the collarbone and %probuble inter-
nal injuries recently when an automo-
bile driven by Jack Peedln In a TWEEN
ty-two-mile road race overturned near
Big Horn. Sullivan was acting us
m%echanlcIan.
Seismic disturbances centerlng in
the Salt Creek oil district and also felt
in Casper, are believed by some to
have had their origin in the removal
of vnst quantities of oil and gas from
the oil field covering a period of forty
or more years. Adjustments through
earth slips, 1t is believed, may have
caused the
The board of trustees of the UnIver-
sity of Wyoming has sued the State
School Land Board, consisting of the
governor, the secretary OF state, the
state treasurer and the state superin-
tendent of public instruction, to com
pei the board to turn over to the trus-
tees the management of all lands be-
longing to tie university and all funds
belonging to that institution, and now
administered by the state.
The Illinois Pipe Line Company, to
which a decree of court was issued
some months 6 for the right-of-way
for its pipe line through certain lands
In the valley from the Ohio Oil Com
pany's field at Rock Greek to the Mid
west ~refinerles at Laramie, has filed
the decree in the District Court, thus
quieting the title to some rights-of-way
In dispute.
Don NJ. Lobdell. head of the indus
trial relations department of the
| Standard Oil Company of Indiana In
Casper, and his wife, Sylvia Lobdell,
are being sued in District Court for
$4,000 by the estate of Edward Hur-
ley, who was killed when the motor
cycle he was riding collided with an
automobile alleged to have been driven
by Mrs. Lobdell.
Cheyenne is now n of the biggest
horse markets of the West, according
TO Harry Barnett, of Barnett & OAR
nell, which firm concluded the second
of a series of horse and mule snles
held in Cheyenne this fall. About $751;
600 has been turned over In the hort ,
market In Cheyenne this season, buy
ers being attracted by the quantities