, 1922-03-30
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

STONES.
Regular passenger service from
North Platte to Cherry Creek will be
inaugurated July l by the Union Pa
cific. Two train crews will be en-
ployed.
c. ii. Warkenstine of Kansas and
A. w. Augspurger of Greeley, Colo.
visited Laramie recently looking over
the possibilities of locating a colony
of M%ennonites there.
The slaughter of deer by coyotes
this winter has been appalling. 1t has
been years since they nave been so
numerous and have wrought such
havoc among the game in the vicinity
of Cody.
Seven shields were presented to
schools, representatives of which won
academic honors during High School
Week. at the University of Wyoming.
Cheyenne Inc Evanston received two
first places each, but there is a rule
which allows a school to have only one
shield.
Corrie Van Raalt, IA years old, was
burned, probably fatally, at Laramie
when a two-gallon can of gasoline
with which she was kindling a fire,
exploded. The girl, according to her
parents, thought the can contained
kerosene and started to pour it into
the kitchen stove.
Patrick DAILY, an employee of the
Buffalo Creek Livestock Company,
was shot three times by A. NJ. Taylor,
also an employee of the company, on a
ranch thirty miles northeast of Ar
mimic. The shooting was the outcome
of a quarrel over the possession of a
saddle, police say.
The transcontinental air mail is safe
for another year, according to Senator
f. Z. Warren, who telegraphed to
Cheyenne that the Senate has passed
the postoffice appropriations bill with
the inserted provision of 100000 for
the air mail, and hat he believed the
House would accept the amendment.
A giant eagle having a wing spread
of six feet nine inches, was caught
alive in a hawk trap on the Frank
Huncker ranch, three miles west of
Riverton recently. This huge eagle
was caught by one toe in the trap, and
1t was placed in a cage. II is thriving
10Y on q menu of prairie dogs and
birds.
The basketball team from Cowley
won the Wyoming state basketball
championship at Laramie, defeating
Cheyenne High IL to Z. The semi
finals left Worland, Cheyenne and
Rawlins with one defeat each. Chey-
enne defeated Rawlins in the finals I;
Worland, which had been beaten by
Cowley, defeated Rawlins, taking third
place in the tournament and leaving
the championship to be settled be-
tween Cowley and Cheyenne, Cowley
being the only undefeated team In the
tournament.
Thee Wyoming Supreme Court at
Cheyenne refused a rehearing of the
appeal of Mrs. Anna Richey from the
judgment of the District Court of Lin
coin county finding her guilty Of cat
tie rustling, and sentenced her to serve
from N 10 six years in the peniten-
tiary at Canon City, Colo. About two
months ago the court refused to over
rule the Lincoln County Court and re-
mand the case for %rehearing. The
| courts action means that Mrs. Richey,
who Is the daughter of a wealthy
stockman, and herself n large ranch
| operator, must serve her sentence. She
has been at liberty under bond for
more than two years.
Mrs. Carrie S. Adamson, 40 years
old, was frozen to death, and her hus-
band, John e. Adamson, may die, the
result of an all night ordeal in n bliz-
zard OF the Laramie plains. The wife
died in her husbands arms, and know
ing that she had succumbed he left her
and stumbled about the prairie until
he came to a farm house.
Because the manufacture of ice pro
duces warm water Cheyenne is to have
a swimming pool. Cal Holiday has
closed a contract for waste water
from the freezing system Of the Crys-
tai Ice Company and will use II to
supply a swimming pool 50x120 feet
in dimensions, with n depth graduated
from three to nine feet.
A million pounds Of wool is being
held in a pool formed by johnson
county wool growers. of which prac-
tically every sheep owner In the coun.
ty is a member. A meeting was held
and the seasons clip was offered the
minimum price fixed by the wool
growers. being 35 cents per pound. A
number Of bids were received but
none came up to the fixed minimum
and all We're rejected. The wool will
be held and again offered at shearlna
time.
An attractive site has been selected
with the cooperation of Denver archl
tects for the new 500. 900 school build
ing TO be erected in Torrington this
year. Plans for the structure have also
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