, 1922-01-26
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
twe.tern Ner.p.per unIon N... Service.

for this year are encouraging by rea-
son of many plans projected.
Judge Metz in the District Court at
Basin, set the Albert Lampitt murder
trial for 1 o'clock Jan. 80. This case
comes on a change of venue from Hot
Springs county. Arrangements have
already been made for housing over 100
witnesses who will be called during the
trial.
Cheyenne bank clearings fell off
more than S20,000,000 in 1921, COM
pared with 1920, the decrease repre-
senting 22.5 per cent, according to the
annual report of the local clearing
house. Clearings during 1921 were
so, S,925.21; in 1920 clearings were
800 ,144.35.
Wyoming railroad companies, oper-
ating between Buffalo and Clearmont,
have filed Il suit in the Federal Court
asking Il temporary injunction to re-
strain the Interstate Commerce Com
mission from enforcing the reduced
rates recently scheduled on interstate
shipments of lumber and other mater
ials.
AT a meeting of the Cody City Coun-
ell, l.. II. Ewart reported that it was
understood by the county commission
ers and the county treasurer that there
was no danger of penalties for delin-
quent taxes in Park county, if the per-
sons unable to pay would explain to
the county treasurer and set a reason
able date for payment.
With the opening of spring, drilling
for oil will begin in northeastern
Campbell county, near Rocky Point
postoffice. The rig is now up and all
is in readiness for the drillers when
they come. Biologists have given a
very favorable report on the oil indica-
lions in that region which is about six
ty miles northeast of Gillette.
Miss Abbie Arnold, surgical nurse at
the Casper private hospital, was elect
ed president of the Natrona County
Nurses Association in annual meeting
at Casper. Other officers named for
the new year were Miss Olive Batz,
vice president; Mrs. G.. Satter, secre-
tary, and Mrs. George RAIDER, treasur-
er. The organization has thirty-two
active members.
Leon G. Kennedy of Laramie was
notified by Congressman Mondell that
he had been appointed national bank
examiner and assigned to the Tenth
Federal Reserve District, with temper
airy headquarters at Kansas City. Mr..
Kennedy is the assistant cashier of
the First State Bank and also city
clerk of Laramie. He succeeds Oscar
Challman, resigned.
Fire which RACED four business
blocks al Douglas, following an explo-
sion in the Oasis cafe, Saturday,
caused a loss estimated at $4,000. The
buildings destroyed were owned by A.
W. Phillips, II. r. Mitchell and A. NJ.
Knapp. X. Il. Hess, proprietor Of the
Oasis, and his wife, who were asleep
on the second floor of the building oc-
cupied by the cafe, were rescued by
neighbOrs who were awakened by the
explosion.
Billy Thall of Baggs met with a
tragic death a short distance from the
Muddy coal mine. He was returning
home with a load of coal and when
about IA mile from the mine his team
evidently became frightened and, get
ting out from under his control on the
narrow grade and coming to a sharp
turn in the road, plunged into the deep
gulch below. The wagon turned upside
down, pinning Thai underneath, the
edge of the box resting on his neck
and causing him to %strAngle to death.
NJ. Bacius, arrested at Casper on a
charge Of drunkenness, fell on the CO.
ment floor at the city Jail and proba-
bly, fractured his skull. Bacius was
brought into police headquarters In an
extremely drunken condition. He fell
on his head a short time afterward.
lie was taken to the hospital.
Hot Springs county has been among
the first to respond TO Governar Rob
ert ID. Carey's request to cut down ex-
penses and retrenchments are already
In progress, The pay OF the Red Cross
secretary has been stopped and the of
flee Of the county nurse may also be
abolished. The sheriffs office an
nounces that cuts will be made In their
expenses which have been mounting
within the last twelve months.
The county treasurer has received
from the state auditor, for apportlon-
meDt mons the several school districts
Of Albany county, n check for SILL
5i0.25, from the general school land in
come fund for the half-ycar ended Oct.
l. The treasurer received April OF
last year from the fund for 1920, S21,-
2i2.6S; in September, in correction of
the error In the state superintendent
office in the apportionment Of funds.
s 5,TO6.S2.
Warden Frank Hadsell OF the Wyo-
ming state pcnltentlary. reporting TO
Governor Carey discharges and arrlE-
ais Of prisoners Mt the penitentlnry,
shows that approximately twice as