, 1922-05-31
WYOMING
STATE NEWS
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saved $4,000 barrels of crude oil from
destruction when lightning struck the
tank recently. The fire wal extin-
guished after burning an hour and the
loss to the Midwest OIL Company is es-
timated at about 1000 barrels.
Not guilty." was the verdict of the
jury at Wheatland in the trial of Doug
las Roberts, charged with the murder
last summer of his brother-in-law, Cap
tain ]. Jackson. The verdict was
reached after a few hours delibera-
ton. Roberts defense was that he
acted to protect himself.
Eighteen hundred trees with which
to transform the country Immediately
north of Cheyenne from a practically
interested prairie into a veritable
woodland paradise. That's the number
the Lions Club is setting within
one years time, and that's what that
organization is now accomplishing.
The baseball enthusiasts of three
main line towns on the Union Pacific
in Wyoming. Rawlins, Green River and
Evanston, have formed a triple alliance
and will cross bats at intervals during
the coming summer on the different
diamonds of the Inter-City League.
Union Pacific system.
The biggest drive in the history of
the tie industry of the Big Wind river
country will start this spring when the
Wyoming Tie and Timber Company
will float its 100000 ties for delivery
at the treating plant in Riverton. The
previous drive was 3s5,O00 ties. The
drive is expected to start June l and
will continue for ninety days.
A contract has been let to w. H.
Weaver, rig building contractor of
Casper, for the erection of twenty rigs
on the Teapot dome oil naval reserve
for immediate drilling in the develop
ment program of the Mammoth OIL
Company. which secured a contract
from the government for drilling out
the field on a royalty basis.
State Examiner Rudolph Hoffman
recently announced the closing Of the
Big Horn County Bank at Basin, Wyo.,
because of depleted reserves. The
bank is in charge of Assistant Exam
liner Stewart Grier. Its capital is S40,-
600 and its deposits $223,000. D. l..
Darr, one of the best known bankers
of the state, is president of the bank.
William X. Coe of Cody and New
York gave $4,000 to the Frances War
rem Pershing Memorial Hospital to be
erected in memory of the late wife of
General Pershing. it was announced in
Cheyenne recently. Senator Francis e.
Warren of Cheyenne, father of Mrs.
Pershing, gave S25.000, and individuals,
mostly in Laramie county, gave a total
of $150,000.
John J. Hill, the wool expert at the
University of Wyoming, was informed
by Burton w. Marston of Buffalo,
johnson county, that about 100000
pounds of wool not yet shorn, and part
of a pool of about a million pounds
offered at a sealed bid sale in March,
for which there was no offer, had been
sold to B. Harris of st. Louis at IS
cents a pound.
Anna Richey, who was convicted of
cattle rustling two years ago and who
was recently ordered commttted to the
peQitentiary by the State Supreme
Court in July to begin serving sentence
was found dead on her ranch, twelve
miles north of Kemmerer, and Otto
Palzenberger, a ranch hand. was
rushed to a hospital at Kemmerer suf-
fering from commissions. Both had
been poisoned.
Colorado coal, the first placed on
the market in many years in Casper, is
being retailed in relieving a coal short
age caused by the mine tieup in Wyo-
ming.
1t is one thing to refuse to work in
a property, but quite another thing to
stand idly by while the property is be-
ing destroyed, a fact demonstrated by
the action of striking coal miners at
Almy, near Evanston, when fire broke
out in a lower level of mine No. 3,
which had been idle since the strike be-
gan April 1. The strikers promptly
volunteered to the mine management
to risk their lives by entering the mine
TO fight the blaze and combated it eff
f~ectually.
Relief to farmers of Sheridan coun-
ty who are facing prospects of a grass
hopper plague on a greater scale than
ever, was pledged by all banks of
Sheridan, which formally gave notice
that they would advance money for
two carloads of %grasshopper poison, to
be ordered Immediately. The esti-
mated cost of the two carloads of
grasshopper poison is 15,000-over
sever times as much money as was
spent in Sheridan county last year to
fight the plague.
One of the greatest sheep o~rganiza-
tons In central Wyoming has been or
ganized by w. ID. McKeon of Newcas-
tie, president of the Newcastle Land
and Live Stock Company. McKeon re-
Gently closed n three-vear lease IN tbe