, 1922-07-13

t~wenty-foot embankment.
Charles IIysham. son of G. J.. Hy-
sham, wealthy ranchman of Moorcroft,
was killed neal Sundance when an
automobile in which he was speeding
overturned and pinned him under
meath. His companion, named Sunder-
land, escaped without injury.
The ownership of the Torrington
Telegram has passed to #. S. Pavitt,
who comes from Greeley, Colo, where
he has been in business for many
years. Pavitt is II staunch Republican
and the Telegram will continue to sup
port the principles of that party.
Death overlook Mrs. Rose Brady of
Pueblo. Colo, when the automobile
stalled in the mud IN the road west of
Granger near Kemmerer. While the
motor car stuck in the mire, Mrs.
Brady suffered n stroke IL paralysis,
and She died in Kemmerer shortly
after, in a hospital.
The fourteenth annual convention of
the Missionary Episcopal district Il
Wyoming, of which the Rt. Rev. Ma
thaniel Seymour Thomas of Laramie
is the bishop, was held July 8 and g at
Ethete, on the Wind River reserva-
ton. upon the grounds of the mission
of st. Michael's church.
The United States Civil Service
Commission is advertising for bids for
star route service between Laramie
and Walden, Colo. to be received in
Washington by July %, the service to
begin August II, for carrying not to
exceed 400 pounds of first and second
class mail. Two propositions are to
be considered. one for a daily service
and the other for II tri-weekly service.
DR.. f. W. Beckman, who has been
in charge of the work of inspecting
dairy cattle in the north end of Big
Horn county. reported that lie had con-
Guided the work of testing 1,176 cows
at Denver, Cowley. Byron. Kane and
Lowell, and that in all that number
there had been found but three which
shows tubercular signs and had to be
killed.
Fossil flowers are such rare discov-
cries in the United States that the
finding of a dogwood flower in a
fragment of rock from the Glenrock
coal field, Converse county, is of in
terest. DIR. +. II. Knowlton, n paleo-
botanist of the United States Geologi-
cal Survey. identified the fossil as n
species of "Cornus,' n typical genus of
the dogwood family.
The fact that the large per rent of
taxes gathered in the state goes to
the schools, and that any effort to re-
duce taxation means the cutting down
of education facilities, was emphasized
in the talk made by Governor Robert
ID. Carey Mt the meeting of the Sherl-
dan County Farm Bureau in Sheridan.
George w. Metcalf was chosen pres
ident of the First National Bank of
Lander at a meeting of the directors.
He succeeds ID. A. Randall, who has
disposed of his stock.
a fight to have incorporation of the
town OF Henderson declared null and
void on the grounds that Mt the time
of recognition the village did not have
the required population of $50, was
terminated in cour at Basin when
Judge Isley returned n ruling in favor
of the defendants. The judge held
that the town had enough people when
Incorporated and that the proceeding
was entirely regular and legal. The
suit was brought by the attorney gen.
eral in behalf of the state.
Three men were badly burned about
the hands and IA, E by n sudden flush
of gas in the meter house of the New
York oil Company in the Poison Spi-
der field. thirty miles southwest OF
Casper. recently. G. W. Branch, field
foreman, Miller and L~echtenfeld. both
representatives of the United States
Bureau of Mines, were burned by the
sudden puff Of gas, which was ignited
In IN undetermined manner.
+. n. Stuart. until recently postmas-
ter ut Parkerton, Converse county,
WIS taken before u. w. GIL, United
States commissioner. In Cheyenne, on
u charge OF embezzlement OF v
mcnt funds, lie was released on 81.
0O0 bail. He took over the postmaster
ship last December, and II is alleged
the shortage has occurred since that
time. The sum involved is said 10 be
$500, although, 1t is said. Stuart has
paid back $1,000.
Judge Melville G. Brown Of the Po-
lice Court of Laramie fined his wife,
Nancy Fillmore Brown, Sl.OO for using
water out OF hours. Mrs. Brown ap-
peared in court. The judge paid he
fine.
Herman Il. Gates, former Wyoming
state treasurer and more recently oil
operator in Denver, has formed an In.
vestment company In his Old home
town Of Worland. was shown in artl.
clos OF incorporation filed with the
secretary OF state NJ Cheyenne. The
name OF the pntcrprlSe Is the gntps