, 1922-06-22
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Cwestern Newspaper Union News serlce-)


at the No. 9 mine had been destroyed.
james Hamilton, u miner, 81 years
old, who came to Rock Springs from
Scotland. was drowned in the river at
that place recently.
Debts totaling nearly S250,000, com
pared with assets amounting to only
$4,000, were listed by Mrs. Eta NJ. Ir-
win of Cheyenne in filing a voluntary
bankruptcy petition with the clerk of
the Federal Court at Cheyenne.
Plat of the organized town of Hunt
ley, Wyo., was recently filed with the
county clerk Mt T%orrington. The loca-
ton of the townsite is one of he most
ideal on the Mort Platte extension of
the Union Pacific railway and is in the
heart of the best section of irrigated
and in the North Platte volley.
Call for bids has been issued by
County Clerk Willard S. Doane at
Sheridan for the construction of an
~eighteen-foot paved road to connect
the city paving with the Big Horn ce-
ment road, a distance of 1,01O nneal
feet. Estimates on bitulithis paving
and on concrete paving are to be
asked.
The largest gas compression plant in
the world is now functioning at Salt
Greek as u result of completion by the
Midwest Refining Company of the sec
ond unit of the plant, giving it a capac-
ity of 10000 900 feet of gas Il day, or
II total daily output of 100000 gallons
of gasoline. The new unit employs 200
men.
Decision TO hold a county fair in
Sheridan again this year has been def
nitely reached. The county commits
sloners have appropriated $1,000 for
the fair on the condition that the
business men and Commercial Club
appropriate q like sum. Committees
are now out securing pledges from the
business men.
For his heroism and courage In kill
ing George Heard, Shoshoni bad man.
after he himself had been severely
wounded by the man he was trying to
arrest, Deputy Sheriff Fred Northern
of that town is to be promoted. Carl
Jackson, federal prohibition director
for Wyoming. has offered Northern a
position as an operative working out
of Cheyenne.
Plans for n sixty-six-mile service
line to transport electrical power from
the Cody dam at Cody TO Greybull.
sin is now under consideration at Ba-
sin. The power at Greybull is to be
used by the Midwest Refining Com
pany, while ii is planned that the
power conveyed to Basin will be used
in lieu of a new municipal light and
power plant.
Thomas r. Tubb. his wife and s. s.
Magnuson are dead and two-other per-
sons. including Deputy Sheriff John
MCPHERSON, are seriously wounded az
a result of n battle at Grin junction
recently. between Tubb, the officers
and citizens. Mrs. 1ubb was slain by
her husband, who Is believed to have
become suddenly insane. Tubb was
killed by an unknown resident of
Grin and the three others were
wounded by Tubb.
The board of county commissioners
has appointed a committee of citizens,
with Otto Gramm ms chairman, and
with H.. Il. Ingham. j.. NJ. Christensen,
II. A. Gish, j. ii. King, Stanley Ed
wards and +. A. Holiday as his asso-
GATES, TO have charge of the county
fair to be held at Laramie lust prior
10 the state fair at Douglas, and the
commissioners have voted n handsome
Donation to the expenses of the under
liking.
A jury in the District Court Mt Lara.
mle found that Mrs. Louisa Rosin. wi.
dow of the late Albert Rosin, was
mentally incompetent TO handle her
%nffulrs, and Judge Tldball of the Dis
trict Court will appoint Il guardian.
BY direction OF Attorney General
Walls, following an investigation he
made recently, the county commits.
.ioners of Hot Springs county de.
clared n vacancy In the county attor.
ney's office. ON motion unanimously
carried. Fred Wyckoff was appointed
to fill the unexplred term of Major
'Nhh a.. bAfEs VIM nus Uttn uDNtfll
from the county for some time. II il
claimed That Kings present where
nbouts is unknown in Thermopolis.
ID. ID. Zack of Rock Springs is all
smiles these days, and he has yer,
good reasons for wearing one that will
not come off. Last year lack in.
vested $50 in n lease in the Pncos
county. Texas, oil country. zack for.
got about It until the other dny. when
he received a notice for taxes amount.
Ing to SO IN Ills oil land. He sent the
taxes and received n wire from IA San
Francisco oil company offering him
$1,000 per acre for his lease OF forty
acres, which he promptly accepted.
At the request Of many citizens OF
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