, 1922-07-12

under way to make the gathering a
memorable one.
Wyoming is decidedly short of cat
tie on the range at the present time.
in the opinion If Jeff Scott of Doug
las, who has been in Colorado during
the past couple of weeks making pur-
chases of stockers to send to his
ranges in the north.
j.. w. Bozorth of Burns has been
appointed local chairman of the
Worlds Board of Aeronautical Com
mlssioners. The appointment was
made by the board of governors of the
organization on nomination of War
rem Richardson, sectional chairman for
the county of Laramie.
The executive committee Of the
Wyoming Medical Society and the
State Dental Association selected Lara
mic as the meeting place for the next
annual joint convention. The dates
will be June 20 to %. An invitation
to the State Druggists Association to
join them will be extended.
James r. Jones, general counsel of
the Western Pipe Line Company, has
announced that for the next two years
at least. the Midwest Refining Com
pany will furnish the pumping facil-
tiles for the common carrier pipe line
which the Western Company is build
ing from the Salt Greek field to Cas-.
per.
The second largest Individual wool
clip shorn in the world, hat of the
Warren Livestock Company, and one
half of the largest wool clip shorn in
the world. hat of the Swan Land &
Cattle Company. were sold in Chey-
enne recently, for a price not an
n%ounced, but said to be well above a
quarter of a million dollars.
The board of trustees of the Uni
versity of Wyoming, at its meeting in
Laramie, closing the commencement of.
1922, elected the following officers:
President, William c. Deming of
Cheyenne; vice president, Dean Pros
ser of Tie Siding; treasurer, f. w.
Geddes of Deerwood. reelected; sec
rotary. Fay E. Smith, who has been
acting secretary for several months.
Douglass VIII be the scene of the
annual encampment of the Wyoming
cavalry troops this fall, according to
word received from Adjutant General
r. L. Esmay by Charles A. Guenther.
Esmay said the school of instruction
will open at Douglas about August 80
and that the encampment program
would open about September 8 and
continue for two weeks.
Investigation of the records of the
sheriff's office in Douglas brought to
light the fact that Gus Grimes, alias
Brown, served a Jail sentence in Doug
las in December, 1909. AT that time
he had no aliases, being known by his
lawful name, Ernest Bush. He was
by Sheriff Messenger Decem-
Der 20, 1909, on a charge of stealing
a wagon from the Florence Hardware
Company.
Destruction by fire OF the house oc-
cupied by Kirk Walter, town marshal
of Mills, west of Casper, recently pre-
ceded and followed by a stream of
threatening letters signed tx. K. k"
eliminated in the arrest of Mr.. and
Mrs, w. X. McCane by operatives of
Sheriff Marquis office. Now Mr.. and
Mrs. McCane are being held on q d.
rect charge of blackmailing G. Il.
Boyle, mayor of Mills, and for inves-
tigation relative to their %nnecti
with sending other letters both before
and after the recent blaze at Mills.
The Wyoming Funeral Directors AS
Canfa ffan xBflE 1@II tA- I'LL -.-N
convention / n Thermopolis July ~ and
% and arrangements have been made
to show the delegates a big time.
On recommendation of the State
Board Of Pardons, Governor Carey
committed the sentence of Afford Il.
Walker from hanging to life impris-
onment. The attitude of the state of
ficials was that Walker was the lesser
offender in the murder Of Taxi Driver
Louis Failer south of Cheyenne in
March. 1921, and that It would be a
miscarriage of justice to have Earl
Moss, whom it regarded as the greater
offender. escape death while his part
ner in the crime was hanged.
Because she had quarreIed with her
husband and did not want to live
alone. Mrs. Grace Dennis, % years
old. committed suicide by shooting
herself through the temple with a re.
v%oiver, according to authorities at
Casper. Death was almost instantan-
eous. Mrs. Dennis and her husband,
who is a abroad employee, are said to
have quarreled last week, for the first
time, and he is alleged to have left
her. Mrs. Dennis left a note saying
that she did not want to live alone.
Gus Crimes" Omaha maniac, whose
melodramtic career came to an end
when he was shot down with a rifle
bullet, in the country north of Med
linn Rnr. u-nnt dnn.n finLAirn nm.