, 1922-06-07
Brief News Notes
From, All Parts of
Wyoming


Final arrangements have been com
Sweetwater teachers institute, to be
held In Yellowstone National park,
Aug. % to 81.
CracksInen who blew the safe of the
Shoshoni State Bank recently escaped
with $500 in cash and bills of small
denomination, and left no trail for Of
ficers to follow.
One hundred and thirty thousand
pounds of wool sold at Casper recent
~ for s7h and 80 cents a pound at
the first auction sale by the sealed
bid method. The sale was held by
woolgrowers of Natrona county.
Louis G.. Phelps, SO, of Pitchfork,
Wyo.. nationally known as a financier
ind Park county's largest individual
landowner and taxpayer, dropped dead
recently while transacting business in
the office of the county surveyor at
Cody.
A meeting was held in Burlington
recently, which was attended by the
landowners of hat section of the Grey
bull valley and a number from Basin
and Greybull, relative to inducing the
Burlington TO build q branch line up
that valley.
Plans are now under way for cele-
brnting h fiftieth anniversary of
founding Yellowstone National park
this summer. according to Stanley Ed
wards, secretary of the Rocky Noun
tain Highway Association, with offices
in Laramie.
The Laramie local of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union voted
unanimously for the election of David
w. Baird OF New York for a member
OF the board of auditors of the Inter
national Typographical Union. Baird,
a native of Laramie, learned TO set
type In that city.
X. E. Stapleton, reporter for the Cas-
per Daily Tribune, lies in a critical
condition at a hospital in Casper from
a bullet wound received in an accident
al shooting. when a gun slipped from a
holster which was being removed by
Deputy Sheriff Frank Devlin. and was
discharged on striking the floor.
Plans are now under way for the
establishment OF a reserve officers
training camp unit in Casper TO be
located at the high school and under
the supervision of the high school au.
thorities. A regular army officer
would be in charge and the govern
ment would furnish all the equipment.
During the past few days there has
been a revival OF rumors that the
Union Pacific is to build its south ex-
tension from Yoder to Cheyenne, and
that construction will be started this
year. One rumor says dirt will be
flying" within ninety days Engineer
Woodwork at Gering denied knowl-
edge of new construction activities.
A new high price for wool in Natro-
ma county since the collapse Of the
market W years 9 WINS established
at Casper in the sale of 10000 pounds
by the Freeland Sheep Company for 10
cents a pound. SHERMAN & Son of
Chicago made the purchase and also
took 10000 pounds from the same
company at prices ranging from SO TO
3S cents.
In the realization that his own sit
nation was hopeless and that he must
perish in the worst late spring bliz-
Yard that had swept Wyoming In
years. Jack Westcott, world war vet
eran from Urbann, Ia, once more
acted the hero by removing his own
thin "slicker' and throwing 1t over
the PROSTATE body of his buddy, Ma
rion ID. Young of Pasadena, Calf, in
q last desperate effort to save the
l~atter's life while his own was ebbina
away.
Wyoming's largest high school grad
uation class is the claim to distinction
made by the class of 1922. which grad
uated ~ninety-eIght members recently in
the orpheum theater at Sheridan.
With the bodies Of two-year-old
twin daughters still missing, funeral
services for Patricia, aged @, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. william Mcintosh OF
the Sweetwater country were held In
Rawlins recently. The three children
were drowned when the car which had
been brought to rest on the brink OF
the Sweetwater river tumbled into the
stream with the caving of the bank.
Search 10 being continued for the
bodies of the twins.
The Burlington railroad has ar
ranged to give parties holding tourist
tickets to Yellowstone park stopover
privileges at Thermopolis, both going
and returning. The Big Horn Hot
Springs provide the greatest attraction
In Wyoming and one of the greatest
in the rntire West, and this fact is
forcing itself TO the front. The stop