, 1922-01-12
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union New, Service,

SIX months, a new flVe-StOry DullulnS
at the corner of Seventeenth and Cap
itol streets. The building will cost
100000.
R%iverton's new $4,000 high school
building was opened for school pur-
poses beginning with the second SEM
ester on Jan. 3. The new structure
will greatly relieve congested condi-
lions.
Fire of undetermined origin de-
stroyed the main tipple of Dietz No. Z
mine camp near Sheridan. Officials of
the Peabody Coal Company, owners of
the mine, announced the loss would ex-
coed $4,000.
Judge J. NJ. Mott, one of the best
known characters In Kemmerer, died
at the Lincoln County Miners Hos
pital. He had been In poor health for
some time due to rheumatism and 9TH
er ailments.
Suit has been instituted against the
city Of Casper In District Court by
Gilbert Bros. for $6.S3S.0S, alleged to
be due the firm for grading work per
formed under contract. The case in
wolves a street fill carried out in
cess of original specifications.
Cattle thieves have been operating
for many months in the vicinity of the
state line north of Gillette, and east
as far as the Dakota line at more or
less frequent Intervals. Some of the
stock shortages have been slight, while
numerous ones have been on a rather
large scale.
Leaving his big Mercer car near the
CIR ranch, nea Lusk, while hunting,
8. w. Boyd returned to find 1t had
been completely destroyed by fire and
an acre Of grass land burned over.
had kept the prairie fire from spread
Ing further.
Governor Carey appointed William
A. Riner, Cheyenne attorney, to be
judge of the first judicial district,
vice William @. Mentzer, resigned.
The appointee is a nephew of John A.
Riner of Cheyenne, until recently the
oldest federal judge in point Of serv.
ice in the United States.
p. G. Chapman, alleged to have alb
seconded on Nov. 10 with q $1,000 pay
roll of the Midwest Refining Company
n who was captured in Jacksonville,
Fla, is in the Natrona county Jail fol-
lowing his return to Casper in the Gus
tody of Deputy Sheriff John Powert.
Chapman has admitted his guilt and on
his arrival said II was just a fool"
The baby son of Mr.. and Mrs. Gum
of Maverick Springs was badly scald-
ed as a result of playing with a Their
mos bottle. The bottle, filled with
boiling hot water, had been placed in
the baby's cab. In some way the child
got the cap off the bottle and spilled
the contents over Its body. The child
vas badly burned about the legs and
hips.
Out of approximately 1000 arrests
made by the Casper police department
daring the year just ended, over 80
per cent were for violation of the
liquor and drug laws. according to In
formation just compiled. Fines aggre-
eating $39,S61.50 were paid into the
city treasury during the year and a
large o was worked nj on the
streets.
That Superintendent Albright and
others connected with the administra-
ton of the Yellowstone National Park
are Interested all the time In the wild
life of the park is evidenced i'm the re-
cent vaccination of eighty calves of the
buffalo herd. The vaccination was to
prevent hemorrhagic septicemia, n dis
ease which is common to domestic
stock in the mountain regions.
In District Court at Basin II. b..
Richardson was appointed receiver of
the Big Horn Glass Company at
Lowell upon petition of the trustee for
the bond holders. 1t is proposed to
foreclose on the plant, %reorganlze and
make 1t impossible to resume opera
lions.
Police authorities at Casper have
been unable to find a clue 10 the
identity OF burglars who robbed Mrs.
Lee Stock, from whose hand an $500
ring was removed while she was
asleep in her apartment. A gold
wrist watch valued at 500 and some
cash was also taken from n dresser
In the room. Mrs. Stock awoke to
find the valuables gone.
James S. Harris and Oscar Robin
son have completed the delivery of
100000 feet of mine props to the
Poposla Coal Company, and have al.
ready cut 100000 feet more on their
two years contract. The tImbers
we're cut above Dubois. flonted down
Big Wind river to Riverton and
shlnnad from thara hv roti 80 A.