, 1922-01-05
Brief News Notes
From All Paris of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union New, Service,

49, - a AllANhlltNN VI Z
Inches. Six thousand five hundred
tons of ice are to be stored.
Greybull citizens voted on a S7O,-
900 bond issue for water works extern
sions. The bond issue carried by the
vote of 427 to Ill. The improvements
contemplate an addition north of the
refining plants.
Robert Newton was sentenced to 100
day in the county Jail and Herman
Barson assessed a fine of $3.50 on CON
viction in District Court on bootleg
ging charges at Casper. Newton had
spent sixty days in Jail awaiting trial,
N the court ruled that this should
apply on his penalty.
Fire partially destroyed the outbuild-
ings on the p. o. ranch, thirteen miles
north of Cheyenne and owned by the
estate of Arbuckle Brothers, million
aire coffee merchants of New York.
The damage is estimated at 1000,
partly covered by insurance. The
blaze was caused by explosion OF u
lantern in a barn.
Martin Benson, an employee at the
sawmill at Dubois and a comparative
stranger, committede suicide by plac-
ing the muzzle of a high W rifle
In his mouth and blowing the top of
his head off. He was found in n cab
in by members of the camp who had
gone to town and returned. No reason
for the tragedy Is known.
Margaret Cogdin n Samuel
Vaughn were placed under arrest at
| HrnNhrt1I nyI con ,,Al, l.. l-G-- - A.
find a third person in connection with
the finding of a body of a baby boy
in the cellar of a house belonging to
Hugh Dickie in Thermopolis. The ba-
by, according to the c~oroner's verdict,
came to its death from violence.
Adolph Kerr was elected command
err of Donal Garbutt Post No. z, Amer
lean Legion, at Sheridan, succeeding
George w. Scales at the annual cleo
ton of officers of that organization.
Kerr Is a naturalized Dane and was
one of the first Sheridan men to en-
list in the World War. He was a ser
geant in the 303rd Battalion, Tank
Corps.
George Otto Boche and "John Doe"
whose real name is unknown, came to
their death at the hands of officers
who fired in the discharge of their du-
ties, according to a verdict returned
by a c%oroner's jury at Casper which
Investigated the killing of the two
holdups by Deputy Sheriffs A. f.
Brown, Charles f.. Miskell and Jacl,
Weddell, in the attempted robbery of
the NJ. L. Small grocery store.
A message from Grass Creek, an oil
camp forty miles from Thermopolis,
states that 15-year-old Alberta Woods
shot herself through ,se heart with a
.22-caliber revolver when she was re-
proved with a leather strap by her ia
Their for dipping her spoon into a jam
pot at the family supper table. The
girl went into an adjoining room and
shot herself after writing a brief note
which said: Dear Papa: l am Civ
ing up my life. You can AXE your
spite out on someone else. 1 am
through for a while"
Announcement wal made from the
national headquarters of the Woodrow
Wilson Foundation that Il. G. Diers of
Sheridan, Wyo., chairman of the foun-
dalton in this state Charles d. Carey
Of Cheyenne; John B.. Kendrick of
Sheridan, and Mrs. Robert ID. Hnwley
of Douglas, had accepted appointments
to the national committee of the foun-
dalton, the body which has general SUI
pervislon over the campaign to raise
S1,0O),0O or more, starting Jan. 16,
and which will also select the perma-
nent board of trustees.
The machine switching plant of
the Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph Company has been installed
at the Laramie office, the company oc-
cupying its new building In that city
for the first time. A large part of the
service wires are now under ground.
and the installation has followed the
expenditure of n large amount of
money.
Earl Lambert, held In the Natrona
county jail for two weeks In connec-
ton with the theft of a diamond val
ued Mt $1,000 from Henry Wyatt, was
bound over to the District Court for
trial following a hearing in Justice
Court. James Hall and John Fitzger-
aid, the pair who admitted the holdup
OF Wyatt at his home in Casper, testi-
fled that Lambert was ar %accomplice.
Pat O'Connor, Johnson county ranch
er, owes his life to the poor aim OF a
sheepherder wha is reported to be In
Jail at Buffalo. The herder, whose
nnme is not known, is an employee OF
Roy Hall, and the shooting is said to
have been the outgrowth OF past trou-
BILE and threats made by O'COnnor over
range disputes. In the recent alterca-
ton the herder fired at o'Connor, II is
alleged, and killed the horse he was
riding, the ranchman escaping injury.
u. s.. Dabbs, formerly cashier Of the
Garland State Bank, will serve from
ihrnn 10 anXnn Nanra In the Wyoming