, 1922-07-27
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
YOMING

The Midwest Refining and Ohio Oil
companies, the. principal purchas-
ers of Wyoming and Montana
crude oils, have announced a reduction
of % cents a barrel on all grades, eff
fective Immediately.
Lieut.. Col. James Longstreet of the
Thirteenth cavalry regiment died of
heart failure at Fort ID. A. Russell
while participating in a cavalry review.
Colonel Longstreet plunged from his
horse and was dead when picked up.
Marjorie. 1S-months-old daughter of
b. a. Willard, fell into n sunken rain
barrel on her fathers ranch, east of
Lander, and was drowned. The child
was playing near the house when the
accident occurred. Mrs. Miller discov-
cred her daughters body.
The Sheridan County Fair will be
held n'Sheridan September 4, ; and g.
Twelve thousand dollars in prizes and
premiums are to be awarded. The
fair board has opened permanent head
quarters in the court house, with c. s.
Mills in charge as secretary.
Mary Miles Minter, film star, who
has been in Jackson during the making
of n western picture, is recovering
from injuries incurred several days
Z when her g%alloplng horse STUN
bled and fell, throwing her violently
to the ground, face down. Miss Min
ter was riding with Tom Moore, her
leading man.
Frank Kitzenberger, who has led the
life of a hermit for thirty years on
squatters' land nea Sheridan, ended
the lives of his four horses and then
turned a gun on himself. His body
was found lying among the ~carcasses
OF the animals. Little Is known of
Kitzenberger. He was believed de
ranged.
The 2-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Milton Morrison died very sud
denly at Wheatland. Mr.. and Mrs.
Morrison and two small children had
just returned from La Grange, Wyo.,
when both children became violently
ill. The older one is still in a very
critical condition. The exact cause of
the lness has o been determined,
but 1t is thought hat the children ate
something that poisoned them.
j. c. Stewart. cashier of the First
National bank of Basin, has instituted
suit in District Court for $4,000 dam
ages against S. j. Hardison, manager
of the f. G.. Lewis Oil Company. The
petition alleges that the defendant
made defamatory statements regard
ing the plaintiff In Casper, Wyo., rela-
tive to the closing of the Big Horn
bank at Basin sometime since, alleg-
ing that the plaintiff was responsible
for the failure. The case will be tried
at the next term of court at Basin.
Robert Morton, wanted In Casper on
u charge of auto theft and one of four
delivered from the Natrona county
Jail, Oct. II, 1921, has been captured
at Reno, New. Morton is the second
To be captured. o. Jennings, highway
man, having been caught and SEN
fenced to the South Dakota peniten-
tiary since his escape, l.. \. Nlchol-
son, who had beer sentenced to a term
of from five to twenty years for muir
der of Ed. Schuster. March 10. 1921,
and James A. Howard. charged with
theft of an auto, r still at large.
What is thought to have been n of
the boldest robberies committed in
that section for many days, and one
which represented the largest clean
up to its perpetrators for the effort
expended. and resulting in a clean get
away by the robbers, took place near
Kemmerer when Jake Nayllch, n min
er, was held up and robbed of $4,000
in cash. The robbery. according to the
story told by Naylich to the police,
was staged at midnight and his modest
miners cabin quarters was the scene.
Five cooks and walters, shipped to
Casper from Omaha by an employment
agency Of the Chicago x Northwestern
railroad, were mistaken for shopmen's
strike breakers and thrown out of the
laborers' camp by railroad employees.
Two were beaten and all handled
roughly until the situation was ex-
planned.
Wyoming -flockmasters are planning
to attend In force the annual conven-
tlon OF the wyoming Wool Growers
Association to be held in Sheridan Aug.
2, 3 and 4. The convention is the first
planned for the summer season. the
change having beer authorized last
year when storms which required the
presence Of stockmen ON their ranches
seriously curtailed Attendance at the
Casper convention.
Guilty Of hurboring wheat rust, is
the verdict OF Aven Nelson, president
Of the University OF Wyoming nj Lara
mie, who recently inspected the bar.
berry hedge AT City park in Cheyenne.
DIR. Nelson WIS invited to give his
judgment Of the %shrubbery by the city
commissioner OF Cheyenne when
many complaints were received that
the barberry was n detriment 10 the
wheat crop raised In Laramie county