, 1922-12-28
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
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date alfalfa mill in operation, the
plant having been completed recently.
Esther McLaren, 2-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. McLaren of
Casper, was so seriously burned about
the back portion OF the body, when
she lacked into u tub of boiling water
her mother was to use for washing.
that 1t is extremely doubtful if she
will live.
~Apprehended at Crawford, Neb., on
a charge of completely in the theft OF
several sacks of sugar in Newcastle,
Frank Hall, Il taxicab driver, is be-
lieved to have committed suicide. He
was killed by the discharge of II 1890
caliber rifle which he took from his
trunk in IA garage.
In an effort to reach the bedside of
her daughter, thought dying of pneu-
monia at Laramie, Mrs. J. Z. Airhart
of Casper chartered an airplane and
flew 300 miles to Cheyenne in an hour
and forty minutes. The mother took
II Union Pacific train ut Cheyenne for
the last leg of the journey.
At the annual meeting of the board
of directors OF the Wyoming Develop
ment Company, held in Cheyenne, it
was decided to move the Cheyenne Of
fices TO Wheatland. James ID. Chap
lin, secretary, will move 10 the latter
city when the change is made, as soon
after Jan. l as is practicable.
An entire new train crew. round
house foreman and station agent came
up ON the train and tool charge of af-
fairs of the Encampment line. Che old
crew being laid off until further or
ders, pending Investigation of some
trouble which arose owe the local
train crew and a car of u. L. coal.
George Hegewald of Laramie, cap
tain of the University of Wyoming 1922
football team and a senior in that
school, and Miss Mary Hay, daughter
of John w. Hay. Republican candidate
for governor of Wyoming, were mar
ried at Rock Springs recently. Mr..
Hegewald will complete his course at
the university next June.
County Attorney j. A. Christman of
Kemmerer said hat Harry Gordon.
until recently he town marshal at
"ooha W ~ ~
charged with the murder of George
C~harldson, 30 years old, Slav miner,
whose dead body was found in the lat
ter's apartment. Gordon, now in jail
ut Kemmerer. protests his innocence.
Don a. Tolbert, said to be a partner
in the Stryker Construction Company,
has been brought back to Casper from
Denver on a warrant charging grand
larceny in the sum of S4,079.50 in con
nection with alleged fraud perpetrated
in checking against an account in a
Casper bank which he was not entitled
to use. Tolbert was arrested in Den
yer on a complaint signed at Casper.
DIR. b. +. Davis has announce his
resignation as Wyoming state vet
erinarian, effective Jan. l, to become
fulltime secretary-manager of the
Cheyenne Frontier days ut $1,000 per
year. Selection for the new place was
announced recently. This will be the
first time Frontier days has an all
year manager. Davis was chairman
of the 1922 and 1920 shows and was
subject TO widespread publicity last
year when he declared "a quarantine
against Colorado dairy cattle.
Here l am with my min little
brothers !" shouted Joe J~erkovich.
miner. ds he stepped into the dining
room of a boarding house at Dimes.
near Rock Springs, and opened fire
with an automatic pistol containing
nine cartridges. Mike Rodovich. min
er, fell with a bullet through his abdo-
men another miner sustained a flesh
wound the remainder of the persons
present escaped by flight. without in
jury. J~erkovich. having emptied his
gun. walked out of the plnce.
A quarrel over wages is said TO
have beer the cause of the Staying OF
Mrs. George Schwerdtferger ut her
ranch home. about IA mile east of Lam
der. Fred Sullivan, lS-yenr-old en-
ploye, who was discharged from the
ranch recently was found TO be miss
ing and was arrested by Deputies
John +. and j. w. Burch al Hudson,
Lander, after n search Of about six
hours.
The unusual incident of nm attorney
implying that "a state official had
bribed a witness, and of this same at
torney forced by IA vote of the crowd
In the court room to make public apol-
ogy for his remarks, was offered In
the course of Platte county's latest
trial attendant upon the efforts to
clear up Its series OF sensational Tween
tieth Century cattle r~ustllng cnses. An
Implied charge hat certain testimony
had been bought by State Law En-
forcement Commissioner A. s. Roach
and Sheriff Homer Payne pre-
cipitated II scene in Justice Court