, 1922-06-14
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union N.-. service,

commemorative of the old shot gun
roundup days in Wyoming, will be held
in Yoder on June %, "a and 20. The
forst days program will include horse
racing and a bucking %aeroplane. A
daredevil cowboy will ride on a saddle
strapped to the body of Lieutenant
Toncray's airship. This is the first at
tempt eve made to ride a bucking aer-
oplane. On Saturday and Sunday
there will be a real Wild West show
%bucking, rope riding and ~bull-dogging.
Yoder is a new town on the Union Pa
cific North Platte extension. The cit
liens have subscribed literally for this
affair, and the town of Yoder is pre-
pared to accommodate the crowds that
will undoubtedly attend their first ex-
hibition of this kind.
Brig. Gen. William II. Sage, 90 years
old, commanding officer of Fort ID. A.
Russell, Wyo., died at a hospital in
Omaha recently.
Fire which started from a defective
flue completely destroyed the residence
at Yoder of w. Fl. Smith. Most OF the
furniture was removed.
~Cheyenne's 1922 frontier Days cele-
bration will be formally opened July
% by Hanford McNlder. national com
mander OF the American Legion.
To realize a cherished ambition, Mrs.
G. w. Young. mother of two children,
returned to high school Mt Sheridan
after eighteen years, and received her
diploma with a class of nlnety-nine Sc
| niors.
James Keenan,, driver of the automo-
bile in which Miss Peggy Myhre, school
teacher. was killed on the Big Horn ce-
ment road at Sheridan, s~urrendered to
the sheriff five minutes after n war
rant charging him with involuntary
~manslaughter had been filed in Justice
Court.
The treacherous waters of the
Hamsfork river claimed victim,
Frank Fem, 20-year-old son If Will
liam Fem, a rancher, who resides at
the Home ranch, between Water Fall
and Opal. having met his death while
attempting to drive IA horse across the
stream.
Co%incidentally with the Il
ment by the Interstate Commerce
Commission of freight rate reduction
approximating 10 per cent, the wyo-
ming Public Service Commission Is
sued an order reducing intrastate
freight rates on a scale ranging as
high as 80 per cent on commodities
and A per cent on class tariffs.
T~wenty-four head of cattle stolen by
a rustler from the Iba ranch and
shipped to Chadron, Nebr., where he
sold the lot for $1,000, but failed to
collect on the check, have been re-
turned to their home range near Cas-
per. No further race of the rustlers
has been found since he stole a horse
and escaped from the Chadron dis
trict.
s. +. King. 90. city editor of the
Sheridan Post, who died recently fol-
lowing an illness of several weeks, was
laid at rest in Mount Hope cemetery
ut Sheridan. Mr.. King was a veteran
newspaper man. He came to Sheridan
fourteen years ago TO accept a posi-
ton on the city desk of the Sheridan
Enterprise, later going oyer to the
Post.
Thirty-four thousand pounds of
wool purchased by s. Sllberman &
Sons of Chicago was attached at Cas-
per in connection with suits filed by
the keystone and Mccarthy Sheep
companies in which the Sllberman
firm is charged with breach of ron
tract in purchases said to have been
negotiated here in 1919. Damage is
asked by the sheep companies.
| r.e,a. x.,,nu .,on ~ .l.o n..u,Lo. 80
seventy have made application for en-
trance to the Citizens army training
comp at Fort Douglas, Utah, July 81 to
Aug. %. The acceptance of a great
majority of them is expected.
Two hundred Lions and forty Lion
esses attended the second annual con-
v~ention of Wyoming Lions clubs at
Torrington. All twelve clubs in the
state were represented also there was
a delegate from Billings, Mont. TWEEN
ty-four from I.usk and twenty from
Cheyenne. A. Baker of Cheyenne was
reelected district governor, and Lusk
was chosen as the place for next years
convention.
Rawlins is rejoicing I'VE the pros
pect of enewed activity in the Ferris
oil field. Frank Kistler, president of
the Producers and Reflners' Corpora
ton r. Il. Wertz. superintendent, and
+. A. Miller, field manager, have been
ut Rawlins for several days. They an
nounce he early installation of six
strings of tools for drilling seventeen
wells his spagon- The onernti0ns will
be in the east portion of the Ferris
dome and comparatively neal Rawlins.
One child of Joe NJ. Osborn, living