, 1922-03-09
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union News Service,

Maggie Carter, colored, 104 years
old, said to be the oldest person in
Wyoming, died ut Cheyenne recently.
S. S. Hellger, former employee of the
Embar ranch, made an unsuccessful
attempt AT suicide by s~lashing his
throat with IL knife when thrown in
jail at Thermopolis for drunkenness.
Fifty years ago, March 1, 1872, Vel.
lowstone park was brought into being.
Ulysses S. Grant signed the Act of
Dedication which established the park
''as a public or pleasure ground for the
benefit and enjoyment of the people"
Governor Carey has appointed Bruce
Nowlin of Dubois to be state game and
fish commissioner, succeeding the late
w. T. Judkins of Riverton. The APP
pointee is the son of d. G. Nowlin, who
was state game warden for nine years.
The number of applications to Craze
stock on the Medicine Bow forest this
year is somewhat of a surprise to local
forest officers considering existing con-
c'rions. There are indications that the
-rner has been turned in the indus
Try.
The sum of $237 900 due the state of
Wyoming from payments made by the
United States shipping board to the
Department of the Interior for petrol
cum produced on federal lands in Wyo-
ming, is to be paid to the state imme-
diately.
A party of Union Pacific engineers,
headed by Mr.. STRIVING, who has
made headquarters at Lyman, Neb.,
the past six months, have been en-
gagged in surveying south of LAGRANGE,
says the Goshen Hole News. Streu-
wing is reported to be seeking a salts
factory grade for running an extension
of the Union Pacific railroad from
Yoder to the main line at or to the
east of Cheyenne.
The first and only Wyoming temple
of the dramatic order of the knights
of Khorassan, the playground of the
Knights of Pythias lodge, has been in
stituted at Casper with the initiation
of a large class. Lester Bentley of
Pocatello, Idaho, representing the i'm
perlal prince of the order, was in at
tendance, together with Groves Meyer
of Laramie, grand chancellor of the
Knights of Pythias in Wyoming.
Confined to his bed in the Red Des-
ert region south of Lander for nearly
three weeks, until his supply of food
ran out, and still suffering Intense
pain, Dick Baker, who had been round
ing up horses in that region, was
forced to take to his horse in an effort
TO reach Lander and was picked up in
a serious condition before he reached
his destination. The condition of his
feet necessitated the amputatlon of six
toes.
The Wyoming Wool Growers Asso-
citation has started a concerted action
to bring about the immediate strict en-
forcement of the truth-in-fabric act
passed by the last State Legislature.
If this canno be easily procured
through the state and county officials
the association will take it up through
city ordinances. Rawlins recently
passed such an ordinance and 1t is un.
derstood that the city and county will
cooperate in the enforcement of the
law.
Postmaster Beltz at Laramie has re-
ceived Instructions from j. A. Cruick-
shank of Cheyenne, chief clerk in the
railway mail service. directing him 10
continue the temporary messenger
service between Laramie and Walden
and Coalmont, Colo, until the regular
service can be re-established over the
Colorado, Wyoming and Eastern rail-
road. which has been greatly hamp-
cred with snow. The special service
carries first ard second class mail
twice O week.
Harry C. Margatts. a native of Eng
land Albert Plngltzer, n native of
Germany Arthur j. Strouts, n native
of Great Britain Ole Rian. a native of
Norway. and John Erickson, a native
of Sweden. were admitted to citizen
ship at Laramie.
The High School Week Mt the Uni
versity of Wyoming. which will be held
during the week beginning March IL,
will be larger than ever before. 1t be-
ing expected that the university and
the community will be called upon to
entertain Mt least $50 guests.
The committee consisting of Gov
ernor #. Chatterton, Henry Heating
and ]. N. Wicks. that some time ago
made a trip to Omaha and Chicago In
the Interest of the proposed cutoff be-
tween the Burlington and Northwest
ern between Shoshoni and Bonneville,
has not been letting up ou the job
since Its return to Riverton. The mem
beers have been In continuous corre-
spondence with the railroad officials
but not having received any definite
or satisfactory responses. and having
ascertained that the Interstate Com
merce Commission often uses Its good
offices In such matters. the commit
tee took the matter up with that body.
Mrs. G. II. Muenchmeyer OF Their
mopolis was elected president Of the