, 1922-11-09
LATE NEWS
From Al OUer
w OMING

A human skeleton was found along
the right of way west of Barnes while
workmen were throwing up the grade
on the Lingle-Fort Laramie stretch of
new road.
United States Senator Francis Il.
Warren of Wyoming. in Casper re-
Gently, promised to lend every assists
|. ance for better postoffice facilities in
Casper.
Four thousand persons attended the
first annua automobile show in Cas-
per, according 10 figures made avail
able with the closing of the four-day
motor festival.
b. f. Perkins, of Sheridan, has let
Il contract to n. A. Pearson for the
erection of II $4,000 business block
and theater which will be built on
Main street, adjoining the Bank of
Commerce.
Contract for major construction
work on the Producers x Refiners
new 6,000-barrel refinery ut Granville,
east of Kawlins, on the Union Pacific
Railroad, has been let to the Lloyd
Building Company of Casper.
The Pexton Live Stock Company of
Douglas. owning some property in AL
bany county. has filed its articles of
Incorporation ut Laramie. The COM
puny was Incorporated by John Pex-
ton, Mary Pexton and Glen A. Pexton.
and will have a capital of $4,000.
viii Reid, editor and owner of the
Cheyenne, Wyoming. Democrat, died
Il few days from pneumonia. He
had been engaged in the printing and
newspaper publishing business in Wy
oming for more than thirty years, the
greater part of the time at Rawllns.
TO eight years preceding 1921 he was
register of the Cheyenne land office.
The Crucible is the name of a new
paper published by the Sunrise High
School students. It's a newsy little
sheet which devotes most of its space
TO school activities. but saves some
space for Sunrise and Hartville items.
A cut of the high school basketball
team is Il feature of the athletic de-
partment.
Alex Gulberson, an employee in the
Pugsley mine, near Sussex, was found
dead beside his horse, which was also
dead. The theory was expressed by
Coroner Flint hat Gulberson had at
tempted to make his horse jump a
wire fence and the horse had tripped,
both of them having their necks brok-
en- in the fall.
James Oliver Curwood, famous novel
and film producer, who speciallzes In
themes of the northern woods, is re-
ported to have promised n national
forest official that he would pay a
future visit to the Medicine Bow noun
tains for the purpose of collecting
material for a novel, with those noun
tains for a setting.
Judge ii. v. S. Groesbeck, of Lara
mic, the attorney for the plaintiff in
the case of Professor Kjerwchow-
A%gersborg against the board of trus-
tees of the University of Wyoming,
was Informed by Judge William A.
Riner. of Cheyenne, judge of the First
Judicial District, before whom the case
was tried, that tile trustees, being a
part of the state, cannot be sued. 1T
is "a well settled fact" said the judge,
in communicating his opinion to Judge
Graesbeck, that u state cannot be
sued in its own court, nor in any
other, unless 1t has expressly con-
scented to such suit. 1t is likewise es-
tablished by the overwhelming weight
of authority that, il the result of the
action Is to appropriate the state funds
TO satisfy the judgment rendered in
thu. action tho asffnn 10 unnfnut fh.
state. regardless of its form or against
whom brought"
Fred Maclane, who went to Cody
from Kirwin, recently drank IL lot of
lemon extract and grape juice, and
then retired to his room and shot off
the top of his head.
A definite proposal for the building
of a ~$350,000 hotel for Sheridan is un-
der consideration by IA committee APP
pointed by Mayor Charles W. Sheldon
and representatives, of the Commercial
Club.
james Russell, of Moran, n trapper
and hunter. was given a hearing be-
fore United States Commissioner q.
NJ. Cox, and bound over to the Federal
Grand Jury at Cheyenne, charged with
having violated the regulations Of the
Forest Department, namely. in start
Ing n forest fire On the Teton Forest
Reserve.
Overcome by fumes from blasting
powder used in digging n well on his
homestead near Baggs, Hlckox sig
nailed 10 William Mcdonald. who was
helping him. to haul him out OF the
well. Mcdonald succeeded in getting
him within five feet of the top. when
he collapsed completely and plunged
hend first down the 25-foot shaft. Nc
Donald also was overcome but soon re-
gained consciousness and got Hlckox
from the well.
Seismic disturbances centerlng in
the Salt Creek oil district and also felt