, 1923-06-06
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NEWS ITEMS

Boy Scout camp, to be held On the
shores of New Fork lake some time in
July. ~
Robbers who broke a show window
Of the Casper Jewelry Company or
East Second street while n night
patrolman was al the other end of his
beat, carried away $500 in jewelry.
Nick Skuris. n mucker at the Sun
rise mine, was fatally injured while
at work in the underground workings.
He was caught between n string of
dump cars and q chute. He died soon
afterwards.
Paul Dupertius, former state boys
and girls club leader, has accepted a
position as agricultural agent for
Goshen county to take office as soon
as he finds some one to manage his
farm in Rawhide basin.
After lingering between life and
death for twelve days, r. NJ. Merritt,
Fossil hotel man who was injured
when his car overturned on the Fossil
road neal Hay Hollow, passed away
at the L. G. M. hospital.
w. L. Diver, former cashier Of the
defunct Guernsey State Bank, was
placed under arrest and charged with
accepting money on deposit after he
had knowledge that the bank was to
close, says the Wheatland Times.
Thirty-five members Of the fresh
man class of the Agricultural College
of the University of Wyol.ing were
x,lrno 60 E4.< CDIIt1c ~, n etnofr I-l-
Ing trip, to judge draft horses. beef
cattle, swine and sheep. The four high
est men were given medals.
Among the projects taken up when
the State Highway Commission met at
the capitol in Cheyenne recently, was
n to build a new road from Buffalo
TO Gillette and thereby shorten the dis
lance from LOT miles to SO. State Sem
ator Frank o. Horton and j. w. Stew
enson, both Of Buffalo, were In Chey-
enne In the interests Of the proposed
highway.
The Wyoming State Highway Com
mission has announced the letting of
contracts for federal aid road build
Ing approximating S290,0O0. The most
Important of the contracts let is that
for the reconstruction of five miles of
the Casper, Salt Creek concrete high
way in Natrona county at a cost of
S9S,0O0. This contract was awarded
to the Warren Construction Company
of Portland, Ore.
Fred Hultz, the animal husband
man at the Experiment Station stock
form Of tho ITpfx-arty 90 yU.n,,s-.
claims that the champion Holstein
COW Of the state, Esther" is owned
by the station. The animal Is four
years old, has twin calves, and recent
ly h produced twenty pounds of but
ter fat. Her record as a two-year-
old was $50 pounds of butter fat. The
station also has a Tamworth SOW that
within the past two years has far
rowed two litters of pigs mt of
twelve and the other of eleven, which
Is also claimed as perhaps the state
record.
The government horse breeding sta
ton at Buffalo. johnson county, Wyo.,
will be brought to Laramie July 1, and
consolidated at the experiment station
stock farm with the Agricultural Col
lege. The station now has sixty head
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sales 70 forty head rho horses w,i,
he in cbarge NJ Can't Far, "a Krontz
formerly conn,cted with rho romount
Department of the limited states army
and James Hutton. formerly OF Fort
Collins. who has been connected with
n horse-breedinp statloa
for he last twenty-five years.
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