, 1923-01-03
SHORT
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NEWS ITEMS

date alfalfa mill in operation. the
plant having beer completed recently.
A. II. Chase, who has been state
club leader in the Wyoming extension
service since June, 1921, has accepted
II position as county agent in Grant
county, Washington.
State Examiner Rudolph Hofmann
was notified recently that the build
ing occupied by the State Bank OF
Kane, in Big Horn county, burned
down.
Apprehended at Crawford, Neb., on
n cllnrge of completely in the theft or
several sacks of sugar in Newcastle,
Frank Hall, u taxicab driver, Is be-
lieved to have committed suicide. lie
was killed by the discharge of II .3J-30-
| caliber rifle which he took from his
trunk in u garage. :
In an effort to reach the bedside of
her daughter. thought dying of pneu-
monia ut Laramie. Mrs. J. T.. Airhurt
of Casper chartered an airplane and
flew 300 miles to Cheyenne in an hour
and forty minutes. The mother took
Il 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, 1t
was decided TO move the Cheyenne Of
fices to Wheatiand. james ID. Chap
lin, secretary, will move TO the latter
city when the change is made, as oon
after Jan. l as is practicable.
|. Cheyenne will have the city manager
form of government If the Chamber Of
Commerce. the Lions Club and other
organizations. as well as a large num-
Der of individuals, have their way
about it. An effort will be made to
get the enabling act through the 1922
session of the State Legislature.
A basketball league representing
the churches of Sheridan is TO be or
ganized. Basketball fives from the
various churches will compete. AT the
end of the league season the team
having the greatest percentage will be
declared the church basketball cham
pion of the city.
There are 162 Boy Scouts in Sheri-
dan. AT IA meeting of the Boy Scout
"ao o(ttA III Aial nv
membership be raised to 324 by Feb
ruary 10. By making the Increase. the
city will be aiding in the nationwide
drive to secure 100000 new scouts by
February 10.
The Wyoming Legislature will be
asked ut its approaching session TO
create a revolving loan fund for the
use of disabled soldiers who are re-
ceiving vocational training and who
the completion of their two-year spe-
clal course at the university.
The question of taxing gasoline at
wholesale for the purpose of raising
revenue to make repairs on streets
was taken up and discussed by the
city council of Evanston, after which
Councilman u. A Davis presented the
ordinance and moved its adoption.
Councilman ]. L. Wicks seconded the
motion. 1t was carried.
The unusual Incident of an attorney
Implying that a state official had
bribed a witness, and OF this same at
torney forced by Il vote of the crowd
In the court room to make public ap0i-
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 Twen-
tieth Century cattle rustling cases. An
Implied charge that certain testimony
had beer bought by State Law En-
forcement Commissioner A. S. Roach
and Sheriff Homer Payne pre-
cipitated a scene in Justice Court
In Wheatland and for a time the attor-
ney who made the implication ap-
peared In danger of physical violence.
He was finally forced to make a pub
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.
Miss Pauline Costello, now In Sail
da, Colo, who formerly lived Mt the Y.
w. q. A. In Denver, has written to
Sheriff Trailing OF Laramie that she
lost a fur coat, n hat, a waist and 81
In cash from her room and believes
tliat Peggy Thurston, who was arrested
and taken to Cheyenne to answer for
the theft of q coat there, tool her gar-
ments and cash.
Three Wyoming convicts, one a
Chinese. walked out OF the state penI-
Tertiary at Rnwllns, free on Christmas
pardons signed by Governor Carey.
They We're: Alva Baum, UInta coun-
~. sentenced to from five to ten years
Tor Illegally killing livestock Mock
Lewis, Cheyenne. sentenced to ten 10
niteen years on a statutory charge /;
Ernest Nelson. Weston county, SEN