, 1923-06-21
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
WY O MING

The twentieth annual conference OF
the Colorado district, including Colo
RADIO, Wyoming, Utah, eastern Idaho
and southern Montana, of the Evan
gelical Lutheran church was held in
Laramie last week.
All officers of the Wyoming Stock
Growers Association were reelected,
with n exception, ut the closing SEES
sion of the Fifty-first annual conven-
ton in Cheyenne. The one exception
was the office of secretary, from which
Miss Alice Smith recently resigned
after forty years of service. DR.. b. #.
Davis was elected TO the position.
A. Holland was the first Casper
nan to die of tick fever this season.
He %succumbed ut his home in Casper a
few days G after being i'll for only
AZ few days. Casper physicians say
that considering the cold weather it is
early in the season for tick fever
cases.
Fred w. Kerwin is pioneering a
new enterprise in the Pindale region,
and his diligence is to be rewarded,
according to reports from Pinedale,
| NhCiG bt 10 NOlluuCllhS a SllNClTDiu1h
fox ranch. He imported the animals
last year, and recently he has been
rewarded by two filters Of fox pup
pies.
Miss Esther Schmidt escaped without
Injury from an unusual accident at the
home of her uncle, David SPAIN, near
Wheatland, when the team she was
driving attached TO a beet roller ran
away, throwing her in front of the
heavy iron implement, which passed
over her body. Miss Schmidt was able
to get to her feet at once, without any
apparent injury other than slight
bruises.
Walter Q. Phelan, Cheyenne attor-
ney, was elected state deputy at the
Wyoming state convention at Kemmer-
er of the knights of Columbus. Chey-
enne was selected as the 1924 conven-
ton city. Phelan succeeds Charles A.
Cullen of Casper. About fifty dele
gates representing the six X. c.
ellis in Wyoming, also representatives
of the Supreme Council, were in at
tendance.
The Southwestern Petroleum Com
pany, drilling near Medicine Bow, has
encountered oil in the first sand, which
is accepted as evidence that the struc-
ture Is closed and thar, as conditions
exist in Wyoming, a free-flowing well
will be the result with deeper drilling.
There were rumors of oil in the well,
but the presence of a small amount in
the first sand was definitely con-
firmed by word coming from the scene
of operations.
Two cases of home brew, two shot
guns, two rifles, Il blood-stained knife
and four Poles-Andrew Wierzbicki,
Charles Stopka, Mike Nizrek and Joe
Zogatta, all of Monarch, were seized
by Sheriff Frank Toy and Undersher-
iff Charley Toy as the aftermath of a
drunken brawl at the Nizrek home in
Sheridan in which Mrs. Nizrek sus-
tanned an ugly knife slash just above
the heart on the left side, and the
shack was pierced with fourteen wild
bullets.
All roads lead to Yellowstone Park
this year, according to the advance
guard of the nations motorists who
have arrived ut the park, Although
the last snow drifts on some of the
higher passes remain to be blasted
away, automobile tourists traffic in
the park already Is in full swing. The
early traffic to the park, as well as
various reports from travel centers in
dictate the largest automobile travel
in history. 1t is anticipated that
$1,000 cars will enter the park this
season, compared with 1928 last
year. During last year each car car
ried an average of 3.5 persons.
More than 10000 inches of newspa-
per space has been employed by the
public utility companies of Wyoming
the past year to make known their af-
fairs TO their customers and the PEG
pie in general. These figures were
made public in New York City by Wyo-
ming utility men attending the annual
convention OF the National Electric
Light Association.
Nineteen blocks of the Sheridan
Street Railway Company's line Will
be abandoned, II was %nnounce after
the Wyoming Service Commission
granted the company permission for
such action. The c%ompany's petition
followed Its claim that IL was finan.
clally unable to pay for the paving
which has been ordered in the Sumner
and Illinois district.
DIR. Is. II. Davis, presldent-manager
OF the Frontier Days committee, an
nounce he has 5,VVO attractive From.
tier Days post cards for free dlstrlbu-
ton. The cards are about 81 by Az
inches In dimensions. The front is d.
vided into two spaces. In one there
are lines for address and stamp. on
the other a small portion Is taken by
n line or two on Frontier Days cele-
bratlon.
J. b. Wilson, secretary or the Wyo-