, 1923-04-18
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NEWS ITEMS

fatally injured when he was struck by
an eastbound passenger train.
Robbers got $500 when they ralded
the hoard of gold and silver coins col
lected during many years by Henry
Bund Of Sheridan.
The circus" put on by the junior
class of the Wheatland high school. re-
Gently at the high school building was
a complete success.
John Crisswell, rancher Of Kaycee,
Wyo, was arrested at Sheridan,
charged with kidnapping Alma Callwell,
10 years old, with~whom he is alleged
to have eloped to Hardin, Mont, where
they were married.
Actual construction work on the
Wyoming North 4 South railway be-
gan in Miles City when Shamrock &
Purcell began the grading of the road
bed that will bring the trains Of the
new system into Sheridan.
The George vroman post of the
American Legion in Casper has in
creased its membership to 300, through
a campaign waged during recent
weeks. This will be continued with
500 members as a goal. .,
That the Burlington will build a
connecting line from it's road at Wen
dover to a point on the Union Pacific
opposite Fort Laramie is practically a
certainty, said high officials who ar
rived here this week.
III. d. Jingle, pioneer resident Of
Lingle, Wyo., has accepted appoint
ment as a member Of the State High
way Commission to succeed NJ. II.
Johnston of Wheatland, whose term
expired on March l of this year.
Twenty-three true bills were re-
turned by the federal grand jury at
Cheyenne recently. Pending issuance
steps the names of several Of those in
dicted were not made public.
Hugh b. Shields, former cashier of
the bank of Gillette al Gillette, Wyo.,
was arrested at Sheridan on a charge
of embezzlement. The arrest is the
outgrowth of the suicide Of his brother,
Mark q. Shields, president of the bank
on March 0.
Wyoming had an excess Of S72 per
capita of revenue receipts over gov.
ernmental costs for 1922, the census
bureau announced in Washington. The
states net Indebtedness was S1S.37 per
capita, compared with 16 cents in 1919.
the increase having been due to is
suance of highway construction bonds.
Jack Z. Long, apprehended in Den
yer for the robbery in Casper of the
Joe David Clothing Store, will be
turned over to the Colorado authori-
ties to be returned to the penitentIary
at Canon City, 1t was decided by
County Attorney Z. II. Foster. Long is
alleged to have violated his parole
from the Colorado prison.
A strike of the 200 miners employed
by the Central Coal and Coke Com.
pany, southeast OF Rock Springs, oc.
Cured when a difference arose over a
fine levied against u miner by his local
union for %infraction Of the rules, the
company unfolding the miner and re-
fuslng to deduct his fine under the
'cheekoff system until the matter could
be taken up officially.
Former Governor Robert d. Carey,
appearing before the Wyoming State
Board Of Pardons In Cheyenne, urged
that the board give earnest considera.
ton to a plea for pardon by Pete and
John Cordillo and Walter Newell, serv.
ing time for the murder of Frank Jen.
nings, Laramie ranchman, at a time
when the Cordillos and Newell were
employees Of the state prohibition de.
partment.
AT the close of a brief hearing, the
State Public Service Commission
granted the Producers & Refiners'
Corporation a certificate of public
necessity and convenience for the lay.
ing Of a pipe line from Glenrock to
Douglas.
Pupils in the county high school at
Ihermopois struck u few days ago
and refused to attend classes. Lead.
ers announced they were in sympathy
with faculty members who recently re.
signed following u disagreement with
the superintendent.
The eighth annual report of the ex.
tension service Of the University Of
Wyoming on rodent control In the state
of Wyoming shows that during the
five years, 1913, 1913, 1920, 1921 and
1922, crops valued at 81, 900 had
been saved to the farmers and ranch
men, at a total cost Of only $112,5OO
The killing of a pair of gray wolves
and the finding Of their den with eight
puppies In the Black Thunder country,
forty miles south of Gillette, ends the
depreciation wrought during the last
few years by wolf packs on Campbell
county ranges. Henry Goodson, gov.
trapper. made the final kill.
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Stumpnge value of timber cut on