, 1923-05-31
LATE NEWS
from All Ouer
WY MING

p. w. Jenkins of Cora recently Wis
tied Rock Springs in the interests of a
Boy Scout camp, to be held on the
shores of New Fork lake some time in
July.
The Boy Scout field and track meet
In Cheyenne was the climax of Rotary
Boys Week" Seven hundred young
sters were at Minnehaha park. Their
ages ranged from nine to fifteen
years.
Nick Skurls, a mueker 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 a chute. He died soon
afterwards.
There is virtually no unemployment
in Wyoming at the present time. In
fact, there is a shortage of labor in a
number of lines. The farmers and
ranchers in particular are finding it
difficult to secure enough help.
Sheridan county authorities are
hunting for the murderer of George
Urazek, mine carpenter at Keen
burn, les Sheridan, following the
finding of the mans body in a shallow
portion of Tongue river at the foot of
the Kleenhorn mine tipple with an
inch long knife wound in the back of
the head.
One thousand men and the same
number of teams are working on the
North & South railroad out from Miles
City, says Edward Peterson of Peter
son, Shirley & Gunther, who, accom-
engineer for the railroad, has returned
to Sheridan from an inspection trip to
Miles City.
Among the projects taken up when
the State Highway Commission met at
h capitol in Cheyenne recently, was
one to build a new road from Buffalo
10 Gillette and thereby shorten the dis
lance from 107 miles to 60. State SEN
ator Frank o. Horton and ]. w. Stew
enson, both of Buffalo, were in Chey-
enne in the interests of the proposed
highway.
When the Wyoming St)sk Growers
Association meets in Cheyenne June
o the State Board of Live Stock Com
missioners will hold a session at the
same time, and there will be no signs
of the friction that has existed be-
tween the two for the past several
years over the question of the estray
moneys. Lee Moore, secretary of the
board, say the association has turned
over the funds due the commissioners
and that all the differences have been
lroned out.
State Insurance Commissioner Harry
A. Loucks, acting in his ex-officio ca
pacity as Wyoming inheritance tax com
missioner, has filed protest in the Dis
trict Court of Natrona county against
the Inheritance tax assessment of the
estate of the late Frank G. Curtis of
New York and Casper, asserting that
this assessment is approximately $780,
900 too low. 1.-THE estate was not ap-
praised at its full and rue value at
or at the time the appraisal was
made, and not at its market value at
the time of court action" pleadings
filed by Loucks set forth.
The government horse breeding sta
ton at Buffalo, Johnson county, wyo.,
will be brought to Laramie July /, and
consolidated at the experiment station
stock farm with the Agricultural Col
lege. The station now has sixty head
of American STANDARDIZED horses of
the racing type. headed by an import
ed English sire, but will be cut by
sales to forty head. The horses will
be in charge of Capt. Earl b. Krantz,
formerly connected with the remount
department of the United States army,
and James Hutton, formerly OF Fort
Collins, who has been connected with
a government horse-breedIng station
for the last twenty-five years.
Information charging sixteen promi-
nent sheep men and sheep companies
of Sheridan county OF violation of the
Wyoming sheep dipping law were filed
In District Court ut Sheridan by John
W. Songer, county and prosecuting at
torney. The cases Will be heard at the
next term OF the District Court; open
Ing early in June.
Trains are to be moving over the
Wyoming North & South railroad be-
tween Salt Creek and nlco, the south
ern terminus of the road at the juno
ton of the Burlington and Chicago &
Northwestern, by June 20. II is de-
clared at the offices of the roalroad in
Sheridan. oil tonnage from Salt Creek
will be shipped by rail for the first
time at that date, unless present plans
miscarry.
In an effort to bring about business
like methods in the handling Of one of
the most important Businesses Of Off
cial Wyoming, the State Board of
Land Commissioners decreed that the
state should have an employee whose
duty II would be to check up on the oil
royalties from the Salt Creek field.
Commissioner c. II. Mcwhlnnie Fri
lay appointed Charles l.. Hyatt of
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