, 1923-05-23
SHORT
NEWS ITEMS

In a raid in Rawlins under direction
of State Law Enforcement Commits
sioner NJ. c. Wachtel, thirty-five men
and women were arrested on state
charges of Bookkeeping, gambling and
immortality.
The Midwest Refining and the Ohio
OIL Companies recently announced u
reduction Of 10 cents in the posted
prices of all grades Of Wyoming and
Montana crude oils purchased at the
wells. The reduction 10 the third
made In the last month.
Jess Allen. ~15-year-old youth, was
sentenced to thirty days in the city
jail at Casper by Police Judge Muir
ray on pleading guilty to the theft Of
81 from the Tulsa hotel on North Gen.
ter street. The money was filched
from a cup, according to the evidence.
Capturing ten out Of fourteen events,
University Of Wyoming track and field
athletes won the dual meet with the
Colorado State Teachers College at
Greeley, Colo, 76 to So. Timothy OF
the Teachers won three Of the four
events In which his school placed
first.
o. L. Robertson, Jr., Of the Colo
RADIO University at Boulder. has been
made instructor in engineering at the
University Of Wyoming. Glen Hart
man, assistant professor in agronomy,
to take the place Of ]. @. Overpeck,
~ool~-oA - rN - Art-Dro hos olroodv
arrived and assumed duty.
The will of the late Levi j. Letter
of Chicago. over which the present
heirs are now squabbling in the Chi
cage courts, was filed for probate and
probated at Cheyenne in the First Ju-
dicial District Of Wyoming. The
document Is in the record of Clerk Of
Court T. Joe Fisher. 1t was recorded
In 1904.
l.. w. w. organization In the oil
fields Of Wyoming does not have for
Its purpose the calling Of a general
strike or other radical action, accord
ing to the claims of Tom Sullivan.
Casper organizer, In explaining the
meeting purposes of a gathering at the
stockyards in Casper. He declared
the conference was more in the nature
Of a Temperance" meeting to warn
members against drinking so much
moonshine.
Rev. w. L. Wade. In Anti-Saloon
League work since 1917 and head Of
the Wyoming organization for the
past four years, has been elected
superintendent of the Iowa league,
and will leave Cheyenne for his new
headquarters in Des Moines as soon
stalled. The Iowa organization is one
of the strongest west of the Mississip-
pi. The transfer, unexpected and I'M
solicited, is n promotion.
The Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany which owns the Union Pacific
Coal Company operating in the terri
tory adjacent to Rock Springs in
agreement with other. railroads has
decided to start Immediately the stor-
ing Of coal on a large scale. which will
keep the mines busy for some time to
come. Storage already Is under way
on what Is called the long hauls, TAX
ing In Colorado and Nebraska points,
and Wyoming will be the next In line.
Frank Dores, wanted at Cheyenne,
WyO., on a charge Of murder, accord
Ing to a message to local police from
Sheriff George j. Carroll, was arrest.
ed by the police ut Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. He was taken from IN east
bound Northwestern train and though
reported by Sheriff Carroll likely to
be armed was captured without resist.
ance. Dores denied Implication In
any crime in Wyoming. Sheriff Car
rOl of Cheyenne said that Doors was
wanted on suspicion in connection
with the murder Of Mrs. Elberta
Santchez in West Cheyenne.
Senator John B. Kendrick has re.
turned from Washington, D.. c., and
probably will remain In Sheridan
throughout the summer. Mrs. Ken
drick and their daughter, Rosa Maye,
will arrive In Sheridan about the mid
die of June. Manvllle Kendrick, who
has been In school at Ames, will ar
rive about the same time.
The Mammoth OIL Company's well
In the southeast quarter of section 20,
township 80, range IS, Teapot Naval
reserve, got beyond control when the
drill had penetrated n foot into the
sand, and is reported to be flowing a
stream Of oil twenty feet above the top
of the derrick. Preliminary estimates
by Casped oil men place the flush pro-
duction of this well at 10000 barrels a
day.
Trains are to be moving over the
wyoming North & South railroad be.