, 1923-03-15
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
WY O ING

Surveys are being run at Torrington
TO determine the best location for the
sugar factory projected for the coming
year.
Attorney A. f. STREET was elected
president of the Natrona County Bar
Association ut its annual meeting ut
Caspar.
The Wyoming Epworth League will
hold its 1923 state conference N
Thermopolis during the third week in
August.
The Rotary Club, the Lions Club, the
kiwanis Club md the American Lee
gion have undertaken to sponsor one
troop each of Boy Scouts in Laramie.
Two hundred delegates sat down to
Il banquet which ended the two-day
convention of the Big Horn Basin
Wool Growers Association at Wor-
land.
The Liberty Club of Thermopolis,
which is composed of Elks affiliated
with lodges in other cities, netted APP
proximately $1,000 on its three-day car
nival bazaar.
R%eopening of the Platte County
State Bank of Wheatland is a pros
pect of the immediate future If a plan
for the organization of a holding com
pany is carried out.
John Augustine, who has returned to
Thermopolis from Buffalo, n. Y, to
face a charge of forgery, was SEN
fenced to an indeterminate term in the
state reformatOry at Worland.
Preliminary estimates for the Irri-
CATION project planned for the Guern-
sey district plac the total cost at
$~374,634.14 for the $3.50 acres to be ir-
rigated, an average of $3.50 an acre.
Ties at the rate of about 5000 u day
are being brought down from the
mountains at Foxpark and Gramm,
where they are made in the Medicine
Bow national reserve, and are being
sent TO the tie preserving plant at
Laramie.
a communication from the Ku KluX
Kla and setting forth that that or
ganization had been visited by the
sheriff and county attorney ut Evans
ton n had been warned to enforce
the law, was received at the Evanston
Press office.
Harry Mallon, homesteader in the
peaks near the head of Dry creek,
near Cody. killed himself with a small
bore shotgun. His wife was present
and saw the act but was helpless to
prevent it. He returned the day be-
fore from Cody, where he had partial
ly recovered from ii heavy drinking
spell.
Peace in the coal fields of half the
state, if not all of it, for another year
is assured, following the action of the
policy committee of district 30, United
Mine Workers of America, and the OPP
orators of Southern Wyoming in meet
ing the existing agreement as Il basis
for the twelve months beginning
April L.
Wyoming's eugenics law, under
which every man must present a doc
tors certificate showing freedom from
venereal disease in communicable form
before securing "A marriage license,
stands to be continued to be enforced
in some counties and not in others for
the mex two years. The bill to make
it statewide was vetoed by the gov
ernor.
The hearing before the Board of
State School Land Commissioners in
Cheyenne was IA history-making incl
dent in the affairs of Wyoming. All
records were broken in the number of
persons present at the hearing in the
number of active bidders, and the high
royalties M bonuses offered for a
lease upon school section SO in the
Salt Creek field.
At least 100 wells, at II cost of S140,-
600 each, will be drilled in the Teapot
dome, w. l.. Connolly, head of the
Mammoth Oil Company, said in Chey-
enne recently. Between forty and fifty
strings of tools will be used. and to
complete its program his Slnclair-con-
trolled company will spend an addi-
tlonal S4,S00,0O
A number of the miners at the mines
of the Peerless Coal Company at Gill
'ette went out on strike and organized
A union with the following officers f:
Ella Tomasi, president John kuzma,
financial secretary. and William Car
penter, recording secretary, says the
News. The men walked out IN u
friendly spirit, according TO Martin Ca
hill, president OF District -.
The expected fight over the next
governor and the next meeting place
for the seventh district International
rotary collapsed at the Cheyenne meet
Ing when all other candidates with.
drew and DIR. John Andrew of Long
mont was agreed on for governor. The
selection will not carry with 1t the
naming of the place for the Mex meet
ing, which has been the custom, but
Colorado Springs will be awarded the
convention.
John Alden Rlner. ~, Judge OF the
United States District Court for Wyo-
ming for thirty Naura az the fftua ha