, 1923-12-26
SHORT
NEWS ITEMS

partment of the Wyoming Stockman-
Farmer.
The first annual Wyoming State
Corn Show, held in with
the four county corn show of the Big
Horn Basin, made its initial bow to
the people of Wyoming ut Worland
last week.
The Torrington Telegram has passed
from the management and control of
f. S. Pavitt to that of l.. p. LOOMS
LoOmis is i newspaper man of much
experience and will continue the pub
LEGATION of the paper.
Joseph Dexter Bennett, of Cody,
was one of the 81 men announced as
having been selected from Il list of 3o7
candidates at the annual election of
American Rhodes scholars. TO the
University OF oxford. England.
Grin Leseberg, 1~3-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry L~eseberg, was snot
and almost instantly killed by his
brother Merle at their home on North
Fork near Lander, as the boys were
preparing to start on u rabbit hunt
each equipped with Il % rifle.
Consolidation of the Sheridan Ma
tional Bank and the Farmers Bank
and Trust Company. with a new cap
ltalizatlon Of $4,000, was announced
in Sheridan last week. Deposits with
the consolidation will total about ST.
100000, it was said. Sherldnn's four
banks now have total deposits of about
81 100000 each, it is stated.
Let me go up there and serve his
sentence and let him have his free
DOM" Is the request in a letter to o
William b. Ross by an ~1S-year-old
Green River girl, whose brother is
serving n term in he state peniten-
ti'ry mt Rawlins, after being convicted
of manslaughter. The girl asserts that
her brother is innocent of the crime
and that an investigation would reveal
such
The First National Bank of Manville
failed to open its doors for business,
but it Is understood that the suspen-
sion may only be temporary. AS a
natural consequence to the run made
on this bank a couple of weeks ago,
national bank examiners are investi-
eating the affairs of this Institution
and it is said that in all probability
II will again be open for business in
a few days.
John Mast, who claims to bee the
youngest Grand Army man with the
possible exception of II veteran in Iowa,
was elected post commander of Custer
Post No. /. department of Colorado
and Wyoming. Mast was orn Jan. 4,
1S49, and entered the Union army in
June, 1863. Custer post has only fif-
teen living members out or nearly a
hundred. The son Of n deceased vet
eran acts as adJutant.
James Grail and f. f. Bingham,
Laramie business men who paid fines
Of 5000 each for killing COW elk in the
Sheep Mountain country on December
?, were requested to resign from the
Albany County Sportsmen's Club mt II
special meeting. Bingham was Vice
president of the club. The men were
arrested after IN automobile race with
state and federal officers, during
which bpth sides offered shots.
Al Huniker, alleged member of the
Bert Vetter gang of horse thieves,
pleaded not guilty to horse stealing at
Laramie and was held in $500 bail
for appearance in the District Court.
Vetter Is under sentence To the peni-
Tertiary. c. L. Farthing of Fremont
county identified ten more head of
horses as having been stolen from his
ranch near Lander within the last few
months. The horses had been pur-
chased from vetter by an Innocent
party.
There seems to he n slack demand
for coal from Rock Springs mines ut
present md II number of rne proper
ties are working short time. while an
other mine has shut down during the
past week. the Gunn-Quealy property.
nj Gum. where 165 men were laid off
indefinitely. awaiting heavier or.ers
for the product.
Industrial and employment condi-
TONS In the state are considered fairly
good for this season. Husking OF the
largest corn crop in the history OF the
state Is well under way, though u mod
crate shortage of corn huskers and
general farm and ranch labor exists.
a general curtailmeni In the oil In
dusiry Is noted, yet II shortage of
labor exists in the oil fields. Reports
Indlcute that the floating element on
which the big oil operators depend for
their oil field labor supply seems to be
migrating us fast ms the work ut
which they have been employed Is
completed. Coal mines operating more
steadily with Il few of the mines ON a
nearly fuli.time basis. Industrial
plants other thar oil. though small,
are operating %stcndlly. Building mod.
crately quiet in ull sections of the
state.
There sens TO he n general impress
sion both NJ Guernsey and Mt Chey-