, 1923-06-14
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
WV MING

JuusOn brown, u teaInSter Worhihb
for the North & South Railroad Com"
pany, was instantly killed when struck
by lightning near Casper.
DR.. L. c. Smith, a practicing ply
stefan of Casper since 1918, has been
appointed county health officer to
succeed DR.. j.. f. O'Donnel.
Russell Cluph, the 3-year-old son of
Fl. w. Cluph, agent for the Colorado,
Wyoming & Eastern Railroad at Coal
mont, Colo, was drowned in a stream
near Coalmont a few days ago.
The Monarch Engineering Company
of Denver, which has the contract for
constructing the addition to the bridge
across Little Wind river, east of
Riverton, has completed its work.
Clifton Richard, s~ix-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Wood of Midwest,
was drowned in Grass Creek while
swimming with his brother. about
two years older.
Elton Smith, a lineman in the en-
ploy of the Rock Springs Commercial
Light and Power Company, is in the
hospital suffering from injuries re-
ceived by coming in contact with a
live wire.
Two deaths occurred at Casper
from injuries received recently in ac-
cidents. Donald Myer, 13, died of
shock and burns suffered recently. He
tossed a wire over an electric trans
mission line, grounding a strong cur
rent which burned his hand off. Mel
son Rands, 30, succumbed to injuries
received in a fall from a scaffold en-
ployed in oil tank construction.
An executive order from President
Harding combines the Wyoming Ma
tional forest with the Bridger National
forest. These two have been under
the jurisdiction of the Kemmerer of
flee for many years, necessitating the
keeping of two complete sets of books,
two complete sets of correspondence,
contracts, permits and all other Off
cial business. The duplication of work
has been somewhat expensive and at
times confusing in keeping of records.
A working agreement involving 90
900 acres of the best grade bituminous
coal lands was entered into by f. L.
Norman, a representative of the Has
kell interests, and the Mt. Evans Coal
Company, holder of valuable coal
acreage in Moffat county, Colorado.
The agreement was signed following a
visit of the Haskell representative to
Craig and vicinity in the interests of
the North and South railroad, says
the Rawlins Republican.
Twenty-Five teamsters employed on
construction of the Wyoming North
and South railroad at Buffalo, so
miles south of Sheridan. lost a strike
for an increase of wages. They were
being paid forty cents an hour. All
were discharged after they made
known their demands, which the con-
tractors charge, were brought about
through agitation by three alleged
members of the l. W. w. The sheriff
and police at Buffalo gave the agi-
tators twenty-four hours to leave the
country.
Ex-Governor Robert d. Carey got
into the oil business and out quickly.
Sometime ago the Venus Oil Company
was organized with Carey as presi-
dent. The company owns producing
properties in Texas and Louisiana
and leases in Wyoming. Finding that
his duties as president were requiring
too much of his time from home, the
governor resigned. The company is
under the management of Glenn b.
Morgan, former state geologist of
Wyoming, whose headquarters are In
Shreveport, La.
Fort ID. A Russell troops who will be
in summer camp at Fort Douglas,
Utah. started on their march a few
days ago, expecting to make the 445-
mile trip in twenty-nine days. One
troop of cavalry, one battery of artil-
lery and a band are making the trip.
The troops will arrive in Fort Douglas,
which is on the outskirts of Salt Lake
City, on June %. after travelling from
fifteen TO thirty miles a day.
DIR. B. +. Davis, manager of the
Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration,
announced the letting of contracts to
Eddie Mccarthy of Goldsmith, Wyo.
Paxton Irvine Of Douglas, Wyo., and
Art Carpenter Of Islay, Wyo., for 800
head of horses n cattle to be used
In the twenty-seyenth revival of the
famous Wild West carnival In Chey-
enne, July "a, 20, 20 and 81. The con-
tracts call for seventy-five longhorn
steers, 100 cows and calves, 60 wild
horses, 30 head OF top COW horses and
50 head of outlaw bucking broncos
Brahma cattle have not been con-
tracted. The bucking broncos
signed up include some OF the most
vicious stock ever reared in the Pow
der River and Crazy Women sections
OF Wyoming, which are famous for
their outlaw horses.
State Labor Commissioner Frank
Clark said that 1t was not his inten-
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