, 1923-01-24
LATE NEWS
From All Over
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hbNAllE SNASEfAn
In Cheyenne he was elected IN ~
coed Judge Roderick n. Mntson sue.
Cheyenne. Vi
Destruction by fire of the perw;r,
OIL We'll Cementing Compar IS porano
in the Salt Creek field resulted ,se
loss estimated at 100000, two-thirds a
which part was covered by Insurance
The company's entire equipment was
a total loss. VT"
OFFICIALS believ' the mystery of ,ba
robbery of the r'ort Russell! postof,foo
about two months ago, and the loss -
$1,000 In currency and silver. may no
solved as n result of arrest in CoIisor-
MIA of james n. Mclean. private in rho
artillery unit a the local posi-. who
disappeared the night of the robbery
John w. lay of Rock Springs has
been reelected a director of the Firs,
National Bank of Laramie and tho
president of the board. II. II. Homer
was reelected president of the Albany
National Bank, Herman H~egewaId If
the First State Bank and Alyy Dixon
of the First National Bank of Rock
River.
The Albany County Poultry Breed,
ers' Association has adopted n resoln.
ton providing for the Introduction of
a suitable bill in the Legislature IN
make available state funds for n mid.
winter state poultry show, to rotate
the show to various counties in the
state and to conduct 1t in conjunction
with "A state poultry association.
Mrs. William Davis, colored. wife RI,
the proprietor of the Jazzland Aliuse-
e Palace on the Sandbur. Casper
Is suffering from wounds received
when Alberta Yoakum, another rnlored
carried III murderuus d.s.gns
with ii pair of scissors used us n stllet.
to. Mrs. Davis was stabbed once in the
abdomen and again in the elbow and
her condition Is serious.
When the state Lawmakers began.
for the seventeenth time. Il regular BIZ.
ennial session in Cheyenne, Simon
Skovgard, cattIeman of Basin. became
president of the Senate, and j. d. Mob
lit, sheepman, of cokeville, speaker of
the House. Though without apparent
intent, the old-tme division OF presid-
Ing officers between Wyoming's rival
live stock interests prevailed.
The State Farm Bureau adjourned
Its three-day meeting at Laramie after
electing the following Officers: Pres
ident, T.. ii. Dupertuis of T|urrington;
vice president, Herbert ]. King Of
Laramie; secretary-treasurer, Thomas
j. Brough of Lyman directors. Mrs.
j. l.. Thompson of Wheatland and Mrs.
Tom Hansen of Sheridan. The five
constitute the board of directors.
A. w. Ferris, son of William Ferris,
discoverer of the once famous Ferris
Haggarty mine, was instantly killed at
Grenville. six miles east Of Iawlins,
when a gale caused the collapse of Il
section of a brick wall at the Produc-
ers and -.efiner- refinery. Two other
workmen were injured, but not seri-
ously. Ferris vas the third member of
his family to meet violent death In re-
cent years. His father was killed in a
runaway accident and his youngest
brother accidentally shot dead by an
other brother.
Let's have a Colorado River treaH<
by all means-but whether or not the
pact drawn up by the present CONS
mission is the one we want is NJ least
open to question. So, in effect, said
N. 4. Corthell, one of the attorneys
who carried the Colorado-N Wyoming
water controversy clear through to II
victory before the United States Su'
preme Court and who is known as an
authority On irrigation matters, in adj
dressing an informal joint session oil
the State Legislature and the state
Bar Association In Cheyenne.
Part of Utah was moved into Wyo-
ming by a recent hurricane. Prol
Samuel Howell Knight announced IN
Laramie that a large part of the dus'
which vas blown across Wyoming
came from Utah. He declared that u
study of the dust, under the micro
scope, revealed II Is composed for Tue
most part of minute grains of quar1
sand covered with n thin film OF req
iron oxide. No dust OF n similar char
acter is natural TO Wyoming.
Recommendations that immediate
steps be taken to enlarge the Carnegie
Public Library by the erection OF WINGS
to be added to the main room are con
tanned In the annual report OF Airs,
Florence S. Marshall, librarian Oh
Sheridan. The estimated cost Of such
an addition. together with necessar!
furnishings is placed ut $4,000
Judge v. ]. Tidball OF the Albany
County District Court decided In tlNol
of the plaintiffs In the Teton county
case, holding that the enabling act az
not repeal the statute providing iua
the organization Of n county only wheh
property valuation and number Oh ~
habitants meet the requirements oil 'O
law. The decision Ii against orgahi1"
ton of the county.