, 1923-04-12
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
w O MING

American Legion in Casper has in
creased its membership to 800, through
a campaign waged during recent
weeks. This will be continued with
800 members as Il goal.
That the Burlington will build a
connecting line from its road at Wen
dover to Il point on the Union Pacific
opposite Fort Laramie is practically a
certainty, said high officials who ar
rived here this week.
II. ID. Lingle, pioneer resident of
Lingle, Wyo, has accepted appoint
ment as a member of the State High
way Commission to succeed NJ. II.
Johnston of Wheatland. whose term
expired on March 1 of this year.
Twenty-three true bills were re-
turned by the federal grand jury at
Cheyenne recently. Pending issuance
of bench warrants and other legal
steps the anne of several of those in
dicted were not made public.
Percy Kearns, pressman's helper on
a Casper newspaper, had his hand so
badly crushed that he will lose all his
fingers and thumb of his left hand
when he had ii caught between the
rollers of a big newspaper press.
Carl A. Duke lies at II Casper hos
pital in a critical condition from Il
fractured skull received when he
leaped from IA wagon drawn by runl-
way horses. Duke struck on his head
on the pavement. The team became
frightened at a railroad locomotive.
There is a report which cannot be
confirmed at the Thermopolis station
that beginning May l, the Burlington
will add another passenger train to- its
service on this line says he Record.
Those who claim to have inside lnfor-
nation say that a day and a night
train will run in each direction.
The killing of "a pair of gray wolves
and the finding of their den with eight
puppies in the Black Thunder country,
forty miles south of Gillette, ends the
depreciation wrought during the last
few years by wolf packs on Campbell
countv ranges. Henry Goodson, gov
ernmen trapper, made the final kill
ing.
Delegations from all parts of Wyo-
ming and Montana were present. when
the first shovel of dirt in construction
of the new Wyoming North and South
railroad was turned. The line, which
will connect Miles City, Mont, with
the Burlington at a point near Casper,
will be in operation by next winter. 1t
was announced. The road is being
built by former Gov. c. n. Haskell of
Oklahoma and associates and will cost
$15,O00,000. 1t will be 800 miles long.
When Mrs. Wiseman Hill. a negress,
died about a year n II half ago, she
left two wills disposing of property
said to be worth about $500. One
was made in Laramie and named
Thomas Canada, colored, as a bene-
ficiary and the executor. The other
was made at Denver and left the
property to John Scott. The Laramie
will was shown to be invalid and Fred
Ihmsen, clerk of the District Court,
was named administrator, who has
just made final settlement, the prop
erty going to Scott of Denver.
Judge william McAllister has
dropped the fms curtain on the fam
lily quarrel of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Matus, which occurred in their home
at Oakley early in the morning Of Jan.
~ Of this year, says the Kemmerer
Camera. Both wer brought to the l..
G. NJ. hospital on the day Of the qua
rel, the man suffering from a bullet
wound in the lace and several knife
cuts on the body and Mrs. Matus suf-
fering severe acid burns ON neck and
shoulder and other parts Of her being.
Matus' wounds proved fatal he died
Jan. 30. and Immediately after his
arrest Mrs. Matus was arrested.
Something resembling a f~ree-for-all-
fight took place at the school house
In District No. 10, in the upper end of
the valley nea Encampment, when
opposing factions used fists and other
dangerous weapons in UNFOLDING their
arguments on the question of whether
or not the school house could and
would be used for dancing purposes.
II. @. Hilton, the supervisor of the
Medicine Bow national forest, has
been informed that ]. NJ. VALLEY, for
merly forest assistant. who was trans
ferred to similar duties at Mancos,
Colo, for the Montezuma national for
est, has been promoted to forest ex-
aminer and ordered to Alaska In con-
nection with the sale OF timber for the
use in making wood pulp.
Another large fee was paid into the
Wyoming treasury a few days ago.
The Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing
Company, Incorporated under the laws
Of Delaware for s40.O0O,0OO transmit
ted to the secretary of state a check
for SS,OOJ for the privilege Of filing n
certified copy Of It's articles In the
state. The action means that it will
enter the game in Wyoming. It's prin-
| clnnl nfflce will hn nj Enannr