, 1923-04-19
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
w O MING

The Pope Agile river at Hudson over-
flowed its banks, doing considerable
damage.
Thomas A. Miller of Rawlins was
fatally injured when he was struck by
an eastbound passenger train.
Robbers got $500 when they raided
the hoard of gold and silver coins col
Bund of Sheridan.
The circus" put on by the Junior
class of the Wheatland high school re-
Gently at he high school building was
a complete success.
Granger, a little town on the Union
Pacific, at the junction with that line
of the Oregon Short Line, a part of the
Union Pacific system, is assuming
metropolitan aspects.
Standing about six feet apart and
firing h~igh-powered bullets at each
other cost William *. Cherry, colored,
his life and put Sam Bently, also a
negro, on a cot in the hospital at Rock
Springs.
John Crisswell, rancher of Kaycee,
Wyo.. was arrested Mt Sheridan.
charged with kidnapping Alma Callwell,
Is years old, with whom he Is alleged
to have eloped to Hardin, Mont, where
they were married.
Actual construction work on the
Wyoming North & South railway be-
a In Miles City when Shamrock C
Purcell began the grading of the road
bed that will bring the trains of the
new system into Sheridan.
Hugh B. Shields, former cashier of
the bank of Gillette at Gillette, Wyo.,
was arrested at Sheridan on a charge
of enlightenment. The arrest is the
outgrowth of the suicide of his brother,
Mark G. Shields, president of the bank
on March 8.
AT the close of a brief hearing, the
State Public Service Commission
granted The Producers & Refiners'
Corporation a certificate Of public
necessity and convenience for the lay
ing of a pipe line from Glenrock to
Douglas.
The eighth annual report of the ex-
tension service of the University of
Wyoming on rodent control In the state
of Wyoming shows that during the
five years, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921 and
1922, crops valued at $4,000 900 had
been saved to the farmers and ranch
men, at a total cost Of only SIPS
Wyoming nae an excess of S72 per
capita of evenue receipts over gov
ernmental costs for 1922, the census
bureau announced in Washington. The
states net Indebtedness was S18.37 per
capita, compared with 10 cents in 1919,
the increase having been due to is
suance Of highway construction bonds.
Charged with having had a hand In
the disappearance Of his ~stepdaughter,
Diamond Hanna. 8 years of age, from
a Pullman on a Casper-Denver train
Thomas Baty faces a%rraignment in
Casper on a charge of kidnapping. He
was released on $1,000 bail. The kid |
mapping is said to be the elimination
of a divorce decree issued In Denver.
John A. Green, alleged promoter Of q
"get rich quick" scheme In which
Cheyenne persons recently Invested"
$4,000, faces a term of from one to
fourteen years In the penitentiary as
the result of his conviction by a jury,
of Issuance of a fraudulent check for
$500 in favor of J. G. Dauterman, one
of those who placed money with him
for investment.
Returns on incomes for 1922, re-
ported by Wyoming residents at the
office of Internal Revenue Collector
NJ. S. Reynolds, ranged from one cent
to $4,000, according to information
available at the Cheyenne office. No
individual paid more than $4,000 and
but one Individual filed a return for
one cent One filed for two cents and
one filed for three cents.
Opening of 436 acres Of homestead
and desert land in Converse county,
Wyoming, has been announced by the
Interior Department in Washington.
Former service men will ave the first
call for n~inety-one days beginning
May 3, after which entries from the
general public viii be accepted.
A strike of the 200 miners employed
by the Central Coal and Coke Com
pany, southeast Of Rock Springs, oc-
CURED when a difference arose over a
fine levied against a miner by his local
union for infraction of the rules, the
company unfolding the miner and re-
fuslng TO deduct his fine under the
checkoff system until the matter could
be taken up officially.
Drilling this year OF n minimum
number of wells TO equallze the
density of production from all leases
80 that the percentage of crude accept
ance from wells already drilled may be
increased was lndorsed by the Salt
Creek Producers Association IN SEES
sion ut Casper. Recommendations OF
the conservation committee that the
total number Of wells be increased 10
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