, 1923-02-01
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
w 7 O MING


illness of pneumonia.
II. Il. AIcNally, deputy state exalted
ruler, was u guest of the Casper Elks
lodge recently when thirty new menu
bers were initiated with restiye cere-
monies.
William Dickson of Rock Springs,
charged with violation of the narcotic
drug laws, was acquitted after his
case had been heard in United States
District Court.
Seventy-eight measures-sixty-eight
House bills and eleven enate files
We're introduced in the Seventeenth
Wyoming Legislature at the end of
the second week of its session.
Jackson's Hole. famed in history and
fiction, will get a separate county aft
er a two-year fight ii the bill intro
duced by Representative viii Deloney
of Jackson is enacted into law.
State Senator S. A. Nelson intro
duced a joint resolution in the Wyo-
ming Legislature proposing he sub
mission to the electorate of the ques-
ton of calling II state constitutional
convention in 1925.
Cheyenne.-W. II. Barber has been
elected first vice president of the Cree
ley National Bank at Greeley, Colo.
Mr.. Barber, IA son-in-law of John w.
Lacey, was formerly an assistant cash
Ter in the S~tockgrowers National Bank
of Cheyenne.
Owen ). Hoge, member of the State
Legislature from Sheridan county, who
was in Laramie recently with the otner
members of the Legislature TO visit the
university, was stricken with a severe
attack of smallpox upon his return to.
Cheyenne and has been ISOLATED for six
weeks.
AT II sale at the Fred Ebert ranch.
near Cody, IA team of gray 3-yenr-olds
went for but $50 apiece, and another
large gray work animal said to weigh
around 1,400, was sold to the highest
bidder for $50. One saddle horse welt
for the price of 81. Farming imple-
ments were auctioned off at ridiculous
ly o. prices.
Cheyenne's twenty-seventh annual
Frontier Days celebration will be neid
July "a, %, 26 and n. The COMMITTEES
organized by selecting the following
officers: Dr. Il. +. Davis, president
and manager edward )rey, treas =
er; L. A. Miller, director Frank Bell.
arena director; Charles Carey, direc-
tor.
G. o. Houser of Guernsey was in
Cheyenne recently in the interest or
the proposed Guernsey dam, which is
II part of the North rl.tte government
reclamation project. "The proposed
dam is right at the door of the little
Platte county own and its erection
has been contemplated for severci
years." said Mr.. Houser. The project
is to be built mainly as a means of
storage and water control for the
North Platte project, but 1t will alsj
oe used for power. Large turbine
will bep laced and IL will be the first
real attempt TO harness the waters Of
Il Wyoming stream.
Another provision for the relief of
The stockmen of Wyoming was made by
the new state administration. At "a
regular meeting the LANE board, con-
sisting of Governor Ross, Secretary of
State Lucas, Treasurer Snyder, Audi
tor Carter and Superintendent Morton,
reduced the rentals on all state graz
ing lands by 2A cents per acre. The
reduction applies to each Of the three
divisions, so that those acres hereto
fore leased at 8 cents will be knocked
down" at ~, the 7h-cent rate is low
cred to . cents, and the 10-cent sched-
ule is slashed to IA. This applies to
all new leases and will be effective for
the next two years. AT the end of that
time the board will decide ON the rates
to be in effect after that.
Total oil production in Wyoming in
1922 was %, 3S5,611 barrels, compared
with 1~9,742,020 in 1921 and I7,3OI,I46
barrels In 1920. Montana in 1922 pro-
duced 2,202,09S barrels, being the out
put of Cat Creek. Salt Creek output
in 1929 was 1901, 1875, practically two
thirds of the entire tate. This COM
pares with 12.350,197 barrels in 1921
and ~10,245,010 barrels In 1920.
Wyoming will have n lieutenant gov
ernor-an office that, It is said, was
Internationally overlooked by the con
stitutional fathers back In 1S9O-if the
joint resolution proposed by ltepresen
tative Perry w. Jenkins of Fremont
Sublette county is passed by the Leg
l%slature and If the constitutional
amendment that 1t asks for Is carried
by the voters two years hence.
a bill for the ratification and APP
proval of the Colorado river compact
without reservations, as requested by
Frank G. Emerson, Wyomlng's member
of the river commission, was intro
duced In the State Senate by the puD-
lie lands and Irrigation committea.
Ratification would be made condition
al upon similar action by the other six
states and the federal government, UNI
der the terms of the bill.