, 1923-05-09
SHORT
w YOMING
NEWS ITEMS

A premature explosion of a blast at
the Fowler lime stone quarry at Guern-
sey caused the death of Fred Dngen-
hart.
The property owners of Douglas
will be called upon to ratify the issu-
ance Of $25O,OOO worth of new water
bonds ut d special election to be held
May %.
Edith Newport, 20, clerk at the
Lavoye postoffice, 40 miles north of
Casper, is recovering from an attempt
at suicide when she drank a small bot
tie of iodine.
A. ]. Kusel, elder Of the two Chug-
water bank bandits, who was SEN
fenced April "a, 1922, to serve from
ten to twelve years in the state peni-
Tertiary at Rawlins, died there April
23rd.
The people of Medicine Bow have
offered the fish and game department
of the state a site, with plenty of wa
ter and all the lane needed, for the
state fish hatchery at Laramie, which
is to be moved.
Eight new additions, embracing $40
acres nave been accepted by the coun-
ell of Casper for Incorporation with
the city limits. The new sections
boast of many residents and are be-
ing rapidly improved.
A. J.. Hull, president of the Arch
Greek OIL and Gas Company, which
recently tool over the affairs and
| property of the Centennial Valley Oil
and Gas Company, is prepared to re-
sumo drilling in the Centennial well.
Conservative estimates place the
present value of the timber in Albany
and Carbon counties at $4,000 600. This
timber, when manufactured In com
mercial wood products such as used
every day, easily would bring S50,OOO,-
600.
The Hart ranch, comprising 1880
acres IL miles southwest of Laramie,
on both sides of the Big Laramie river
was sold to Gustav Gradert, trustee.
of Lyons, Ia, under mortgage fore
closure by the Realty Credit Associa-
ton.
Five federal prisoners, in custody
of Deputy United States Marshal Jack
Allen, with Joe ROuner and Bill Lee,
as guards were started for Leaven-
worth a few days ago. The prison
ers are Phil Rupp, James Mclean, Lee
Hill, j.. o. Minor and Willie Gilbert.
C. F. Welsh, chief engineer OF the
Wyoming division of the Sinclair Pipe
line Company, was in Guernsey recent
ly. He said work on the pipeline
through that section Is to start within
forty to sixty days. This work has
been delayed. he added, because of the
fact that the company has had to push
work in the lower valley to finish
ahead of the crop season.
That the commercial production of
eggs alone on the farms about Wheat
land has been averaging 1000 dozen
weekly during the entire spring sea-
son, representing returns approximate
ing $1,700, is evident from an investi-
CATION into shipments and local sales.
Returns from sale of market poultry,
breeding stock, baby chicks, and of
Matching eggs will swell this amount
to $1,000 weekly.
The New York OIL Company has
filed u bill Of complaint in the United
States District Court for Wyoming,
naming as defendants Maurice Grosh-
on, Claude Draper and H.. NJ. Hunt
ington. who constitute the Public
Service commission for Wyoming, as
defendants. The action is an out
growth of n decision on gas rates
handed down by the commission and
authorizing a reduction in rates,
charged by the company on its gas
service in Casper. Wyo.
Two hundred and fifty Of the 1000
copies of the Wyoming Session Laws
for 1923 have beer received at the
office of the secretary of state; the
remainder will be out of the printers
hands shortly. Eight hundred Of them
are bound in paper and the others in
pasteboard. Under the law, state and
county officials and members of the
| Legislature will receive their copies
free. All others must pay for what.
e they get.
More than 100 teachers have been
sent out to various parts OF Wyoming
this school year by the Placement
Service Of the State Department OF
I<du'hiioh, ,'ihihlSSiDutT Lewis -.
Tfdball, Jr., said recently. In add.
ton, 300 pedagogues are now enrolled
In the bureaus records and are avail
able for positions. No charge to
either the school district or the teach
er Is made for this work. The years
total saving to the instructors, In the
commissions they would have beer re-
quired to pny commercial agencies had
they been secured through those
houses. mounts to $6.2J0. The edu-
cation qualifications OF every one nrc
first passed on by the Certification
Division of the department, and no
n not legally certified is enrolled.
Word has been received from Gov.
ernor G. N. Haskell that the deal for
the purchase of the Wyoming Rail.
way Company by the North and South
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