, 1923-03-08
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
w 7 O MING

lie, butcher, at his meat market ut
Rock Springs.
Half of the winters cut of ties have
been felled by brawny tie hacks at
the timber camps of the Wyoming Tie
4 Timber Company in the forests
along Du NOR creek, over 100 miles
north of Riverton.
Harry A. Loucks of Sheridan, Demo-
cratic candidate for state treasurer in
the last campaign, who stumped the
state with Governor Ross during the
campaign, has been appointed state in
surance commissioner by Governor
Ross.
Several thousand dollars worth of
carbon black was destroyed and soIne
damage to the building resulted from
a fire which threatened destruction of
The carbon black plant at Riverton.
The carbon black had been sucked for
shipment.
The birthday of Colonel William +.
Cody was fittingly observed in Cody.
Three grandchildren of the scout, also
the Cody Boy Scouts, were guests ut
"A banquet given by the Cody Club, at
which old timers related "reminiscences
of Colonel Cody.
Efforts are being made by o. C..
Schweiring, president of the Wyoming
State Teachers Association, for spe-
cial rates which will permit holding
the 1923 convention of the orgirniza-
ton in Yellowstone park, according to
reports received at Cody.
Captain Hutson OF the Cheyenne
High school X. .. Il. Z. recently made
the announcement that IL girls rifle
shooting teal would be organized. He
informed the high school girls that
they might enroll ut his office. Cap
tain Hutson will coach the team.
The virginian hotel in Medicine
Bow, built in 1910 by August Grimm,
now of Rock River, and named from
Owen Wister's book, some of the
scenes of which were said to lie near
Medicine Bow, has been sold to Il. L.
Edgerton, manager of the Elk Noun
tain Coal Company. The Virginian
hotel is one of the largest in the
state.
The Seventeenth Legislature enacted
many laws for the benefit of the agri-
cultural interests of the state, but few
of them are of more Importance than
the ones providing for the control of
Injurious rodents. Prairie dogs, ground
squirrels, pocket gophers, etc, have
each year eXacted u toll of over a half
million dollars by their depredations in
this state.
The Wyoming Supreme Court prob
ably will be called upon to render
final decision in the dispute over the
will of the late Raymond Rouan of
Natrona county, which was refused
admittance to probate at Casper by
Judge G. o. Brown on the ground that
the deceased was demented at the time
he executed the instrument. Forty
witnesses were heard in the contest.
Plans are going eforward in the job
of preparing to lay a gas line from
Casper to the Salt Greek field. 1t will
be laid by the Midwest Refining Com
pany and will be about forty-five miles
in length, ami of ten-inch pipe the
first half of the distance and the re-
mainder all twelve-inch pipe. The line
will carry about fifty million cubic
feet of gas daily.
The United States of America, vs..
Clayton Long, is the title of a civil
suit filed with the clerk of the United
States District Court ut Cheyenne. The
petition recites that Long. who resides
near Ethete, Wyo, ran cattle one the
Indian reservation without the consent
of the Indian agent there. The plain
tiff asks for Indictment nf <oQi a. = 4,
penalty and costs of the suit.
William G.. Demlng of Cheyenne,
nominated by President Harding to be
a member of the United States Civil
Service Commission, Is editor and pub
Usher Of the Wyoming State Tribune.
Two new buildings are in course Of
erection ut the university stock farm
at Laramie, and the work has been
carried through almost to completion.
one of the buildings is u veterinary
n p~arasitology building, including
I'VE laboratories, one each to be used
by Drs. Scott and Elder and their de.
partments. There Is a large autopsy
room with an incinerator for the dis.
posal OF carcasses and refuse.
The Wyoming State Land Board Is
being deluged with resolutions and
other propaganda for and ngalnsI
granting to the Midland States OH
Company, controlled by former Gov
rno G. N. Haskell of Oklahoma, u
nve-yenr operating lease ON Section 80
iT-70, Salt Creek oil field. OIL asso-
Citations, Chambers Of Commerce and
other organizations are pouring reso-
buttons into the boards offices and
members of the board, who are the five
elective state officers, ure besieged by
persons desiring to present arguments
for or against the Midland proposal.
The Producers x Refiners Corpora.
ton has been granted Il franchise TO
urnVtda Gieuroek with nutur.f u.a