, 1923-03-22
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
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sion April 1.
Tex" Kicker, who claims to be IA
motion picture actor, was taken u
Evanston where he is to be charged
with obtaining money by false pre-
fences. 1t is alleged that he filched u
hotel out of ST..
The State Land Board of Wyoming
opened bids for the royalty oil accru-
ing to the state from the almost in.
valuable school section in the Salt
Creek field, known as section 36-40-TS,
but announced no award.
The Bank of Gillette was closed at
the request of its directors, pending
examination by Il state banking eX-
aminer. The action followed the sui
eide of Mark IL. Shields, president of
the bank and mayor of Gillette.
The Wyoming Spindle Top Oil Com
pany, owning some oil leases in the
Big Hollow, west of Laramie, in sec
ton 6-l5-74, has leased the claims to
Robert Kennedy of Cedar Rapids,
Kan, who will begin drilling within II
year.
Wyoming livestock are in good con,
dition and have wintered well to date,
while the winter ranges are in gooo
condition, according to the monthly
livestock and range report issued by
he Wyoming office of the u. 5. Blu
reau of Agricultural Economics.
Lon c. Davis of Cheyenne, deputy
United States marshal, has been noti-
fled from Washington of his appoint
ment as federal prohibition commits
sioner for Wyoming. He succeeds Carl
jackson, transferred to the Seattle
division.
The excited interest in decision by
the Wyoming Land Board on lease APP
plications for the famous school Sec
ton in Salt Creek will have until
April 10 TO cool off. On that date, the
board announced, it will give its deci-
sion as to the sale of royalty oil from
that lease and will also o
what it proposes to do in regard to the
extension of the lease now held by the
Midwest until Oct. l, 1924.
Frank c. Emerson, removed as
Wyoming state engineer by Governor
Ross, but who declined to relinquish
possession Of the office, was elected
from the office by Sheriff George J.
Carroll, Casper ID. Shawver of Chey-
enne, who had just qualified as engi-
neer under appointment by Gov. Ross,
assumed possession of the office.
Emerson, it is forecast, will resort to
legal proceedings in an effort to estab-
lish that the governor was without au-
thority TO emoye him.
Approximately 800 high school
students representing every high school
in the state and including thirty-seven
basketball teams, numerous debaters
and other contestants for academic
honors, were in Laramie in observance
of Wyoming's sixth annual High
School week, conducted by the Uni
versity of Wyoming. The representa-
tives of the Big Piney high school were
required to sled their way 100 miles
to the nearest railroad station from
where they were transported to Lara
mic.
\ letter addressed to THE Com
handing officer. Fort Laramie, Wyo.,"
has been received by the commanding
general at Fort Russell from John
Elliott of Liverpool, England, who is
seeking information regarding his
brother, Thomas Elliott or Thomas
Howard, who was a soldier at Fort
Laramie in 1885. The letter is inter
esting because there has been no COM
handing officer of Fort Laramie dur
ing more than thirty years, the post
having been abandoned by the army
In 1890.
The State Supreme Court has APP
pointed the following law examiners
for Il three year term: c. L. Arnold.
Laramie; William o. Wilson, Casper;
G. A. Aaring, Basin Clyde NJ. Watts,
Cheyenne; Louis j. OMAR, Sheridan.
Following the closing of the Wyo-
ming State bank, State Examiner BY
ron S. HUE arrived in Lusk and be-
gan checking up the books. The re-
port, showing that the condition of
the bank will not permit its reopening
for business was sent to Attorney
General Howell, who recommended
that Judge e. o. Brown appoint "A re-
ceiver. Edward NJ. Arnold was ap-
pointed.
Kidnapped from n Denver o~rphanage
and schOOled in II career of crime. ~
year-old Albert Lowery has been re-
turned to Denver after admitting lie
was the accomplish OF Il. r. Smiley, al
legged burglar, who has begun a long
prison term. The child steadfustly
claimed to be the son Of Smiley when
the latter was arrested In Cheyenne
but after a conviction admitted Smiley
kidnapped him from a Denver Orphan
age New Year day. The boy said he
yielded TO Smiley's Influence and was
trained to assist in burglarles.
The total output of the Wyoming oil
fields in February was 26TIOSl bar
rolls of which opOn sqI ar ~ .o.