, 1923-07-18
SHORT
WYOMING
NEWS ITEMS

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ROBBED men, believed to be members of
the Ku Klux Khan.
Utah OIL & Refining Company 10
hearing the Tensleep sand at $500 feet
In Its Black Mountain test well thirty
miles east Of Thermopolis, Wyo. Blacl
oil is expected If production is encoun-
tered.
Officials of the Casper Rodeo Asso.
citation have secured the promise Of
Casper merchants and business men to
decorate on a large scale for the first
annual rOdeO to be held in Casper Aug.
1 to 8.
Douglas vas host to the Odd Eel
lows of Wyoming July 10 when repre-
~sentatives to the Grand Lodge, the
Grand Encampment and Rebekah AS.
sembly gathered for the annual meet.
ings.
Capt. Scott X. Snively, IS, who re-
signed as Municipal Court Judge Of
Sheridan a few days ago, was married
on a Burlington Pullman car, to Mrs.
Rachael A. Cline, SO, of Blockton, la.
The marriage Is the result Of a rom.
ance in NOdaway county. Missouri,
fifty-one years ago.
A freight train was wrecked one
and One-half miles east Of Green River,
piling twelve cars down an embank
ment twenty feet deep. The wreck
was caused by the freight breaking Ia
the middle; cause of this is unknown.
The rails, torn and twisted, were
plowed up for a distance of 200 feet
Approximately 800 head of horses
were sold at u three-day sale at Gil.
lette recently. AS predicted before the
sale, small unbroken stuff did not sell
well. About 100 head of wild mares,
small ones, brought 81 u head. Some
well broken heavy stuff brought good
prices, a few teams going well over
5000.
A serious cave-in on the southern
side of the beautiful Jupiter terrace
at Mammoth hot springs in Yellow.
stone caused q slump In an ares 20 by
40 feet, producing u temporary redirec'
ton of the boiling hot water and caus-
ing the main park highway to be GOV.
cred with a deposit of ~bicarbOnate Of
lime for a distance of 200 feet.
After having reposed in a winters
grave since December IL. 1922, the
body of Carl Balm, hOmesteader-trap-
per on Beaver Creek, between Pine
dale and Merna, was discovered by his
three brothers, who had carried On an
ncessant search since the trappei
lost his way in the rugged mountains
which surround his trapping grounds
Marine Oil Company's Taylor No. z
well on section 20-39-7S of the Salt
Creek field is producing about LICK
barrels of crude daily after being shot
with thirty quarts Of ni~trOglycerins
from a depth Of 2,733 to 1882 feet
The hole Is in good condition. On the
same section Tayor No. 3 is at 1,2S(
ieet and Taylor No. 4 is being cleaned
out at 2,773 feet.
Ora Bever, well known potato grow.
sr and buyer, has raised this season ar
unusually early variety Of potatoes
Heretofore the potatoes grown at Pow
ell are rather slow In maturing large
enough for use. If 1t Is possible te
develop an early v~.riety the Shoshons
project may yet rival some of the
southern states in supplying potatoes
for the early market.
Earl ]. Cantlin. undersheriff Of Cas-
per, who Is charged with having fatal.
~ shot "a woman tourist on the high.
way, has been ordered suspended and
a probe Of the incident is to be con.
Quoted by county authorities. Cantlip
alleges that he shot ut the ground
when Mrs. J. ID. Newcomb disregarde6
an order to dim her lights, trying Il
brighten her into obeying his order.
ural gas by the Big Horn Gas Com.
pany. an organization recently formed
for the purpose of connecting up all
the gas fields In the south end Of the
Big Horn basin
At the meeting OF the board of coun
ty commissioners ut Torrington, A. Il
Bowman. director OF extension work
for the University OF Wyoming, ap
peared before the board and explained
the university and the United States
Department OF Agriculture. After
Bowman had presented the facts to the
board, he agreed to place u new coun.
~ agent In the field ut the earliest op
portunity.
A serious cnvein occurred In the
south side Of Jupiter terrace of Nam.
moth Hot Springs. The slide OF an
area OF approximately twenty-five BY
forty feet caused the boiling water to
overflow into the water supply reser