, 1923-07-25
SHORT
NEWS ITEMS

Grand lodge of Wyoming Odd Fellows
for the meeting place in July. 1924,
when the grand lodge will celebrate
the flftieth anniversary Of Its organi-
zation.
While in H~arrisonburg. Va, last
week, United States Civil Service Com
missioner w. G. Deming attended the
Rotary Club as a guest Of Postmaster
#. L. Sublett and was n Of the
speakers.
Freight rates on Sheridan coal to
Montana and North Dakota points
must be- cut in amounts varying from
Is cents to 81 a ton not later than
Sept. Is, according to a statement OF
findings of the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Laramie has been chosen by the
grand lodge of Wyoming Odd Fellows
for the meeting place in July, 1924,
when the grand lodge will celebrate
the fiftieth anniversary Of its organ
ization. The grand lodge was formed
In Laramie in 1874.
One fireman of a d~oubleheader east
bound Union Pacific freight train was
killed when the engines were wrecked
and sixteen cars derailed as the result
of a washOut of trackage w miles
west of Bitter Creek, near Green
River.
Contract for the new 100000 hotel
being built on North Center street in
Casper by Harry Free, Leigh Town
send and others has been let to the
Modern Building Company, a Casper
concern. The block will be five
stories high.
Nearly a score Of houses were
washed from their foundations and
swept down the Northwestern railroad
tracks, a quarter Of a mile away, and
about 1000 feet of trackage was torn
up when a %clOudburst struck near Par
kerton. twenty miles east Of Casper.
The property damage is estimated at
$4,000.
The rifling Of a steel cabinet in the
office of Justice of the Peace Henry
Brennan In the Kimball building In
Casper netted the robbers $3.50 in cash,
representing fines and fishing license
funds. Keys were used to the office
and the cabinet, nothing having been
damaged by the robbers in gaining en-
trance.
Internal revenue collections In Wyo-
ming during the past fiscal year were
SIT .1S less than for the preceding
year, according to figures recently
made public by Marshall 8. Reynolds.
collector of Internal revenue for Wyo-
ming. Total collections for the period
were $1,94S.O86.17, as compared to
S2,O25, OS7 .35 for the prior fiscal year.
Expenditures totallng $4,000 Of
forest highway funds for bodybuilding
work in Wyoming have just been ap-
proved by the secretary Of agriculture,
said an announcement from the forest
service, United States Department Of
Agriculture, received In Cheyenne a
few days ago. Six projects are in
cluded IL the program Just approved.
The Wyoming Legislature convened
In extraordinary session at Cheyenne
to amend the state farm loan act In
such q way as to redd4e the interest
rate from 9 to 5 per cent and Increase
the maximum loans to individuals
from 5000 each to $4,000. These
amendments were passed at the regu-
lar session last winter. but later were
declared nullified because a clerk
failed to include them In the enrolled
act as It was sent to Governor Ross
for his signature. This is the second
special session In Wyoming's history.
The only other n was In 1920. when
1t was found necessary to ratify the
fadarol u,ououso auffroua
in order to permit the m OF the
country to vote In the presidential
election Of that year..
]. A. johnson, Of Casper. who had
the contract for building the library
building at the University Of Wyoming.
was awarded the contract for the new
gymnasium building ut a recent meet
Ing Of the board of trustees. The price
was not given out. pending some re-
vision Of portions Of the bid. The
board resolved to use native Wyoming
stone in the construction Of tho walls.
The county prosecuting attorney Of
Park county, Il. ]. Goppert, has
brought suit for $4,000 damages
against Caroline Lockhnrt and the
Cody Enterprise. basing the action on
nm article which appeared In a recent
Issue Of that paper, pertaining to the
killing of Scotty Scherrin OF Greybull
and the w~ounding Of his companion, by
men deputized to watch a liquor cache.
Sheridan won the state Rife Team
championship at the State Shoot OF
Wyoming Rife Association, while 9TH
er Sheridan teams captured second,
third and fourth places. Shoshone
won fifth place. Lowell sixth and Kano
seventh. The Sheridan team. which
captured the state championship. pre-
viously captured the national cham
pionship. Lowell was awarded next
years shoot.