, 1923-09-19
SHORT
NEWS ITEMS


Henry Reiche, u former Rawlins
young man, was instantly killed near
Saratoga when struck by lightning.
burglars entered the home of Dep
uty Sheriff C. f. Richards of Sheridan
and made way with u gold watch and
$50 in currency.
The Wheatland district maintained
its position during the first six months
of 1923 as the best poultry producing
section of Wyoming, according to the
s%emi-nnnual report issued by Poultry
Specialist w. H.. McNees.
Contract for the erection of a $780,
600 apartment house on South Center
street, Casper, has been let by the Ada
company, which has been financed by
a group of leading citizens. The apart
ment house will have three floors.
Word was received in Rawlins of an
accident near Hanna, when Mrs. Wes-
ley Kenninson became frightened
while out riding in their car and
jumped from the car while it was trav-
cling at u high rate of speed and was
killed instantly.
The trustees of the University of
Wyoming, at their quarterly meeting
in Laramie, awarded to the City
Plumbing and Heating Company Of
Boulder, Colo, three contracts at the
university, where a new gymnasium
and engineering building unit are in
course of erection.
The Kemmerer Coal Company set
tied the funeral bills for all of the
miners killed in the disaster of Aug.
IA, ninety-nine in all, checks having
been issued from the company offices
to the kemmerer underwriters. AL
though the total amount was not CIV
en- out, 1t will exceed $4,000.
Albert J. Barrett, %. and James B.
Martin, 10, convicts in the state peni-
tertiary at Rawlins, escaped a few
days ago by crawling to the root of a
building, jumping to the top Of the
prison wall and sliding to freedom by
means of II rope which they had stOl-
n inside the penitentiary, according
to reports.
Reclamation Commissioner d. W. Da-
Wis has left Washington on a tour Of
reclamation projects in Wyoming, Ida
no, Washington, North Dakota and
Montana. The first stop will be made
at the proposed Saratoga project, WyO-
ming, where Davis will be Joined by
Chief Engineer Weymouth of Denver,
who will accompany him on the re-
mainder of the trip.
Mrs. LYDIA Halverson, who was shot
HalversOn, who then committed sui
eide at Cheyenne. is reported to be on
the road to recovery. Little hope was
held out for the wounded mi short
ly after the tragedy. but a marked urn
for the better was responsible for a
statement that physicians believed the
crisis passed.
Many of a party of twenty-five
Cheyenne residents who visited the
state experiment farm at Archer re-
Gently learned more regarding scien-
tific dry farming in thirty minutes
that character they previously had
garnered. The inspection of the farm
was made under the auspices of the
Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce.
Southwestern Exploration Company's
wildcat well on the Medicine Bow
structure in southern Wyoming, near
Rock river. which came in about a
month ago with flush production of
over 600 barrels of oil a day, has
turned to water, according to late re-
ports from the field. The test was In
the Muddy sand at 4,O46 feet and ut
the time of its completion caused a
sensation.
Coroner Il. w. Holmes of Kemmerer
was called to Cokevllle In connection
with the tragic death of Frank Stark
weather, n prominent Blackfoot, Ida,
rancher, when his large cur turned
over on the macadamlzed highway
about five miles north Of Cokeville.
Charles l.. Rigdon, formerly United
district attorney for Wyoming,
for whom the Minneapolis police con.
Quoted n search for several days fol.
lowing his disappearance after attend
ing the convention of the American
Bar association, telegraphed his fam
lily at Cheyenne that Everything is
all right" and that he was leaving for
by automobile. No explanation
the report of his disappearance was
given in the message.
The old spirit OF the Shosbonc and
Arapahoe Indians on the Wind river