, 1923-01-17
SHORT
w YOMING
NEWS ITEMS

Wyoming again has u Democro,l.
governor. w. :. Ross was sworn ir,s
office u few dry ago in a cerenAno
marked by simplicity and the Iurt -,
ostenfatlon.
1.-THE best yield of corn we h,r.
heard of this year was secured noas
Hidivide Postoffice by the kintz mr..
theirs, members of the LAWYER Earn
Club" says the Gillette News.
QUO knlf. carpenter employed bv
the Stanuurd refinery ut Casper. is rs.
covering from conclusion OF the hr,ln
received in u thiriy-foot tall from ,
sc,itfuiuing on which he was WORKING
Anienueu articles of incorpor,,i.,
flied in Cheyenne, change the maine If
the Inland OH Company 10 the Conf.
nentul Oil Producing Company and in.
CREASE the capital stock from S2.Omna
10 s6,uUu,UuU.
The county commissioners have
voted to reduce the pay OF all second
deputies" in Albany county 10 tbs
amount fixed by law, leaving the first
deputies" 10 receive the pay of that
office, S125 monthly.
Henry Johnsoi may join the long list
of int that iIuve paid, at least in burt.
for crime they did not commit. Tina
Wyoming Supreme Court has ordered
II new TRIAL for the life ternIer con.
ticted of the Ilui der OF his aunt, and
Tho f.lSn utr.linSt him .,,t L.. A..
missed.
Efforts of a posse of fifty men to
find the body o. the 2-year-old son Of
Herman Christensen, drowned in the
Powder river, proved successful after
II long search. The child was pIayi Ing
in the farniyard and fell over the steep
emDanknnent ,.Ito the Icy water
through IN airhole in the ice.
Geo. X. Han took charge of The
i.iiriinIie boomerang us editor and pub
Usher IA lew days ago. According to
m informal Il nounceInent there will
be no Change in the editorial policy or
IN the po.irics III the newspaper, and .
ne : retaining the same stull which
M. .IcCracken has assembled.
To lose the propeller of his airplane
,hile ut an altitude of l2,UJO feet, yet
10 make IL safe emergency landing
without knowledge of what WAS wrong
with his machine, was the novel eXper-
irnce OF Air Mail Pilot V. n. Collision
recently while a Ell inounlain'
elghty-five Lilies west of Cheyenne.
Levy n lax OF 2 cents per gallon on
al gasoline sold and consumed in
Wyoming, provide ii l mill property
tax for the construction and mainte
nance of good loads, make an imnedl.
ate appropriation of S3OU,OOO, and 50
amend the statutes as TO allow the
expenditure of all automobile license
fets in excess of S2JO,OJO for mainte'
ma ace work. These are among the
Recommendations of L. L. Laird, super
intendent of the State Highway De
partment. us contained in the highway
commissions third biennial report.
Wyoming farmers received over So
GOl.uUU through the land banks of the
Federal Farm LJal- System during Inc
year 1872. This brings the total OF lUaHs
made by the .JoiLt Stock Land Banks
and the Federal Land Bank in Ny0
ming since organization 10 S1,1OO,UOO'
OF the total loans made in NyOlnlhS,
through this system since 1t was nrSl
established over $i,UOO,OOU came - NV
firmers through the Federal Lah ]
hunks and Sl,5G, ,OUU through tile lolI
Stock Land Banks. In the year Juss
closed the Joint Stock Land BANKS fur'
n'slled 81 800, OUu and the Federal Lanu
Bank S2.l5O,OUO. The Federal LAM
Bank lending in Wyoming Is loc''eu
ut Omuhu, Neb. The JOINT slocA
Lard Bank serving Wyoming farmers
is the First Joint Stock Land Bank ~
Cheyenne. The figures as TO w.
luuns are official Tor the first eiele"
months, and are estimated for The lie
ceiuber business Of the banks.
There is no question but that II u
to the material interest of each oil ''
states 10 ratify the form OF the com
pact that is now being presented WIN
the unanimous approval of the sever"
commissioners" says State Ehginev'
Frank c. Emerson. Wyoming 5 lne'n
Der OF the Colorado River Comlnlsson'
IN his biennial report TO the goNerH| u,
"WyomIng particularly should not ID"
to take favorable action"
The annual report of County
cultural Agent Robert Ii. Ielger' co,
ering activities during 1922, coh'"
some interesting Information resnru'ns
the campuigI for rodent eradlcatio" i,
Laramie county. ''Tbe efficacy 0.
the poisoned oats mixed by the oh'''
Suites Biological Survey has pro.s
beyond IL doubt In that county, suss
the report. more than l0,ooV ae'u
were protected against grounu SUI"
rels and prairie dogs by TINS po