, 1923-03-07
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NEWS ITEMS

William C.. Deming of Cheyenne,
nominated by President Harding to DC
II member of the United States Civil
Service Commission. is editor and pub
Usher of the Wyoming State Tribune.
Leo and Frank Rushford, brothers
residing at Rock Springs, have been
arrested on suspicion of connection
with the fatal shooting of Frank Ere
lie, butcher, at his meat market nj
Rock Springs.
Half of the winters cut of ties have
been felled by bruwny tie hacks ut
the timber camps of the Wyoming Tie
II Timber Company in the forests
along Du Noir creek, over 100 miles
north of Hiverton.
Several thousand dollars worth of
carbon black was destroyed and some
damage to the building resulted from
Il fire which threatened destruction Of
the carbon black plant ut Riverton.
The carbon black had been sacked foc
shipment.
Efforts are being made by o. c.
Schwelring, president of the Wyoming
State Teachers Association, for spe-
cial rates which will permit holding
the 1923 convention of the organiza-
tion in Yellowstone park, according to
reports received nj Cody.
Although tuberculosis has been cut
in half in the nation, it is increasing
in Wyoming, according to statistics
gathered by the Wyoming Public
Health Association. Records from the
Wyoming State Board of Health show
that there were "a cases in 1920, 10
cases in 1921, and 81 cases in 1922.
The Virginian hotel in Medicine
Bow, built in 1910 by August Grimm,
now of Rock River, and named from
Owen Wister's book, some of the
scenes of which were said to lie near
Medicine Bow, has been sold to Il. T..
Edgerton, manager of the Elk Noun
tain Coal Company. The Nirginian
hotel is one of the largest in the
state.
The famous school section in the
Salt Creek field-the most valuable
tract of its kind In the country-is to
be placed on sale on March D, accord
ing to announcement by the Wyoming
State Land Board. Bids are to be
opened on that day for u five-year
lease of the tract from n after Oct.
l, 1924. The lease is now held by the
Midwest Refining Company.
w. c.. Sherr, capitaIIst of Upland,
Calf, recently visited in Greybull, in
speeding the immense deposits of ben.
tonite in that vicinity with the view OF
aiding in the development of various
by-products, which has beer undertake
en- by a Greybull company. The e.
tensive deposits of the mineral have
been pronounced by government chem
lists to be of The very best grade.
Two new buildings are in course of
erection ut the university stock farm
at Laramie, and the work has been
carried through almost to completion.
One of the buildings is a veterinary
and parasitology building, including
two laboratories, one each to be used
by Drs. SEQ and Elder and their de-
partments. There is a large autopsy
room with an incinerator for the dis
posal of c~arcasses and refuse.
Biologists and drilling contractors
are to be worked overtime in the state
of Wyoming this summer, according 10
word received from dealers in oll-well
supplies and rig timbers. The advance
of % cents II barrel In crude oil in two
months has stimulated an activity hat
will manifest itself with the first
warm days of spring. From present
indications every structure in Wyo-
ming and n number of newly found
ones in Montana will be drilled before
the year is out.
Jane Cody Carlow. Frederick and
man that made the Wild West famous,
will be the guests of honor at the first
Cody day dinner at Cody.
Leo and Frank Rushford, brothers,
residing ut Rock Springs, have been
arresttd on suspicion of connection
with the fatal shooting of Frank Ere
lie, butcher, at his meat market in
that city. The murder of Frelic has
aroused public Indignation and the
Rushford brothers, therefore, were
taken to the county Jail at Green Riv-
er without the formality of II prellm-
mary hearing.
appointment of Representative Mon
dell Of Wyoming, Republican leader In
the House, who retires March 4, to sue
c Secretary Fall of the Interior
Department, was urged on President
Harding by II delegation of eighteen
representatives from thirteen western
states. Representatives Slnnot OF Ore
gon, and Dickinson of Iowa, acted us
spokesman for the group. which went
TO the White House after reports had
gained circulation at the capitol that
the President might decide not to
transfer Postmaster General Work to
the Interior Department.
The Producers & Reflners Corpora.
ton has been granted a franchise to
provide Glenrock with natural gas.
Citizens OF Glenrock expect that oper-
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