, 1923-05-30
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NEWS ITEMS

"BOys Week." Seven hundred young.
sters were at Minnehaha park. Their
ages ranged from nine to fifteen
years.
There is virtually no unemployment
in Wyoming at the present time. In
fact, there Is a shortage Of labor in q
number Of lines. The farmers and
ranchers in particular are finding 1t
difficult to ecure enough help.
Although only one regularly NOM
mated ticket was placed in the field
at Cokeville, four votes were cast for
Mrs. Ethel Stoner, incumbent for re-
election. Fuller. like Painter Of Evans
ton, staged a comeback, having been
mayor Of the wool center up to one
year ago.
Indications are that the people Of
Rock Springs will enjoy the comforts
of natural gas text winter. The Pro-
ducers and Refiners company has re-
ceived twelve carloads Of six-inch
main line pipe and 1t IL reported that
they have more than thirty carloads
more en- route to Rock Springs.
The 4~-year-old daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed David, Jr., was accidentally
crushed beneath q car driven by her
mother. Mrs. David with her two
daughters of Hawk Springs drove to
the home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
McElhaney, who live a few miles
northwest Of Yoder, for a brief visit.
Information charging sixteen promi-
nent sheep men and sheep companies
Of Sheridan county of violation Of the
Wyoming sheep dipping law were filed
In District Court at Sheridan by John
W. Songer, county and prosecuting at
torney. The cases will be heard at the
next term Of the District Court, open
ing early in June.
Trains are to be moving ove the
Wyoming North & South railroad be-
tween Salt Creek and nlco, the south
ern terminus Of the road at the juno
ton Of the Burlington and Chicago &
Northwestern, by June 20, 1t is de-
clared at the offices Of the roalroad In
will be shipped by rail- for the first
time at that date. unless present plans
miscarry.
In an effort to bring about business
like methods in the handling of one of
the most important businesses of off,
ciaf Wyoming, the State Board Of
Land Commissioners decreed that the
state should have an employee whose
duty 1t would be to check up on the oil
royalties from the Salt Creek field.
Commissioner G. II. McWhinnie FRI
day appointed Charles E. HYATT of
Cheyenne, an employee of the high
way department, to the place..
When the wvomlny st,.x croyyers.
Association meets in Chevenne lima
8 the State Board of Live Stock Com.
missioners will hold a session at the
same time, and there will be no signs
Of the friction that has existed be-
tween the two for the past several
years over the question of the estray
moneys. Lee Moore, secretary Of the
board, says the association has turned
over the funds due the commissioners
INT that all the differences have been
ironed out.
State Insurance Commissioner Harry
A. Loucks acting in his ex.offic,o On.
pacItvas wvomIno inheritance toxc com.
missioner, has filed protest in the Dis
trict Court of Natrona county against
the inheritance tax assessment Of the
estate of the late Frank @. Curtis of
New York and CASPER. asserting that
this assessment is approximately s4OO.-
600 too low. "The estate was not an.
praised ut its full and true volue at
the time of the death of the decedent.
or at the time the appraisal was
made, and not at Its market value at
the time of court action"
filed by Loucks set forth.
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