, 1923-04-26
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
O MING

Wyoming still has 16,S59,593 vacant
acres of public land within her Dor
ders, according to compilations recent
ly made by the Interior Department at
Washington.
G. w. Ferris, alleged ~moonshiner,
was shot and Frank Ceiburt was cap
tured with him after q gun battle be-
tween the pair and deputy sheriffs.
The officers attempted to arrest the
men on Casper mountain, a few miles
outside of Casper.
Wyoming's population July 1 of this
year will be 211,S64, according to the
estimate made by Census bureau
statisticians whose figures show that
the population of the United States
will be 110,663, SOP at the end of the
half of this year.
Glen E.. Moran, escaped convict from
the Wyoming state ~penitentiary, was
captured on the Alcova road near Cas-
per by Undersherlff Il. j. Cantlin.
Moran was a trusty In the peniten-
tiary at Rawlins and was serving time
for having stolen a mator car
Arrangements have been completed
for the second annual state track meet
to be held in Douglas at the state fair
grounds on Saturday, May 3. About
40 schools have signified their inten-
tons of sending teams here and over
100 contestants are expected to take
part.
Forty farmers recently held a meet
ing at Rock River, addressed by Z. A.
Watson of Harmony, vice president of
the Albany County Farm Bureau (;
Stanley Edwards of Laramie, secre-
tary of the Laramie Council of Indus
try, and L. II. Oldroyd, Albany County
Agricultural agent.
A tract of 1000 acres In Carson
county, Wyoming, was opened to entry
by former service men of the World
war under orders Issued by the In
terror Department recently. Filing on
the land will be accepted from veter-
n until May IA and from the general
public after that date.
Maintenance of a girls summer
camp for the benefit of Casper Girl
Scouts and others seeking recreation
will be the major program fathered
this year by the Casper Kiwanls Club.
Plans have been laid for cementlng an
outdoor swimming pool to be used as
a plunge by girls and boys here.
The principal highways of Wyo-
ming will be open for automobile trav-
ell by May 1, according to information
obtained at the office of the State
Highway Commission in Cheyenne. At
present short stretches of road are in
fine condition, but impossible spots
make automobile trips hazardous.
The second public appearance II
Casper of the Ku Klux Klan was re-
corded when six hooded knights Wis
tied a "hoodoo" party being held by
young people of Emanuel Baptist
church and presented them with an
envelope containing $50 as a donation
toward a piano for which the young
people are working.
Hugh b. Shields, former cashier of
the Bank OF Gillette, at Gillette, Wyo.,
was freed from charges of embezzle-
ment In a preliminary court hearing
at Sheridan. The case grew out of
the closing of the bank after Mark
Shields, its president, and brother Of
Hugh, committed suicide on March o.
Bank examiners found a shortage of
more than 100000 in the bank funds.
United States Senator Francis e.
Warren of Wyoming and w. c.. Dem
Ing OF Cheyenne, member of the Civ
II Service Commission, were received
by President Harding at the White
House a few days ago. and on behalf
of the Cheyenne Chamber of Com
merce invited the President to visit
Cheyenne at the time OF the 1923
Frontier Days celebration, July "a, 20,
20 and 81.
Caroline Lockhart was reelected
president OF the Cody Stampede j. NJ.
Schwoob was made vice president,
and ID. Il. HOLSTER, secretary and
treasurer by the new board of direc-
tors. composed of Caroline Lockhart,
j. Nj. Schwoob and /. III. Larom.
Arrangements for an additional
train from Chicago, and re-establish-
ment Of through service TO Cody,
Wyo., as soon as the Yellowstone Ma
tlonnl park is thrown open to the pub
lie, are positive indications of the faith
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad in the 1923 tourist business
for Colorado, according to T.. S. Eus-
tbs. general passenger traffic manager
Of that road.
ii. g.. Alexander OF Omaha, railway
mall clerk, was arrested at Cheyenne
by %postoffice inspectors from Kansas
City, charged with robbery of the
malls. Alexander has been in the rail
way mail service for thirty years and
has been n clerk in charge for fifteen
years. Alexander at first denied that
he had been robbing the malls, but
under n%rnlnnpnd questioning L. anld