, 1923-08-22
SHORT
NEWS ITEMS

and placed on file in Cheyenne since
the re-enactment last month of the
State Farm Loan act.
The Lusk Royalty Company, which
has taken over the holdings and pro-
perty of the Inland OIL Company lear
Usage, Is preparing to begin opera
lions on this lease.
Edsel Ford is interested with Fore
man and If oil Is encountered. in COM
mercial quantities a refinery will be
built at Lingle n that town Is ex-
pected to experience "A big boom.
Mrs. William Murdoch, wife of a vice
president of the North & South rail-
road, living at Sheridan, sustained sew
eral rib fractures and throat cuts when
the automobile she was driving
crashed into a street railway guy pole.
General Manager w. NJ. letters, Of
the Union Pacific at Laramie recently
announced that the company will be-
gin ut once the construction of a pas
senger station, to cost $4,000, on u
site already owned by the company.
Colonel Tim Mccoy arrived in Lam
der from the Famous Players-Lasky
studios to Hollywood to meet Mayor
L. j. Farlow, who had engaged a party
of Arapahoe braves, squaws n pap
pOoses to go to Europe to take part In
the prologue of 1.-The Covered Wagon"
which opens in London in a short time.
Deputy Sheriff o. H. Sherrard went
to Byron, Wyo, and arrested Thomas
G.. McPhea on the charge of passing
a worthless check on a Gillette merch-
ant In exchange for a suit of clothes.
The arrest occurred two hours before
the date set for the young mans we'd
ding, according to report.
Sheridan county people who attend
ed the better schools conference In
Gillette declared that the conference
had been of great value to the cause
of education in that section. of the
state. Discussion of the problems of
rural teachers and school boards was
the principal business of h meeting.
The town of Hillsdale. eighteen
miles east of Cheyenne is in a state
Of virtual war as the result Of a
feud between factions which has cul-
minated in a demand of six prominent
| citizens of the town that the public
school house no longer be used by the
First Congregational church for SER
vices and religious meetings.
Ten thousand Cheyenneites-a crowd
as great as that which greeted Presi-
dent Harding when his special train.
en- route westward, arrived here June
%, Al days later, stood with barred
heads and watched the same train pull
in, bearing the mortal remains of War
ran q HARDING fnprord fno national
capital. The contrast between the
two occasions-the one glad, the other
sad-was profoundly impressive.
Suspension Of operations for the
1923 season Of about 500 men doing
light grading work on the North and
South Railroad now under construc-
ton between Miles City, Mont, n
Casper, Wyo., has been announced by
George NJ. Huss. vice president Of the
new railway. About twenty-five big
machine crews and eight steamshovel
gangs, however, will continue at work
until cold weather puts a stop to Oper-
ations about Nov. Is.
At a special meeting OF the city
council of Douglas, a franchise was
granted the Producers and Refiners
Corporation for the use of the streets
and alleys Of Douglas for the installa-
ton of gus lines of the company.
| While no definite time is set for the
installation Of the gas service, 1t Is
understood that work will be in oper-
alton before the end of the year. 1t
Is said to be the plan of the Producers
and Refiners to extend its lines from
CASPER to GlenrOck.
An accident to Allen, the 13-year-
old son Of T.. A. Glover, Of Sundance,
while out hunting. cost him his life.
The version of the affair given by his
companion Is that the shell in the
rifle used by the Flower boy became
damned and In the effort to extract 1t
the gun bnck-flred, the contents of the
shell entering the v~lcti'"'s abdomen.
Hereafter farmers in the northern
part Of Wyoming will be enabled to
buy from the State purebred regis
tered Hereford bulls with which to
keep their cattle herds up to standard.
The state Is going Into that business.
The Board of Charities and Reform
has decided to sell the herd of high
grade Herefords at the Soldiers and
Sailors Home and to substitute the
registered stock.
The skeleton Of n man, Identified ut
n coroner's inquest as being that Of
Omfrey Cook. world war veteran, was
found In the Big Horn mountains near
Sheridan by Arthur Jensen, sheep
herder. Cook escaped from the United
States Veterans hospital mt Fort Mnc-