, 1923-02-08
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
w O MING

- - Nth' HhiN.
The Tyler x Baker CONSTRUCTION
Company has been organized at Rock
River for the purpose of ROAD building
with u capital of $4,000.
Casper's delegation in the Lower
House of the Wyoming Legislature
sprung II surprise by offering IL bill
providing for the removal of the state
capitol from Cheyenne to their city.
No responsibility for the death OF
three men in connection with II boiler
explosion ut the Midwest electric light
and power plant AT Salt Creek was
fixed by the coroner's jury which in
vestigated the tragedy.
The Cheyenne Chamber of Com
merce has gon on record, through its
board of directors, as being in favor
of II larger allotment for the Guernsey
storage and power dam than that
which has beer made by Congress,
$1,000.
The office of the forest supervisor
of the Medicine Bow National forest
ut Laramie has announced that appll-
Gallons for the grazing of cattle,
horses and sheep will be accepted up
TO and including March | for the com
ing season The secretary of agri-
culture has approved the grazing OF
ll.Sl0 cattle N horses and 80, 900
head of sheep.
Wy oming landlords who bar children
from houses or apartments which they
have let may find 1t necessary to in
creuse their rent scales, in order 10
compensate for legal penalties. House
bill No. 93, introduced by Representa-
tive A. w. Mccullough of Albany
county, (by %request), provides hat a
landlord making an anti child stipula-
ton in Il lease or rent contract shall
be fin I'd from $50 to 500 for eacn
%offensc.
Thomas j. R~utledge, formerly of
the Pine Bluffs district and now Il
rancher of the Encampment
was sentenced to pay a fine of SO
and To serve 10 hours in the Laramie
county Jail, and was dismissed from
the jury panel and debarred from fur
tner jury service. after n hearing be-
fore Judge Il. Blake Kennedy in Fed
eral District Court. He was, it Is al
legged under the influence of liquor.
AT the close of IA prolonged discus
sion the State Senate approved. with
out Il dissenting voice, the bill to
ratify the Colorado river
without reservations. Several senators
thought further consideration should
be given, but on the other hand it was
argued that nothing would be gained
by delay, n that Wyoming would get
II square deal under the provisions of
the treaty, and this view finally pre-
declaring that he was beaten over
the head with an AK by three black
hooded ussailants, who summoned him
from his home south of Phoenix,
Ariz.. w. II. Metz, rancher, made Al
lengthy statement TO County Attorney
Gene Cunningham. Metz, notwith-
standing two skull fractures, will re-
cover, attending physicians said. Metz
told officers that one of the trio was n
woman, wearing Il full. length robe, as
did the two men who accompanied
her.
Declaration that corporations ex-
Wyoming natural
should turn the raw material into
m~erchantable products in this state,
and should maintain their headquar-
tiers in Wyoming, is coupled with an
implied threat of Legislative action to
compel them to give Wyoming greater
benefit from the exploitation of its
resources, in "A joint resolution intro
duced in the house of the legislature
by Representative l.. A. Miller of
county.
The annual livestock report for
issued from the cheyenne
office of the United Suites bureau of
agricultural economics, states that wy
omlng's livestock is valued at $780,
900 more than one year ago, the value
being given out at sos. $4,000. Tho
report indicates that this Increase is
the result of the advance in the value
of sheep. The number of all cattle is
AT ISL 900 head, compared 10
$4,000 n year ago. The number OF
sheep on Jan. is estimated at $780,
0Oo. compared to 100000 last year.
The United States government win
receive during the current year more
than S3,OOO,OO0 for the royalty oil pro-
duced ON lis lands in the Salt Creek
fielu, and every l0-cent advance In the
price Of M~ld-Continent crude, upon
which the contract held by the Sinclair
Crude oil Purchasing Company Is
based, will mean I'm additional $780,
900 In the event that the total produce
tlon Is maintained at present figures
and provided that 1t is extended over a
year. OF the nine millions which the
Sinelnir Company win pay 10 the gov
eminent, the state Of Wyoming Will
receive S3,42I.OO o under the provision
Of the oil law leasing act.
without discussion the lower house
OF the Wyoming Stnte Leplslntur.