, 1923-07-04
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NEWS ITEMS

A. Parkins, n farmer who owns land
under the ditch.
Jack, the four-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Pete Tronquet, Of the Fifth
Street Cash Grocery store at Rock
Springs, shot off the thumb Of his
right hand wit. a Colts revolver.
William, ~slx-year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Werner, living west Of
Orpha, was instantly killed by light
ming as he was sitting in an automo-
bile with his sister and younger broth
or.
The Wyoming State Dental Society
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, I. p. Hayes, Sheridan vice pres
ident, P. c. McNiff, Laramie: secre-
tary, Earl G. Andrew. Cheyenne treas
urer, Peter Appel, Jr, Cheyenne.
Charles s. Llewllyn Of Casper has
been assigned to duty at the Univer-
sity Of Wyoming, to have charge Of
the Veterans Bureau, so that former
service men in Laramie will not have
to go to Casper to transact their bust
ness.
Police Patrolman James Pile of Cas-
per was exonerated for the fatal shoot
ing of James Carney, by a coroner's
jury which found that Carney came to
his death from a gunshot fired by
Pile while In the pursuit of his duty
as an officer.
AS a result of a quarrel of several
weeks standing, Edgar Perkins shot
and killed Richard Neves in Burling-
ton, about twenty-five miles west of
Basin, in the Greybull valley. Trouble
had been brewing for some time be-
tween the two. Roth are men of fam
lilies and old-timer residents of the
valley.
Peterson, homesteader in the Vet
eran district and soldier in the World
War. committed suicide at Scots
bluff, Neb., where he was working
while his wife and two children re-
sided on the homestead. He was
found hanging from q rafter in the
grandstand at the baseball park It
Seottsbluff. He a severely gassed
in the war and was subject to fits of
melancholy.
wild as the widest, woolly as the
woolliest." Thus runs the message
which the Rodeo committee, through
the secretary, 1. w. Dinsmore, would
deliver to Rawlins and Carbon county
in particular. and the entire West in
general. The Ra,.,ins rodeo, sched-
uled for Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday. September II, ID and IA, Is
now an assured fact and only the final
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details for the big wild west show re-
main TO be worked out.
Sixteen negroes who took possession
VI d green irult Tram approaching
Laramie, ana INFORMED the train crew
that II they were moiested they would
put the trainmen off and run the
train themselves. were arrested when
the train arrived In Laramie. Each
was fined 50 In a justice court. Some
paid, but others were given a stay Of
execution and provided with employ
ment by the company whose refrige-
'".of eaiS were n'aueo ny the hosts'
Governor william 3: Ross has Is
eaeu d pfoeiu"a.on caiins the "yo-
"s,s,uie ~ consene IN speciai
noso - awana e pal
state farm loan net Tb,s net was
by nm net of the legislature
ut Its last regular session, but the
carelessness Of u clerk in falling to
copy the amendments into the enrolled
act resulted in defeat Of the legis-
lators' wishes to Increase the maxi
mum amount OF a loan to a farmer
from $1,000 to $4,000 and to lower
the Interest rate from Q per cent to 8
per cent.
Charles Black. an employee Of the
Producers and Refiners. was fatally
injured In an unusual accident which
occurred on the Lincoln highway one
mile east of Rawlins. He thrust his