, 1924-11-19
LATE NE VS.
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per during the annual roundup on
Quoted recently. Total registration for
the scouts is expected to reach a rec
ord figure this fall.
Considerable activity is reported
from the LaBarge oil field, chief of
which is the report that the Transcon-
tinental Oil Company, a large concern,
has contracted with ii. l.. Miltz, drill
ing contractor for two wells, to be
spudded in with twenty-one-inch cas-
ing.
Sentence of from one to ten years in
the state reformatory mt Worland, was
passed upon John p. Wagner. Fort
Russell soldier, by Judge William A.
Riner in the Laramie county District
Court, following Wagner's plea of
guilty. Wagner was accused of hav-
ing stolen an automobile.
II. L. Mcknight, brakeman on the
Burlington, died from injuries sus-
tanned when he was knocked from a
train mt Oriva near Gillette. He had
climbed to the engine and was pick
ing up orders for train 100 when he
was struck by a nail crane which was
holding n pouch of mail for train Al.
The Ohio Oil Company announced
that it is erecting a rig to drill at
Cooper Cove, section 10, township IS,
range II, about midway between the
Rock Creek field and the Rex Dome
field. The new well is to be in AL
bany county, on a Union Pacific rail-
road section. Work will be started as
soon as the standard rig can be pre-
pared for drilling.
AT a special meeting of the stock
holders of the Rawlins National Bank
it was decided to increase the capital
stock of the bank from 100000 to
S150,OO0. This bank at present is cap
italized at 100000, having 1000
shares of stock at a par value of 500
each. An additional 500 shares will
be issued Immediately and will be Of
fered to the present stockholders in
amounts proportioned to their present
holdings.
Special class teachers of Wyoming
will meet in annual state convention
in Casper on Nov. 81 and %, with Miss
Beatrice Mcleod, state superintendent
of special class instruction, and Miss
Virginia Warkley, both of Cheyenne,
in charge. An exhibition of work done
in these classes, including basket
weaving, carpentry and domestic art,
will be featured to show good results
obtained in the comparatively new en-
terprise of fitting the retarded child
to a task at which he can be success
full.
An increase in regularly enrolled
students of approximately 25 per cen
over the total enrolment Of regulars
during the fall term of last year, is the
record established by the university of
Wyoming during the first six weeks of
the present school year. Although un-
der all probability the rate of increase
In enrolment will be greater during
the next few years, 1t is estimated
that, based on the present increase of
% per cent there will be more than a
thousand students in attendance at the
State University Mt the opening of the
fall term XXI year. At the same con-
sentative estimates of the rate of in
crease, statistics how that not less
than 1000 students will be on the uni
verslty campus In the fall of 1925 or
a few months after the graduation of
the present University of Wyoming
freshman class. The Increase in en-
rollment this year over last years en-
rollment is distributed by classes as
follows: Freshmen, II per cent; soph-
ignores, ii per cent juniors, 40 per
cent; seniors, Al per cent law stu
dents, II per cent.
Wyoming is to ave m association
dedicated to development n protec-
ton of Its tourist business interests,
to advertising Its scenic attractions, to
marking its highways. 1t has been in
corporated under the name Rocky
Mountain Motorists, Inc, Wyoming De-
partment." 1t will cooperate, insofar
as the interests of Wyoming are fur
thered, with the Rocky Mountain
Motorists, Inc" n Colorado orpora-
ton, and with similar associations In
other states, but will be an entirely In
dependent corporation, organized. Off
cered and directed by Wyoming resi-
dents and drawing Its membership
from wyoming's population.
Prohibition enforcement measures
applied in Casper In the past by the
Casper police were dealt a blow in Dis
trict Court when Judge Percy w.
Mentz, OF the Fifth judicial district.
sitting in Casper, ruled that police
magistrates and judges have no right
to issue search warrants for liquor or
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