, 1924-05-28
LATE NE VS.
From All Orer
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The home of Pat O'Toole near Rock.
eagle, burned to the ground destroying
all contents.
WIND River canon road five miles
south of Thermopolis. which was closed
during the past ten days because of a
landslide in a part OF the road where
the drainage had not been completed,
Is open for travel.
f. w. Angler. often referred to MS
the father of Frontier Days" died at
his home in San Jose, Calf, accord.
Ing TO II message. Mr.. Angler was for.
merly connected with the Union Pacific
as a passenger agent.
c. E. Beyerle was reelected mayor
OF Pine Bluffs, with 1l9 votes, at the
city election. His opponent, C. C..
Gross. received thirty votes. Kenneth
Smith and Clyde Osborne were elected
TO serve as councilman.
More than 800 claims have been file6
in the Centennial mining district
where platinum ore has been founl. II
is expected that as soon as the snow
goes there will be a tremendous
amount of activity in that district.
William Hammond, a telegraph OPP
erator, shot Inc killed Mrs. Florence
6Ulett. postmistress at Chugwater,
forty miles north of Cheyenne. and
hen killed himself. The tragedy took
place in the Chugwater postoffice.
As the result of IA drunken brawl at
Superior, William Posey, IL years of
age, is dead, and Jake Hawkins is CON
fined in the county Jail at Green River,
charged with murder. Both are col
ored men who work in u coal mine At
Superior.
1t is reported that the Bank of Van
Tassell will soon be reopened and do
ing business well supported by COM
munity confidence. AT Manville there
is strong prospects that Il new bank
will shortly be established and upon a
sound financial base.
The spreading of the rails is assigned
as the cause for a wreck of the Cam
bria train that derailed five ears, three
of which We're set more or less cross
wise of the track. No one was injured
in the wreck. The train was composed
of the engine, tender and twelve cars.
Sixty members of the Carpenters
union at Casper have volunteered their
services in the erection of buildings mt
Camp Carey, the permanent camp
home of the Casper Boy Scouts ut the
mouth of BoXelder at Carey
hurst. The land was donated by for
mer Governor Robert d. Carey.
T. B. Allen terminated a short but
interesting career in the vicinity of
Wheatland when he was taken in
charge by Undersheriff William Thorn
as of Guernsey on charges of having
written u worthless check on the Stock
Growers Bank to the United Stores,
with other charges of worthless checks
and jumped hotel bills.
Citizens of Lusk and community may
soon see a new bank in their town, and
1t will be established and doing bust
ness long before the present month is
past. C. W. Erwin, who for the past
twenty-five years has been In the bank
ing game. was in Lusk making ar
rangements for the opening of the in
stitution. 1t is probable that the build
ing formerly occupied by the Bank of
Lusk will be used by the new bank.
Archie Bader, foreman for the Dla-
mono o Sheep Company of Rlverton,
Is in the Shoshoni hospital in II critical
condition is Il result of a series Of
clubbings given by A. Meraldo, IA Span
lard herder, at n sheep camp near
Monet. Meraldo came to Lander and
was picked up by City Marshal Tom
Ferret, while Sheriff L. Il. Gaylord and
his two deputies were securing the east
end of Fremont county looking for the
assailant.
Chester L. Cuff. the last remaining
member of one of the oldest families
in the Platte valley, was found dead
in his bed. at his ranch on North
Spring creek.
The body Of II. G.. NELL, travelling
salesman of Denver. who lost his life
xith over thirty others when Burling-
:on train No. 30 plunged into the flood
waters of Cole creek on September %
nst. vas recovered nj ParkcrtOn. ten
a,iles below the point where Cole
creek empties into the Platte river.
Although the body was In II bad state
u decomposition. Identification vas
nindc complete by the discovery of In
mrrnce and other papers found In the
pockets of the clothes.
At n conference of superintendent
from Crook, Weston, Sheridan, John