, 1924-06-18
LATE NE VS.
From All OUer
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at RawlinS several days ago, was cap
tured neal Torrington, after he had
been shot in the leg by Sheriff o.. j.
Collyer of Goshen county.
Caught after a running chase, Har-
vey Buckner, recently an applicant for
a position on the Cheyenne police
force, was arrested and placed in Jail
on charges Of uttering and passing
forged instruments on Cheyenne mer-
chants.
The body of Guy w. Golf, of Chey-
enne, conductor of Inflated Burlington
passenger train No. 80, which plunged
into the flood waters of Coal creek
on September 81 last, with a loss of
forty lives, was recovered recently
from the Platte river.
william Urbach of Denver has been
employed as secretary of the Young
Mems Christian Association at the
University of Wyoming for the com
ing year. He will come August l and
have charge of the local Boy Scouts
In the Snowy range early in that
month.
Motor mail route A that starts out
of Torrington on July 1, is Il daily
route six days in the week n overs
a distance of about %sixty-one miles.
1t goes from Torrington up Cherry
creek, passes through Cottier, turns
east north of Yoder, goes to Huntley,
then Allen and into Torrington.
G~uernsey's big summer event this
year will be the North Platte Valley
Highway picnic, which will be held
at Guernsey on June %, when all the
boosters from the entire length of the
valley will drive over this highway to
view the scenic attractions along the
route, winding up at Guernsey.
j.. d. Collins, driver of an automo-
bile which figured in a collision on
the Yellowstone highway on Novem-
Der 3 last, is defendant in a suit for
S1,1O0 damages filed by G. G. Clark.
who charges that Collins was driving
at a high rate of speed with his lights
undimmed. Clark says his car was
ruined in the smashup.
H.. Roe (Chief) Bartle, Boy Scout ex-
ecutive of Casper and song leader for
the Casper Lions Club, has received APP
pointinent as, chief song leader at the
Lions international convention at
Omaha on June % to &c. Bartle will
appear in the regalia to be worn by all
Wyoming and Montana Llons-four-
gallon hat and boots. with the added
ap%purtenance of n pair of hairy chaps.
He Is over six feet tall and weighs 265
pounds.
1t is understood hat the contract
for the Wheatland beet spur was let
in Denver a few days ago. This con
tract calls for grading and t~racklay-
ing. No doubt the grading will be
sub-let in Wheatland. The spur is to
be completed by October L. A com
mittee from the Chamber of Commerce
at Wheatland, who have been solic-
lting acreage for 1928 on this spur,
report that they have more than
doubled the acreage for this year.
A permanent camp for Boy Scouts
Of Casper and neighboring communi-
ties was practically completed in a
little more than five hours time at
~Careyhurst, when nearly 100 carpen-
ters, member of the Casper Carpen-
ters' union. volunteered their services
struction of ten cabins and part Of a
large camp lodge building. Because
Of the services of these carpenters.
Camp Carey, which is the permanent
camp OF the Casper Boy Scouts, is to
become IN actuality within the rext
few weeks. The camp site was do
mated by Robert d. Carey, former gov
ernor Of the state.
Ohio OIL Company has been forced
to abandon Its No. 2 well on the Rex
Lake dome neal Laramie, where n
string of casing was recently lost be-
low the 3,20O-foot level. Part OF the
3,0OO-foot string was recovered and
fishing continued for three weeks be-
fore 1t was decided to give up the
hole.
e. j. Black, n of six men in an
automobile accident n fortnight ago
just west OF Laramie. at what Is
known as Dead Mans Curve died
a few days ago. His back was frac-
tured by the overturning OF the car.
The driver was travelling rapidly and
claims to have been blinded by the
glare of light Of an automobile In the
opposite direction and left the road at
the curve.
Mrs. y. f. Wheelock is ut the Doug
las hospital suffering from n COM
pound fracture above her left knee,
sustained In an accident which &C.
Cured on the Yellowstone highway
three miles west Of Glenrock recently.
Mrs. wheelock. who was driving her
car, failed to notice n sharp turn In
the road and the cur went over n steep
embnnkment, turning over several
times.