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and the additional valuation will in
crease the of the county by
several thousand dollars.
Plans for a rOdeO to be staged In
Casper in August are being laid by
Walter A. Allen with a full program Of
wild west events. Definite announce
ment has not been made and hinges In
part. it is said on difficulties linked
with last years financial failure.
Lusk is hoping to become the mother
town of the cheese making industry in
Wyoming. Considerable attention has
been given to dairying In Niobrara
county OF late and Is producing enough
milk to attract the attention Of cheese
makers, who are contemplating the
opening of u factory at Lusk.
Mrs. William Thorn, about IS years
Of age. living with her husband and
three children five miles east of Car
lille, committed suicide by drinking
carbolic acid. Ill health Ii assigned az
the motive for her rash act. She had
been II sufferer from leakage Of the
heart for the past two years and had
become very Respondent.
Roy E. M~endenhall died Mt a Casper
hospital of a bullet wound received at
the hands of his wife, following q
quarrel ut their home. Mendenhall was
shot through the forehead. the bullet
he died without regainlng conscious
ness. Self-defense was given as the
reason for the shooting by Mrs. Men
denhall after she was taken to the
City jail.
Great Indignation was being evinced
and feeling ran high In Rock Springs
against Victor Nurni, arrested after
he had run down and killed Charles
Jackson, 5 yenrs old. while driving his
automobile when alleged to have been
drunk on his return from q picnic ut
Green River. The boy was mangled
and died two hours after he wa
struck by the automobile of Nurmi. OF
ficers say that Nurmi still was drunk
when arrested after he had run over
the boy.
President c. E. Carlstrum, Of the
Laramie County Fair Association, has
appointed the following committees to
be in charge Of the various depart
ments of fair work during the 1924
fair: Premium book, G. c. Reed, L. L
Rosenbalm and c. A. Gray ndvertis-
ing. G. Z. Beyerle, G. G. Reed; agri-
cultural premiums. William Pettegrew.
william Kruger, George wuif; sports,
@. A. Grey. C. c. Gross. !. NJ. Schopf;
finance, G. E. Caristrum. G. G. Reed.
c. G. Gross, 1. L. Rosenbalm.
Filing of two suits, In amounts total
ing $4,000 against the Sheridan Gas
and Fuel Company was announced In
Sheridan by NJ b. Camplin, who said
he represented Charles G. Tinker, adj
ministrator of the estate OF w. II.
Tinker and Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncey
Walker. who were found dead In their
home Dec. 20 last MS the result of the
breaking Of a gas feeder linz under the
house. Charles Tinker Is the son of
w. Fl. Tinker and brother of Mrs.
Walker.
The Consolidated OIL Fields Corpor-
alton Of Colorado. recently organized
with an authorized capitalization of
S1.OOO.0OO and Al u close corporation
having no stock for sale, has just COM
n contract with the Wyoming
UInta OIL Company and taken over the
holdings Of the latter company on the
Dome according to advices he
In Kemmerer. Arrangements
are now being made to complete u test
well on the southeast quarter of sec
tion 2. township II. north. range 1I0
west.
A party Of Ohio OIL Company Off
including r. f. Hurley, vice
president John McFadyen, manager, |
md G. J. Hares, chief geologist, visited
Rex Dome oil field near Laramie
with NJ. ID. Woolery, manager of the To-
office OF that company. The Ohio
has completed M well and IL drilling
two more In that field. and the lntima-
ton Is that, when the exploration IL
finished, the field will prove moro pro-
life than ever the Rock Creek field.
now supplying the two Standard refln-
ut Laramie.
The County Assessors Association
At Thermopolis. Wyoming in closing Its
hfth annual convention went on record
n favor Of the issuance OF state auto
mobile licenses by the counties, md
The collection Of taxes on AUTOS ut the
time licenses are issued. The recon-
Is based on the claim TINT
a larSe percentage of automobiles es-
rnpe assessment for a purposes and
nrc not paid on Il still larger per-
Of cars owned md operated
throughout the year. The association
also urged legislation which would
conflicting dates named In
state laws for beginning MS
sessment work.