, 1924-02-13
LATE NE VS.
From All Over
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e' Vi the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, the first man In Wyoming ever to
nave beer so honored. Pope is Il mem
Der of Custer post in Laramie.
Ellie Simms, a negro, who killed his
white wife at Sheridan, and was Mt
erward declared insane, leaped from
the window of n n OF n passenger
tram running nearly sixty miles an
hour, near Fort Steel, while being tax
en- to the state asylum for the criminal
insane at Evanston, and Is thought TO
have made his escape.
Superintendent York and Coach
Hoadley of Guernsey went to Wheat
land last week to attend u meeting of
the county schools at which 1t was def
lnitely decided to hold the annual
Platte county school fair and track
meet at Guernsey this year. the date
to he decided upon as 1901 us the time
set for the state meet is learned.
According to reports from the air
service branch of the War Department
Lusk Is to have an emergency landing
field. When this will be authorized OF
laid out Is not yet known in this com
munity, but this week n map was re-
ceived from the office of the director
of air service which shows Lusk and
the prospective location of the landing
field.
Alabama Slim Mitchell, who has a
police record in Casper. and Frank
Miller, antecedents unknown, were
shot dead, and Deputy Sheriff james
Thompson of Bonneville was wounded
in a u battle at Lysite, eighty miles
west of Casper, word of the battle be-
ing brought to Casper by Charles Irv-
ing, former Casper policeman, who was
with Thompson.
If the plans for a bank that have
been in progress go through, Rock
River will have a state bank in oper-
alton some time during the first of
February. Linn Frazier of Fowler,
Kas., and E. Z. McReynolds OF Mon
tezuma, Kas., are the men who are
putting the bank across, n have
their local organization completed and
n charter from the state to do "A gen
eral banking business will be applied
for.
AT the meeting of the Lowell Rifle
Club the following new officers were
elected tor the ensuing year: Leslie
Walters, president; Dan Olsen, vice
president; Thos Wilder, secretary
treasurer; Charles Beall, execu-
tive officer. The membership OF the
local club was increased considerably
at the meeting and many matters OF
Importance were discussed, chief of
which vas the coming state shoot
which will be held in Lowell this year
A banquet and smoker was held al
the Globe hotel at Wheatland with D.
J. Roach Of Fort Collins, representing
the Great Western Sugar Company f.
B. Mitchell. superintendent Of the Colo
RADIO & Southern Railroad Company of
Denver, and twenty-five suger beet
growers Of Wheatland, guests OF the
Wheatland Chamber of Commerce.
This meeting was In the interest of a
movement for a sugar factory at
Wheatand, to be in operation for the
eason of 1925.
Joseph NJ. Carey, 10 years old. for
mer governor Of Wyoming, died at his
home In Cheyenne, following a pro-
tracted illness. He had been an out
standing figure in this states devel-
opment and political history for the
last fifty-five years. He was the only
citizen of the state who had been gov
n and father of a governor. Joseph
NJ. Carey was the first United states
n ttnrnar fpr fhn tarritnr,. 90 NT,n,,X.,
in 1860. Later he served as Justice of
the territorial supreme bench. He was
mayor of Cheyenne for three terms.
NJ. d. McClafferty, a shooter en-
ployed by the Independent Torpedo
Company, was blown to pieces when
the nitro-glycerin magazine of the com
pany In the Lance Creek oil field, 100
miles east Of Casper, blew up while
he was inside. McClafferty had gone
from Casper to the Lance Creek field
to jar loose some frozen" castings in
a Buck creek oil company well. He
was in the magazine house for some
extra nitro when the blnst occurred.
McClafferty's body was blown into
hundreds of pieces.
Marked by exhibits OF high quality,
although few in numbers, the second
annual Wyoming Potato Show, held ut
Pine Bluffs, showed concluslvely that
Wyoming Is forging to the front as a
producer Of certified seed potatoes.
Emphasis, both ut the exhibit and ut
the meetings of potato growers, vas
placed upon the growing of potatoe.
for seed, although excellent table
stock WINS shown also. Goshen county
was awarded the first premium for It's
exhibit Of potatoes, with Laramie
county second and Niobrara third.
Poultry and seed corn vas also shown
at the mid-winter exhibition but the
proposed hog show vas called off by
the committee In charge.
Federal prohibition agents and the