, 1924-04-09
LATE NE VS.
From All Cuer
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Report has been received in Rock
springs that with the coming of spring,
increased activity in development work
S taking place in the Lost Soldier
field, located in northeastern Swee.
water county.
Work on the 18TH Cavalry armory
At Wheatland was resumed when II
'orce of men arrived from Lowell to
complete the structure. According to
the foreman in charge about two more
weeks will be required to complete the
work.
c. Watt Brandon of Sheridan, Wyo.,
las been appointed Wyoming's man
lger of the Coolidge p"reconvention
campaign. The announcement was
made by William NJ. Butler, national
manager of the Coolidge forces, at na
ional headquarters in Chicago.
Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, United
States navy, and Albert l.. Watts, vice
president of the Sinclair Consolidated
Oil Company, receivers of the Teapot
Dome Naval Oil Reserve, pending the
outcome of litigation for annulment Of
he lease of the Mammoth Oil Com
pany, have taken charge of the reserve
under order of the United States Court
for Wyoming.
That Fred Van Gordon, Casper In
March 16 in Douglas as Il result OF II
yunshot wound inflicted by the sheriff
Of Converse county while acting in per.
Torrance of his duty was the verdict
returned by a coroner's jury in the in
quest at Douglas. Van Gordon killed
mis- wife and son March 10 and dumped
their bodies into the river.
Herman Daniels, charged with the
theft of seven horses from C. T. Far
thing of Fremont county, was acquit-
ted by a jury in the District Court at
Laramie. Bert Vetters, the supposed
leader of a gang of horse thieves oper-
ating in Albany county, Wyoming, and
Larimer county, Colorado, and SEN
fenced to the state prison at Rawlins,
was brought down to testify against
Daniels. The horses will be returned
to Farthing.
Residents Of the town of Lavoye,
whose rights to occupy land in the
Salt Creek oil field is under dispute,
may rest assured that no custer or
ders will be carried u within the next
year, according to their counsel, who
has just returned to Casper from
Washington where he argued the case
again before the Interior Department,
as representative of tie Lavoye Town
site Association.
Lewis Carr Butler, former vice pres
ldent Of the First National Bank of
Rock River, Wyo.. was sentenced to
serve fifteen months in the federal
p~enitentiary at Leavenworth for mis-
appropriation of funds of the defunct
bank Sentence was pronounced by
Judge T. Blake Kennedy at Cheyenne
Immediately after he overruled II mo-
| ton for n new trial. Butler filed II pc
tition for n writ of error, and provided
$4,000 bond.
Wyoming cattle and sheep, with 102
and 1903 per cent, respectively, stand
second in the list of western states IN
condition, according to the report is
sued by the United States Department
Of Agriculture, division of crop and live
stock estimates, made public Il few
days ago. The condition of the WyO-
ming range stands well toward the
front in the report, a 30 being regis
tered. This per cent represents n good
Increase over IA month ago and over
the same time IL year ago.
Eighty thousand head of lambs have
been contracted for fall delivery to
Colorado feeders by the flOckmasters
of Natrona county, according to an.
nouncement in Casper of the Casper
National Bank, which said an average
price of S10.S0 would be realized by
the sheepmen. This is the first spring
that lambs have been contracted be-
fore the arrival of the lambing senson
since the slump in the sheep market
| The lamb crop of Natrona county, 1t is
| estimated, will bring $2.O00,0O0.
Beware of all earth roads in Wyo.
ming for Il while yet, is the warning
Of the State Highway Commission. The
large amount of precipitation has rcn'
etrated the ground so far and the
frost has been so heavy that some
earth roads are .quagmires as the warm
winds begin to blow, 1t is said. The
graveled roads are all right and the
highway department will use every
means in Its power to make the earth
roads so soon as the weather permits,
Nearly every rond in Wyoming has
sections that are earth and therefore
extra cautions must be taken by traf'
fc to avoid trouble Mt these places.
Frank II. Toy, former sheriff OF
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