, 1925-04-29
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schools competing.
Thomas F.. Doyle of Douglas has
been appointed secretary of the Wyo-
ming State Fair by Commissioner of
Agriculture A. ID. Faville.
Headquarters troop of the 18th cav
airy at Laramie was called recently
by Governor Ross to fight a forest fire
near Laramie which threatened to
spread to the forest reserve.
Organization of the Natrona Coun-
ty P~oultrymen's Association was per-
fected at II well attended meeting at
Casper last week. The following were
elected officers for the first year: Il.
A. West, president Mrs. c.. A. Spring
teen, vice president c. A. Fowler. sec
rotary.
The Rock Springs-Green River road
was the scene recently of another ia
tai accident, when a car being driven
by Mrs. John Burning, toppled owe a
thirty-foot embankment, resulting in
the death, several hours later, of Mrs.
G. E. Moffitt of Rock Springs, who
was a passenger in the car.
Basin has been selected as the site
of the state tuberculosis s%anatorium
should the people of the community
desire to meet the requirements stipu-
lated by the State Board of Charities
and Reform in placing the sanatorium
at Basin instead of at Lowell, il was
announced at Cheyenne last week.
With the discovery of a new angle
In the investigation of the case that
has involved the placing of two state
law enforcement agents as guards
around the mansion of Governor Mel
lie 7. Ross, the state agents were tax
en- from this work to work on the new
clue in the case. 1t was declared In
Cheyenne by NJ. C. Wachtel, state law
enforcement commissioner.
The resignation Of Frank S. Smith
as state game and fish commissioner
was presented to Governor Nellie L.
Ross before the time set for the hear
ing before the governor of the
charges that were contained in the
complaint filed asking for Smiths re-
moval from office. A. A. Sanders was
Immediately appointed by Governor
Ross to the place vacated by Smith.
International fame was showered up
on the Sheridan Rifle Club with the
announcement from Washington, ID. c.,
that Its five-man team-shooting In
competition with 100000 snarpshoot-
ers from every section of the United
States-had not only won the national
15-foot lndoor gallery championship
for 5000 points. but had shattered the
worlds record by more than thirty
points.
Announcement was made to the
Lions Club of Rock Springs last week
that. effective April 10. the air mail
field near Rock Springs would be-
come only n flight stop. where planes
may land and take on gas and ex-
change mail. Pilots who have been
flying between Rock Springs and Salt
Lake and Rock Springs and Cheyenne
will have their flights extended from
Salt Lake City to Cheyenne. and as n
consequence, no pilots vii be sta
TONED at Rock Springs permanently.
The little frontier TOWNSHIP of Salt
Creek-sitllted on the fringe of the
oil field bearing the same name and
serving rs the northern terminal for
the operated portion Of the North 4
South railroad-sprang INTO promi-
nence n few days 6 as initial steps
were taken to carry out the $1.2S7, 900
Judgment rendered last winter In the
District Court ut Buffalo against the
railroad company, Its receivers and Its
curities Corporation, In favor Of the
contracting firm Of Roberts Bros, Pc
terson, Shirley & Gunther. general
contractors for the road.
TIL Industrial Employment Survey
report for March. issued from the of
flee of the U. S. Employment Service
Of the U. s.. Department OF Labor at
Denver, Colo. states that active and
diversified out-of-door activities In
Wyoming will soon be the cnuse OF In
creased employment. thereby cnusing
a gradual absorption of the existing
surplus of chiefly unskilled labor. The
lambing season. to commence about
the middle of April. will cause EN-.
ployment for n few weeks to several
hundred men, for which sufficient la
Dor is available locally. Industrial
plants are running steadily with suf-
flcient labor available. Building Is re-
viving with favorable weather. caus-
Ing absorption OF the moderate surplus
Of building mechanics. Municipal I'm
provement work, general and highway
construction will also be considerably
more active In the men future. A de-