, 1925-02-04
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From All Crer
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Fish and Game Protective Association
was held in Lander January 20.
Robert ID. Carey, former governor
or Wyoming and present chairman of
the Presidents agricultural fact-find-
ing commission, appears a likely Sc
lection for the secretaryship of agri.
culture after March 4, next.
f. ID. Agee, at one time with the
S%hoshone National forest, as assistant
supervisor, has been appointed super
visor of the Big Horn national fores,
where he succeeds John w. Spencer,
who goes into the district office AT
Denver.
Iva May Kenatsher Noble of San
Diego, a former Sheridan girl, is bach
In Sheridan TO prove she is alive. BY
that proof she hopes to effect a con.
struction of the will left by her faith.
er, Jacob Kenatsher, old-timer, whose
death took place here in 1922, that will
give her a half interest in his estate
of approximately $4,000.
AS the result of Gov. Nellie Tayloe
Ross pronouncement against prohibi-
ton law violations, patrons of soft
drink parlors are having their drinks
closely scrutinized by minions of the
law. Additional enforcement officers
and newly-sworn deputy sheriffs are
standing guard ut all soft drink dis
pensaries, pool halls and billiard par
lors.
Tho CtntA I,-u 80 I,a,,
concluded its 1925 convention at Their.
mopolis last week, where over thirty
carpenters, representing locals over
the state were in attendance. The
last order of business was selecting a
convention city for 1926, and Rock
Springs was the %favorite, in which
city the carpenters convention will be
held a year hence.
"Resolved That Life Imprisonment
With Restricted Power of Pardon on
the Part of the Executive Should Re
place Capital Punishment Through
out the United States" will be the
subject Of an inter-scholastic debate
between Sheridan and Buffalo teams
at Buffalo Feb. IA, according to an
nouncement made by J. J. Marshall,
principal of the Sheridan High school.
The four remaining banks in the
city of Sheridan and the National
Surety Company, n New York corpor-
alton. failed in their attempts to es-
tablish priority claims against the de-
funct Citizens State bank when Judge
james H.. Burgess handed down n rul-
Ing in District Court hat neither the
banks nor the surety company were
entitled to preference over other
creditors.
Crude oil production in Wyoming
for 1924 will total approximately 49,
100000 barrels. Output will fall
short of last year because of the de-
crease of production in Salt Creek.
Total value of refinery products in
Wyoming for 1924 will approximate
500, 100000. For the first time in
the history of the Rocky Mountain
region, the refining capacity in this
territory exceeds the daily produc-
ton.
The skeleton of a man recovered
lIOIn ,olt ice lust Ntth hdS btth
Identified as that of Edward ]. Spang-
Ter, engineer of the Burlington pas
senger train which plunged into the
flood waters of the stream Sept. 81,
1923, carrying more than thirty per-
sons to their deaths. A bridge gang
engaged in the construction of n new
span across Cole creek, found the
h.nna aud flnntf ffnatfnn usa mazda Inv
a watch imbedded in the sediment
clinging to them.
The Wyoming State Farm Bureau,
completing Its annual session in Lara
ME, to meet at Laramie in January,
1925, in connection with the extension
service and the boys and girls club
work, ut the University of Wyoming,
elected the following officers: ii. j.
King, Laramie, president Walter
Warren, RIverton, vice president
Thomas ]. Brought, Lyman, secretary
and l.. A. Watson, Laramie,
and Mrs. Lettie Campbell, star valley
directors. the five constituting the
executive committee.
Feb. 2l-22 are the dates which have
been set for the first annual Pinedale
dog derby and winter sports carnival.
The affair will be under the auspices
OF the PInednle Commercial Club.
Pinedale Is 102 miles north of Rock
Springs and can be reached only by
the Rock Springs lnedale highway ut
this time of the year. This road will
be dragged by tractors on the dry
previous to the opening Of the dog
races so that only an unusually heavy
snow storm on the preceding night
will prevent Wyoming people from mo-
toring to this event by way OF Rock
Springs.
The Lander High school stock judg-
ing team and the Wheatlnnd High
school corr and potato judging team
divided high honors at the high school
livestock and agronomy contests at
the University OF Wyoming. Fourteen
teams were entered In the livestock