, 1925-09-30
W O MING
For All. All For
w Y @ MIN

An old settlers reunion was held at
Guernsey September 1920.
Fremont County in general and the
Riverton valley In particular this yea
will produce many record yields Of
various farm products.
The r~eopening of the Lionkol com
pany's mine at Lionkol. Wyo., after
that mine had been idle for ten months,
heralds the arrival Of better times in
the coal industry In the Rock Springs
district.
Public cooperation is necessary In
putting down prohibition violators in
Wyoming and elsewhere. 1t was de-
clared by Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ross In
an address before the Mems brother.
hood Of Casper.
The number Of live stock brands In
use in Wyoming have decreased al
most half during the last ten years, &C
cording to Lee Moore, secretary of the
State Live Stock Commission. who Ia
now compiling a new brand book.
Wyoming now has 16,500,0 900 acres.
In round numbers. of Incorporated
land. or three-Quarters of a million
acres more than the total for last year.
It was announced In Cheyenne a few
days ago by Mart T. Christensen,
register of the United States Land
office.
Construction Of a new ten-room
school building at Midwest, home
camp of the Midwest Refining Com
pany. in the Salt Creek oil field, has
been authorized by the school board
and plans will be drawn at once. A
two-room addition will also be built
to the building at Salt Creek.
William Barbour Inc Michael Bah
czox will serve from one to ten years
in the state Industrial institute at
Worland as penalization for the theft
Of seven 100-pound sacks Of sugar
from a Colorado & Southern freight
car. They pleaded guilty when ar
raigned before Judge William A. Riner
In district court at Cheyenne.
Henry Hughes. colored. entered q
plea of guilty of murder in the second
degree In district court at Green River.
He was promptly sentenced to serve
not less than twenty years nor more
than twenty-five years at hard labor
in the state p~enitentiary at Rawlins.
Hughes Is 81 years of age, and the
sentence is regarded as practically a
life sentence.
Any person who can catch a buff
falo bull from the governments herd
In Yellowstone National park may
have him-if he pays the cost This
includes, besides express charges to
Its e home. an expense Of about $50
for Grating and transporting from the
buffalo range to Gardiner. Mont, the
shipping point. The government sold
eighty-six of Its surplus stock last ear
and this ear has about 100 more to
spare.
Doubt surrounding the burial Of
Merville Brandt, killed In France by a
German sh~arpshooter Sept. %. 1918.
while a member Of the American ex-
peditionary forces. was settled here
yesterday with the burial Of a body
positively identified as that Of Brandt
In the Laramie cemetery. and the send
Ing to Arlington cemetery. Washington.
of a body formerly supposed to have
been that Of Brandt. Of which the
Identity is not known.
The total production Of crude Pc
troleum In Wyoming In 1924 amounted
to IS. 49s. 900 barrels. a decrease Of T.
1856 900 barrels, according to figures
issued by the Bureau of Mines, De-
partment of Commerce. Wyoming now
is fifth In production among the other
oil producing states in the country.
having been surpassed In production
l 1..-lr- 49, 800. kx AaAu,A XUOn-
mins's estimated production in 1928
was 44.S63. 900 barrels.
Oliver Henry Wallop ST., Wyoming
cattle rancher. who became the eighth
earl of Portsmouth on the death Of his
elder brother In London Monday. will
forego the occupancy Of his family's
seat In the British house of lords
rather than give up his American
c%itixenship. The new British peel
stated at his ranch at Little Goose
canon near Sheridan that he was
positively determined not to relin-
quish his American citizenship In his
assumption Of fthe earldom.
"The taking in Of the Teton peaks
would not be SO Objectionable. II we
did not feel that this Ii merely an
entering wedge and that the @
move would be to n them with
the park as II nov stands" declares
A. A. Sanders. Wyoming fish and game
commissioner In a letter made public
on the question of the proposal to ex-
tend the boundaries Of Yellowstone
National park to include more terri
tory In Wyoming. notably In the Jack
son lake and hole country. In the let
ter from Horace M. Albright. super
intendent Of Yellowstone park. the
commissioners says: There are no
Wyoming interests at stake in amy
way. shape or form.