, 1926-03-10
Wyoming News
Epitomized

Carpenter, a rancher north of Powell.
Masons of Burns, Pine Bluffs, Hills
dale and other points in that vicinity,
held a meeting in Burns last week.
The program included a banquet at
the Hotel Burns.
Joseph Wilde. receiver of the Lin
gle State bank is paying a 10 per cent
dividend. This is the second dividend
the receiver has issued, the first hav-
ing been for IL per cent.
By a vote of 80 to Is, the high
schools of the state decided to make
permanent the rule barring pupils who
have been in school for eight semes-
tiers from high school athletics.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
is preparing to dismantle the Chicago
mine, an iron working about eight
miles from Guernsey and about a mile
from the big pen pit mine at Sunrise.
The %forerunner of what is expected
to become a general statewide move-
ment is seen by University alumni in
an announcement of the organization
of a students University Of Wyoming
club at Glenrock high school.
w. D. Sporty, recently fined 500
and sentenced to the jail for 100 days
for operating as a taxidermist without
a license. walked out of the county
jail at Laramie while a deputy sheriff
was talking to another prisoner.
To Rock Springs high school goes
the distinction of being the first high
school in the state to enter basketball
IN academic teams for the 1926 Uni
vcrsity OF Wyoming high school week
to be held at Laramie beginning
March 10.
The Union Pacific, in the interest
of greater tonnage per mile, Is running
engines of the Mallet type in the
freight service from Green River to
ogden, instead of taking them off at
Evanston and turning them around,
making a difference OF not to exceed
ten or twelve Iaborers at the Evanston
shops.
A governor OF state should not per-
nit appeals to sympathy TO obscure
his sense of responsibility to society
n cause the unrestrained use OF his
powers in granting clemency to Grim
inals, Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ross, Wyo-
ming's oma executive, said last
week in expressing her opinion Of par
doning convicts.
Sunrise is to have a new s45. 900
addition to the present school plant
A bond election was held recently
which carried by a large majority.
The building will include a large gym
nasium and several class rooms. Work
will be started this spring and the
building viii he ready for the OPENING
of school next September.
Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ross does not
contemplate interfering with the EIks
amateur boxing tournament. scheduled
for March 3, 4, 8 and C in Cheyenne,
but canno guarantee immunity from
Interference, she states in a letter to
d. f. Woodson, exalted ruler OF the
lodge. The matter. the governors let
ter says, is n for local authorities.
George Nottingham. special deputy
state examiner in charge Of the closed
shoshoni State bank, is preparing to
distribute checks settling in full So.
1879 of preferred claims against the
bank and paying a dividend Of 80 per
cent on other claims. The unpref3rred
claims which have been allowed total
S102.533.79. The bank closed about a
year ago when a fire destroyed a por-
ton OF its records. Harry Shad, cash
Ter OF the bank. recently was acquitted
OF embezzlement of funds of the bank.
The annual meeting OF the Wash
axle County Fair board was held in
Worland last week at which time
many important matters were dis
cussed and directors for the coming
year were elected. September Sth and
9th were set as the days for the fair
this year.
a. II. Smith. deputy in charge OF
the Dairy, GOOD and oil division OF the
state agriculture department. an
nounced the seizure OF 10000 pounds
Of cattle tankaFe feed at Wheatland.
wyo., on the charge OF the predict not
being up to standard. The ship mont
was from Denver.
Suits In equity were filed In the
United States District Court In Chey-
onne respectively by the government
In a tax suit against officers and
stockholders OF the dcfunct Farnum
OH and Gas Company OF Sheridan,
wyo.. and by the Cody Canal Irrlga.
ton district against the Lincoln Land
Company. The government alleged
that the Farnum Oh and Gas Company
in 1919 made an Illegal corporation
income and profits tax return OF ST..
i4f.42, alleging the tax liability OF the
company was Si7.ASt1i.