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# SHORT WYOMING NEWS ITEMS Lieut. Col. James Longstreet of the Thirteenth cavalry regiment died of heart failure at Fort D. A. Russell while participating in a cavalry review. Colonel Longstreet plunged from his horse and was dead when picked up. The Sheridan County Fair will be held in Sheridan September 4, 5 and 6. Twelve thousand dollars in prizes and premiums are to be awarded. The fair board has opened permanent headquarters in the court house, with C. S. Mills in charge as secretary. Old Faithful, Yellowstone's most famous geyser, has slightly changed the period of its eruptions. According to the observations of the park naturalist and the rangers, the geyser now spouts on an average every 64.6 minutes. Last year the average period was sixty minutes. Frank Kitzenberger, who has led the life of a hermit for thirty years on squatters' land near Sheridan, ended the lives of his four horses and then turned a gun on himself. His body was found lying among the carcasses of the animals. Little is known of Kitzenberger. He was believed deranged. Five cooks and waiters, shipped to Casper from Omaha by an employment agency of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, were mistaken for shopmen's strike breakers and thrown out of the laborers' camp by railroad employés. Two were beaten and all handled roughly until the situation was explained. David Alplanalp, lessee of the Holden ranch at Fontenelle, was bound over to the District Court in the Justice of the Peace Court at Kemmerer, after a preliminary hearing on the charge filed by F. J. Pomeroy of having tampered with the brands of ten head of sheep belonging to the latter and being run by Orval Allen. Marjorie, the 18-months-old daughter of air. and Mrs. B. A. Millard of Lander, was drowned when she fell into a rain barrel. The child was playing about the home unnoticed by its parents. When it did not appear for several minutes a search was started and the baby's body found pitched head first in several gallons of water. W. M. Palmer, Casper plumber, and Thomas O'Donnell, drayman, were burned to death on the Yellowstone highway near Casper, when the automobile in which they were riding turned over and caught fire. Court Martin and C. A. Baughan were less seriously injured and were able to crawl from beneath the car when it turned turtle. Copies of the program and rules of the Wyoming State Fair, which will be held at Douglas Sept. 12, 13, 14 and 15 under the direction of the State Board of Charities and Reform, are being received from Secretary Otto H. Bolln. The program this year Includes a larger number of divisions and prizes than ever before. In addition to the program the book contains a brief review and history of Wyoming written by State Immigration Commissioner Charles S. Hill. J. C. Stewart, cashier of the First National bank of Basin, has instituted suit in District Court for $10,000 damages against S. J. Hardison, manager of the E. G. Lewis Oil Company. The petition alleges that the defendant made defamatory statements regarding the plaintiff in Casper, Wyo., relative to the closing of the Big Horn bank at Basin sometime since, alleging that the plaintiff was responsible for the failure. The case will be tried at the next term of court at Basin. A last word in publicity is being gotten out by the Frontier Days committee this year in announcing the "Daddy of them all" here the last week in July. The advertising consists of a button telling of the big celebration in addition to the automobile banners already gotten out. "Dismissed-defendant deceased." This entry on the docket of the District Court of Lincoln county ended the case of Mrs. Annie Richey, the only woman convicted in Wyoming of cattle "rustling." This was the date on which Mrs. Richey was to have been arraigned for re-sentencing to from one to six years in the penitentiary. She was murdered, however, late in May. Guilty of harboring wheat rust, is the verdict of Aven Nelson, president of the University of Wyoming at Laramie, who recently inspected the barberry hedge at City park in Cheyenne. Dr. Nelson was invited to give his judgment of the shrubbery by the city commisioners of Cheyenne when many complaints were received that the barberry was a detriment to the wheat crop raised in Laramie county. The hedges will be removed
