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LATE NEWS From All Over WYOMING Declaring that he had fired only after he himself had been held up and shot at, Millerino Cortino of Medicine Bow gave himself up to the police following the death of Andrese Vela, whom he is said to have shot through the heart. The action of the jury, which rendered a verdict of guilty, and the sen:ence Imposed by Judge C. O. Brown, presiding over the 1923 fall term of the District Court, in the case of Lynn 2 Skinner, tried for arson, was sus :ained in a decision handed down in Lusk by the Supreme Court of Wyoning. The total number of standardized schools in Platte county was increased O twenty-two with the award of standard plates to the Keas, Muir and Ayers schools in district 9, and the Waters, Jones-Hytrek and Sudbury schools in district 13. District 9 now eads the state in the number of standardized schools. Due to the serious outbreak of a lowl pest, which is sweeping over sevgral states, killing many fowls, a quarintine has been ordered against the importation of fowls by the state of Wyoning. The quarantine bars any shipnent of hens, roosters, capons, chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys and pigeons. The quarantine covers shipments into Wyoming from every state in the Union and the District of Columbia. The total value of Wyoming crops this year is estimated at $29,125,000, or $1,015,000 less than that of 1923, according to the annual crop report 18sued by the U. S. Division of Crops and Livestock estimates. The farm value for all crops is somewhat higher this year than last, but due to the ower yields of hay, the all important :rop, and corn and potatoes, the total value is lower. Statistics for 1924 show the petroleum Industry leads all other industries n Wyoming for the year just ended, although the production figures for the year did not quite equal the total output for 1923. Total production in the state for 1924, with the month of Derember estimated. is placed at 40,761,367 barrels. with an estimated valuadon of $191,571,425 after converted into refinery products. Hot ashes, carelessly placed in wooden containers or near combustible material, were responsible for more fires in Cheyenne during the year 1924 than any other one thing, according to the annual report of Fire Chief John W. Bates, which was made public by Mayor Allison last week. Hot ashes were responsible for twenty-four fires during the year, according to the report, with an approximate fire loss of $4,000. Two convicts at the Wyoming penitentiary at Rawlins became free through Christmas clemency exercised by Acting Governor Frank E. Lucas, on recommendations by the State Pardon Board. C. R. Pierce, sent up from Cheyenne In 1920 for from eight to ten years for automobile theft, was pardoned. Joe Omeye, sent up from Green River in 1920 to serve from twenty to twenty-one years for murder in the second degree, was paroled. B. Kelley has arrived in Torrington to take over the affairs of the First National bank as receiver. Beet checks have been returned to the farmers except in cases where the farmers had a note in the bank against them. M. F. Dalley was appointed assistant receiver. Joe Wilde of Lingle was appointed receiver for the Lingle State bank for six months without pay by Judge C. O. Brown. Joe McLonald, formerly cashier, was appointed assistant cashier. Receipts of the Natrona county clerk's office during the last year in filing fees and other perquisites amounted to $26,800, an increase over uo 000'9$ JO V 000'9$ JO 1928 operation of the office was turned over to the county treasurer by Alma Hawley, who retired as county clerk change the with
