Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 4, 1919, Page 5

MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1919 aily &r tine SOLON GIA JUMPS I AIVER. HUTISRESCUED | } Attempted Suicide of Girl Bereft) of Reason Is Frustrated by Autoists at Worland Riv | er Crossing | ————— | WORLAND, Wyo., Aug. 4.—Suf- fering from mental affliction that baffled local physicians, Betty Har-| ris, of Longmont, Colo., who was| staying at the Dorman hotel here,| scribbled a note to relatives and| friends, bidding them goodbye, and then proceeded to the river bridge} where she plunged into the deep wa-! ter. Men from a party of autoists who drove on the bridge as she jump-| ed plunged in after her and rescued r oo = ye ie rr - res e " IT’S A GREAT LIFE IF YOU DON’T WEAKEN —By Jack Rabbit VTS VERY BAD FoR DIGESTION ) SHOULDNT | BAT WHILE ANGRY OF EXCiTeED — ALL RIGHT! THEN STOP “TELLING ME \TS A_GREAT LIFE \IF you DONT WEAKEN WHAT THE STUFF Buford. S. L. Smith of Mitchell, Neb., was awarded the grading contract on the $100,000 WORTH OF CONTRACTS LIQUOR SEED BY STATE. 2.egar .ema with the various railroads, to the end of eliminating as many as possible of the grade crossings in the state. her. She was restored to conscious-| Lingle-Torrington highway in Goshen Malcolm & Bromeley are at present ad n rior to th ate ness by respiratory measures contin-| county at an estimated cost of $3 rking on their contract with the ft] THERMOPOLIS iS AONE : ued over an hour. : - | 000, and the Levy Construction com te in Niobrara county on the Lusk- ve a na o pr t A few days previous the girl dis-| pany of Denver was awarded the Torrington highway. intr f iading and the railroad played similar signs of a mental lapse | contract to construct the culverts and A conditional award for the con- lf CONTENTION IN COP : y declined to relense the ship by wandering about the hills for sey- drainage structures at an estimated struction of four and one-half miles t ur s « eral days without a bite to eat. She} cost of $11,000. The Lingle-Tor- of the Sheridan-Dietz highway was ie m settled. T was returned to Longmont where her | rington highway is the principle high- made to J Johnson of Sheridan r r i n parents are caring for her. | 4 way of Goshen county, the importance The condition involved in this con ate of Wy . c = of this improvement has long been tract was the awaiting receipt of ad- lestr » eff 1 ; z ,_\ realized by the highway commission vice that the county commissione h. a ew SLUMPS PUZZLING, HIT Provision Is Made for Highway Improvements in Sheni- and a number of the commission of Sheridan county he rohibitic eized | $ $ have expressed themselves as consid- to the 6 y neces- which bec { BASEBALL GLUBS ONLY. dan, Albany, Goshen and Hot Springs Counties Days, Syosset themselves as co i ree (aaa ernie atic | : ze ing able to get this contract under estimated at $45 MH be institute r re 6 " e | at Last Meeting of Commission = sar cove Ith Ur penn tage Deools oe ‘ } The Hot Springs county contract the construction of the neces- at Thermopolis within a /« ‘ un statute are ex- | The state highway commissioners last week approved con- W88 awarded to D. R, Malcom of sary drainage structures, one of!of the t p sebosae = tracts totaling $150,000 upon the highways of the state, all of Meng aad ee pt pt a ate “idg ae bent iow) cet f ¢ tt = : : BS . ti s = © gra g and concrete e- erete bridge e@ commission re- o cigh on GRR pee ie oe comered witha the next 60 dave. vallace, a fUtnct an estimated cost of $30,000, ceived bids for both steel and. con hi as th f th (United Press Staff Correspondent.) | 4; ‘Si f C. mission, Mr. W. iH. Wallace, a This work is the beginning of the con- crete bridges for this project, and) vas in t NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—Slumps, it| lirector of the SI eridan sommercial Club, presented a peti-| templated improvement of this high- approved the concrete type as more compan " o seems, strike only baseball clubs. | tion to the commission asking that the 16-foot width of pave- way and covers approximatey one- adap to the present future needs | sot held by t ompany with int > Other lines of athletic effort ere|mert on the Sheridan-Big Horn road, half the distance from Thermopolis and also at approximately $6,000 less|to violate but merely be : re sine singularly free from long periods of|now under construction, be extended | the amount of improvements planned | of Lucerne. Plans are now under expense to the state cause delivery He depression. to the total length of eight miles at, for this season, as the city of Den- way for the completion of this pro- The Sh« n-Dietz highway has | be reve y v You find the boxer with an off | full width of 16 feet, instead of five| ver and the Colorado state road com- ject and the commission is at pres- been under consideration for several! protect the bill of lading covering night when he doesn’t show to great|miles at 16-foot width and three, Mission was unable to procure any ont negotiating with the Burlington months ; nd with the assurance the merchs The contention " advantage; you find the same thing| miles at 10-foot width, as is now pro- bids upon the desired work in that | railway for the construction of an of a clear title to the right of way the be made, it is said, that under thes ! blisher in sprinters; oarsmen; jumpers, and| vided. It was deemed advisable by city and state, as well as the fact over-head crossing three and one-half actual construction will be pushed to circumstances the ° tace hors: But it is the result of|the commission that the additional | that the Minnesota state road board miles north of Thermopolis which will gompletion. State Highway Superin- transit and ot | the lea r over-training, which makes the man| $30,000, with which this extra width| has been also unable to induce the eliminate a dangerous grade cross- tendent D. S. McCelman has stated to the operation of the Wy t reles or the animal stale only for the time|of pavement would cost, be spent on Various contractors to bid upon the ing The commission s numerous that every effort will be made to, y | ~ being. He comes back very quickly|s8ome other road in Sheridan county. ‘ines of work offered. ether projects und consideration rapidly comp! this quor shipment f A Littie wantad will sell it and ordinarily the staleness lasts| Mr, Wallace also presented a peti-,_ Owing to the exceptional increases for a single performance. Baseball clubs often sprint along at high speed for a month, winning great majority of their games, and| mission as a state highway. tion that the Big Goose road running into the Big Horn mountains from Sheridan be taken over by the com- This then, suddenly growing listless, they| petition was also disapproved by the begin to falter. Pitchers go wrong, hitters fail to deliver, base running becomes putrid, the men play stupid baseball, and, to make things worse, the luck of the game, always counted as a great factor, turns ever against| possible, arrangements would be awarded the contract for the con- them. aitab made with the Federal bureau of pub-/ struction of one 24-foot concrete There have been two occasions | lic roads to furnish the remaining 50 ‘bridge upon the’ same road at an es- | of this during the present American league season, Early in the season the White Sox broke out ahead and cantered along in front for several weeks. Suddenly things began to go wrong, and be- fore Kid Gleason could get sand on the runway, the Sox had skidded out of the leadership. No sooner had they taken a brace commission, who, however, agreed that if Sheridan county furnish 25 | per cent of the funds necessary to reconstruct this highway, the state | would furnish 25 per ¢ent, and if per cent. A petition was presented by Mr. P. F. Jenkins of Cora on behalf of the residents of Sweetwater county, that a state road be approved and es- tablished from Rock Springs through Eden, Northfork, Pinedale and Cora to = connection with the present road now being constructed by the nat- ional forestry department via Hoback ‘in the cost of road building material and labor the contracts awarded ap- ‘pear of an advanced figure over the {cost of this class of construction of two years ago. | In Albany county, Ames & Braisted of Laramie were awarded the grading contract of two and one-half miles of the Laramie-East road, and the Levy Construction company of Denver was }timated cost of $6,000. In addition to the contract awarded yesterday, Ames & Braisted also have the con- tract for grading on the Telephone canyon improvement and this firm will now be working on approximately 11 miles of Albany county highways. The new contract completes sections 1 and 2 of the contemplated work on the Laramie East highway and connects the of Laramie with rad ‘than the Yankees started a trip west,| canyon into Jackson Hole, in Lincoln city whish proved so disastrous that with-| county. Mr. Jenkins was accompa-|the Telephone Canyon road which is in a space of six days they had relin-/ned by Messrs. W. E. Enos of |rapidly nearing completion. The com- hnuished the leadership of the Johnson) Daniel, J. Jones of Pinedale, L. H. mission proposes to construct Section parade and had sunk into second) Henck of Pinedale and C, E. Howell 3 early this fall, which when com- place. The White Sox seized the op-| of Eden. pleted will provide an improved road portunity and again sprang out ahead.) From the information available, the | of easy grades and permanent bridges Neither of these clubs is entitled| commission is considered very fortu-| from Laramie east to the county line, to share in criticism that goes witn| nate in being able to, get under way'one and one-half miles east of weak clubs. Either is fully meet tl ap cal of representing the American league 5 =a Now Is a Good Time og in a world’s series. As an aggrega-| tion the Yankees are the stronger,| but the genius of Kid Gleason and his} y-die spirit has made the Sox| practically their equals. | Miller Huggins has rounded up a} sparkling pitching staff that failed him at a critical moment. Gleason's! pitching staff was shy a man or £o and when a couple of them began to! break he had no reserves to bring} up. | What breaks or makes slumps is} @ mystery even to the ball players. Strong hitters have walked to the} plate in throes of these off-periods, | met the ball hard, only to drive it) right at a fielder, and then walked discontentedly after the drink of water, which, with ball play-| ers, is expected to drive away batting! jinxes. Then suddenly one day, the} hits begin to arrive again and the} slump is off. | Baseball players become very tem- peramental and it is probably due| to this that they allow slumps to hold them tight. Strenuous measures have been adopted many times by big league managers to disillusion their) men. John McGraw once hired a! man to drive up and down in front of the Polo Grounds with a load of empty barrels because his players be-| lieved that to sec a load of barrels meant good luck. 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