, 1915-07-01

Sept. 2S-oct. Eleventh Annual wy
oming state Fair at Douglas.
Many tourists are daily passing
through Cheyenne.
NIT Cireji, a wife murderer. vas
sentenced to hang on Oct. 2S.
A site has been selected for the
new Catholic church at Cody.
M. j. Martin of Riverton is attempt
ing to raise some pheasants this year.
County prisoners in Hot Springs
county are put to work on the county
road.
Secretary of State Frank l.. Houx
has issued 3,106 auto licenses for the
year 1915.
An 11-year-old boy of John Dolence
of Hudson was dragged to death by a
runaway cow.
Work on the new addition to the
Fremont county cour house at Ian
der has been started.
The sheep sheds on the Graham
ranch at Guernsey were destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000.
The quantity of coal mined in Wyo-
ming in 1914 was 6,475,293 tons, val
ued at $1O,O33,747.
Wyoming hogs commanded top
prices on the Omaha market two days
in succession recently.
Miss Marjorie Stuart is assisting in
the office of the state land commits
sioner at the capitol.
Albany county horses-132 head,
worth S22, S00-were sold to buyers
for the British government.
Target practice on the range at Fort
d. A. Russell is being held by Com
pany G of the National guard.
The government is advertising for
bidders On a new mail route from Gil.
lette to Weston, forty miles north.
Carl Harrison, a herder for A. c.
Barker, near Casper, died after being
kicked in the stomach by a horse.
William Rain has a force of men
working at Pine Bluffs, where he has
contracts for roofing nine business
buildings.
Basin is to be a NEEDLESS town this
summer if al ordinance recently
passed by the city fathers has any
thing to do with it.
Chopping has been resumed at
Gramm by the Foxpark Timber Com
pany and in about six weeks the load
ing of ties will be resumed.
Contractors for improving the first
ten miles of the Lincoln highway west
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miles west of that city.
Harry N. Hyde of Thermopolis was
found guilty of shipping a moose head
out of the state in violation of the law
and fined 800 and costs.
Five hundred dollars has been set
aside by the Forestry Service for re-
pairing the wagon Dad from Centen.
NAL to Brooklyn lake, in the Medicine
Bow forest.
Word vas received at Douglas to
the effect that Miss Ethel Cooper suf-
fered a very serious injury to her
head while attending a picnic at Fort
Morgan, Colo.
The Swan Land and Cattle Com
pany has completed the construction
of a complete set of new buildings on
its New-barred ranch five miles east
of Wheatland.
There are three or four men in the
Colorado state prison under sentence
of death, among them being James C.
Bulger, who killed Lloyd e. Nicode-
mus, formerly of Laramie.
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Harry Gemmil of Node station sus-
tanned a compound fracture of the leg
and a dislocated hip in a cyclone
which destroyed the Gemmil home.
The state has purchased special
rifles for the use OF The members of
National Rifle Shoot, which is to be
held at Jacksonville, Fla, in October.
Very few sales of Fremont county
wool have been made this spring. In
fact but one clip of any size has been
disposed of, and that was the Arthur
Croft wool, which was purchased at
25h cents.
The monuments marking the route
of the old Oregon Trail through
Goshen county were dedicated with
appropriate ceremonies. The mark
ers are at Fort Laramie, Lingle and
T~orrington.
The danger of a shortage of irriga.
ton water, resulting from the small
amount of snow in the Big Horn noun
tains, has been entirely averted, &C
cording to men who have recently
visited the range.
A string OF five new Uuion Pacific
locomotives arrived in Cheyenne to
be used between Rawlins and Chey-
enne and from Rawlins vest for the