, 1915-05-13

Laramie will celebrate July Fourth
finished.
An oil refinery will be erected at
Greybull.
Chas. Blaine's home in Cody was de-
troyed by fire.
Malta Commandery No. 10 has been
instituted at Green River.
New cluster lights have been or
dered by the city council of Sheridan.
~Thermopolis voted $11,5OO for the
conduct of its schools the coming
year.
1t is estimated that it will cost
Laramie county $3.50 t o taxi the state
census.
Mrs. F. d. McFaddin of Rock
Springs was dragged and badly bruised
in a runaway.
Platte County is to have a county
agent, or farm expert, his services to
begin July LIST.
The annual interclass track and
field meet of the Cheyenne high school
will be held May %.
The graduating exercies of the 1915
class of the Cheyenne High school
will be held June 18th.
A class of thirty-five new members
was taken into the Knights of the
Maccabees lodge at Cheyenne.
Special arrangements are being
made to have courses in Spanish and
| otin.A m arinan hictnru of tho oro-
mic summer school.
At Rawlins Judge Tidball ordered
Ida Harndan, a IA year old Medicine
Bow girl sem to the Home of the
Good Shepherd at Denver.
Several of the prominent mercan-
tile firms of Cody are making prepare
lions to test the a%dvisability of estab-
fishing a cooperative delivery sys-
TEN.
Judge Hynds at Laramie bound Ben
jamin Woods, colored, charged with
selling liquor without a license, to the
District Court and placed his bond at
$3.50.
Major r. Anderson of Newcastle,
was appointed by Governor John B.
Kendrick, chief quarter-master of the
Wyoming National Guard, relieving
Captain Graham Fletcher.
After a thirty-six hour search the
Cheyenne police were unable to find
any clue to the murderers of Miss
Annie Kelly Walsen, the aged woman
who was found dead in her home.
FrIfrtoa- ,hNre,r1 aarAn 80 ;rr;
gated land in the Lowell colony" has
been seeded this year, this being the
greatest acreage in the history of the
settlement. The chief crops are al
falfa. $500 acres; oats, $500 acres;
wheat, 1000 acres, INT sweet clover,
500 acres.
E. Richard Ship. attorney for the
Casper Traction Company, received a
letter from Col. JOIN b. Fleming. au-
thorizing him to file an acceptance of
the street railway franchise granted
some months ago and stating hat he
will be in Casper within the next ten
days to take the initiatory steps to-
ward building the street railway sys-
TEN
The new sugar industry at Sheridan
is booming. Approximately 5000 acres
for beet raising have been signed for.
Almost a mile Of the Burlington spun
to the factory has been completed.
The third carload of beet seed has ar.
rived for distribution. The Searfe
Construction Company has its men
and machinery ready to begin work on
the factory proper and the street rail-
way company has decided to build out
to the factory.
At Sheridan, at an inquest held up
on the body OF Ed Hughey, shot and
killed at Manchester by L. C. Reed,
agent for the Burlington, the jury
found that Hughey had come to his
death as the result of hemorrhage
from a gunshot wound inflicted Ivy a
bullet fired by Il. C.. Reed. Several
wealthy men of Manchester attended
the inquest and stood ready to sign
bond for Reed in any sum. The latter
was admitted to bail in s1O.O o for ap-
pearance at District Court.
At the annual convention of the
Fourteenth Division Railway Mail AS
sociation which was held in Denver,
two Cheyenne postal clerks were hon
ored with offices. ID. r. Kinport was
elected secretary-treasurer, and C. T..
Smith a delegate to the national con-
vention at San Francisco. Other Of
ficers elected follow: u. S. Marion,
Denver, president; j. G. Bennett. Lin
coin. Neb., vice president; Harry
Hughes, Lincoln, and r. d. Coates,
Denver, delegates to the national con.
vention
Wyoming has recently mad a sub.
~stantial appropriation for investigat.
ing the water resources of the state,
and through its state engineer, ]. b.
True, has entered into a cooperative