, 1917-06-28

val at Thermopolis.
July neutrality-suspicious. celebration OF
Frontier Days at Cheyenne.
Sept. l4-SI Fair at Douglas.
Riverton Masons will build a home.
A $4,000 apartment house is being
built at Douglas.
Robert Newbold, so, was killed in
a mine at Glencoe.
The Australian shearing pens at
Opal have been completed.
Lincoln county is planning for q
large amount of road work.
Wyoming subscribed 81, $50 to
the Liberty loan bond fund.
By the closing of the Linger Longer
saloon Star Valley is now dry.
Cheyenne has raised about $500
for the Army Y. NJ. c. A. fund.
There are about ten strings of tools
running in the Grass Creek Oil field.
Plans are being made to exploit oil
fields near Cheyenne with local cap
ital.
Another important addition is being
made at the works of the Greybull
refinery.
President Wilson has nominated
Wade H. Fowler register of the land
office at Douglas.
Big crowds are expected at the
Frontier Days Celebration at Chey-
enne, July 90 to 2S.
ALI officers of the University of
Wyoming were reelected at the meet.
ing of the trustees at Laramie.
Three blocks of the main street of
Worland are to be paved Under the
special assessment district plan.
The total registration of Converse
county on June 9th was 926, which
is 226 over the estimate of 700.
Three rigs, with all the enormous
quantity of machinery and lumber
connected with each one, are now in
the La Barge oil fields.
R. T. Kloop, a Thermopolis tailor,
he lived alone. Heart failure was
the cause of death.
Company H, under the command OF
Captain Harry H. Waugh, still main
tains the lead in Wyoming National
Guards with a roll call OF 136 men.
Thomas Sweeney of the Big Horn
Basin was acquitted in the District
Court at Sheridan of the charge of
having assaulted Mary Leatman with
intent to kill.
William Jones, farmer of Pine
Bluffs, was found guilty of stealing
Il horse from Wesley Kelley, a Pine
Bluffs merchant, by a jury in the
District Court.
w. D.. Wagner of the Anaconda De-
velopment Association, states that the
well the company has been drilling
near Hines was brought in with a
flow of sulphur water.
The long-delayed regulations gov
erning oil and gas leases on lands
within the ceded portion of the Sho-
shone Indian reservation in central
Wyoming, are now out.
The Blackmore OIL Company, a
Casper concern, has declared a divi-
dend of 20 per cen cash and 100 per
cent stock to be paid stockholders of
record at noon July 4th.
SpeSidl convention Vi Lne repre-
sentatives of the United Mine Work
ers of America for District %, COM
prising all of Wyoming, has. been
called to meet in Cheyenne July 9th.
The new well brought in by Nor
beck-Nicholson OF section 9-36-62
proves another big oil field for the
state of Wyoming. 1t is estimated to
no good for OF IAnoN Enn lo,.1. I..I-.
Pine Bluffs will celebrate July 4th.
Felipe Reyes, Mexican, charged with
the murder of Ramon Mandez, a fel.
low countryman in the Astle saloon
at Cheyenne, last December, was
found guilty of murder in the first
degree.
Charles w. Taylor, 67, for years
employed by the Union Pacific Rail
road Company and widely known in
Cheyenne and elsewhere in southern
Wyoming, died at a hotel in Rock
Springs.
By her subscription of nearly $780,
600 to the Liberty loan Cheyenne has
established the reputation of being one
of the few cities in the United States
to exceed the allotment made by
federal officials.
Estimating Fremont county's reg.
istration at 2,17S, the total for Wyom-
ing will be 23,2S9. According to avail
able figures at Washington last night
this would bring the total for the
nation to 9.611,S11.
Daily train service between Walcott
and Encampment with Saratoga as a
stopping point has been re.established.
The train leaves Walcott for Encamp-
ment via Saratoga in the morning and