, 1917-08-09

Sept. 14-I5.-Communlty Fair at Car
Sept. 20-22.-county Fair at Burris.
Sept. ~27-2s.-Fourth annual Lincoln
County Fair at Alton.
Kemmerer's redlight district has
been ordered closed.
The Lowell cheese factory has
opened for business.
The new Catholic church at Carpen-
ter has been formally dedicated.
The contract for a new four-story
building at Casper has been let.
Volunteers materially improved the
roads between Thermopolis and Birds
eye.
Col. ]. T. Donnellan. formerly OF
Laramie, died at his home in Sacra
mento, Calf.
A new well flowing rs barrels an
hour was brought in on section 1876
in the Big Muddy field.
The Mercantile Oil and Refining
Company is being Incorporated and
will open offices in Douglas.
Mike Henry Of Douglas was de
clared Wyoming's oldest pioneer. He
came to Wyoming in 1855 as a strip
ling soldier.
A great activity is in store for the
Wyoming field, which is evidenced by
the large number of new companies
entering the field.
The Green River volunteers were
given a rousing send-off by the citi-
zens of that town when they left for
training headquarters.
William Stilson of Elk. who shot
and killed Richard Thornton, has
been acquitted of criminal charges
and is now a free man.
The new sand found in the Fenix oil
well in section 1886 is proving to be
a prolific one. and is proving a strong
rival to the Wall Creek sand.
The horse ridden by Miss Wyoming
Rice of Casper bolted through q
barbed wire fence near that place and
the young lady was severely injured.
President and Mrs. Duniway Of the
University of Wyoming at Laramie
were given a handsome silver service.
They will soon go to Colorado Springs.
The Aladdin company moved a rig
to their property on the south side of
the Greybull river and will begin
drilling as soon as the rig can be set
UP.
The Indians of the Shoshoni reser-
walton are marketing a great amoun
of hay at the present time. They are
~disposing of it at the rate of $40 per
ton.
The body Of a man, believed to be
Claude K. Foster of Greybull, was
found lodged in a sand bank on the
edge of the Poudre river, near Fort
Collins.
For OBTAINING Old Glory, George
Crippen was made to kneel and kiss
the Stars and Stripes at Thermopolis
and was then arrested for failing to
register.
Charged with having had improper
relations with a 17-year-old girl of
Cheyenne, Clyde E. Miller. a soldier
stationed at Fort Russell, was arrest
ed and placed in the city Jail.
An unconfirmed report has reached
Cheyenne to the effect hat John
Zachs Jordan, a former Cheyenne boy
and a nephew of Perry Williams was
killed in action on the French front.
Mr.. and Mrs. George e. Lee of Hamp-
shire, vas attacked by a vicious SOW
and only for the timely aid of q bull
dog would no doubt have been torn to
pieces.
Anew oil well has been brought in
In the Torchlight field.
Olav Veglon, & 80, who was re-
Gently dismissed from the Jail where
he had been confined because of tenn
porary insanity, was instantly killed
when struck by a train as he was
walking along the track east of Raw
Inns.
Specific instructions from the office
of the attorney general at Washington
to close every immoral resort in the
state of Wyoming within five miles
of a military camp were received by
United States District Attorney Chas.
l.. Rigdon.
DR.. C. Y. Beard of Cheyenne heads
the district exemption board for Wyo-
ming, which is the court of last re-
sort in matters pertaining to claims
for exemption from military service
according to advices received from
Washington.
Mrs. Robert A. Morton, the woman
member of the Wyoming State Coun-
Gil of Defense. reports that somewhat
more than 80 per cent of the women
of the towns of Wyoming turned out
for registration in the army behind
the lines.
An army Of five thousand school