, 1917-06-21

Sept. 11-I4-state Fair at Douglas.
July 1 will be Patriotic Sunday.
Lander will celebrate July Fourth.
Shearing pens are to be erected ct
Hudson.
The Bank of Deaver has been In
corporated.
Lander is to have a new hotel, cost
ing 500. 900.
Laramie has begun a drive against
bawdy houses.
Contract for the Burns water works
has been let.
The striking teamsters at Casper
have returned to work.
Twenty-eight pupils graduated from
the Casper High school.
Basin citizens purchases of Liberty
bonds totaled owe $4,000.
Forty-four students graduated from
the University of Wyoming.
The Anaconda Development is work
ing at the location near Hines.
Unofficial reports give the draft
registration from Casper at 1,275.
Liberty oar bonds, amounting to
$103 $50, were subscribed at Sheridan.
There is a possibility of a second
glass factory starting up in Laramie.
Twenty thousand trout have been
planted in the Runser dixie southwest
of Manville.
Geo. A. Stuart, sc, who built the
first fire proof building in Cheyenne,
died of paralysis.
With two small precincts missing,
$50 men registered for the draft in
Washable county.
A dozen wyoming volunteers were
accepted at Denver ava recruiting
stations last week.
Business houses and homes of i'll
standing in Cheyenne are to be forced
to clean up places.
Cheyenne men organized and incor-
porated the Lusk Petroleum Company,
capitalized at 1900, 900.
The City of Casper is about to is
u $4,000 of bonds to pay for The
construction Of a W system.
Davis, f~ive-year-old son of Eugene
Phelps of Pitchfork, was drowned in
Rose creek, near the Phelps home.
Surveyor ]. E. Lloyd of Kemmerer
has been appointed assistant engin-
eer by the state highway engineer.
Flag Day, June IA, was observed
with impressive ceremonies at City
park by the Cheyenne lodge of Elks.
A dozen families arrived at Lander
from Worland to do the hand labor
necessary on the Lander beet sugar
acreage.
Land available for homestead entry
In Wyoming has been increased 109.-
200 acres, according to information
from Washington.
Complete returns from Laramie
county show that 2,221 men between
the ages of 81 and 80 inclusive regis
tered for selective CONSUMPTION.
More than $22, $780, 900 insurance was
written in Wyoming during 1916, &C
cording to the statement of nineteen
companies doing business in the state.
Charles Burnett is dead and a man
giving the name of Joe Slower is be-
ing held at the county Jail as q re-
suit of a cutting affray at Shoshoni.
G. U. Shoemaker resigned as mayor
of Laramie to relieve A. N. Husen-
kamp as postmaster. A. E. Holiday,
president of the council, will succeed
Shoemaker temporarily.
Congressman Mondell has a number
| 80 1n1 = nrtAN,1t,ra VAa- p@NIr- 10
will be glad to send on request.
1t begins to look like business out
at Fort Russell. T~hirty-five hundred
men have reached the post and there
is an air of hustle and activity that
hasn't been seen in the place for many
years.
Laramie county made the best rec
ord of the nine counties which made
q report on their registration under
the draft law. Out of an estimated
population of 1861 people, 2,212 reg.
istered for army service, or 1871 per
cent.
In a telegram, C. A. Duniway, pres
ident of the University of Wyoming,
sets at rest reports that the trustees
Of the university intend to sell the
lease on lands In the Big Muddy oil
field held by the Elkhorn Oil Com
pany.
John MARTINEZ, 10. employed in the
Union Pacific blacksmith shop at
Cheyenne. was electrocuted when he
climbed from the vfaduct to the roof
of the Union Pacific electrical build
ing, accidentally coming in contact