, 1917-07-26

equipment.
Casper to have a new $4,000 bust
ness block.
A shortage of farm hands is re-
ported at Dwyer.
A children's playground is to be
established in a park at Douglas.
Home T. Lamb says ~fifty-seven rigs
are now operating in the Big Muddy
field.
Red Butte Mexicans had a free-for-
all with pick handles. AS a result
three are in Jail at Laramie.
wyoming's 1917 wool clip is expect
ed to total 49, 500, 900 pounds, and
bring an average of SO emit per
pound.
Thirteen young men from Lander
and vicinity applied fol- membership
in the second series of officers train
ing camps.
The Belgian commission was given
a royal welcome at Cheyenne, which
was decked put for the Frontier Days
celebration.
The carpenters hammer is the pre-
dominant feature of Green river these
days in the erection of numerous
bungalows n various parts of the city.
DR.. ]. H. Bradfield of Sheridan was
the winner of the two chief events
at the annual meeting of the Wyom-
ing Sportsmen's Association at Doug
las.
A movement looking to the protec-
ton of Wyoming oil interests was
launched at a meeting at Casper by
representative oil operators of the
state.
A bronze tablet was unveiled by
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton marking the site where the
Wyoming Legislature gave suffrage
to women.
One more well was added to the
long list in the Lander field when
]. A. Bankson shot the Western Elk
p~loration Company's hole five miles
north of Lander.
Wind River Petroleum Company re-
Gently has purchased two additional
oil properties making the company
holdings aggregate 1900 acres
in Wyoming fields.
Cheyenne is fast winning recogni-
lions as a shipping point for wool,
hides n pelts, and the volume Of
business done in these lines is ao-
quiring large proportions.
Guy Hutchinson, ~6-year-old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j.. Hutchinson, living
north of Pine Bluffs, was struck and
seriously injured by an automobile
driven by E. Stevens of Grover, Colo.
By a vote of POI to 562, Cheyenne,
at a special municipal election, de-
feated a proposition to issue $4,000
worth OF bonds for the installation Of
storm sewers in the business district.
The Ohio Oil Company, drilling in
the Powder River field for the Home
steader's Oil Company is reported to
have brought in a big gasser which is
estimated to run 100000 feet per
day.
In order to enable many of the
young men students engaged In farm
ing or ranching to attend the univer-
sity this fall it is probable that the
date of opening will not be before
Oct. /.
Casper banks bought $215,oOO water
and sewer bonds recently voted.
Seven men convicted of high grad
ing, and defrauding the government
of the United States out of $500. 600
were sentenced to serve two years
apiece in the federal prison at Leaven-
worth, in the United States Court at
Cheyenne.
Casper, the "Oil City of the West"
will be widely advertised in the East
as the result of plans promoted by the
Casper Moose lodge for entering a
local float in the parade that will fea,
ture the lodge meeting at Pittsburg.
Pa, July 26.
Cheyenne officials have been asked
to arrest Sam Glorioso, an Italian who
killed Sabatino Cat, a fellow country.
man a month ago in Big Horn county
because the latter was said to have re,
ported Glorioso to registration off
Gals as a Stacker.
That the patients of any doctora
who go to the front with the troops
will be cared for by the other doctors
OF the state until such a time as those
who go to care for the wounded re.
turn and are able to take care OF
their W patients, is the agreement
made among the doctors In Wyoming
Five thousand soldiers, the entire
garrison stationed at Fort d. A. Rus
sell, will march in the historic pageant
presented by the Frontier committee
the first day of Frontier week, com,
memorating the fiftieth anniversary
of the founding of Cheyenne, on
July 20.