, 1917-10-04

A fire department has been organ-
ICED at Basin.
j. A. Demmon, of Sheridan, hanged
himself in his barn.
Dixon's new light and water plant
is nov in operation.
Rev. ]. M. Jones, a Baptist minister,
died near Golfer, of apoplexy.
A new gusher was brought in by the
Elkhorn in the Big Muddy field.
j. S. Coulson, 55,attempted to com
init suicide in the jail at Worland.
The contract has been let for the
100000 Washable hotel at Thermop-
oils.
Grin Junction gets wind of old train
robbery loot, and many are digging
after it.
The third quota of 40 per cent of
draft army were ordered to mobilize
| Oct. Bird.
The second contingent of drafted
men from Wyoming arrived at Ameri-
cal Lake, Wash.
Two engines were practically
wrecked when they side-swiped in the
east Evanston yards.
Casper taxi drivers, owners and
chauffeurs organized Casper Local No.
GIL with Richard Gilbert as president.
The Congo copper mine, located
near Battle Lake, is one of the most
promising properties in the Battle
Lake section.
A big barbecue and celebration was
held at Kemmerer when the 3,000-foot
well in the Pyramid-La Barge field
was spudded in.
That Finnigan, who was killed by a
train in Guernsey, was the victim of
foul play was stated at Casper by a
man from Guernsey.
In about five weeks the moving pic
lures taken at the state fair are ex-
pected to reach Sheridan and will be
shown on the screen.
The new Catholic church at Moore.
croft has been dedicated. Bishop NC
Govern of Cheyenne and Rev. ]. T.
Nicholson of Newcastle conducted the
services.
DR.. Alven Nelson, head of the
science department of the University
of Wyoming for a long period of years,
was elected president to succeed DR..
c. 1. Duniway.
Soldier boys from all parts of Wy
oming were banqueted before leaving
for the training camps, from which
they will soon go to the battlefields
in the world war.
The state will start at once on the
erection of a small temporary build
ing for the housing of the men in
mates whose wing of the insane asy-
lum was destroyed in the fire at
Rawlins.
After a days labor in the black
smith shop where he had been en-
ployed for the past year as foreman,
Ferdinand H. Hancock, aged 46 years,
OF Casper, died, having been III but
a few hours.
An eastern firm which publishes
many city directories recently com
pleted one for Casper, and distin-
guished that town by stating that at
is the greatest city of it's size in the
United States"
Another merger Of considerable pro-
portions was that of Grass Creek, Roy
atty and Tisdale companies, which are
combined in the Consolidated Royalty
Oil Company, with a capitalization of
$4,000 of a par value of 81 per
share.
The Third Wyoming infantry,
which includes the Casper unit of the
former state guard and which is o
stationed at Camp Greene. North Car.
DINA, has been converted into field
artillery, according to orders of Ma
jor General Liggett.
Walter S. Parker, son of Judge and
Mrs. r. p. Parker, for the past eight
years a clerk in the Sheridan postof-
flee, has been selected, and directed
to report at Washington, Oct. 18th,
unless sooner called, for service under
the United States postal agent in
France.
Headed by the First Cavalry band
and a squadron of cavalry from Fort
D. A. Russell, the largest parade ever
staged in Cheyenne turned out to bid
farewell TO the men answering the call
of their country who left for a train
ing station which will make them sol
diers.
The Glenrock Oil Company's big
well in the Big Muddy caused a sensa-
ton which was followed by another
gusher owned by the Elkhorn people.
The first well broke loose flowing at
the rate of $50 barrels per hour, while
the second well is now making about
100 barrels per hour.
In 1916 the production of the Wyo-
ming oil fields was 6,199,717 barrels,
or ut the rnIn of 1E 900 hnrrnlc nor