, 1917-07-19

lS an eN-COHVlCl OUT Oh pdTOle.
L. B. Chamber died in the Laramie
City jail a few hours after he had been
arrested on a charge of drunkenness.
The estimated loss is $1,000 in the
recent fire at Elk Basin which burned
seven oil tanks. Four of the tanks
were full of oil.
Six men were released in Cheyenne
from the county jail. Five of these
were slackers who were registered
and then released.
Residents of LAGRANGE sent to the
Cheyenne headquarters of the Red
Cross Society a pledge for S2s7.97 sub
scribed from that community.
The Liberty Bell Oil Company has
been incorporated. Its capital stock
is 10000, divided in 5000, 900 shares
at a par value Of / cent each,
The fly contest at Laramie has
closed with Helen Fitzgerald first.
having killed 1000 flies, and Bertha
Green second, with 1900 as her num-
Der.
Sales totaling about 1000. 900 pounds
of Wyoming wool, at prices ranging
from 80 to 60 cents per pound, have
been reported during the last few
days.
DR.. G. A. Duniway, former head of
the University of Wyoming at Lara
mic, has been formally elected presi
dent of Colorado College at Colorado
Springs.
Bob Medium, who is serving a
term in the state p~enitentiary, had his
shoulder broken in several places by
falling from the penitentiary truck at
Rawlins.
Twenty = five hundred dollars was
pledged to the American Relief Com
mittee in the auction for humanity's
sake" which followed the appeal of
DR.. William Friedman, Denver rabbi.
at the Parish House in Cheyenne.
The Monarch Salt Creek Petroleum
Company, with holdings in the Salt
Creek fields, has been financed and
the company has let contracts for the
drilling of two wells to the second
Wall Creek sand.
Docito Medina, a Mexican herder
employed by Carl Williams, was in
stantly killed when he was struck by
lightning. He was working with his
sheep about fifteen miles north of
Douglas.
Announcement is made that con-
tracts have been entered by the Pc
troleum Oil Fields Company by which
two deep wells will be drilled on its
holdings in the Big Muddy Field.
The body OF Fred Bond, wyoming
guardsman who died al Rawlins as a
result of being struck by a Union Pa
cific freight train, was taken to Chey-
enne for interment.
An insurance policy for $500 was
found payable to the mother Of Arm
stead Corbin, the negro who died from
the effect of a stab wound in the neck
by winnie" Jones It Laramie.
Migrants who have no fixed home
and who spend their time In unprofit-
able loafing are to be drafted into the
ranks Of the farm workers II sugges-
lions of the State Council of Defense
are complied with.
The annual Frontier Days celebra-
ton In Cheyenne this year will be
doubly attractive in that 1t is the gol-
den anniversary OF the founding of the
town. The story of the development
of the town from railroad camp and
cowboy headquarters to the metropolis
of the state-fifty years of activity,
settlement and growth-will be told in
q historical pageant In which will fig
ure the aborigine, buffalo. earliest ex-
plorers, the cowboys, the a~gricultur-
lists and other phases of the growth of
the community.
Cheyenne was the scene Of one of
the most unique weddings that has 90
CURED recently when Mae Simmons
and John KreintE celebrated in the
grove Of trees east of the U. P. stock
yards, their marriage. These people
r members of q tribe OF gypsies.
Mrs. R. A. Morton, secretary of the
State Council for National Defense
and At the head of the women's work
In Wyoming, has conceived the idea
that the registration of women to be
made on the 18th instant be copied
~ a roll Of honor and filed In the
governors office.