, 1917-09-27
WYO MING
NEWS


Sept. I9-21-Fourth Annual Lincoln
County Fair at Alton.
Oct. 2-5.-Meeting Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs at Thermopolis.
Dec. 10-13-Midwinter meeting Scot
fish Rite Masons at Cheyenne.
Burglars secured $40 from a store
in Alton.
Diphtheria is reported increasing at
Fort Russell.
The new Catholic church at Hudson
has been dedicated.
A ten million-dollar oil company has
been formed at Casper.
The annua meeting of Wyoming
Baptists was held in Douglas.
The NJ. E. church conference at
Sheridan closed with the assignment
OF pastors.
Harrison Dell. pioneer of Converse
county, was found dead in his room
in Douglas.
Ed Vincent of Freedom has sold his
ranch to Fred Weber. The consider
alton was $12, 200.
Wyoming has been asked to in
crease her wheat crop s per cent or
from 10000 acres to $4,000 acres.
Old Fit. Laramie, where the soldiers
were stationed in the old Indian days
Of the long ago, is to become a Mecca
for tourists.
The Clark Refining and Producing
company, operating in the Cow Gulch
field, has constructed a camp and is
getting ready to drill.
The Laramie City Council voted to
raise the salaries of the patrolmen of
the city $40 per month, bringing the
salaries up to $50 per month.
Jonathan Shaw, discoverer of the
iron mines in the Hartville, Uplift,
was found dead on the floor of his
cabin at Guernsey by ~neighbors.
A plan to form a state volunteer con-
stabulary of 500 men, to be used in
case of emergency, has been launched
by Adjutant General w. X. Weaver.
Governor Frank L. Houx, who went
to Douglas to attend the Wyoming
State Fair, directed the closing of the
redlight districts in Converse county.
Mrs. Cassie lie Foy-McGraw of Cody
is under a $500 bon to appear before
the District Court in November to an.
swer the charge of selling liquor with
out a license.
Eugene Mccarthy, a rancher near
Casper, marketed 1,400 head of 59-lb.
feeding lambs at $3.50 per cwt., and
$50 head of 106-lb. feeding ewes at
$1,000 per cwt.
The salaries of the Lander public
school teachers were raised, beginning
this term, from kindergarten to the
top, $40 each, owing to the high cost
of living.
The Wyoming banks of the federal
reserve system have been transferred,
effective Sept. 80, to the direct juris-
diction of the new Omaha branch of
h Kansas City reserve bank.
The remains of Patrick Delaney,
coal miner, who died in Cheyenne from
stab wounds, while being taken in the
police patrol to the hospital, were
shipped to relatives in Dubois, Pa.
The Department of Agriculture has
asked that Wyoming increase the acre
age of winter wheat eight per cent and
the acreage of rye eighty-seven per
cent over the paintings for the fall of
1916.
Stacker parents of wealth who are
trying through their personal influence
to have their sons exempted from serv-
ing in the new national conscriptive
army were roundly denounced by AID
jutant General Weaver in an inter
view.
Schools in various towns and cities
throughout the state have opened with
a larger attendance than ever before.
Columbus Day, Oct. IA, is also to
be Cody Day. and Wyoming school
children are asked to cooperate in a
movement to erect ii million. dollar
memorial to Col. w. F. Cody, Buffalo
Bill" on Lookout Mountain, overlook
ing Denver.
Forty-one young soldiers who en-
trained as the first contingent of 1913
men from Albany county to the ma
tional army, were rendered a farewell
reception at Laramie. The Woodman
band gave a oncer on the street, fol
lowed by Il dance and supper. Fire
works were exploded in the city and
each soldier was presented with a tiny
flag.
C. II. Broughton, who halls from
Carroll, Ia, was placed under arres.
by the sheriff's office at Casper on
charges preferred by a man who
claims that the man not only alien.
ated his wife's affections, but bilked
him out of $4,000. Broughton was ideu.
titled by the complainant and notice
of his apprehension was wired officers
il his home town.