, 1917-09-20
WYO MING
STATE NEWS

sept. I-29-Fremont county Far ~
Lander.
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.
The new Powell hospital is ready
for service.
The State Fair at Douglas was large
ly attended.
Work has been started on the Glen
rock hospital.
The Masons held their annual meet.
ing in Cheyenne.
Forty-eight rigs are at work in the
Big Muddy oil fields.
The Midwest will put down six new
wells in the Greybull field.
NJ. ]. Egan vas arrested at Casper
on q charge of a%ssaulting w. M.
Marx.
Casper Elks attended the State
Fair at Douglas in a body, going in a
special car.
Kemmerer and Diamondville bar
bers have agreed upon one hour less
work each day.
The Aladdin company has a 3O0-bar-
rel oil we'll on the Alderdice tract
south of Greybull.
The delegates to the Eastern Star
meeting at Cheyenne were entertained
at an exhibition drill and banquet.
The well brought in on section 10
1916, on the same section with the
nriuina1 hJarritt UaI1 nv tho Ohio oil
Company, is running about $50 barrels
per day.
BY order of the board of health none
of the schools in Goshen county will
open until Sept. 18th, because of the
appearance of small pox in Lusk, dur
ing the county institute.
Twenty-nine girls and one boy, is
the way the attendance at the Chey-
n Business College is divided. The
war is assigned as the reason for the
preponderance of young women.
Utah capitalists headed by Sam New
house, have entered the Wyoming oil
development game. The company has
tust completed arrangements for TAX
ing over a large area of oil lane on
~ IOMutl HlNel uOlIts
The well of the Wyatt Oil & Rein
ing Company in the Brenning Basin is
down 1900 feet. This is to be a deep
well and the Wall Creek sand will, in
the opinion of biologists, be reached
at from $500 to 5000 feet.
Wyoming paid 1884, G94.47 in corpor-
alton income taxes and $66,361.72 in
individual income taxes during the
fiscal year., according to a report is
sued by Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue Osborne in Washington.
Members of the boards of county
commissioners from various counties
met in Cheyenne with the State High
way Commission in an endeavor to CO.
ordinate their activities and if possible
facilitate the work of improving the
highways of the state.
Engineer Eric r. Anderson and
Fireman Frank Cross, both of Cas-
per, were cooked to death in the
wreck of a freight train which
plunged through a bridge on the
Northwestern railroad near Wolton,
sixty miles east of Casper.
Roland Philbrook, recently gradu-
ated from the Philadelphia Divinity
School, and for the last five years en-
gagged during the summers in the work
for the Episcopal church at various
points in Wyoming, has been recon-
mended by Maj. ]. w. Lavender to be
chaplain of the Third Wyoming in
fantry.
Under its contract with the Young
Oil Company to drill at least five
wells on the 4O1-acre tract in the
northeast quarter of the southeast
quarter of sect'on 1896 of the Big
Muddy, the Midwest Refining has
spudded in on the first hole. This
wei. is about 1900 feet from the Mer-
rift well.
Taxpayers of Cheyenne will have to
pay heavier taxes this year, accord
ing to the assessment rate which has
just been determined by the Board OF
County Commissioners. The increase
amounts to nearly $3.50 for every
$1,000 they are assessed, it is an
nounced. The rate per 81 1000 for this
year is $24.44 against S21.S46 of last
year.
An appropriation of approximately
$14, $1,000 to the states from govern.
ment funds to aid in the construction
N maintenance of rural post roads in
accordance with the federal aid roads
law was announced by Secretary Hous.
ton of the Department of Agriculture
for the year ending June 80, 1919. Wy
oming gets $1S3,SO5 of this appropria-
ton.