, 1917-12-06
WYOM MING
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Dec. 10-13-Midwinter meeting Scot.
fish Rite Masons at Cheyenne.

iNd diilt SLOD men were llDtIdl bup
scribers to the Y. M. C. A. fund.
A purse belonging to Ray Sherwin
of Laramie, containing $500, was
stolen.
John Suster of Diamondville was
found dead in the real of a Diamond
Vile saloon.
One of the five Casper banks all but
reached the million dollar mark in a
days business.
The new Elkhorn well tapped the
stray sand at 1850 feet and was
capped after oil stood 200 feet in the
casing.
The standard rig of the Baku Oil
Company operating on section 90, just
southeast of Glenrock, was complete
ly destroyed by fire.
A car of 10-inch casing has been IN
loaded at Glenrock to complete the
Pathfinder well, believed to be within
$50 feet of the oil sands.
Adjutant and Mrs. Pitt, in charge
of the Cheyenne Salvation Army, are
about to launch a drive for $500 as
Cheyenne's quota of a $1,000, 900 drive.
Widely known educational leaders
were secured for the annual conven-
ton of the Wyoming State Teachers
Association at Buffalo Nov. 2S to
Dec. /.
The Douglas company which has
five shallow producing wells in the
Brenning Basin field, has begun the
construction of a pipe line to the rail
roa at lnez station.
Pine Bluffs will install sewers next
spring as the result of the carrying
of the sewer bond issue at the special
election. The vote was 60 to 43 for
the bonds.
Elmer Green, veteran driller of the
Big Muddy, estimates that n of two
wells which he is sinking on the Elk
horn property will be completed by
the first of the year.
The Midwest Refining Company
completed u shallow well on section
8 of the Whiteside lease and so strong
was the gas pressure that the oil
spouted from the casing.
Warm Springs dome is causing con-
siderable enthusiasm among holders
of leases in that field. Arthur X. Lee
recently paid $4,000 for a lease on the
school section of Gao acres.
The California Syndicate's wildcat
well on the Carbon dome, in eastern
Carbon county, has developed gas in
such volume at 1900 feet that the
boiler has been moved back from the
well.
So extensive is the program of de
velopment in every region of the state
that it embraces a total of 10S oil
fields and domes, located in twenty
of the twenty.one counties of Wyo-
ming.
A One Hundred Per cent American
Club has been organized in Douglas,
composed OF loyal citizens who insist
that reasonable utterances against
the government of the United States
shall cease.
Bankers, capitalists and merchants
of Lincoln and Sweetwater counties
of Wyoming are reported to be form
ing a company to take up 1000 acres
of lands in the upper La Barge or Dry
Piney field.
Because the higher cost OF living
has invaded the kitchen of the family
doctor, groups, measles II indiges-
ton, together with other Affections
which necessitate the presence of the
men OF medicine, are to cost more in
the future.
The City Council of Douglas has
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quiring saloons to close at II o'clock
p. m. and remain closed until Z
O'Clock a. m.
Juanita Campbell, Irma Tate, Joe
Doyle, Andrew Domingo, Jack Terry,
and Silas Aureby, were given Jail sen.
fences of sixty days each in the Unit
ed States Court at Cheyenne for
breaking federal laws designed to pro.
tect the morals OF the army.
Among the Wyoming men given
commissions at the Preside training
camp at San Francisco are: r. G. Lu-
cas- of Douglas, II. G. Campbell of
Cheyenne; w. +. Bragg OF North.
wood, l. e. Corthell of Laramie, Carl
NJ. Boeke of Riverton, f. l.. Frye of
Dever, II. S. McCracken of Laramie,
j. b. Spaulding of Thermopolis, w. F.
Tinkcom of Cody, Goelet GallatjD OF
Big Horn, A. II. Geddes OF Centennial,
NJ. j. Hawley of Douglas, G. II. Chap
man of Evanston, II. w. Spangler of
Wolf, w. a. Arnold of Douglas, w. r.
Davis of Cody. II. w. Clark, Jr., of
Douglas, j. NJ. Pienier of Callister and
L. C. Conley OF Sheridan.
Special agents of the Burlington a