, 1917-12-13
WYOM MING
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

eoAItNs
Jan. -29-An meeting State Bar
Association at Douglas.
Ed Dolan's ranch home near Pine
Bluffs was damaged by fire.
On its first pay day, the Worland
sugar factory paid farmers 100000
for beets.
The organization of the state for
the Red Cross Christmas seals has
been completed.
Three Salt Lake companies are in
terested in the development of the oil
lands nea Walcott.
Yeggs at Rawlins blew the safe in a
laundry and secured $3.50 in cash, and
stole two auto tires.
A great suffering among Wyoming
live stock may result from the short
s in cotton seed cake.
The police and sheriff's department
cooperated in another Cleanup" of
gathering |. w. WIS in Casper.
The Hale Petroleum Company has
just brought in two wells, one of 1000
barrels and the other of 500 barrels.
F%orty-eight candidates were initial
ed into the Shrine Kalif Temple Of
Sheridan at a pilgrimage to Thermop-
oils.
Frank w. Mondell, Wyoming's con-
gresham, spoke at Kemmerer OF the
subject OF war Legislation and the Red
Cross.
Discovery of another case of scarlet
fever in the Cheyenne high school ne
c~essitated abandonment of the night
school session.
Funeral services for James Downs,
former Evanston pioneer, who died at
Seattle, Wash, following an opera
tion, were held at Evanston.
Theodore Roosevelt and William
Jennings Bryan may come to Wyo-
ming shortly before Wyoming people
vote for statewide prohibition.
Stepping directly in front of an en-
CINE which he failed to see, Juan Cuel-
lar, a Mexican employee in the Raw
Inns yards, was instantly killed.
Returns from twenty-one counties in
Wyoming in which the campaign for
funds for the Y. NJ. c. A. was con-
Quoted show a total of $42,6 s 2.65.
Laramie's 100000 bond issue for the
purpose of extending its water system
is legal, according to an opinion hand
ed down in the State Supreme Court.
A franchise has been granted to the
Cowley Gas Company to put in and
operate a system of gas pipe to fur
nish natural gas to the people OF Cow
ley.
The Round Up Oil Company has
been incorporated at h office of the
secretary of state. The capitalization
is 81, 200, 900. Offices will be at Glen
rock.
The new Elk Basin well of the
Glenrock Oil Company came in at
1850 feet, and gives up a high-grade
oil that sells for S1.7O a barrel, test
ing 40 per cent in gasoline content.
Although no drilling operations
nave been started yet, nearly all the
land for miles south, west and north
of Green River and in the Rock
Springs district has been covered by
oil filings.
The sheriff's office at Basin has
succeeded in locating George Stone,
who, it is alleged, drew all his money
from the Greybull bank and then
passed $275 in worthless checks there
and in Basin.
Timely action by Mrs. w. B. Troy,
wife of one of the directors of the
Glenrock Refining Company, probably
saved a rotary rig on the Midwest
property at ParkertCn from destruc-
tion by fire.
An oil field has been discovered
vent miles northeast Of Sheri-
dan, known as the Palmer dome. An
Oklahoma geologist has reported very
favorably on it, and Sheridan men are
organizing a company to drill.
Governor Frank l.. Houx issued a
proclamation establishing a rigid
quarantine Dec. 1 in that part of west
ern Wyoming lying parallel to Teton
county, Idaho, against all dogs and
livestock, in an effort to prevent the
spread of rabies.
Even Park county which gave so
many men to Uncle Sam that it was
not necessary to draft any n which
raised $4,000 toward the Y. NJ. C. A.
fund, has found it necessary to form
the Shoshone Project Patriotic League
in order to deal with certain sedition
and to promote patriotism.
The names of those that received
commissions at the Fort Winfield
Scott officers training camp, San
Francisco were made public. The list
for Wyoming follows: National Army
coast defense duty; First lieutenant,
Waldemar F.. OFT, Cheyenne; second