, 1917-11-15
WYOM MING
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Dec. 10-13-Midwinter meeting Scot
fish Rite Masons at Cheyenne.

formed at Cheyenne.
The frame water shed at Kemmerer
was destroyed by fire.
Another fire broke out at Laramie
in the ruins of the Union Pacific no.
tel.
Cheyenne policemen and firemen
have been granted an increase in sal
airy.
Albert Johnson, of Shoshoni, re-
ports the sale of 1000 yearling sheep
at $50 per head.
The alfalfa mill of the Basin Alfal-
ia Milling Company at Henderson was
destroyed by fire.
Jess Bailey, a miner at Casper, took
a dose of lysol, and was found in his
room in a dying condition.
The Douglas Gun Club held a shoot
at the fair grounds and distributed
$500 in prizes to the winners.
The prediction of a few months ago
that soon Douglas would be sur
rounded by oil rigs has come true.
The beet crop at Wheatland is one
of h most successful ever raised, the
beets testing about IS per cent sugar.
Carl Bergman, a former garage man
at Saratoga, is held in Boulder, Colo.
jail, charged with bigamy and wife
desertion.
The contract has been let for the
Lowell dam. The structure across
Shoshoni river will cost $4,000 and
water large area.
F. S. Harter, Wheatland's honey
man, shipped a carload of honey to an
eastern firm. The shipment repre-
sented a 41,O4O pounds.
That the Union Pacific will resume
work on the cut off between North
Platte, Nebr., and Medicine Bow,
Wyo., is rumored at Wheatland.
The fourth increment for Sweetwa-
ter county entrained at Green River.
Fifty men composed this increment,
there being about fifteen slackers.
Charged with an offense against his
divorced wife, William Smith, a ranch
hand of Clark, near Cody, was bound
over to the District Court for trial.
Two men are now held as prisoners
in he county jail at Thermopolis
awaiting trial for a murder committed
near Crosby, between June 16 and IS,
1917.
An engine and caboose were de-
rallied at Cooper Lake, some damage
being done to both. Conductor John
S~chidecker had his shoulder dislo-
Gated.
The Ohio Oil Company, drilling in
the Poison Spider section, south of
Casper, brought in a black oil well
that is expected to yield 300 barrels
a day.
Oil sands at a depth of only 1872
feet, in the shallow Fossil oil field,
were encountered by the Idaho Wyom-
ing Oil Company which is drilling in
that field.
Isaac SCOTS, prominent stockman of
the Arvada country, died in the hos
pital at Sheridan from the effects of
shot in the abdomen received while
hunting.
A new railroad is in prospect for
Albany county. Present plans, which
have not as yet been perfected call
for a road from Medicine Bow to
Marshall.
Roads in the Wyoming fields are in
bad shape and the difficulty of trans
porting material to the many locations
is holding back the completion of a
number of wells.
With his head and wrist cut off, the
body of John Iverson, a ranch hand
employed at the Walter Hanks dip
ping corral neal Kemmerer, was
found on the railroad track.
An announcement has been made
by the United States civil service
commission of civil service examina-
tons to fill vacancies in the postof-
fices at Encampment, Alton, Buffalo
and Glenrock.
Cheyenne and Laramie county con-
tributed $93.53 per capita to the sec
ond liberty loan. Cheyenne is be-
lieved to have contributed the high
est amount of any city in the state
with $147.2O per capita.
The Curtis-New York Company we'll
drilled by the Ohio Oil Company on
section ~, brought in several DAYS
ago, using 16-inch casing, is reported
to have broken loose, throwing oil
higher than the S0-foot derrick.
The State Supreme Court has
handed down a decision UNFOLDING the
action of the Town of Kemmerer in
refusing to allow Sigmund Kohn to
open a saloon on the s~o-called 'tri-
angle" a business center of Kemmer-
er.
Warm Springs, the new oil section,
near Thermopolis, and known locally