, 1917-08-30
MING
STATE NEWS
COMING EVENTS.

Sept. ZU-22.-COunty falr at BurrlS.
Sept. 27-2s-Race Meeting at Rawlins.
Sept. 27-29.-Fourth annual Lincoln
County Fair at Alton.
Dec. 10-13-Midwinter meeting Scot
fish Rite Masons at Cheyenne.
Lowell is to have a new grist mill.
Casper is to have a packing house.
A hail storm damaged crops near
Gillette.
Riverton celebrated its eleventh
birthday.
All oil refinery will be constructed
at Glenrock.
D. P. Stowell, IA, living near Jelm,
shot and killed himself.
The K. P. Grand Lodge meeting
was held at Torrington.
A Sheridan county range steer sold
on the market at $13.75 per cwt.
Theodore C. Dires of Sheridan was
named food administrator of Wyo-
ming.
The new $4,000 Y. NJ. C. A. build.
ing at Sunrise has been formally ded-
icated.
The Riverton postoffice will be To-
Gated in the new Masonic Temple
building.
The races at Cheyenne opened with
a fine lot of horses entered and a
good.sized crowd present.
Well No. / of the American Oil
Company has reached a depth of more
than 1900 feet at Greybull.
A well was brought in on the Lane
dome, in the vicinity of Arminto. 1t
is flowing about thirty barrels a day.
The ranch home of VIM. King, resid-
ing on Rawhide Butte, eight miles
north of Gillette, was destroyed by
fire.
Articles of incorporation of The
Hecla- Wyoming Oil Company, of Cas-.
per, were filed with the secretary of
state.
Tom Molicone, 80, a miner and mo-
torman OF the Sunrise mines, was ia
tally injured and died at the company
hospital.
The Trades Assembly of Casper has
decided to celebrate Labor Day with
n of the biggest and best programs
we offered.
Geo. Papas, a Greek, was fined 500
and sentenced to serve six months In
the county Jail at Casper for assault
ing a waitress.
The new well on the Boston-Wyo-
ming is in section 2 Of the proven Salt
Creek field, and is declared good for
500 barrels a day.
The Republic Petroleum Company
holding $50 acres in the Tea Pot dome
district of the Salt Creek field, has
contracted for drilling, and the rig for
a well is nov on the ground.
The West Salt Creek field is now
n of the busy sections of the Casper
district, Thirty-two drilling rigs were
counted from one point in one, day
and more wells are soon to be spud-
ded in.
Lieut.. w. X. Weaver of Douglas,
formerly a minister of that city, and
for the last few weeks chaplain of the
Third Wyoming infantry, was appoint
ed adjutant general by Governor
Houx.
Cheyenne has a population, exclu.
sive of the men stationed at Fort D.
A. Russell, of 14,12S, according to es-
inmates made by publishers of toe
1917-191S city directory, which has
just appeared.
Merritt well on section 9 came in
with a rush, breaking through before
the drill had actually penetrated the
cnni and &c IN Io raolrnn11 1ou..,
nent producer at from $50 to 1000
barrels a day.
Several hundred recruits, left over
as the result of the organizing of the
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth caval-
ries into artillery at Fort D. A. Rus
sell, will leave Cheyenne in the nea.
future for Fort Mcdowell, near San
Francisco.
Development OF the Big Horn coun.
try is progressing with wonderful
rapidity, according to State Engineer
James B. True, who has returned from
a business trip to that section, money
being available for irrigation enter
prises in greater sums than for many
years.
DR.. Grace Raymond Hebard, IL
brarian at the University of Wyo.
ming, was notified that she had been
chosen by Herbert C. Hoover, food
conservator of the United States gov
eminent, as N of the lecturers to be
sent out over the nation to discuss the
conservation of food, and she has &C
cepted.
Laramie is having its full share Of
sensational deaths, no less than six
having occurred to shock the commu-
nifty, three of them suicides, one from
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