, 1917-11-29
WYOM MING
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Dec. 1O-13-Midwinter meeting g,
fish Rite Masons at Cheyenne,

western TanCn near CONVEY,
The contract has been let for four
bridges in Sweetwater county.
Judge Mentzer. of Cheyenne, will
hold court at Laramie, Nov. 26 and q.
Thirteen cars of cattle IL hogs
were sent to market in one day from
Pine Bluffs.
The Christian Science Society in
Laramie has opened it's reading room
to the public.
Mrs. Paul Hanson, a bride of eight
months, tried to commit suicide in
their oom at Cheyenne.
Funeral services for G. O.. Latham
who died at his home in Long Beach,
Cal, were held at the Elks home at
Cheyenne.
One of the largest real estate trans.
fers ever made in Casper was the sale
of four lots in the business district
for $4,000.
Fourteen producing wells with a
daily production of 1900 barrels is the
report coming from the Pilot Butte
field neal Riverton.
That Casper is a city of more thar
$4,000 people has been proved in a
census said to have just been com.
pleted by agents of the United States
government.
Margaret Wales, age 4 years, died
at the home of her parents in Glen
coe, after suffering for two weeks
from burns sustained when she fell
into a tub of hot water.
A fire of unknown origin destroyed
three barns and about one hundred
ions of hay belonging 10 A. Lu Hale,
George Hale and Tom Hale, near
Alton. There was no insurance.
Stumbling into a shallow prospect
hole on n of his claims on the
Sibylle, Henry Yount, veteran pros.
pector of. Wheatland, sustained a
broken shoulder and other injuries.
Lew Henderson, age So, one of the
best known civil engineers in west
ern Wyoming. died in the Lincoln
county miners hospital. The cause OF
death was kidney trouble and heart
disease.
Humor took possession of W. H.
Billy Mccoy, Casper celebrity, poll.
tician INT %all-around man, when he of.
fered $4,000 for the bull that chased
William Jennings, Bryan up a mes.
quite tree.
Miller Hill, which lies about twenty
miles south of Rawlins, is the scene
of great activity, owing to the dis.
covery that it is n of the most per
feet domes in the state and that it is
undertake by sands hat uniformly
produce oil wherever they have been
drilled in Wyoming.
In spite of the fact that he obtained
$50 in cash for his efforts, an I'm.
known ~highwayman who held up and
robbed Charles Lamoreux, a Union
Pacific steel worker at Cheyenne. is
asking himself whether the job paid
him for the highwayman while strug.
Cling with his victim lost a pair Of
false teeth.
Word has been received from Jesse
Davidson, a member of the last
drafted division from Cheyenne in
which he says: American Lake is
sure some fine place, forty-five thou
sand in all here, coming in and going
out every day. About 5000 have left
since Monday, some of them here only
four to six weeks.
Powder River Junction is preparing
for a winter of activity. The Ohio
Oil Company has a complete standard
rig on the ground, while the Dakota
Wyoming Company is already drilling
on section 28. The Universal EG'
ploration Company. on section 10, and
the Domino Oil Company In
tentions of drilling in the near t'
ture.
Beaten over the head with a milk
bottle, Mrs. John Ellis, "a, Is IN d
serious condition at Casper, while
Jack Hopkins, A, her alleged assait
ant, is in the city jail charged with
disturbance while federal officials are
investigating his alleged pro-German
sympathies and may file charges
against him of a more damaging ma
ture.
Reports reached Laramie in a tele-
phone communication from Medicine
Bow, that the Ohio Oil Company, q
subsidiary of the Standard Oil Com
pany, had drilled into a strong flow
of oil and gas at its well fourteen
miles east of Medicine Bow, and ten
miles west of Rock River. at l,SVv
feet, tapping a stratum of sand not
heretofore encountered in that section
of the state.
Hats off to the patriotic citizens Oh
Burntfork, Wyo. They have given
their money to the Red Cross, inc
Triangle war relief fund and have pul