, 1917-08-23
WYOMING
STATE NEWS


County Fair at Basin.
Sept. - Fair at Douglas.
Sept. 14-l5.-Community Fair at car
Sept. 2o-22.-county Fair at Burris.
Sept. 27-29-Fourth annual Lincoln
Dec. iOs13-Midwinter meeting Scot
fish Rite Masons at Cheyenne.
Rock Springs is ready for paving.
Evanston's new hotel is now open.
Many more Cheyenne women will
register.
James Collins, 2s, cut his throat at
Laramie.
Burglars got $4,000 in merchandise
at Rawlins.
Jack Nichols attempted suicide at
Green River.
A vocational school will open at
Deaver or Sept. l.
Better phone service is being ar
ranged for Casper.
The foundation for the Greybull re-
finery has been laid.
Red Cross day at the Cheyenne
races will be Aug. 23rd.
An auction If townsite lots will be
held at Deaver on Aug. 18th.
Paint is very popular at Burns, the
little white city of the plains
The first story of the new court
house al Wheatland is completed.
The new $4,000 Y. NJ. c. A. build
ing at Sunrise is nearly completed.
Two slackers were arrested in
Cheyenne and drafted for army serv-
ice.
Ralph Moss of Laramie, and his two
brothers have been called to the col
ors.
AS a result of some family trouble,
John Wanda, of Green River, was
shot.
The assessed valuation Of Big Horn
county will exceed $4,000, 900, accord
ing to Assessor Jones.
The members of the wyoming So
ciety in California held their annual
picnic at Santa Monica.
Seventy-five per cent of the men
called from Sheridan county have
filed claims of exemptions.
: The regimental band of the Third
Wyoming infantry has enlisted three
brothers in it's ranks. They are named
Esmay and their home is at Casper.
The Lucerne dome, conceded to be
one of the most promising unex-
plotted oil grounds in Hot Springs
county, is about to undergo a thor
ough trying-out by the Sattley COM
pany.
H.. E. Martin, an employee of the
Ohio Oil Company on a rig, located on
Section 16 of the Big Muddy field,
sustained a fractured skull when
struck by tools which fell from the
derrick.
Much Importance is attached to the
discovery at a depth of 1851 feet, of
black or heavy oil in a well drilled by
the Mantua Oil Company on the Lane
dome, thirteen miles from the station
OF Arminto.
Three-James Collins, %, of Pater-
son, N. j.; Daniel P. Stowell and Mrs.
Verna Allen Suddreth-killed them
selves in Laramie in one day. C. M.
Gregory died at his ranch home from
a stroke of paralysis.
Lewis D. Cook. &c, son of MI. and
Mrs. Peter S. Cook. met instant death
at Cheyenne, when in attempting to
board an inward bound street car, he
lost his footing and fell beneath the
car, the wheels of which passed over
his read before it could be brought
to a stop.
Ed. Dickinson, a farmer resident of
Laramie and former president of the
Mexico and Orient railroad, died at
Meltona, MINI.
During the past two weeks seventy
six of the citizens of Thermopolis,
who are toe old for active service or
otherwise incapacitated to serve in
the present war, have placed their
names on an enlistment blank offer
ing their services, when called upon,
for home guard duty.
Slackers shared the Sheridan city
jail with a spy II a wife deserter
over the weekend. Henry Martin,
colored, and George williams were
held on Stacker charges. w. E. Wood
ard was held awaiting the arrival of
the sheriff from Deadwood, where
Woodland is wanted for wife desertion.
OF interest in connection with devel.
opment in the oil fields is the increase
in the wage scale over that paid last
season, for while there is no scarcity
of labor, the advance has raised the
cost of drilling materially. For ex-
ample, a head driller who was getting
IS per day a year ago, is now receiv-
ing $40, and tool dressers who were
receiving sc are now getting IS.