, 1917-07-05


Sept. 11-14-State Fair at Douglas.
A country club has been formed at
Laramie.
The Sheridan Cemetery bonds have
been sold.
Many new buildings are going up
at Douglas
A Lander firm sold their 1917 wool
clip at 5S% cents.
Five fire guards were assigned to
duty on the Shoshone forest.
Wyoming people contributed s21O,
900 for the Red Cross Fund.
o. L. Truman was injured by a live
wire shock while working on a pole
at Casper.
The sale of the Emil Hague cattle
at Cody to Russell Crane is reported
at $4,000.
Miss China Wilson, IA years old,
and Jesse Barbour, 10, were married
at Opal.
Frank Lambert, who went to Their
mopolis from Worland, died from
spotted fever.
John F. Pierce, pioneer and we'll
known cattle man of Rock River, died
in a Denver hotel.
The next annual meeting of the
Wyoming Bankers Association will
be held in Laramie.
Wheatland creamery puts out week
ly almost 5000 pounds of butter. Cas-
per is the largest market.
Melvin Hardesty, a prospector, was
drowned in Sans creek about twenty
five miles north of Cokeville.
Ray X. Odds of Cheyenne has been
appointed provost marshal for wy
oming by Governor Frank L. Houx.
Ten thousand acres of Indian lands
on the Shoshone reservation are to
be offered at public sale August goth.
The death OF James H. Harper, a
pioneer resident, occurred at Bags.
Death was the result of spotted fever.
While attempting to rob a Rock
Springs store, a burglar was shot by
the manager, who slept in the store.
Rev. ]. c. Whitsett of the Mountain
View Presbyterian church at Evans
ton was ordained and installed as pas
tor.
A. N. Hasenkamp, recently removed
postmaster at Laramie, has been
ubond over to the United States grand
jury.
Will Morgan was badly burned
about the hands and face while work
tho Mt n noufn0 rivfpra Dlorf In
Casper.
Fire from the sparks of a passing
engine caused the total destruction
Of the old Union Pacific coal sheds
at Laramie.
Standardization Of text books for
Platte county was the chief work Of
the meeting of the county delegates
at Wheatland.
The body of Tom Chrisman, who
was drowned in the Sweetwater riv-
er four weeks ago, has beer found and
taken to Rawlins.
Some 100000 Machinaw trout have
been placed in the Shoshone reser-
voir by the Wyoming Game and Pro
<AoooSldLiou.
Cowley citizens bettered the city
streets by a three-day campaign of
manual labor, during which the
streets we're graveled.
The Ohio OIL Company is reported
to have spudded in a well on section
5-39-79 on the holdings of the United
Petroleum Company.
Hams Fork creek has been on a
rampage n did a great deal of dam
age to homes along the banks between
Kemmerer and Frontier.
Division headquarters of the Union
Pacific, which are being moved from
Salt Lake City, Utah, are to be es-
tablished In Green River.
At a special meeting of the Lara
mic health committee of the city coun-
ell about sixty people asked that the
red light district be done away with.
The second victim of wood-tick
bites was taken to the Wyoming Gen
eral Hospital at Rock Springs from
Superior and is In a critical condi.
ton.
David Perry. a young Shoshoni In
dian, was shot and dangerously
wounded lea Wind River postoffice
by Indian policemen from the agency.
Perry had gone on the warpath after
trouble with a woman
w. M. Broyles Of Torrington, while
walking over the hills near town in
company with his wife, was bitten by
a rattlesnake. He hurried to town,
where he received medical aid, and
departed for home, past the danger
point.