, 1917-09-13
WYOM MING
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

Sept. 27-29.-Fourth annual Lincoln
County Fair at Alton.
Dec. 1Q-lS-Midwinter meeting Scot
fish Rite Masons at Cheyenne.
Glenrock is to have a new light
plant.
Thermopolis is arranging a cleanup
crusade.
A woman has started a taxi service
at Casper.
Street lighting for Green River is
being planned.
1t is stated that the Coalmont coal
mines may close.
Wyoming will increase her wheat
acreage s per cent.
Labor day celebrations were held in
several Wyoming cities.
The new hotel being built at Gran
ger is almost complete.
Casper school teachers have been
given an increase in wages.
A large production is expected from
the new oil well at Laramie.
Out West has spudded in its well on
section rs, West Salt Creek.
A parsonage is being built on the
German church property at Tingle.
A new four or %five-story store and
office building is to be erected at
Casper.
B. B. Brooks of Casper marketed a
load of 1,14O-pound steers at $10.75 per
hundredweight.
Claude Burns, a Gillette rancher,
fell from his horse and sustained in
juries from which he died.
Anticipating orders from Governor
Frank L. Houx, all red light districts
In Big Horn county have been closed.
Lewis B. Horton of Cheyenne has
been granted a commission as captain
in the quartermaster's department OF
the army.
The Odd Fellows and Masons of
Glenrock may join in a plan to build
a business block in that city in the
near future.
Thirty-nine drafted men, comprising
Wyoming's first quota Of 5 per cent,
left for American Lake training camp
in Washington.
Cody was designated as the next
meeting place for the grand lodge of
Knights of Pythias and the grand TEN
pie of Pythian Sisters.
DR.. A. N. French, state ve~terinar-
ian, has undertaken the distribution of
blackleg filtrate-lederle to stock grow
ers whose cattle is in danger from the
disease.
Thirteen banks, with a capitalization
a~ggregating 1925, 900 have been char
tered in Wyoming during the eight
months since Jan. 1, according to a re-
port compiled by State Bank Examiner
l. C. Newlin.
Col. Asa S. Mercer, ST., one of the
pioneers of the state and of the Big
Horn Basin, passed away at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. L. A. Webb of
Buffalo, after an illness of several
months, at the age of rs.
Capt. w. K. Weaver, who had been
commissioned as chaplain of the Third
Wyoming infantry, has been named by
Governor Houx as adjutant general of
the state, succeeding Maj. Anderson,
who takes his place as major of the
line.
Governor Frank L. Houx has grant.
ed the request of Governor Arthur
Capper of Kansas for the e%xtradition
of Howard Slater, who is wanted at
Ell Dorado, Kan, on a charge of break
ing custody. Slater was arrested at
Casper.
The e $4,000 Y. M. C. A. building
at Fort D.. A. Russell has been formal.
ly dedicated.
Crude petroleum marketed from the
oil districts of Wyoming in 1916 ex-
ceeded the quantity marketed in 1915
by 1,98S,612 barrels, according to sta
tistics compiled by the United States
Geological Survey, Department of the
Interior.
John w. Meddleworth, a farmer liv.
ing at Meadow, t%hirty-five miles north
of Cheyenne, was found lead in a field
where he had been lying for two days.
1t is believed that the man was killed
by a refractory horse he was attempt
ing to drive.
The county commissioners of Yves
ton county have forwarded from Up
ton to the State Highway Commission
here a petition for the creation of a
state highway to be known as the
Sundance-Deadw Newcastle = Doug.
las state highway.
The Liberty Bell is to be exhibited
at Wyoming state fair at Douglas Sept.
l to 10, with a guard of honor consist
ing of United States sailors and sol
diers as an escort. Wyoming is one of
ten states to get this exhibit through
the Liberty Loan committee.
Cheyenne soon will be in the midst
of the greatest building boom since
1912, with more than $500. 0 worth