, 1917-12-27

Association at Douglas.
Three men were injured when a
trestle collapsed at Rawlins.
Glenrock will be represented by a
live commercial organization.
Two new bridges are to be placed
across wood river near Meeteetse.
Pinedale is again being served with
mail by auto service on the Opai-Pine-
dale line.
The government bought nineteen
head of horses for army use from
Laramie men.
The Hidden Dome field promises to
be the most active field in Wyoming
at the close of the year.
The schools of Frontier were closed
because of the epidemic of scarlet fe-
yer, measles and diphtheria.
The electric light service was re-
sumed in Baggs, the new machinery
having been fully installed.
Glenrock liquor dealers have sue
cumbed to the inevitable and agreed
to curtail saloon hours by closing at
midnight.
The dead body of an unidentified
man was found by the railroad track
~three-quarters of a mile east of Medi
cine Bow.
More thai 81. 250, 900 ave been sub
scribed to the first and second liberty
loans as a direct result Of oil develop
ment in Wyoming.
Banks and other financial instftu'
lions everywhere are rendering patri
otto service in the sale of the war
saving certificates.
The townsite of Manville, reported
by biologists to be underlain with
quantities of oil, is to be drilled to
prove or disprove the theory.
Steps for the uniform valuation OF
oil property in all counties of the
state will be taken at an early date
as a result of the conference of coun
ty assessors.
That the Union Pacific will erect q
$125 900 hotel and depot at Laramie tc
replace the hotel recently destroyed
by fire was asserted by an official in
authority while on a visit in Rawlins
The trustees of the University OF
Wyoming at Laramie, Jan. s. will re
ceive bids in terms of the highest per
centage of royalty for five-year oil
and gas leases for all of 22-20-77 and
the north half of 4-19.77.
Two more mich cows have beer
lost because of rabies by d. L.. Wad
dell, ranchman of western Wyoming
who lives nea briggs, Ida, according
to information received by DR.. A. w.
French, state veterinarian.
George Macdonald, banker, wanted
for fraud, was arrested in San Fran
cisco. He is declared to have de
frauded a large number of small farm
ers and stockmen from ChugwateI
north to Douglas and is wanted on
five counts.
Clarence E. Harper, a clerk of Raw
Inns who, while serving as deputy
sheriff with Sheriff l.. B.. Gaylord OF
Lander in removing prisoners over
land from hat city to Rawlins sus
tained a fractured skull when the cal
overturned, is dead.
pdlhclo' SapkboliSNo Iii hhtiS q
are preparing to take up over 2,00C
acres in the Dry Piney field and La
Barge field, located in Lincoln and
Sweetwater counties. During the last
ninety days over 1000 acres have
been located in this district.
News was received from CamI
Mills that Ray Eddy died from a Sc
,,or, ,ttanly 90 rn,,n,n,io d., $780,,
n of the boys who enlisted from
Dwyer in the early summer.
The Bolivia Land and Livestock
Company of Casper, numbering among
its directors some of the most widely
known stockmen of central Wyoming
filed articles of incorporation with tbs
secretary of state. The capital stocl
of the new company is $4,000, 900 and
81 ,005 was required as a filing fee.
In order to minimize the dangers Of
fires from Christmas trees, Fire Chic
George Bates of Cheyenne fire depart
ment, has asked parents and directors
of Christmas entertainments to keel
cotton, paper and all inflammable ma
terial off the trees on which Sants
Claus is expected to hang his gifts.
DIR. A. W. French, state veterknar
ian, who returned to Cheyenne from
the western part of the state where hi
has been investigating the condition.
relative to the spread of rabies, EN-
phatically denies the report thai
coyotes in that district are rabid ana
spreading the diseases among live
stock.
Motorists travelling south on the OLE
Fort Collins road from Cheyenne dis
rnyarad tho hna,y 10 H,,at Eo. Il