, 1917-11-08
MING
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Dec. 10-13-Midwinter meeting Scot
fish Rite Masons at Cheyenne.

Thousands of Wyoming women
signed the food pledge cards.
Over $4,000 was subscribed for
Liberty bonds by Wyoming people.
The wyoming statutes require a
b%rand-user TO use a recorded brand.
Plans have been completed for the
establishment of a creamery at Dixon.
Large numbers in every part of the
state are registering for food conser.
walton.
Frank Zogata, one of the employees
of the Monarch mine, vas seriously
injured.
The Dantry Oil Company has been
Incorporated. The capital stock ia
$500, 900. Offices will be at Casper.
Wyoming during 1916 produced 977
ounces of gold valued at 10000 and
3,407 ounces of silver valued at 50, 200.
The Wyoming-K Kentucky Petroleum
Company of Casper filed articles of
incorporation for $5,O00,0 900 capital
stock.
The Glenrock Oil Company brought
in another well in the Pilot Butte
dome, making the third in as many
weeks.
Wheatland farmers were swindled
out of about 5000 by an alleged repre-
sentative of a grocery company of
Denver.
The fuel administration appointed
August Kendall of Rock Springs as
fuel administrator for the state of
Wyoming.
Gus Patriosi, a miner at Cumber-
land, sustained a broker thigh and
other bruises when a fall of o
struck him.
A gang OF surveyors from the office
of the state highway engineer has
been at work laying cut a new road
from the Snake River bridge to Jack
son.
Another good well has been
brought in by Arthur X. Lee and his
associates on the school section six
miles east of Thermopolis and a mile
east of the well of the Warm Springs
Company.
A postmaster's examination will be
HNhe "a y ~ ANONC AhpSl I ~ 90
cure a postmaster to fill the vacancy
in the office at Encampment. W. H.
Wolfard, present postmaster, resigned
last April.
Vern Woods. & Is, was killed at
Clark Forney's ranch OF Miller creek
near Moorcroft. from a blow on the
head received when helping to dehorn
cattle.
c. P. McGlashan, formerly deputy
secretary of state in Cheyenne, was
found dead under his overturned auto
mobile on the road between Lander
and Big Piney.
Jetus Auraual, a foreigner employed
T. a section gang on the Burlington
railroad, was seriously injured at Cas-
per when he stumbled Inc a heavy
rail fell on his right hip. The bone
was crushed.
Word from the Merritt well drilled
by the Midwest Refining Company on
Section s, Big Muddy field, is that the
oil now is flowing strong and that
it will prove good for 1000 barrels a
day or better production.
buhbV - Il. liNtio at casper sen
fenced j. Hood, George Hayes, Oscar
Martin and Lee Thomas, all colored,
to serve from n year to fifteen
months in the state ~penitentiary. The
quartet pleaded guilty to charges OF
grand larceny.
Etna is the stopping place these
days of numerous automobiles loaded
With ,nyfnr. 1nllgnalynrr D,u.u- IL.
past few weeks an unusual rush to
locate claims in the placer mining dis
trict of the Snake River canon has
been in progress.
Transfer of he controlling interest
in the Midway Oil Company, the Tea,
pot Dome Oil Company and the pri.
vate holdings of Mrs. l.. V. Engmann
to an Eastern syndicate, said to be
headed by J.. Ogden Armour, is an.
nounced at Casper.
Reports indicate that good progress
is being made in connection with the
complete installation of standard rig
and heavy equipment on well No. 1 of
the Wyoming Range Oil Company, To-
Gated on the north half of the north
west quarter of Section 25, West Salt
Creek.
Finding of a skeleton near Rattle.
snake Springs, six miles from Clear.
mont, has revived the story of the
disappearance of Young Mcdonald, a
herder employed by Haley brothers of
Buffalo, on September /, 1915. No
trace of Mcdonald has been found
since his disappearance.
The ultimate installation of a 1000.
ton mill TO reduce the immense as.
bestos ore that is being mined near