, 1917-11-01

A e bank will soon open in Doug
las.
Greybull is to have a depot and
shops.
Cheyenne freight houses now close
at 4 o'clock.
A Kemmerer saloon was robbed OF
$3.50 worth of liquor.
Many farms are changing owners
in the Pine Bluffs section.
The Master Painters at Casper were
granted an increase in wages.
A Casper chapter of the American
Mining Congress is being planned.
A new roller mill will be started
soon by a company formed at Etna.
Six colored men of Cheyenne will go
to the, training camp at American
Lake.
A Casper oil exchange, at one ses-
sion, pledged s74,55O for Liberty
bonds.
West Salt creek continues to be
the theater of an active drilling cam
paign.
Robbers not only took Sos but also
the cash register from a Rock Springs
saloon.
The Wyoming Sunday School AS,
ISOLATION held its annual meeting in
Casper.
The Owl Oil Company was incorpo-
rated for $10O, 900, represented by TO-
100000 shares.
The county commissioners at
Wheatland have let the contract for
six new bridges.
There Is a bumper potato crop in
the Basin section and the quality is
about the average.
Mrs. Moore, librarian, reports that
1920 books were issued to patrons OF
the Laramie library.
Beet growers of the Big Horn River
valley are on the jump harvesting
their bumper crop.
The State of Wyoming, through
State Treasurer Gates. bought $4,000
worth of Liberty bonds.
The U. P. will rebuild the depot
at Laramie, but may not include the
hotel partly destroyed by fire.
A hotel at Lingle was raided for
bootleggers and a quantity of liquor
and the principal offenders taken.
Under its first cloak of winter Cas-
per temperature reached a minimum
of 10 degrees above zero October goth.
Glenrock Oil Company has placed
a drilling outfit on its recently &C
quired 3,000-acre holdings in the
Douglas field.
Jim Fisher, one of the old-time res.
idents of Carbon county, died at the
hospital in Rawlins following an auto
mobile accident.
Rawlins reports that the rig belong
ing to the United States Petroleum
Company, working on section 16, was
destroyed by fire.
Vern Woods, age Is, was killed at
Clark Forney's ranch on Miller creek
near Moorcroft, from a blow on the
head received when helping to dehorn
cattle.
William Park, proprietor of the
Park Hotel bar at Rock Springs, was
shot and killed by Edward Walsh, al
lhOu6h NHc DuliCl was lhtdhl lOl DlI-
bert Hanlon.
The Leslie Oil Company, drilling
five miles east of Thermopolis, has
cut into a flow of black oil at a depth
of $50 feet. The flow is estimated
at 200 barrels a day.
Another good well has been brought
in by Arthur X. Zee and his associ.
ates on the school section six miles
east of Thermopolis and a mile east
of the well of the Warm Springs com
pany.
Alex Haulpanir, a confessed desert.
er from the United States navy. has
been taken back to Great Lakes, Ill.
He was recently arrested at Sheri-
dan charged with robbery at Clear.
mont.
stephen Boyd, aged Is years, one
of the pioneer settlers of Laramie and
Albany counties, who died after a long
illness brought on by a complication
of diseases due to old age, was buried
at Laramie.
When a plumber working on the
school house at Byron lighted a match
to test a connection, an explosion
caused by escaping gas occurred
which caused about 500 damage to
the building.
The body Of A. d. Hawkensen, 38,
who wandered away from the Kinnear
ranch at Pilot last July and was
drowned in the Big Wind river, was
found on the Harvey Bloom ranch
near the Kinnear place.
Immediately north of the Plunkett