, 1917-10-11

Work has started on Lander's new
hotel.
George Brian. committed suicide at
Douglas.
Many lambs will be fed in the Wor.
land district.
Large cattle shipments being made
from Moorcroft.
A lot of jewelry was taken from a
store in Worland.
Parties are getting oil leases on all
sides of Pine Bluffs.
Two stores in G%reybull were bur
glarized in one night.
Casper has a population of S,474, as
shown by the new directory.
Harry Cook, 60, a Meeteetse laborer,
was found dead in his room.
A large corr fodder crop is being
cut in the Carpenter section.
Chas. L. Becker has been appointed
general land surveyor for Wyoming.
Aaron Wiggin, of Thermopolis, was
killed when a bucking horse fell on
him.
Sugar beet harvesting has started
In the Lowell district, and a bumper
crop is indicated.
Evanston witnessed the best horse
during the roundup that she
has been offered for many years.
The first oil well to be drilled in
Platte county is to be sunk by the
Glendo Oil, Gas and Petroleum Com
pany.
Wyoming during 1916 produced GIT
ounces of gold valued at $20, 200, and
3.4O7 ounces of silver, valued at
$4,000.
Sixty-seven cases will come up for
trial at the October term of the Con-
verse County Court. Eleven of these
are criminal cases.
The strike made by the Tyndall-
Wyoming in Government draw, nine
miles east of Lander, has brought on
a rush to that field.
A member of the section gang at
Granger was killed when a train ran
into the "speeder" upon which the sec
ton men were riding.
Lac Boyd, 20, of Duluth, Mimi, died
at Gebo from pneumonia contracted
he vas ~incarcerated in a boz
car for nearly a week.
-Four new companies filed articles of
incorporation last week. This makes
about 275 companies organized in the
fold tbio yoor
The Merritt company has abandoned
the idea of shooting its well on SEQ
ton 9, Big Muddy, which at present
is doing 300 barrels daily.
Bringing in of a 1O0-barrel well on
the property of the Southwest OIL
40 miles west of Newcastle.
has created unusual excitement.
Several hundred people attended the
barbecue and 'spudding in" Of the
Pyramid Oil and Refining Company's
well in the La Barge oil field.
Mrs. Hatfield who has held the po-
sition of superintendent of schools In
county ever since the coun.
ty was organized, has resigned the
The Out West Company is continu-
ing down its well on section 20, west
Salt Creek, against the column of oil
which came into the hole from a fault
in the shale at 400 feet.
Five thousand dollars will be ex.
pended on the Lincoln Highway be-.
tween Laramie and the Carbon county
line between now and the end of the
year If the weather will permit.
German Lutherans of the Lowell
will erect a church and
secured a minister who will also
act as schoolmaster. The church will
be used for a school during the week.
The ridge running from the develop
ing section of Big Muddy, which in.
sections 4, 5, 8 and 9, to the
southwest, splitting between the At.
Gibson well in 10 and the Midwest Re
filming water well in 10, is one of the
parts of the district.
There are seven producing wells in
the Wall Creek sands; ten more deep
enough to be expected in any day and
five stray sand wells and twenty flow.
ing from Shannon sands now in the
Big Muddy, according to late figures.
Ten months ago there was one deep
well and six in the shallow sands.
Both Robert Hammonds, given a
hearing on a charge of
shot and killed his wife, Ethel
and John Clark, tried be-
fore Justice of the Peace w. H. Ed.
wards for cutting to death Deacon"
Jones, are being held in the county
Jail without bail to await trial before
the October term of the District Court
at Cheyenne.
The excellence of Sheridan county