, 1917-11-22


Shoe shines may soar to Is cents in
Cheyenne.
A garage at Rock Springs was bad
ly damaged by fire.
The car shortage is delaying cattle
shipments at Riverton.
Union Thanksgiving services are be-
ing planned at Cheyenne.
Under a new ordinance, Douglas sa-
looms and pool halls close at eleven
o'clock.
The building for the department Of
music at the Laramie University has
been completed.
The school children at Glenrock
sent thirty pounds of homemade can
dy to the soldiers.
Congressman Mondell has secured a
pension of $25 per month for Mrs.
Anne Fleet, of Cheyenne.
j. b. Linn, of Marbleton. met with a
painful accident in Fall River basin
when he was kicked in the mouth by
a horse.
Among the obligations now laid on
farmers none is more memorable than
that to increase the supply of fats
and meats.
Fire in a store room at the Union
Pacific yards in Cheyenne destroyed
nearly fifty mattresses that had been
used in outfit cars.
There was a shooting scrap at a
Rock Springs saloon, but nc N was
injured on account of the poor marks
manship of the two men.
John Hart, a Rock Springs bar
tender. had his throat cut with a razor
in the hands of a negro whom he had
refused a glass of beer.
Aladdin Oil Company, operating on
the south side of the Greybull river
in the Greybull field, has just pene
trated the oil sand On its second well.
Throwing his gun at an escaping
%porcupine, a man named Blaine, at
Riverton, had one hand badly shot by
the gun which discharged when it hit
the ground.
The well on the Unterzuber farm
near Greybull, drilled by the Midwest
do al olLDtl w Nv kAlibhll
brought in several weeks age, has
been completed and is rated as a good
small producer.
A total of $50 men has been sem to
the training camp at American Lake
from Wyoming, and only sos men are
required from the state, according to
information filed with Adjutant Gen
eral W. X. Weaver.
Powder River Junction is scheduled
to see a winter of activity in devel-
opment campaigns mapped out by the
Ohio, Dakota-Wyoming Universal Ex-
%ploration. Domino Wyoming and the
Winona companies.
Part of the refinery to be erected
by the Wind River Petroleum Com
pany on the 5OO-Co-operative sidetrack
below Lander has been ordered. When
completed the refinery will nave a ca
pacity of 5000 barrels a day.
Edward Kelley, working for the
Houghton Construction Company at
Rock River, and with a sister. Mrs.
F. B.. Fisher, living at Denver, was
found dead in the toilet room of n
of the coaches on train No. 4 Upon its
arrival at Laramie.
James r. Foley, of Houston, Tex,
brother of the late John w. Foley,
former Cheyenne laundry operator,
was robbed of a diamond stick pin
valued at nearly s 1000 at a hotel in
Denver. according to advices received
nv friends in Cheyenne
An oil storage tank has been in
stalled at Riverton.
Star Valley people gathered at the
state convict o camp in Salt Creek
canon and treated the convicts to a
fine dinner and program of speeches
as an expression of their appreciation
of the 200 miles of fine road made by
the convicts through the canon, which
connects Star Valley with the rail
road. &.
That a large number of the men in
the 14Sth artillery, which was former
ly the Wyoming National Guard, have
increased pay coming to them If they
can prove the length of time they
have been in the service, which they
are unable to do, is the statement
made by Adjutant General w. X.
Weaver.
A wild west show in which 100 Of
the best riders of Wyoming and Mon
tana-all national army men-took
part, was staged at Camp Lewis. The
riders were all members of the 34Sth
heavy field artillery and Capt. George
Brazer was in charge of TIE arrange.
ments. The 34Sth includes many rid
ers who have won championships at
Pendleton and Cheyenne r%oundups.