, 1918-01-17

Pinedale reports that the Bridger
forest will be enlarged.
Wyoming people are buying a large
number of Thrift Stamps.
The home of Miss Eta Demmon, at
Sheridan, was destroyed by fire.
The Red Cross drive is over and
Burns has now a membership of 1856.
Between $50 and 800 members have
been secured to the 100 Per Cent Am
erican Club of Cheyenne.
The Casper-Embar Company, in its
weekly statement, says that q blizzard
has retarded work in the Hidden
Dome field.
The Apex Refining Company has Sc
lccted a site in Laramie for its refin-
cry to care for the oil from the Big
Hollow field.
The Madson-Wyoming Oil Company,
controlling some $1,000 acres OF Wyo-
ming oil lands, is planning, it is stated,
to put down a well near Douglas.
Six men at Rock Springs we're
Jailed charged with having uttered
reasonable and unpatriotic senti-
ments against the government of the
United States.
The Midway well on section 80 in
the West Salt Creek field has been
drilled several Get INTO a hard shaie
which is thought to be above the first
Wall Creek sand.
Registration of Wyoming automo,
biles during 1918 will probably show
$4,000 cars owned and operated in the
state, according to Frank II. Wescott,
deputy secretary of state.
A request to list at once the mum
Der of women and girls various Chey-
enne establishments are employing at
this time was mad by State Labor
Commissioner Edward P. Taylor.
The Warm Springs, six miles east of
Thermopolis, is among the latest ar
rivals in oildom. -Four companies are
producing oil-the Leslie. Warm
Springs, Cyco and Idaho Wyoming.
Sinclair Oil and Refining Company's
net earnings are running at the rate
of $780, 900 a month, or 1920, 900 a
year. after taxes and depreciation, ac
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Three prisoners escaped from the
county Jail at Wheatland last night
by tearing out the brick wall at the
rear of the building in the same a
ner that another man got out a few
weeks ago.
Reports from Casper state hat the
Curtis and New York Oil Companies
have capped their big gasser in the
Iron Greek field, and that the rig has
been moved 1000 feet to sink another
hole for gas.
Under the terms of the newly en-
acted registration law for stations
and jacks, 339 animals in wyoming
have been registered with the state
veterinarian, according to the annual
report of DIR. A. w. French.
Among the aggressive organizations
in newer fields is the Curtis Petro-
leum and Cook Oil Companies. These
concerns and a number of others have
started active operations on Iron
Creek, Oil Mountain, Poison Spider,
South Casper Creek, Emigrant Gap
and Virginia Dome.
The Wyoming Stellar Oil Company,
incorporated under the laws of Wash
ington as the Wyoming Star Oil Com
pany, has taken over much of the hold
ings of the Minerva and Pierre Oil
Companies in the Alkali Butte field
and has shipped a rig to Riverton for
the drilling of its first well.
Engineer l.. w. Hamilton and Fire
man j. r. Cobb, both of Sheridan,
were killed in a head-on collision be
tween two Burlington trains at Gro
ton, thirty-five miles from Gillette.
The Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph Company's report for wyo
ming indicates what oil has done for
the business of the state, and partic-
ularly for Casper. New lines have
been built all over the state, and 1000
more phones have been Installed in
Casper than were in a year ago.
Interest of oil men is centering in
the Hidden Dome. 1t is said that the
Ohio Company's gasser is up to S.OOO,-
900 cubic feet, and with the Casper
Embar, Hecla-Wyoming, Ohio and
Baker Companies nearly into the oil
sands, it is believed that one of these
will be in soon.
George Nrievich, Assyrian, arrested
at Cheyenne by officers from the po-
lice and sheriff's force, after stead
lastly denying that ne had assaulted
and robbed James Watkins. employed
in a mine near Hecla, later confessed
that It vas he who had cut Watkins
face to ribbons and robbed him of
nearly $500 in cash.
That Wyoming is n of the few