, 1918-02-07

An anti-saloon league has been or
ganized for Hot Springs county.
Herds Of elk are destroying much
property In the vicinity of Sundance.
Gen. Pershing reported the death Of
Private Earl NJ. Morris of Jireh, from
pneumonia
A cigar store at Jackson was robbed
Of about 500 in gold, which was taken
from a punch board.
DIR. M. G. Traugh, former county
commissioner and veteran Of the Civil
War, died at his home near Otto.
The Great Western Sugar Company
is understood to be contemplating the
erection of a sugar factory at Lingle.
The Reclamation Service will build
a hydro electric plant near Lingle the
power to be used to complete the
work on the canal.
A good showing of oil is reported in
the well Of the United States Petrole-
UNI Company in Lost Soldier field at
q depth of LOO feet.
The Midwest Refining Company
will expend 81, 900 during the year
for increasing the capacity of its Cas-
per and GreybuIl refineries.
The Wyoming Building and Invest
ment Company will break ground for
the erection of q $3.50, 900 hotel and
office building at Glenrock.
The Douglas Electric Company has
asked the State Public Service for
permission to raise the rates charged
for light and power in Douglas.
The Twenty-second Annual Frontier
Day celebration will be held In Chey-
enne Wednesday. Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, July "a. 20, &c and 27.
1918.
The Yellowstone Petroleum Com
pany was Incorporated at Douglas,
those interested in it being Douglas
and Colorado men. The capital stock
is 100000.
c. C. Fowler of Riverton, shot q
mammoth eagle about ten miles from
Riverton. The bird measured seven
feet eight inches acros the wings,
from tip to tip, and t~hirty-five inches
from the end Of list tail to the bill.
According to those in touch with
the homeseeking situation in Chey-
enne it is declared hat there never
was such an acute shortage of homes
in Cheyenne nor such prosperity and
so many requests for accommodations.
Word has been received from the
American camp in France that mis-
guided individuals in Rock Springs
have sent letters to men in hat camp
casting unpleasant i~nsinuations on
the conduct of wives and sweet
hearts.
Frank Jones, a negro who was con-
victed of bootlegging in Cheyenne re-
Gently and who has only been out Of
the penitentiary at Rawlins a few
days following the completion of his
sentence for that offense, will face
trial in Cheyenne for the assault of
Mrs. Dick Combs.
Pine Bluffs schools closed for a
week owing to a scarlet fever cpl
demic.
Former Senator Patrick Sullivan of
Casper has placed $4,000 in gold in a
bank in that city to be given as fol-
lows: $1,000 to the first American
aviator who drops a bomb on Berlin;
1000 If he is from Wyoming; $4,000
II from Casper.
Japanese section men, working Q
few miles south Of Douglas found q
money belt containing 1920 In cur
rency, some gold. a Liberty bond and
several drafts belonging to Alfred e.
Bigelow of Moscow. Idaho, and it was
returned to him.
The people OF Worland are jubilat-
ing over information from the Hidden
Dome field stating that Ohio Com
pany's No. 2 well is spouting oil and
water, at intervals gushing over the
derrick top and then subsiding to a
more even flow.
DIR. Fred w. Phifer, who had sue
ceeded by his talk against war meas
ures and the administration In max
ing himself extremely unpopular, was
hanged in effigy at Wheatland and a
card placed on the dummy declared
him a pro-German.
Maverick Springs is being watched
with intense interest by oil men Sew
eral large companies are now in the
field with rigs about ready to start
drilling. Some of the lands which
brought the big prices at the govern
ment sale last October at Fort Wash
axle are situated in Maverick. Oil has
been discovered there, but owing to
the TACT the government withdrew the
land these wells were never tested to
capacity.
1t is reported that the output Of oil
a.o- n1Lr nauin dtsrIpO tha vaar 1O15