, 1918-02-14
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

1880
Bell, secretary of the Casper Indus.
trial Club.
Sheridan bars have been ordered to
close at midnight and not reopen I'M
til Z a. m.
A quarantine officer was urged for
Casper to stamp out threatened cpl
demic of scarlet fever.
Guernsey people signed a petition
asking the governor to pardon Will
lam Gibbons. convicted of forgery.
Ex-senator C. D. Clark has sold his
residence in Evanston to Charles Stab.
ley, who will AXE possession abou!
April 1.
Frank Stein, a miner, charged with
%stabbing Charles Underwood, at Gum
was placed in the county jail at Rock
Springs.
Excitement prevails in the Sun
dance community over the discovery
of what promises to be a valuable
gold mine.
John Siegfried, about so years of
age, was found dead in his cabin at
Rock river. 1t is believed that he
froze TO death.
Sixteen volunteers entrained at
Thermopolis for Camp Greene, N. c.
A luncheon was given them by the
Mothers League.
The Mountain & Gulf Oil Company
has let a contract to E. t. Williams to
drill its first well on Sec. 10 in the
Salt Creek field proper.
1t is stated that to date there are
approximately ITO producing wells in
Wyoming and the estimated daily pro-
duction is 10000 barrels.
More detailed reports from the Lusk
oil field are that the Ohio OIL Com
pany, drilling on section 36-36-65, has
a well of 2OO-barrel capacity.
Five trains of soldiers passed
through Laramie en- route from Camp
Lewis. American Lake. to various con-
centration camps In the east.
Casper City Council have declared
that the gambling element and other
undesirables must go from Casper.
Governor Houx honored the requisi-
ton of Governor Lister of Washing
ton for Chester A. Brown, who is
wanted in Gray's Harbor county,
Wash, on a charge Of gambling.
Brown is under arrest in Buffalo.
Midwest Oil Company stockholders
will hold their annual meeting at Phoe-
nix, Ariz., March Z. Among other mat
ters to be considered is increasing the
number of directors from five to
seven, and. If adopted. to name the
enlarged board.
Lee Wolfard, for the past five and
a half years connected with the Cas-
per school system, has resigned and
will leave with his family for Las
Vegas, New Mex, where he will have
charge Of the commercial department
of the Normal University.
George Thompson, of Etna, near
Alton, suffered the loss of two fling
ers and sustained a bullet wound in
his neck Just below his right ear when
his shotgun, with which he was hunt
ing, was accidentally discharged while
he was alighting from a wagon.
Ross Robins, fireman for the Oregon
Short Line at Kemmerer, is a biga.
mist, and the woman he had called his
wife and who in turn had called her.
self his wife also is a bigamist. for
which crime both have been sentenced
to terms in the state penitentiary, but
until they were arrested neither Rob.
bins nor the he called his wife
ever admitted this to the other. .
Mrs. Robert e. Fitch, one of theSold-
est residents Of Laramie, died after an
Illness Of three months. She is sur.
vived by her husband. former cattle
man and state senator. and two sons,
Edwin e. Fitch and Robert G.. Fitch.
Details of the bringing in OF the
Midwest well In a stray sand on the
Glenrock Sheep Company ranch have
reached Cheyenne. When the oil sane
did not appear within 100 feet of the
depth Of the n%eighboring Fenix well,
drillers believed that drilling must go
to the Wall Creek sands when sudden.
ly oil gushed forth in a torrent thai
mounted high above the derrick and
drenched everything within reach.
After retiring in a nervou state OF
mind as a result of reading a burglar
story, Miss Ruth Kimball. daughter OF
w. s. Kimball of Casper. dreamed the
house was being robbed and awoke
with a shrek. to find a real burglar in
her room. The man fled and It wal
believed he had left the house. A few
minutes later he was again heard, and
Kimball. rushing to the part Of the
home from which the noise came, en-.
c%ountered a negro. whom he promptly
beat into submission. He then called
the police.
Carbon OIL Company is drilling in
Copper basin on the border of Carbon