, 1918-07-18


Sept. is-ac-Laramis County Fair.
A new ~three-story hotel is being
built at Torrington.
Work has been started on Glenrock's
new $4,000 hospital.
About enough stock has been sub
scribed to erect a glass factory at
Lowell.
Seven per CEN of Wyoming's popu-
lation is now In active service Of I'm
Gle Sam.
Nineteen drilling rigs are operating
in the Lance Creek field twenty-five
miles north Of Lusk.
OIL from sixteen wells to a storage
tank is now flowing through o nine
mile pipe line at Thermopolis.
The Mohawk well at Emigrant gap
is again drilling after a long delay
due to fishing jobs and bad hole.
About sixty-five delegates attended
the biennial convention of the United
Mine Workers Association at Chey-
enne.
4hu I WChlyoiAth VIGIL UuAOhShh6 ~
the Glenrock Oil Company in the Pilot
Butte field was brought in ON the Nor
rts lease.
At the recent session Of District
Court at Basin, twenty-four suits for
divorce were filed, and thirteen de-
crees granted.
The Boyer ranch on Snake river will
be improved by the installation Of a
complete electric light plant and wa
terworks system.
1t is reported that a eve belonging
to Major T. Hunter of Kemmerer gave
birth to twin lambs, one of which has
five legs and six feet.
Max Virgil Jr.. 16, was instantly
killed when lightning struck q tepee
in which he was sleeping near South
Pass, 80 miles from Lander.
The new Glenrock well on section 2,
Big Muddy field, is being drilled In.
The last report was that 1000 feet OF
oil is standing in the casing.
A Casper telegram stated it was re-
ported there that the Swingle Oh Com
pany has brought in a 200-barrel we'll
in the Lusk field of Niobrara county.
The American well on the Unterzu-
Der tract will average $50 barrels a
day, according to a pumping test re-
Gently made. This tract is near Grey
bull.
= During the first six months Of 1918
there were chartered by the state of
Wyoming Isl oil companies with an
aggregate capital stock, par value, of
$685. 45 900.
A new development In the Emigrant
Gap was started July s when the Peer
less Petroleum Company spudded in
its first we'll. This is the closest drill
ing to Casper.
Four Wyoming men were named In
the casualty list given out at Washing
to as being wounded: Ralph C. Rob
bins and John C. Ryan, Rawlins; Ed
gar R. Dragoo, Basin, and Joseph
Schlater. Rock Springs.
His head coming into contact with
a live wire feeding the coal cutting
machine which he was operating In
the Brairtown mine at Rock Springs,
Anton Sedley was instantly killed, his
body falling across the machine.
A service flag containing seven
stars is floating from the home of
Mrs. Agnes Schools. for fifty-two
years a resident of Cheyenne. To
free the world Of autocracy Mrs.
Schools has given five sons and two
nephews who made their homes with
her.
The government report gives the
wool weight per fleece this year at 8.4
pounds, compared with so last year.
The first of the women relay riders
who will compete in the championship
ton at Cheyenne. July "a to at already
is on the ground with her string of fast
horses and is trying out her mounts
on the Frontier park track. She is
Dolly Mullins of .Pendleton, Ore, and
the cowboys who have been observing
her at the park report that she ia
some rider"
Governor Houx has honored the re-
QUESTION Of Governor Stewart of Mon
tana, for Albert Hyatt, age "a years,
who is charged with kidnapping Ra-
ohael Britt. aged II years, In Choteau
county, Montana, and who was arrest
ed at Sheridan after he had married
the child. The girl in the case is the
sister Of the wife Of q younger brother
Of Hyatt. Recently, on complaint Of
the father Of the girl, the younger NY
att was arrested On a charge Of hav-
ing committed a statutory offenss
against his sister-in-law. Mrs. Hyatt,
q few days ago. became a mother at
the state hospital at Sheridan.
The sale by the sheriff at Casper OF
the assets Of the international Asbes-
tos Company IL the closing chapter Of
a record high finance" which gave
WYOMING N natfnu.wfda ahiaok avop .