, 1918-05-23
Brief News Notes
From All Parts OF
Wyoming

Casper's new city hall will cost
500, 900.
A summer resort is to be built at
Lander.
U. P. employees at Cheyenne have or
ganized a band.
Over fifty new houses are to be
built at Manville.
A poultry association has been or
ganized at Basin.
Twenty-seven have enrolled in Cas-
per's municipal band.
Frank L. Houx has announced him
self a candidate for governor.
Two men were held up and robbed,
one of $50, the other of $14, in Glen
rock.
The last call issued for May 20 will
send 500 Wyoming men to Fort Logan,
Colo, for training.
Sol Schuster of Alton was killed in
action in France. according to a re-
port given out in Washington.
To meet the war needs of the coun-
try, sheep and cattle will be grazed
upon the national forests in increased
numbers this year.
Florence S. Heitz has been appoint
ed postmistress of Superior, and Her
bert M. Brown has been made post
master at Sundance.
In order hat a test may be made to
ascertain whether oil is to be found
nea Cheyenne, a plan has been for
mulated for a community pool to drive
the necessary well.
State Labor Commissioner Ed P.
Taylor received a call for 100 Wyo-
ming laborers. They are asked to re-
port to him at once for service In the
s%hipyards at Portland, Ore.
Twenty-Five dollars a head has been
paid for the o. Olson flock Of Coke
willie by Paul Gabardi of Kemmerer, in
the first sheep transaction since gov
eminent Intervention.
Home production of foodstuffs with
which to win the war is urged in a
bulletin on wartime horticulture, is
sued by Secretary Aven Nelson of the
State Board of Horticulture.
The Wheatland chapter Of the Ma
sonic lodge has started a movement
by which they hope to raise not less
than 100000 for the Red Gross
through the sale of a table.
w. ". Walters, acting secretary,
and @. e. Gerard, an employee, of the
Independent Torpedo Company, were
Hi1lad u,bap n avnloaiop uranhad tho
company's plant near Greybull.
Eight miles southeast Of Douglas.
near the town Of Irvine. the Ajax-Wyo-
ming has spudded in a new well as IN
extension of its development program
on section 6 of the Big Muddy.
Four hundred Belgians, travelling
around the world in order to get into
action on the western front, passed
through Cheyenne and stopped off for
five hours of celebration in their
honor.
John Washable, a grandson of the
famous chief, Washable, of the Sho-
shone tribe, died at American Lake,
Wash, to which place he recently
went as a member of a Wyoming draft
contingent.
Wyoming has made a new record in
the Third Liberty Loan campaign.
While many counties have not made
complete reports, the subscriptions ex-
ceeded by approximately 81, 800, 900 the
original quota of $5,025, 300.
A. w. French, state veterinarian, ex-
nncfc ~ Innua for Drnghfr~ tan - ,1,a
plete arrangements for cooperation
between the federal government and
the state in handling the tuberculosis
situation among the cattle of the state.
Historic Fort Mackenzie is to be
abandoned as a military post.
The May 1 government crop report
shows Wyoming crops in good condi-
ton. the estimated production of win
ter wheat being 1853, 900 bushels, COM
pared with 100000 bushels last year.
Rye and pastures are also in fine con-
dition.
The deepest test oil well in Wyo-
ming is located in the Midway field,
about twelve miles directly north of
Casper, and is being drilled by the
Texas Oil Company. The well has
reached a depth of approximately g.
500 feet.
Alexander Wurmsberger, IS, is dead
at T~orrington and John Leonard so Sc
riously burned that amputation of his
hands may be necessary, as the result
of Wurmsberger's action in carrying a
lighted lantern into a cellar filled with
fumes from a bucket of gasoline.
A. X. Fulton came to his death
through the accidental discharge of a
revolver in the hands of his wife, was
the verdict of the jury summoned by
Coroner C. E. Stevenson to investi.