, 1918-03-07
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

in the state.
A $~1Jo3O,OOO glass factory may be
located at Lowell.
Work has beer resumed on the Ma
sonic temple at Riverton.
A contract for a new school building
at Casper has been let.
Three prisoners dug their way out
of the Rock Springs Jail.
Work has been started on Glen.
rocks new $4,000 hotel.
Casper's fire fighting equipment will
be increased and made more efficient.
Sweetwater county hopes to be the
first Wyoming county to have a coun.
ty nurse.
Activities in the newly developing
oil fields near Lusk are making a neal
boom in that section.
Fremont county stockmen will ask
the next legislature to enact more
stringent livestock inspection laws.
The Young Oil Company's well Nc. 1
on section 1876 struck Oil at 1890
feet that filled the pipe to 600 feet.
Drilling at shallow depth, with prof
'NboAS ASouAtpB 10 iSRollCu aI ob.
Mary's dome, situated a few miles
north of Fort Steele.
The Wyoming council of national de-
Tense is working out a child welfare
program the purpose of which is to re-
duce infantile mortality to a minimum.
Announcement is made at Casper of
the merger of the Natrona County
Electric Company and the Wyoming
Electric Company. The new company
will be known as the Natrona Power
Company.
The Casper Country Club. incorpor-
ated, better known as the Brewery
Bungalow, was raided and the men
and women found there have been ar
rested charged with b%ootlegging and
moral deficiency.
Duncan-Wyoming Oil Company
spudded in on the Mud Creek field.
The site of the operations of this COM
pany is the William Duncan farm, To-
Gated about eighteen miles southwest
Of Thermopolis.
George Beck is lead and DR.. c. A..
Harmon is seriously wounded as the
result of an accident in which the
| speeder they were rushing from Upton
to Thornton was overtaken by a train.
Beck was killed instantly.
Bethlehem Oil and Gas Company, a
new corporation composed of Colum-
bus, Ohio, capitalists, has leased g.
900 acres in Albany county. This
company already controls $4,000 acres
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ties.
A monster gray wolf which has beer
terrorizing the community in the
neighborhood of Brooks ranch, was
shot by John Stevenson of Buffalo,
and the hide brought to town. Re
wards amounting to nearly 800 have
been offered for the animal.
Using a case knife to crumble away
the cement over a portion of the floor
Ralph Nesbit and Forest (Porky)
Gault, held on grand and petit larceny
charges, dug their way to freedom
from the "bull pen" of the Casper city
Jail.
"oil experts who have been investi-
eating the Big Muddy oil field declare
that it is to be the biggest and rich
est field in the United States. 1t is
now believed certain that the field
will have at least 1000 acres of oil
proven ground. These experts con-
servatively estimate $4,000 barrels of
oil to the acre. giving a potential pro-
duction of at least 245 100000 barrels,
which at the present market price is
worth 1882, O00, O00," says the Tulsa
Oil and Gas Journal.
Charles R. Yeoman, of Sundance,
and Grant T. Stahl, of Buffalo, have
been appointed receivers of public
moneys at the land offices in above
named cities and Carl H. Massie has
been appointed register Of the Sun
dance land office.
One of the wells being drilled by
the Northwest OIL Company in the
Big Muddy field of Wyoming is on
property adjoining a well brought in
recently by the Merritt OIL Corpora
ton with an initial production estl-
mated at 500 barrels a day.
"If the c~oroneris jury finds that the
killing of H%arrigan was ~felenious
Wyoming state officers still will have
no power to arrest and prosecute
members of the Colorado constabu-
larry" This statement, made by f. ].
Green, deputy district attorney for
Weld, Boulder and Larimer counties,
is construed as indicative that Wyo-
ming officials are wasting time in in,
vestigating the death of Ray Harrigan,
Denver man who was shot by mem
bers of the Colorado state police, and
that whatever action may grow out OF