, 1918-05-02
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming


Walter E. Patterson has been in
stalled postmaster at Wheatland.
Thermopolis has voted 500, 900 bonds
to improve the water and W. sys-
tens.
President Wilson has nominated
William H. Edley to be land office re-
ceiver at Lander.
Daniel F. Hudson of Cheyenne has
been reappointed United States mar
shall for Wyoming.
Big Bend OIL Company has erected
tanks and will soon spud in on its
large tract near Riverton.
French Oil Company drilled in a dry
hole on section 28-40-79, West Salt
Creek, into the first Wall Creek sand.
Nine Of Wyoming's twenty-one coun-
ties had gone cover the top" in the
Third Liberty Loan drive before Lib
erty day.
State Labor Commissioner Taylor
does not take much stock In the sto-
ries that there is a scarcity of labor in
the West.
Mark Hirsch, an oil man from Ian
der, who had been staying in Denver
for a month died suddenly of apo
plexy at a Denver hotel.
Hudson OIL Company recently
brought in its No. Ia well in the Lam
der field, the sands being tapped at a
depth of 1900 feet.
Diohn-4 rroa+,. Ero~ forpaar raat-
dent of Salt Lake City and for many
years bishop of South Bountiful, died
at his farm home in Byron.
Wyoming sheepmen in the vicinity
of Baggs are in need of all the men
they can get to act as shearers. The
wages are $3.50 a day and board.
On the eve of the nationwide cele-
bration Of Liberty day Laramie coun-
TVS quota in the loan drive had been
exceeded by practically 80 per cent.
Sundance claims to be the first
Wyoming town to exceed its Liberty
Loan quota. It's portion was $4,000
and $4,000 was raised the first day.
Kinney well No. 81, section 4, Big
Muddy field, which found the Wall
Creek sand, had drilled fifty-seven feet
into pay rock. The flow has increased
with depth.
Word reached Cheyenne that the
fourth Of the series Of officers train
ing schools will be opened May IL.
The University of Wyoming has again
been allotted a quota.
George Bezda, q Pole, il in q serious
condition in the hospital at Sheridan
from gunshot wounds inflicted by 81
mon Stevens at Acme, where both are
employed in the Acme mines.
j. A. Salmons, police judge of Lara
ME, and formerly member of the State
Legislature, died suddenly. He was
noble grand Of Albany lodge Odd Eel
lows and leaves his widow, three sons
and a daughter.
John Hammergreen, q Swede. claim
ing to be a personal friend of the kai-
ser, Is in jail at Sheridan and his
brand new gun with which he intend
ed to kill himself a policeman" has
been confiscatsd.
Robert Stoll, who enlisted in the reg
ular army last October and later was
with the American expeditionary
forces in China, was buried at Rock
Springs. He contracted pneumonia
while in China and succumbed Ian. IS.
Robert White Of Lander was SEN
fenced to pay 800 as a fine and serve
sixty days in the county Jail for ille-
gally killing mountain sheep. White
was associated in illegal game killing
operations with e. s. Dykes, a taxi
dermist, who recently was given a sim
liar sentence.
John Miller, who declared love and
loyalty to the kaiser in a store at Cody
has begun to serve his sentence Of
sixty-three days. He was sentenced to
thirty days and costs which he refused
to pay and his sentence was accord
ingly heightened.
James Dougherty, sc, believed to
have been the only man living in Wyo-
ming to be present when the Union
and Central Pacific railroads were
Joined at Promontory, Utah, May 10,
1869, completing the first continental
railroad. died at Laramie.
Thirty-two Wyoming citizens were
named to represent the state at the
win the Wa for Permanent Peace"
convention to be held at Philadelphia
May 16 to IS. The meeting is to be
hold under the auspices OF the League
to Enforce Peace, of which William H.
Taft is president.
Two unmarried meh of foreign birth
who refused to subscribe to the Lib
erty loan because they would be
hanged for it when they returned to
the old country" were treated to a
coat of tar and feathers by the patri-