, 1918-04-11
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

Lusk is to have a 100000 rooming
house.
Only one Lander boy was called
in the last draft.
The town OF Wheatland will build
ar electric light plant.
The Laramie school board voted to
discontinue the course in German.
The cornerstone for the new Ma
sonic temple at Riverton has been
laid.
The construction of a $4,000 sewer
trunk line is being considered at
Lowell.
here are today $50 drilling wells
n rs rigs up in the various fields in
Wyoming.
The drill is again pounding away in
the well of the One Hundred Oil Com
pany south of Douglas.
Tel state officials Chopped in and
collectively secured a $1,000 w. s.. S.
membership in the Cheyenne drive.
The Simpson Ridge district in Car
bon County is being tested by the Pro
ducers and Refiners' corporation.
A human foot, blackened, carrying
considerable flesh and a portion of
stocking. IA dug from a car of coal
on the Northwestern tracks at Cas-
per.
The Duncan-Wyoming Oil Company
is making good progress on its second
hole OF the Duncan dome, on Mud
Creek. eighteen miles southwest of
Thermopolis.
2. L. Squier and William Bender of
jamestown. N. Y, have organized the
Chedacoin Oil Company and are ar
ranging to operate in the Lincoln and
Uinta county fields.
Although the quota allotted to Wyo-
61S men. State Labor Commissioner
edward P. Taylor has already signed
up for the reserve 1923 men.
Appropriation of $50, 900 for reclaim
alton work on the Wind River reser-
walton in Fremont county was ap-
proved by the Senate, according to a
Washington dispatch.
Declarations that the oft rumored
pipe line from the Wyoming oil fields
to the Standard refinery at Regina,
Canada, will be started at once, are
being made in oil circles in Wyoming.
The jury in the case of Ruth Ora
ham. charged with the murder of
Chicken" Graham, her husband, In a
Sandbar f~racas, last fall, returned a
verdict of manslaughter at Casper.
The Great Western Sugar Company
notified beet growers at Riverton that
a flat rate of $40 a ton will be paid
for the 1918 crop of sugar beets. Last
year the average price paid for bsets
was $6.S7.
Prosecuting Attorney Sam Thomp-
son obtained various pleas of guilty
from the four men accused of the kill
ing of Gust Kondaks, a Greek taxicab
driver, the night of Dec. Z, at Chey-
enne.
Manville is rapidly growing into a
city with plans for a $4,000 hospital,
a 100000 school building, a SIS 900
bank, a $4,000 business block and
twenty LEI homes, besides the pro-
posed 100000 hotel.
l.. A. Broderick. for the last seven
years Union Pacific railway passen-
ger agent at Cheyenne, but who lost
his position a few days ago attempt
ed to commit suicide by stabbing him
self in the left breast.
Thirty-seven wells were completed
in Wyoming during March of which
number rs were producers, two were
gas wells and 10 were dry. The pro-
duction for the month is closely esti-
mated at 2,130 barrels.
enator John B.. Kendrick was noti-
fled that Assistant Secretary of the
Interior Vogelsang has signed an or
der designating 966,S32 acres in the
Sundance district for the use of stock
men under the s~tock-raising law.
c. V. 10y, an oil operator, who
claims to be from Casper, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree
at Cheyenne, The jury refused to
recommend capital punishment. 10y
killed William Ashford, a negro port
er in a Cheyenne hotel.
Mrs. Josephine Boukal, a waitress,
was instantly killed in the overturn,
ing of an automobile on the road near
Carneville, a short distance from Sher-
idan, the driver of the car, who is said
to have been Stanly Potz, fleeing from
the scene of the accident on realizing
that the machine had overturned.
The annual boys and girls roundup
is to be held the week beginning June
18th at the State University. Fifty
two young people will receive praati-
cal, intensive training in agriculture
and home economics for six days, and
their home for that period will be In
fanfG nm fhn ITnfuar.it. z.