, 1918-12-26

"'he "ociSio"tlS ASSoSiatiOh 49,
Lander.
Pine Bluffs will be "dry" after
Jan. 3.
Fire destroyed two garages and one
a in Cheyenne.
About 1000 riders participated in
the Sheridan wolf drive.
Cheyenne street car fares have been
raised from five to seven cents.
The home of Mrs. Lita Marienee,
near Sheridan, was destroyed by fire.
Laramie county farmers have
marketed so much grain that the ele-
vators are all full.
Laramie sheep won the grand cham
pionship at the International Live
Stock show at Chicago.
Legislative places are being dis
sion of solons nears.
Improvements estimated at $4,000
will be made on st. Johns hospital at
Jackson in the spring.
Park county, it is said, will be dry
after the first of the year, the com
hiiooiohCio itluoihB " loouC liSohoOos
After ten weeks of quarantine, ow-
ing to influenza, the City Health De
partment of Douglas has raised the
ban.
The Ohio Oil Company now has
erected more than forty storage tanks
in the vicinity of its pioneer well in
the Lusk field.
A number of Cheyenne's young men
who were in attendance at the student
army training corps in various West
ern colleges are returning home.
The report of State Treasurer Her
man 3. Gates for the two years end
ing Sept. 80, 1918, is now completed
n shows that the levy for the year
1918 was 81 mills, as compared with
1856 for 1917.
Word was received in Cheyenne that
the 17-year-old daughter of Warden
Felix Aston of the state penitentiary
had passed away in Los Angeles. She
nj her mother had been spending the
winter in California.
DR.. w. H. Robertson of Lander is
the new secretary of the State Board
of Sheep Commissioners having been
chosen at an adjourned meeting of the
board in Cheyenne. He succeeds DR..
H. R. Willard, deceased.
Wyoming men named in the casual
ty list include: Louis Lurand, Clover
ly, killed in action; Stephen Barras,
Rock Springs. severely wounded in &C
ton; Capt. Edward York, Cheyenne,
wounded, degree undetermined.
Plans are being completed at Lam
der for the entertainment of the teach
ers who will gather Dec. 80 to Jan. 1
for the wyoming State Teachers AS
ISOLATION, County Superintendent or
g%anization and School Trustees Asso-
citation and the county institutes of
Fremont and Natrona.
Sheriff Mossberg while bringing a
prisoner back from Sheridan. Tex.
lost the man in Nebraska, where he
jumped from the window of a toilet
on a passenger car near Lincoln. He
made good his escape. The prisoner,
l.. E. Ward, was wanted at Sheridan
for the theft OF a 1854 draft from a
ledger at a Sheridan hotel.
In the casualty list are the names
of the following men: Died of disease,
Private William b. Harvey, Riverton.
Missing in action, Private Dewey w.
Stanley, Casper; Private Forest e.
Howe, Lowell. Wounded in action,
Private Paul McConaughy, Middleton.
Private Carl S. Gupton. Gillette; Pri-
rate John L. Smith, Hanna; Private
Alfred Miers, Rawlins; Private Frank
j. Morgan, Laramie.
A summary of the government crop
report on winter wheat in Wyoming
on Dec. / says: Fall planted 96, 900
acres, compared with $1,000 acres
planted last year. Condition Dec. 1.
81 per cent of normal. compared with
SO per cent a year ago. Indicating
next years production 2,304,000
bushels. or 100000 bushels over that
of last year. On rye, the report says:
Fall planted 10000 acres, compared
with 10000 acres last year, an increase
of Q per cent over last year. Condi-
ton Dec. l, 9S per cent of normal,
and 81 per cent last year.
Scores of saloons in Wyoming may
suspend business the first of January
if an opinion given city officials OF
Sheridan by City Attorney R. G. Die
fenderfer is upheld by courts. Die
fenderfer advised Mayor M. B. Camp
lin of Sheridan that liquor licenses
must be paid In full n yea in al
vance and that the state law prohibits
city governments from granting re-
bates on licenses once paid. AS war
prohibition becomes effective July I
next, saloons renewing their licenses
the first of the year must pay for an
entire year with the privilege of OPP
Grating but six months.
Sheep worth $4,000 went through a
hole in the ice IN Wind river, near
Shoshoni as the flock was being
driven across the stream. The ami.