, 1918-08-29

douglas.
Sept. Is-20-Laramie County Fair.
Riverton is to have a new depot.
OIL men are active in the Byron sec-
ton.
The Home Guards band has been or
ganized at Casper.
Two companies of Home Guards
were mustered in at Casper.
A contract has been let for a ten
stall roundhouse at Cheyenne.
A woman made her escape from the
Sheridan Jail by a rope of sheets.
Red Cross Day at the Cheyenne
races netted the organization $4,000.
The American Oil Company has
started drilling on the second well
near Greybull.
A contract has been let to carry the
U. 8. mails from Wamsutter to various
points in the valley.
Herbert Dewall, 81, of Clay Center.
Kan, was killed by a train at Point of
Rocks where he was working on the
tracks.
Southern Pipe Line Company has
declared a dividend of IS a share, pay
able Sept. 5 to stockholders Of record
Aug. IS.
w. P. Lingle, a driller, is dead from
burns sustained when No. 8 rig Of the
Elkhorn company in the Big Muddy
caught fire.
An effort Ia being made to organize
a cooperative drainage district at Riv-
erton for the reclamation of about T.
900 acres Of and in that vicinity.
A telegram received at the federal
forest service announced the approval
by the secretary Of agriculture Of the
Wind River and Buffalo-Tensleep high
way projects in Wyoming.
Caught beneath a boulder which fell
from the roof Of the Megeath coal
mine. Christ Karangianakis, 35, was
SO badly crushed that he died after
being removed to the state hospital at
Rock Springs.
John Burns. chief of the Indian po
lice on the Wind River reservation,
was shot but o seriously injured by
Zelby Taylor. a Shoshone Indian,
whom he was trying to arrest on a
bootlegging charge.
Representatives of the Bitter Creek
Oil q Shale Company have announ aed
the discovery of a mountain Of oil
bearing shale near Rock Springs and
are making preparations to rush the
construction Of the refinery.
Whan -fhntr ortonn1hyIa ,lu-~oI
twenty-five feet down a gap left by a
missing bridge on a road in the res
ervation, J.. F. White of Lander and
his wife were severely injured, but
four children in the machine miracu-
ously escaped being hurt.
The twentieth death from lightning
in Wyoming since May LIST of this year
is that of Donald Innes, 20, son of
State Representative John Innes, who
was struck while working in a field at
his fathers ranch on the Sybille, thir-
ty miles from Wheatland.
The United States land office at
Douglas has decided against William
Hanley and in favor Of the government
in Hanley's contest to secure title to
a valuable piece of oil land in the Salt
Creek field, estimated to be worth
several hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. The land Is the northeast quar-.
ter of section 3-39-79, in Natrona coun
ty. and was embraced in the govern
ment withdrawal of Sept. 27, 1909.
The taxable valuation of property in
Goshen county has increased 81, 100000
according to figures of County Assess.
or Temple, and is now placed at 81,
$4,000.
The tabled Lost Cabin" mine may
have been r~ediscovered by Jake John.
son, who is reported from H~yattville
in the Big Horn mountains, to have
discovered a cache of tools and gold
nuggets near an abandoned prospect
hole q few miles from that place.
Robert d. Carey of Careyhurst was
nominated for governor on the Repub
lican ticket v Il. R. A. Condit OF
Barnum and M. G. Camplin of Sheri
dan. The Republican nomination fol
state superintendent of public instruc
ton was won by Mrs. r. A. Morton OF
Cheyenne i've Mrs. Lonora Harnsber
ger of Lander and T. b. McDonough OF
Cheyenne. The nomination for state
treasurer was won by H. D. Hoskins Of
Kemmerer yer George w Perry OF
Sheridan. These candidates on the
Republican ticket had no opposition:
William e. Chaplin for secretary oil
state; Ishmeal ]. Jeffries for state au
ditor. Senator Warren for United
States senator and Congressman Mon
dell.
James Wears, a private in the old
Wyoming militia, is the first man from
this state to win the Croix de Guerre
according to a letter received from
Private Sam Ross. another Diamond
vile boy, by relatives. Jim went out
and got four Fritzes" is the meager in
formation given by Ross concernini
Wears bravery.
The Cheyenne office of the National