, 1918-05-16
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
June IS named as w. s. 8. Day for
final drive.
Riverton is to have a new 100000
business block.
Riverton is to have gas, according
to reports from that section.
The first boy to return to Cody
from France is Paul H~ilsenbeck.
Wyoming people bought $6,s59,SOO
worth of third Liberty Loan bonds.
A furniture factory and a brick
plant are being planned for Lander.
The May l government report
shows Wyoming crops in good condi-
ton.
Robbers stole $500 worth of silver
plate and jewelry from a Rawlins
store.
Western Range Oil Company is one
of the latest concerns to get into the
oil game in Wyoming.
THE war casualty list on the 9Th
stated that Horace Quivey of Encamp-
ment died of disease.
The lease obtained recently from
the Riverton-Wyoming Oil Company
by John P. Murray and others In the
Plunkett oil field will soon be tested.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ward of Cody
received a telegram that Asa Smith
had died in the army hospital in New
York city, death coming from a severe
case of pneumonia.
The school electors of Cheyenne
placed themselves on record as op-
posed to the teaching of German in
the schools of that district. A course
in Spanish will be substituted for the
eliminated subject.
With the n~inety-two men who en-
trained May 10, the S16 to go May 20
and the 167 to go May 81, and 80 for
special work, makes 1,275 Wyoming
men called into the service in less
than a months time.
The state of Wyoming's income
during March from the sale of roy
atty oil from wells on lands leased
from the state was S43,500. The In
come from this source during April
was at least $4,000.
Shorty Gillard, condemned to be
hanged for the murder Of Cornell
Cooper during a saloon brawl, died in
Jail at Hulett after he had taken
poison, which he previously had So
GREETED in his clothing.
Charles Ray Wood, a farm hand,
attempting to board an east-bound
through freight at Lingle, was thrown
under the wheels and terribly man
gled. He died in about two hours at
the hospital at Torrington.
The people OF Wyoming are called
upon to subscribe $190,400 to the
American Red Cross during the week
of May 20. In a proclamation Gov
ernor Houx asks that the week be set
aside for such a campaign.
Reports from the shearing pens to
DR.. H. L.. Willard, secretary Of the
State Board of Sheep Commissioners,
indicate that Wyoming's wool clip this
spring will be at least 10000, 900
pounds and may exceed 100000
pounds.
Through the efforts of Congress
man f. w. Mondell, Mrs. Anna S.
Parker of Horse Creek has been
granted a pension OF $12 a month
from December 30, 1916, which is in
creased to S25 a month from October
6 last.
Mrs. Lillian Mann, 35, wife of Will
liam r. Mann. and two of. their chill
dren. Bessie, 3, and William, S, we're
burned to death in a fire that de-
stroyed their home, eight miles south
east of Moorcroft. Mann was severely
burned.
Salaries of not less THAI $65 a
month and ranging as high as $50
were recommended for the rural
school teachers of the county at a
meeting of the Laramie County Asso-
citation of District School Boards, held
in Cheyenne.
Senator Francis E. Warren, who a
year ago announced his intention to
retire from the United States Senate
when his present term expired, will
be a candidate this fall, he announced
in a telegram received by Patrick Sui
Ivan, chairman of the Republican
state central committee.
A new government publication Civ
ing additional data on the oil fields OF
eastern Wyoming and areas in states
bordering on the north, ast and
south, has just been issued by the
Geological Survey. 1t is No. 691-A,
and Congressman Mondell has sc,
cured a supply from which he will be
glad to send as long as available. The
new bulletin is the result of a some,
what hurried reconnaissance survey
in the Wyoming region made after thu