, 1918-01-03

AssOcldtlon at douglas.
The light plant at Burns has baer
completed.
Lingle is the latest Wyoming towr
to have an oil fever.
Douglas is rapidly becoming one y,
the most active oil towns in Wyominv
Shopmen of the Union Pacific again
took the lead in Cheyenne when ais
of them Joined the Red Cross.
An unidentified man, apparently
tramp, was killed near Medicine pov
wheI he was run over by a train.
Douglas now steps to the front as an
oil city. The Douglas Oil exchange
new departure, has opened to the puh
lie.
The postal department announced
that the order disseminating the post.
office at LIE Roy, Uinta county. had
been %rescinded.
Clarence E. Harper, deputy sheriff
of Rawlins, was killed when he was
thrown from an automobile and alight.
ed on his head.
Wyoming oil refineries are now es.
timated to be worth S31, O6O, 900 and
have a capacity of 10000 barrels Of
crude oil product a day.
d. NJ. Verney, who has been switch.
ing on the Union Pacific at Wilcox,
was killed when the switch engine ran
over him after he had fallen off.
At Worland on the Hidden Dome
the Ohio has three rigs and the Red
Rose and Star of Wyoming is erect.
ing cabins and building a rig.
The Big Hollow field is now the OBJ.
ject of much speculation, the recent
strike of a good flowing well having
focused all eyes on this new prospect
The Roundup Oil and Gas company,
a recently organized company, is said
to have obtained twenty sections ly.
ing between the Big Muddy and Salt
Creek fields.
The state of Wyoming issued $50
prospectors' oil and gas leases from
Sept. 80, 1916, to Aug. 1, 1917. The
rental from these leases for this pc
riod was $65,000.
The Heaton Oil company has re-
ceived ,wo carloads of drilling machin-
cry and casing for its proposed well on
the Shoshoni reservation, four miles
north Ct Lander.
The Consumers Oil Company, drill
ing on the Gregg ground across the
river from Thermopolis, encountered
a second flow of warn water, result,
ing in a suspension of operations.
William Hubn, foreman Of the
Healy brothers sheep outfit, was
found guilty of making seditious re-
marks on the eighth and eleventh
counts in the federal court at Chey'
enne.
The Buss Thompson syndicate OF
San Francisco and Chicago has taken
over leases on $4,000 acres of patent
ed land in the LaBarge and Dry Piney
fields, located in the western part Of
Wyoming.
The Wyoming Prairie Oil and Gas
Company, located on section 17-34-76
have fully established their winter
camp with an eighty-four-foot derrick
completed and all preparations ready
for a winter of active drilling.
Miss Agnes Wright, who has been
assistant librarian at the State Ii
brary in the Capitol building, has been
named by Gov. Houx to succeed miss
Frances Davis as head librarian, MISS
Davis having rendered her resigna-
ton.
The Wind River Refining COMPANY
has been incorporated with a capital
zation of 100000 shares, par l MILL
Winter will have comparatively III
tie effect upon development work IN
Wyoming, according to advices from
the oil fields. Many companies VIII
house-in and work all winter, and sew
eral companies are preparing to SGT
up rigs and go to work.
Ray K. Odds, who has been acting
as provost marshal in Wyoming our
ing the administration Of the selecuVe
draft law, has been appointed a cap
tain of infantry and assigned TO tho
staff of Governor Houx to assist IN
the further prosecution of the WORK OIL
the local exemption boards in Wyo'
ming.
Harold Mayor, the alleged snow
bird" burglar who is said to have GU
tered three Cheyenne homes In ohe
night and attempted to enter a score
more, was bound over to the Dlstrlo'
Court for trial following a prelimlnary
hearing in Judge Houseman's court on
three counts. Bond for each coun,
was placed at $4,000. making a total
of $500 that he will have to pro'lu0
before he can secure his release
c. w. Ellis, who claims to nav
been a member of the princess RAJ