, 1918-11-28
Brief News Notes
From All Parts Of
Wyoming

ing to word received in Cheyenne.
Hon. John w. Hay. of Rock Springs,
has received news that his son, Archie
Hay. has been killed in action in
France.
Bootleggers are finding increasing
difficulty in operating out of Chey-
enne, according to the number of ar
rests being made.
James N. Reed, of Lingle, is report
ed killed in action on the French
front. His next of kin is given as
Edwin e. Reed, of Lingle.
Frank Smith of Riverton has been
arrested for illegal killing or an elk
in the closed country above Dubois.
He will face trial at Lander.
A list of officers and enlisted men
in German prison camps announced
by the Wal Department includes
Lieut.. Robert A. Anderson, Rock
Springs.
Three from Wyoming reported dead
of disease in the casualty list are
Harry E. Conner, Merna; Oakley D..
Overton, Clearmont, and Kenneth F.
Riley, Cheyenne.
Arnold Rahman, of Wheatland, and
Verne r. Watkins, OF Laramie, were
killed in action. and John Bartram, of
Gillette, died of disease, according to,
casualty reports from overseas.
Coal will be sold in Laramie for
cash only, according to a decision of
local dealers. The demand for cash
when a carload of coal is delivered Is
given as the reason for the cash basis.
With an oversubscription Of 242 per
cent in the United War Work Fund
Campaign, Natrona county claimed
the county record for the United
States. The county's quota was
$500
Major e. c. Raymond, formerly
judge of the Seventh judicial district
of Wyoming, who was appointed to
the staff of the judge advocate gen.
eral last summer. has been assigned
to the war college.
Alex Nisbet. Jr., has been wounded,
somewhere in France, and is now cor
fined in a hospital, according to a
letter received from him by his
father, Alex Nisbet, registrar of the
Evanston land office.
Wyoming went over the top more
than thirty-three per cent in the
United War Work Campaign. The
totai minimum allotment for Wyoming
was $685. 900 and the amount raised
for this work was $26o,OO0.
Attractive booklets are out announc-
ing the 35th reunion of Wyoming Con-
sistory No. /, to be held in Cheyenne,
Dec. 9. 10, IL and IL. All of the de-
grees will be exemplified or commun-
icated up to and including the 32d.
Mary Lee Stark, the first woman to
cast a vote in the United States, is
a resident Of Cheyenne. Mrs. Stark
cast her first ballot shortly after
Wyoming was admitted to statehood
with suffrage q part Of its
constitution.
Star Valley chapter of the American
"a carload of calves ready for ship
ment to Denver by January SO that
they may be sold at the Western
Stock Show. Ranchers in the valley
will be asked to contribute a heifer
calf each to the Red Cross.
Sheridan will erect in a prominent
place a marble shaft t o bear the
names of every soldier from Sheridan
county, who during the great world
war has made the supreme sacrifice,
a lasting tribute to the memory of the
boys who will not come home, in the
erection of which every person In the
county will have a part.
Another wyoming oil field has been
opened by the striking of a producer
in the Red Basin country, IL miles
east of Thermopolis. The drill of the
Gebo-Crosby Company. at 955 feet,
struck the Amsden. sands, found dry
heretofore, and when but a few feet
in, the oil rose 60 feet in the hole. 1t
is a black oil, similar to the Warm
Springs product.
The Wyoming casualty list shows
Samuel H. Callwell, Burns, killed in
action; Franklin j. James, Big Piney,
missing in action; Mickola Mrvalee,
vich. Superior, died of wounds; Robert
E. Graham, Laramie, wounded severe
ly; Fred Norton Rapp, Shorty. killed
in action; Dee d. Palmer, Gillette,
missing in action, and John W. Fitz-
patrick, Lingle, died of disease.
Hon. VIM. C. Irvine will soon leave
for Europe to bring back to the United
States his son, Lieut.. Van R~enssaeller
Irvine. who after having been re-
ported dead was later located in a
prison camp. A Red Cross report
that aV~aIanfna vruir bod 49,. u
Gated, wounded and in a prison camp,
led the many friends OF the Wyoming
boy to believe this was the son of the
Douglas man.
Two suits have been filed recently
charging A. l.. Mason, former United
States Land Commissioner at Sheri-
dan with having kept money filed by
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