, 1918-12-05
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

" II icSuldT QudIlciiy.
Youngberg and Erickson have been
awarded the contract for the modern
$500. 900 school building to be erected
at Mount View.
The state teachers association
meeting, which was to have been held
at Lander in November, was post
poned to Dec. 20 or Jan. 2.
Railroad men in Cheyenne may have
two paydays a month instead of only
one. as is now the custom, according
to a statement from Laramie.
The Young Woman Townsite Co.
has purchased and plated into town
lots a portion of the j.. H. Hubbard
ranch on Young Woman creek, twenty
miles north of Lusk.
Owing to the continued influenza
epidemic and on advice from the State
Board of Health, all Farm Bureau
community meetings which had been
scheduled were indefinitely postponed.
Cheyenne telephone subscribers
who were called upon to pay the local
telephone company SIS for a service
installation CHARGE" eve when no
service was installed, are to get their
money back.
Beet growers of the Big Horn valley
received $225.000 as the initial pay
ment on this years crops at the first
payday of the Wyoming Sugar Com
pany. The December pay will approx
innate $500, 900.
Owing to ar alarming revival of the
tn f1par,o artIa~gp ChavaNna hao1fh
authorities ordered back into force
the drastic closing rules which had
been lifted when the first epidemic
ran its course.
From Wyoming are the following
casualties: John Potter, Rock Springs,
killed in action; John Phipps, Knight,
dead of disease, and two missing in
action, Byard Stewart, Lowell. and
Byrl L. Perkins, Otto.
Word has been received at Lander
that Harry W.. Waddie raj reported
missing in action following one of the
late American drives before the sign
ing of the armistice. Roy L. Waddle
was SO informed by the War Depart
ment.
A report from Casper states that
the well of the Buck Creek Oil COM
pany on Sec. "a of the Lusk field,
which is being drilled by the Cont
mental Oil Company, is now making
oil. the flow of $4,000, 900 cubic feet
Of gas having been shut in.
Robert w. Breckons, formerly a
prominent attorney OF Cheyenne and
lated United States attorney for the
territory of Hawaii, died at Honolulu.
He was So years of age. A widow and
one daughter survive him. A brother,
Joseph Breckons, private secretary to
United States Senator Francis E.
Warren, died about a year ago.
Breaking into the barn in the rear
of a Kemmerer store, William e. Tull
and William E. Steele are believed to
have taken a fine deer. The deer was
found skinned and dressed in the
place where Tull had been employed.
Tull confessed to the theft but Steele
refused to make a statement. Both
Of the men are held charged with bur-
glary.
Frontier Days will be held in Chey-
enne again this year, according to
semi-official announcements. With the
war over, troop movements stopped,
and many of the best performers who
have been in the army probably out,
and ready to appear again by the time
the show is held, all things are said to
be looking up for a good Frontier cele-
bration next summer.
Two county division movements will
come before the Wyoming Legislature.
which will convene in January. One
contemplates the creation of the coun-
ty of Carey from the western portion
of Converse county and the eastern
portion Of Natrona county, and the
other the creation of a new county
from the northern two-thirds Of Lin
coin county.
While definite action cannot be
taken until the governments full pol
icy OF reconstruction is announced,
the farm service section of the en-
ployment service Is laying far-reach-
ing plans for meeting the problem of
world food shortage. Supplying farm
labor is certain to be one of the most
important functions OF the employ
ment service during 1918.
Wyoming casualties include foul
killed In action. They are: Derk ].
Wieten, Node; Charles N. Anderson.
Encampment; Charles A. Bair, Rock
Springs, and James G. Holman, Rock
River. One dead of disease is Frank
Lambert, C~hugwater. Among the miss
ing in action are Ora Call, Dwyer and
Harry #. Holmes of Superior. Among
the wounded, degree undetermined, is
Thomas ID. Saunders, Cheyenne.
Inhabitants of Bridger Galley. a pop
ulous community in the western part
of the state, largely settled by Nor
mons, r in a pitiful condition as a
result Of the influenza, according to
a report made by DR.. G. Roe, who has
returned from the region after two