, 1918-10-24
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

sugar beets.
Farmers in this state this year pro
duced an unprecedented wheat crop.
Alladin Company spuds in third
well at Greybull and other two wells
are producing.
Exhaustive tests to be made of uran-
ium possibilities in Silver Cliff coun-
try near Lusk.
Mrs. Mamie Ivey passed away at
Sheridan following a long period of
invalidism, at the advanced age of IS
years.
Tony Moskal, an Austrian miner en-
ployed at the Monarch mine, met
death from a fall of coal while at
work in the mine.
The government crop report for DC
tober shows the condition and esti-
mated yield of Wyoming crops to be
above the average.
The first Wyoming death from Span
ish influenza occurred at Casper when
the 4-year-old son of Ray o. Bryan
died in a local hospital.
Actual registration in Wyoming
Sept. IL of 34,35O against the official
estimates of 30,520 was shown in final
returns SEN to Provost Marshal Gen
eral Crowder.
Public schools, theatres, pool halls.
churches and all places of public gath
erings will not be permitted to open
until n wee after the last case of
Spanish influenza is reported in Sher-
idan.
For stealing chickens from a Metho-
dist minister, j. H. Orr must serve
three years in the state ~penitentiary.
Orr has been convicted in the District
Court at Basin for the theft of chick
ems from the Rev. R. M. Jones.
The large pumping station of the IL
linois Pipeline Company at Elk Basin
was wrecked by ar explosion of gas
and oil. The building Is a total wreck
and the big machines will have to
have many repairs before they can be
used again.
Tagged as ordinary baggage, Ed
ward Miller of Greybull, who says he
is going on g." arrived at Cheyenne
en- route to Round Top, Wyo. The
soldiers are my friends" he said, "and
there is always some of them on the
trains to help me-"
Corp. Edward E. Keorner, Chey-
enne, has been Skilled in action, and
Andrew M. Hackert, Buffalo, is dead
of disease; Grin j. Snyder, Salt
Creek, killed in action: Frank W. Col
son, Sheridan, missing in action, and
Robert C. Carthell of Laramie wound
ed, degree undetermined.
Twenty new Mikado type locomo-
tives, equipped with automatic stokers
which crush the coal as it is fed into
the fire box are being received by the
Union Pacific. Five of these engines
are for use on the sixth district, be-
tween Laramie and Rawlins, and fiji
teen 60 to the western division.
Honored by the receipt of letters
from President Wilson and Secretary
of Val Baker, Mrs. ]. M. Bennett of
Jingle has also received from the Ma
tional D. A. r. president a distinctive
service flag of silk, on the field of
which appear seven stars. Every male
member of Mrs. Benefits family is in
the fighting line in France.
Miss Margaret Burdick, daughter of
G. w. Burdick of Cheyenne, n Miss
Blanche Loomis, his secretary, we're
injured. the former seriously, when
the brake of the car in which they
were riding failed to hold while COM
ing down Lookout mountain. The a
was turned completely over. Miss
Burdick suffered a broken leg and
possibly internal injuries.
Corporal Wayne Bennett, L%aceyviIle,
has been severely wounded in action.
The modern equivalent OF the old
time shotgun quarantine has been es-
tablished by four southwestern Wyo-
ming towns-Evanston, Kemmerer,
Alton and Diamondville-in attempt
ing to control the Spanish influenza
epidemic. Influenza continues to
spread throughout the state and about
5000 cases have been reported.
The Midwest well on section rs
Salt Creek field, which was brought
in three weeks ago, still is gushing
1000 barrels Of oil a day, and, accord
ing to reports. was showing no letup
In strength. This makes 1t, SO far as
is known, the heaviest producer of
high-grade oil in the United States
The price of Salt Creek oil is s1.50 a
barrel.
The three grandchildren of Col. W.
F. Cody buffalo BID have been or
phaned by the plague which has in
vaded this country. Their father.
Fred Carlow of Cody, Wyo., died Oct.
IL of influenza and their mother, the
famous scouts only daughter, died on
the 18th of pneumonia su%perinduced
by Spanish influenza. Mrs. Carlow
was only 35.
Two Wyoming towns, Greybull and
Evanston, appealed to the State Board
of Health IN aapd Dbvafnfoua opd