, 1918-09-26
Brief News Notes
From, An Parts of
Wyoming

new hospital at Wheatland Is being
installed.
Clyde H. Hess of Greybull was re-
ported in the Sept. 10 casualty list as
missing In action.
Thirty-one Wyoming colored men
have been called to report at Camp
Lewis Sept. 1927.
Wyoming will send sos men to Camp
Lewis, Wash. under the call for 1872
900 men to entrain Oct. I'll.
Nathan Dunn. widely known char
acter about Cheyenne, met death in an
alteration with soldiers from Fort D.
A. Russell.
The government crop report for
Wyoming for September indicates in
creased yields this year over 1917 for
leading crops.
OIL is showing at. 1 400 feet in the
test drilling of the Empire State Oil
company between Thermopolis and
Grass Creek. according to reports.
The Kansas-Wyoming Oil Company
has sold its holdings in the Byron
field to the Carter Oil Company, in
Guiding one drilling well and a rig.
The Producers and Refiners Com
pany has struck a flow of gas esti-
mated at 10000, 900 cubic feet per day,
| n a wildcat well on the Ferris dome,
in Carbon county.
Additional funds were voted by the
stockholders of the Wyoming Coop
erative Oil Company at a meeting to
continue drilling for oil in Ri cards
field near Casper.
The first Wyoming motor transport
line organized under the new highways
transport committee of the council of
national defense will operate between
Cheyenne and Pine Bluff, forty miles
east.
Ten sons in. Uncle Sans military
service is the proud expectation of
George Morgan of Laramie. One son
already is in France, nine moro are
registered under the new law. and an
eleventh boy Is too young to register.
The father IL a veteran of Indian wars
and a %pensioner under the Indian wal
bill.
Washable county goes over the top
with forty-six firsts, fifty seconds and
twenty-five thirds. This county's dis
play was in a class Of its own and at
tracted the big crowds. The best ar
tistic design, the name of the county,
made from agricultural products, was
the attraction of the state fair at
Douglas.
ANY soldier who is reviled because
of the uniform he wears has a perfect
right to knock down his assailant. II
the scoffer strikes his head on the
curb and death results, that's his mis-
fortune" is the gist Of a decision by
a Cheyenne Justice of the peace in ac-
quitting Private William Jarvis of the
charge OF granddaughter.
Additional names of candidates
graduating from the field artillery
central officers training camp at
Camp Zachary Taylor and recon-
mended as eligible for appointment
as second ~lieutenants in the field ar
tillery include: John Mallory, o r
poral, Grant Ranch of Wheatland, and
Edward s. hurry, private, Casper.
Sheridan county occupied a promi-
nent place in the minds of all those
attending the state fair at Douglas.
The Sheridan county exhibit not only
excelled in the grains and grasses,
winning first for the best exhibits in
each case, but 1t was in the boys and
girls club work that Sheridan county
furnished a big feature of the fair.
Lieut.. Edwin ". Evans, brother of
Mrs. Ralph DEMO, and who for a long
time made his home in Sheridan, who
some time g was reported as killed
in action in France where he has been
serving with the Sixteenth infantry, is
not dead but dangerously wounded ac-
cording to the latest and most anthem
tic report that the relatives have re-
ceived.
The forty-fourth annual communion
ton of the Most worshipful Grand
Lodge Of Wyoming. Masons, convened
In the Masonic temple at Laramie.
One of the visiting members of that
body was Judge Hugh Hynds of Dem
yer, who was the most worshipful
grand master of the grand lodge at the
time of the laying of the corner stone
of the temple in 1911, A. L. 5911.
Edward Daiber, a prominent stock
man, was found dead in bed at his
ranch near Big Piney. The cause of
death is unknown, but there is suspi-
cion of suicide and the coroner win in
vestigate. Daiber formerly was en-
gagged in the mercantile business at
Cheyenne and was n Of the best
known business men OF the southeast
ern part of the state.
A draft call for 2s,016 negro regis
trants from thirty-three states. quail
fled for general military service and to
entrain for national army camps Sept
25-27. was issued by Provost Marshal