, 1918-04-04
Brief News Notes
From, All Parts OF
Wyoming

mately 81, 70n were sold in Wyoming.
A second strige of copper has been
made in the Atlas mine at Tie Siding.
commence. soon in the Manville oil
field.
Glenrock will have two oil r%efineries
in operation within the e few
months.
Those interested in the school sec
ton in Warm Spring field are spud-
ding in two new wells.
The government wishes to enlist ev-
cry man, woman and child of the ma
ton in war-saving service.
The Wyoming Board of Highways
has authorized the construction of six
new bridges in that state.
Producers and refiners' well On its
Hudson property in the Lander field
came in with a large production.
Enlistment is open in the navy for
hospital apprentices and carpenters
in the aviation and general service.
DIR. Di Giacomo was convicted by a
jury in the District Court at Green
River on a charge of manslaughter.
w. l.. Pyle a fireman on the Union
Pacific, was decapitated in front OF
the depot at Rawlins by q freight
train.
Lander's chances for a beet sugar
factory now depend on the develop
ment of the b~eet-raising possibilities
In that vicinity.
A contract has been let by the
Cheno OIL Company for the drilling OF
800 acres of it's recently acquired
property in the Thornton field.
Production Of the Boston-Wyoming
Company is building up n h large
acreage of the company in West Salt
Creek is being steadily drilled.
Beginning April l, the campaign in
Wyoming to enroll 1900 boys between
the ages of 16 and 81 in the Boys
Working Reserve was commenced.
About 1000 acres of land belonging
to c. e. McGarvey is being offered to
the people of Cheyenne free of ground
rent for the planting of wal gardens.
Cheyenne subscribed $4,000 to the
SoAF a eLhiy Auhb 4 SNSAbe
/ scribing the quota allotted for the en-
tire Laramie county district, which is
$1,000.
The Riverton and Lander fields are
experiencing a boom this spring,
scores of new rigs being in operation
opening up territory for possible oil
production.
Alien enemies will have to notify
the authorities of any change in resi-
dence, according to a statement given
out by United States Marshal DanieI
f. Hudson.
Patrick Shannahan. a former boiler
maker for the Union Pacific, was
killed at Rawlins when he was struck
by the engine of the second section OF
train No. q.
The Buck Springs dome will no
doubt be drilled this spring, as there
is % on foot a move to concentrate
the holdings of the Cheno, Wyoming
Montana Condor interests.
Cyrel Eykyn, foreman for one of the
large ranches in the Little Laramie
valley was taken to Laramie, suffer
ing from having taken a spoonful of
carbolic acid by mistake.
Nine for conviction and three for
acQuittal for sixty-eight hours was the
record hung up by the Goshen county
jury in the Covington case at Torring-
ton before District Judge Mentzer dis
missed the case.
Twenty-one members for the Thous-
and-Dollar Limit Club for Thrift
Stamp Buying have been secured in
Cheyenne through the efforts of the
Laramie County Bal Association.
Word reached Cheyenne of another
big strike on the Atlas mine owned by
the Atlas Copper Mining & Reduction
company, south OF Tie Siding. Over
two carloads of high. grade ore is now
ready for shipment.
Branches of the Red Star Society
for the relief of wounded and suffer
ing horses at the battle front are be-
ing organized in the principal towns
of Wyoming under the auspices of the
State Humane Board.
The Big Muddy field of Wyoming
brought in another oil well, the third
in a week. Midwest Refining Com
pany, drilling for the Parker Oil Com
pany in section 1886. Big Muddy
field, struck oil at a depth of 1880
feet.
At st. Marks Episcopal church in
Cheyenne on Sunday a service flag
containing twenty-eight stars was I'M
furled. One of the stars is for Gen.
John j. Pershing now taking part n
the big battle on the western front in
France.
Joseph Sadler, slayer of Bennis Fair