, 1918-07-25
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
stern Newspaper Union News Service.

Sept. iS-2O-Laramie County Fair.
Mrs. Minnie Mccormick has resigned
as postmistress at Grayrocks
Donald c. Slough, a private, of Ian
der was killed in action In France.
Kemmerer is now a postoffice of the
second class, on account of increased
sales.
War Stamps are to be prizes at the
Frontier days celebration at Chey-
enne, July 24-27.
The Meriden Oil and Refining Com
pany of Torrington has been incorpo-
rated for 100000.
A call for more trained nurses has
been made, and Wyoming is expected
to furnish ninety-five.
Wyoming will send 100 men to
Camp Fremont, Cal, as her quota OF
the $4,000 called for August draft.
A well was brought in on the Bar
Der tract in the Big Muddy field for
the Fenex Oil Company at 2,400 feet.
Arrangements are being completed
for the big race meet which will be
held in Cheyenne Aug. 10 to Sept. 2.
The state of Wyoming may send an
ambulance to the front if plans laid
by the Daughters of the American
Revolution are carried out.
The upper counties of Wyoming
along the Moorcroft and Upton fields
are coming right along with several
wells soon to reach the sands.
The State Grange held a well-at-
tended meeting at Lingle, and ad-
dresses were made by National Lee
turer Ketchum and State Organizer
Evans.
Wyoming was awarded the posses
sion by Judge John A. Rinen of title
to eighty acres OIL oil land that the
state has had in its control for many
years and had leased to the Midwest
Oil Company.
Undivided loyalty of the miners Of
Wyoming to America and her allies
during the war was pledged at the
annual convention of District No. %
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea at Cheyenne.
Charged with having stabbed a JAP
anese cook in the boarding house at
Winton, Charles Weldon and William
Bear are in the county jail at Rock
Springs. The men are said to have
stabbed the cook as the result OF a
dare. Both, it is charged, were under
the influence of drink.
That thoroughbred stock is more
profitable than common grades was
again demonstrated at Riverton when
]. D. Carmichael sheared his Rambou-
let sheep. The clip from these sheep
average eighteen pounds to the head,
and is of a high grade that will u
doubtedly bring 60 cents per pound.
George Katufas, a Greek section
laborer. working on the Big Muddy
section, was fined $50 at Glenrock
and required to pay SIG as game war
denis costs, upon conviction of having
Illegally shot prairie chickens. Being
an alien, and therefore prohibited
from carrying firearms, Katufas was
compelled to surrender his gun.
Three cowboys who will be contest
ants in the world championship Wild
West contests during the Frontier
days celebration at Cheyenne, July
"a, %, 26 and 81, already this year
have won rough riding first prizes at
cowboy festivals held In other West
ern towns. They are Eddie McCarty,
who won the bucking contest at Belle
Fourche, S. D., and Frank Carter, who
took first money in the broncho bust
ing at Ogallala, Neb.
l.. H. Buehner. for the past twelve
a a conductor on the Burlington
railroad in Sheridan, has been ap-
pointed state labor commissioner by
Governor Frank l.. Houx, succeeding
Edward p. Taylor OF Cheyenne. Tay-
lor resigned his position to become
federal director of labor for the state
of Wyoming, having charge of FREQ
employment bureaus over the state.
The Grand Commandery Knights
Templar of Wyoming, at its thirty-first
annual conclave at Cheyenne, elected
Herbert ]. King, grand commander;
Charles H. Townsend, deputy granc
commander; William Pugh, grand gen.
eralissimo; John A. Riner, grand cap.
tain general; Horace d. Beemer, grand
senior warden; Fred w. Rendle, granG
junior warden; George c. Rafter,
grand prelate; Samuel Dickey, grand
treasurer; Adrian ]. Parshall, grand
recorder; Guy R. HOLSTER, grand
standard bearer; Ralph s. wertz,
grand sword bearer; Hudson W. Oar
rah, grand warder; Frank A. Holiday,
grand captain of the guards. Next
years conclave will be held in Lara
ME. A 10 per cent increase in mem.
bership the past year was shown by
reports made.
One of the biggest land deals aver
recorded in Sheridan county was con.
summated in the purchasing of the
William Goodill ranch. situated two
miles from Banner, by M. r. Newinger
for the approximate sum of $3.50. 00i
for 1895 acres.