, 1918-06-06

Dougla
Sept. Is-2O-Laramie County Fair.
Baggs is planning a Fourth Of July
celebration.
Gonzales Trinidad was stabbed In
a pool hall melee at Cheyenne.
Fred A. Bacon. SO, former city clerk
of Cheyenne, died of Bright's disease
The best of reports continue of OIL
operations in the Lost Soldier field.
Adjutant General Weaver mustered
In q company of home guards at
Wheatland.
The name of L. E. Luke of Dayton
appeared in the list of dead in the OF
tawa casualty list.
Liberal contributions from every
part of the state made up the big to-
tai for the Red Cross.
Hanna's quota for the Red Cross
was $1,000, but the first days report
showed over $4,000, and still going"
Fifty-two Laramie county boys left
Tor Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianap-
oils, Ind, for service in the engineer
Ing corps.
Floyd Huff was arrested at Pine
Bluffs and returned to Cheyenne,
where he is charged with passing
worthless checks.
The well of the Oriental Oil Com
pany, which reaohed oil on section 10
of the Lander dome is reported 90
feet in the pay sand.
A number of young women are work
inr In tho TT d uarda at ChpvannA.
having taken the places of young men
called to the colors.
Miss Amy Abbott, the assistant in
English at the University of Wyoming,
has announced her resignation from
hat position at the close of the year.
Following a heated argument con
corning a 12-year-old girl, Joe vara-
cilli shot and killed Frank Lumbardo
at Carneville. Both were Italian min
ers.
Jessie Morsch of Douglas. who has
been at Rockwell field, San Diego,
California, at the aviation school, has
successfully passed his examinations
and has received his commission. He
Is now a pursuit pilot.
The Wyoming State Fair Associa-
ton has issued the 1918 catalog show
ing hat this years fair, to be held at
Douglas, is on a much greater scale
than in past years. Cash premiums
have been increased and new classifi-
cations have been added. The date is
from Sept. 9 to IA.
Prof. ]. Richards. principal Of the
public schools at Garland, who ex-
PEELED four boy students for burning
their German textbooks, and who vas
taken from his home by a party Of cit
liens and compelled to witness the
burning Of all the German textbooks
which could be found at the high
school, has resigned.
Accidentally stepping backwards in
the way Of a switching freight while
inspecting cars at the Cheyenne Union
Pacific yards Alonzo Ashby n VIII
liam F. Van Glider were both thrown
under the wheels, Ashby being cut in
two and Van Glider having both legs
severed from his body in addition to
fatal internal injuries.
Orders received at Fort D. A. Rus
sell state that the 315th U. s. cavalry,
the headquarters of which in this post
is to be recruited to war strength with
in the next fortnight and that recruits
will be sent to Cheyenne as rapidly
as they become available. The recruit
ing of this regiment will give Fort
Russell, which. has been almost de-
populated since last February, a gar
rison Of about 1000 men.
Charles H. Ewing of Beaver is the
first Wyoming beneficiary under the
soldiers insurance policy issued by
the United States. His son, a draft
man, died recently at Camp Lewis,
Wash, from pneumonia. The young
man hald a government policy for &c.,
900, under the terms of which his IA
Their will receive $3.50 a month.
Mike Robinson, a Riverton black
smith, is held in the county jail at
Lander facing a probable murder
charge, while his helper Matthias
(Brock) Brennan is in the Bishop
Randall hospital at Lander lowering
between life and death as the outcome
of a quarrel between the two men
when Brennan was slashed with a
sickle by the blacksmith.
Prof. j. B. Mcpherson, former priu-
cipal of the Wheatland public schools,
who is accused Of inhuman practices
with high school boys, and who last
February Jumped his bail of $4,000,
was arrested at st. Louis. With him
and also taken into custody was Nil.
lard Porter, a 17-year-old lad, who &C,
oompanied him when he fled from
Wheatland. One thousand dollars re.