, 1918-01-31

Jan. 17-19-Northern Wyoming Poultry
Association Show at Sheridan.
Jan. 2S-29-Annual meeting State Bar
Association at
C. r. Palmer, wanted in Casper for
cashing a worthless check, was ap-
pretended at Douglas.
The Selfish Oil is reported TO be max
ing preparations for beginning oper-
atoms on holdings west of Basin.
The newly-found Oil in the Fossil
field, west of Kemmerer, has attracted
much attention because of its unusual
qualities.
Heaton Oil and Refining is await
ing the arrival of two carloads of ma
terials at Lander for use on holdings
near that place.
William Danvers, n of Lincoln
county's many progressive flockmas-
tiers, reports the winter starting off
%favorably for the sheepmen of his dis
trict.
Bankers, capitalists INT merchants
are preparing to take up over 1000
Barge field, located in Lincoln and
SweetWater counties.
Work on the excavation for the new
First Baptist church building at
Douglas has been started and the SO
ciety plans on having a meeting house
of its own the coming spring.
Four men are needed at the office
of the marine corps located at Chey-
enne to make up the quota for that
district for December, according to
Sergeant Kaiser, in charge of the Of
flee.
Several new fields are being much
talked about at present, chief among
them being Hidden Dome, sixteen
miles southwest of Worland INT $50
miles northwest of Casper, and a new
field in Lincoln county.
Wyoming farmers have received
loans from the Federal Farm Loan
Bank at Omaha aggregating $170,400.
according to the government report
just issued, which includes all loans
closed up until Dec. 1.
Complete official returns from the
Red Cross membership drive conduct.
ed in Cheyenne were announced.
Archie Allison, chairman, reported
that $1,435.6S had been deposited in
local banks for the Red Cross.
Oil companies operating in Wyo-
ming will distribute in cash to their
stockholders between Nov. 1 and Jan.
20 a total of s. $3.50. 175. This is equal
to at least $50 for every man, woman
and child in the state of Wyoming.
Oil is a young mans game and the
majority of those in the business in
Wyoming are from 25 to 40 years Of
age. OF course there are many of the
oldtimers, but the young man seems
to have the upper hand. The boys"
as they are called by the veterans,
are welcomed because they are
hustlers.
Following the lead of the negro res
idents of Cheyenne, the negroes at
Rock Springs are demanding a full
probe into the lynching of Wade Ham
ilton, a negro. who was taken from
the Jail at that place recently and
lynched by three men for the alleged
assault on three white women of Rock
Springs.
More than 1000 new telephones
have been installed in 1917 in six cit
les of the state, according to the re-
port Just issued on work completed
by the Telephone Company. Chey-
enne has been the center of the de-
velopment work, with 300 new phones.
Five hundred new phones we're in
stalled in Casper.
At Worland on the Hidden Dome
the Ohio has three oil rigs and the
Red Rose and star of Wyoming are
erecting cabins n building a rig.
Recently a man named johnson.
who is employed in the Diamondville
mines, was operated on at the Min
ers' Hospital at Kemmerer for ap-
pendicitis. When the operation was
performed a pin was found sticking in
the appendix.
Tipped over in his own house, slid
ing down the walls with a stove rat
Ting after him, and the stove legs
kicking W. gashes in his head, only
to find that when he regained his
equilibrium he was sitting on his cell
ing instead Of on the floor, was the
experience Of Thomas Allison of
Casper during the heavy wind.
That Wyoming is one of the few
states where the production of oil ia
ever on the increase is shown by the
action of the Midwest Refining Com
pany at Casper, which is completing
another unit of six stills that will In
crease it's refining output to about
twice the present capacity. The COM
pany at present handles 10000 bar
rels.