, 1918-06-13

sept. lS-2O-Laramie County Fair.
Lander may soon have a potato
flour mill.
A plant for mixing nitroglycerine is
to be located at Lander.
A small cyclone damaged consid.
cradle property at Green River.
More than 1000 shade trees have
been planted at Sunrise his season.
About 100000 ties are being floated
down the Platte river to Fort Steele.
Oil activities are going merrily on
in the Hudson vicinity despite the
stormy weather.
w. A. Woodrow has been appoint
ed captain of the home guard com
pany at T~hermopolis.
Margaret West has beer appointed
postmaster at Shirley, vice Margaret
E.. Sullivan, resigned.
The Victory Oil Company of New
castle has been granted articles of In
corporation. The capital is $3.50 600.
Carter & Co, who recently took
over the Peoples Stock Exchange at
Casper, have suspended operations.
Well No. 5 of the Idaho-Wyoming
Company in the Fossil field has been
brought in at a depth of LIS feet.
Miss Ethel V. Kissick of Casper,
and two of her young women friends,
desire to go to France for canteen or
clerical work.
Wind River Petroleum Company an
nounces that two more derricks are to
be erected Immediately for wells No.
8 n 9, in the Lander field.
At Bags the spring sport is frog
hunting, and the culinary experts OF
that town are vying one with the 9th
er for honors as frog-leg cooks.
The second gas we'll at Poison Spid-
er has been completed by the Ohio Oil
company and Frank G. Curtis. 1t pro-
duces over 5000, 900 cubic feet per
day.
The Midwest Refining Company has
voluntarily increased the price of the
black oil produced by the wells in the
Lander field from 80 cents a barrel
to 81.
Sunflowers for stock feed are be-
ing tried in Wyoming for the first
time by L. F. Kelly of Riverton and
|. L. Burh of Lander, who have plant
ed ten and two and one-half acres
respectively.
The strike by sheepshearers at Ere
mont county pens, including those a
Arminta, Moneta, Shoshoni and Arap
ahoe, is believed virtually to have end
ed, a number of shearers having re
turned to work.
Seventy boilermakers employed al
the Midwest and Standard refineries
in Casper, the number stated includ
ing helpers, are on strike, demanding
an increase of 81 a day in wages. The
boilermakers have been receiving $3.50
a day and the helpers $6.40.
Gov. Frank L.. Houx issued a procla
nation designating Friday, June %. as
War Savings Day" in Wyoming and
calling on the people of the state OIL
that day to pledge their savings dur
ing the remainder of the year to the
purchase of war savings stamps.
The statewide drive for Red Star
funds is soon to be started, accord
ing to /. S. Bartlett of che state hui
name office. The movement was de-
layed while the Red Cross drive was
on, but will now be carried out in
every county. In a few counties hand
some sums have already been raised.
The following recent reports have
been received: Newcastle, $433; Cas-
per, $500; Lander, 1853.
General Weaver reports hat Off
GERS have been appointed for the
Wheatland company of home guards
as follows: Captain, w. H. Frame;
first lieutenant, j.. A. Cole; second
lieutenant, Arthur Rugg.
Edward Enderly, So a prominent
ranchman of ~Thermopolis and said to
be the man who selected the name of
Thermopolis for that town, met death
in a horrible manner at his ranch
when he attempted to remove a hacka-
more from an unbroken horse while
restraining the animal with a rope
which he had wrapped around his left
arm. The horse bolted, and Enderly,
who managed to keep his feet fol
800 yards, was killed when the fright
ened creature plunged through a gate.
j. B. Mcpherson is again in the
county Jail at Wheatland and states
that he will employ counsel and fight
the case, insisting that he is innocent
Of the charges against him. The ST..
900 reward for his capture will be di.
vided between John burning, who dis.
covered Mcpherson and the Potter
boy in a st. Louis parade crowd, and
Patrolman Reed, who made the arrest,
each of whom will receive $3.50. Fifty
dollars will go to the policemen's pen.
sion fund.
The month of April was unusually
cold with IN average daily deficiency
of 5.S degrees according to report is.
sued from the Cheyenne weather bu.