, 1918-08-15
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
COMING EVENT

Cheyenne.
Aug. ~3O-Sept. 1-Trapper's Union Re-
union ut Kemmerer.
Sept. s-14-Wyoming State Fair at
Douglas.
Sept. Is-20-Laramie County Fair.
Wheatland was visited by a terrific
hail storm.
A Ease of smallpox was discovered
at Cheyenne.
Doc" Donahue was given a ninety
day Jail sentence for being an alleged
CRATER.
The Cracking" plant at the Wind
River refinery at Lander has COM
menced operations.
An event of much interest and inn
portance to T%orrington rs the confer
ence of the Methodist church, Sept. IL
to 15.
Eight prisoners broke jail at Their
mopolis by means of a duplicate key.
One was captured at Thermopolis and
two at Kirby.
Appeals for higher wages for teach
ers in Wyoming are contained in reso-
buttons adopted by the Better Schools
Conference at Laramie.
The Cheno Oil Company is now
drilling two wells, one in the Alkali
Butte field and the other in the Wyo-
ming Coal and Oil field.
An attempt was made to blow the
safe in a Cheyenne laundry, but the
burglars, who had effected an en-
trance through a rear window, were
frightened away.
G.. W. higgins, aged so years, Of
Greybull, committed suicide by slash
ing his throat with a razor after in
flicting fatal injuries On his wife, at
a rooming house.
The second we'll of the American
Oil Company at Greybull, now is over
800 feet in depth. American well No.
1 is reported t ODE pumping in excess
of 100 barrels a day.
Wyoming troops have probably
been playing a very important part in
the fighting On the western front. The
14Sth field artillery and 116th supply
train are parts of the 41st division,
while the 117th ammunition train,
which also contains a large number
of Wyoming boys, is in the 42nd divi-
sion.
Municipal ownership of the gas
plant Is being advocated among nu-
merous gas consumers in Sheridan as
the result of the report that the Den
yer bonding house which controls the
Sheridan Gas Company, is to appeal
to the Wyoming Public Service Com
mission at Cheyenne for permission to
Junk" the plant.
Struck by lightning as she was en-
tering the chicken house in the real
Of her home at Buffalo, Mrs. John
Grandin died as the result of burns,
her clothing having been ignited. She
managed to beat out the flames and.
In an almost unconscious condition,
dragged herself into the kitchen of her
home, where she collapsed.
The discovery Of the skeleton of a
boy in Tongue river, which at first
was believed to have been that of
Stanley Patz, 8, son Of Mike Patz Of
Carneyville, who disappeared from his
home over two months ago. became a
deeper mystery when Mrs. Stanley
Patz, the boys aunt. declared that the
body was not that of the Patz boy.
The 9-year-old son of John Mooney,
a rancher lei Buffalo, shot and killed
Mrs. Mooney and wounded her son,
Archie, II years old. Archie Mooney
is now in a hospital. The boy who
fired the shots had been left at the
ranch house by his father in charge OF
the younger members of the family
and had been instructed to guard his
younger sister at all hazards.
The Sheridan Rifle Club opened the
season with many new members.
Numerous appeals for help are be-
ing received at the office of United
States Labor Commissioner Taylor of
Cheyenne.
On a charge of assault and battery
preferred by Miss Lucille Manning of
Glenrock, ]. J.. Ruthford, a Denver
travelling salesman, was released at
Glenrock on a $500 cash bond to ap-
pear at the October term of District
Court. Ruthford alleges that the girl
removed 5000 and other %valuables
from his possession. 1t was for this
allegation hat Ruthford is said to
have struck the girl, fracturing her
Jaw.
Ninety-five per cent of the 1918 class
of Wyoming's registrants has waived
exemption claims and declared them
selves ready to help crush Prussian-
ism If their county boards so decree.
OF 1866 young men registered on June
8, this year, only eighty-one have been
placed in deferred classes. OF twenty
one counties, eight-including Sweet
water, Carbon. Weston. Campbell.
Washaki, Fremont, Platte and Mo
brara-boast of having no registrants
in deferred classes.
Private Wilbur w. Sunderland, OF
the quartermaster's corps at Fort d.
A. Russell, was shot while in Chey-