, 1918-02-28
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The Casper postoffice has 500 new
boxes.
Six alleged gamblers were jailed at
Casper.
Punch boards have been barred in
Glenrock.
A warehouse at Worland was dam
aged by fire.
A new city directory of Rawlins is
being compiled.
Casper prisoners are being used to
clean the streets.
Many cases of scarlet fever were
reported at Casper.
Buns and tinhorns have been or
dered out of Glenrock.
R.. D. Carey has announced himself
a candidate for governor.
Forty wells have been contracted
for in the Fossil fields by various op-
Grating companies.
A Worland man bought 500 worth
of war savings stamps each day for
a period of ten days.
The Y. NJ. c. A. drive in Wyoming
netted nearly $4,000, with some
pledges yet to be paid.
A tent Of the Maccabees was insti,
tuted at Cheyenne. A degree team
from Denver assisted in the work.
Support for Patrick Sullivan for the
Republican nomination for governor
was pledged at a dinner at Casper.
Henry Hahn, former bad man" OF
Kemmerer, is wanted in Mackay,
Idaho, for the murder of Dan O'Con-
mel.
With forty teachers already en-
ployed and an enrolment of 1900 the
school facilities of Casper are made
quate.
John Bury, Jr., a tripper at the
Monarch mine near Sheridan. died
from injuries sustained when run
owe by a coal car.
Privates Charles w. Durant of
Sheridan and Elmer Wise of Fairview
were slightly wounded in action in
France on Feb. II.
Mrs. Elizabeth Brockway, aged "a
years, died at the home of her daugh.
ter, Mrs. C. p. Arnold. She was q
pioneer of Laramie.
Edna Hublitz, 3-year-old daughter OF
a rancher near Sheridan, was burned
to death when sparks from a stove set
fire to her clothing.
Three hundred members of Ell Jebel
chripo IF nanuar waOt IN CbnyaDDa
to assist in the annual ceremonial OF
the Shriners there.
The Park Oil and Development
Company has been formed in Salt
Lake for the purpose of drilling in
the Big Piney district.
There will be six days of amuse'
ment this year at the Wyoming State
Fair, according to reports sent out
from the office of the secretary.
Seach is being made by the police
of Cheyenne for a trio of Mexicans
who held up and robbed a fourth Mex.
lean at Burns, obtaining $125 in cash.
Three men are held in jail at Rock
Springs to await Stacker charges be-
fore Il United States court. John Gal
legar is also in Jail charged with being
an l. w. w.
The Wyoming Republican State
Central Committee, at it's meeting in
Cheyenne, adopted resolutions favor.
ing prohibition and high tariff, and
pledging support to win the war.
Cheno Oil Company is negotiating
for land in the Thornton-U Upton field
in Weston county. Drilling is shall.
low there and the four wells now pro
ducers brought in by the Southwest
OIL Company are from CSC to 700 feet
deep.
John Hill, coal miner, about so
years old, lies dead at a Kemmerer
morgue, and Mariana Covollo, Italian,
aged 81 years, is lodged in the county
jail, charged with murder in the first
degree.
Henry Walker of the police force at
Sheridan arrested an Austrian who
had escaped from Canada and who is
charged with having made threats
against Senator j. b. Kendrick when
he spoke at Sheridan.
Samuel Egbert of Cowley suffered
three fractures of the skull and mar.
rowly escaped death when the sup
posedly empty gas tank upon which he
had rested an ice saw to do some
electric welding, exploded.
Fire, believed to have been incen-
diary, destroyed the grain elevator of
Farmers Elevator and Milling
Company at Burns. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000, and includes the
loss of $500 bushels of grain.
Because of the demands on the
United States Treasury the federal
building at Cody, funds for which
were recently appropriated, will not