, 1918-08-08
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENT!

western Newspaper Union News service
COMING EVENTS.
Aug. lo-sept. 2-Race meeting at
Aug. 3U-Sept. l-Trapper's Union Re-
union ut kemmerer.
Sept. 9-14-wyomins State Fair at
Douglas.
Sept. is-20-Laramie County Fair.
A cloudburst did damage to crops
in the Shawnee section.
The old-timers of the Big Horn
Basin held their annual outing at Hy-
a~ttville.
Farmers of Laramie county will
have to keep a record of all wheat
threshing done during the season.
Sergeant G. M. Barber, of Greybull,
is among those reported dead in the
casualty list given out on the Both.
Victor H. Stovel, a former resident
of Cheyenne, was drowned while swim
ming in a lake at Hammonton, N. ].
That wyoming will be n of the
states to donate a Red Cross ambu-
lance for service at the front seems
certain at this time.
Clarence Yewie of Goshen Hole was
bitten by a rattlesnake while assisting
in raising a windmill tower on his
farm near Box Elder.
The Illinois Pipe Line Company Is
erecting a private telephone line from
Thermopolis to the Big Muddy oil
field in Converse county.
Locking herself in her bedroom, Mrs.
J.. R. Murray, for many years a resi-
dent of Upton, committed suicide by
shooting herself through the temple.
Two young men were arrested at
Wheatland on a charge of idleness, in
violation of the town ordinance recent
ly adopted making loafing q misde.
meanor.
An important deal was closed In
Lander recently by which the Wind
River refinery agrees to deliver its
full output to a Minneapolis concern
for distribution in the eastern and
middle western markets.
At Casper ]. L. Coryell. a house.
moving contractor, and Fred Krahn,
were removed to the Casper Private
hospital, suffering from injuries sus
tanned when a house collapsed while
being lowered to it's foundations.
In the other fields of the country
the newest indications of the opening
up of new territory outside of Wyo.
ming appears to be around Holbrook,
Ariz., where several shallow wells
have discovered the presence Of petro
leum deposit.
Within an hour after he had been
accepted for service with the United
States marine corps, Libert Herbert
Menge of Sheridan went over the tor
in the first battle for the service and
scored a victory over several "wob
blies' in Billings.
Believed to have been Respondent
over the alleged actions Of his wife,
who is said to be on too familiar terms
with another member of his troop
Walter 8. Raley of 1 troop, 312th cav.
airy, stationed at Fort D. A. Russell.
walked into the police station at Chey.
enne. and pulling a sm~all-caliber pts,
toll from his pocket, fired a shot into
his temple.
Edward McNurlen, a ranchman e
siding near Laramie, died Of injuries
received when a team which was
nitched to a moving machine ran
away and threw him into the machin-
cry. He was working in a wheat field
which adjoins his home when the acct
dent occurred, but was not found until
some time after the accident. The
horses came to the barn alone, which
gave the first intimation that an acct
dent had occurred. He is survived by
a widow and daughter 8 years old.
About $40, 900 each will be expended
this year by the federal forest serv-
ice and the state of Wyoming on the
Wind River and the Buffalo -Tensleep
highway construction projects.
News was received that another
Sheridan boy, Leo Mooney. was on the
Inflated San Diego, when It was pre-
sumably sunk by a mine. with a loss
of approximately two-score lives.
Wyoming is making preparations
for one Of the greatest celebrations in
its history at the fourteenth annual
state fair at Douglas this year. In
programs Just issued for the fair,
which will be held Sept. 8 to II. there
are listed attractions running all the
way from grand opera to exhibitions
Of prize sweet potatoes. wyoming
folks have been answering the ma
TONS call for increased production in
wonderful measure" Mr.. Highly said
"and our state fair will. In conse
quence, have its greatest agricultural
and live stock exhibition. We mean
to make this years fair a big educa
tional affair. designed to show ouI
people how best they may further in,
crease production, conservation and
other war-winning efforts"
Clinging to q ledge in the Big Popc