, 1918-07-11

Douglas.
Sept. iS-2o-Laramie County Fair.
Thermopolls is to have a Good
Roads day.
Slater and Wheatland are to nave
new elevators.
Many improvements r contem-
plated at Green river.
South Park, near Jackson, Ii 70
have a new school building.
w. H. Aldrich has been appointed
county agent for Park county.
Five generations were present at q
family reunion at Rock Springs.
Manville has granted a thirty-year
franchise for an electric light plant.
Four big silos are being erected on
the Galatin ranch. south of Big Horn.
A four-story hotel and a big grain
elevator are recent improvements at
Riverton.
The H. M. Jones home north OF sho-
shoni, was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground.
The Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany is planning to spend $1,75O,ooo
for new shops and yard equipment at
Cheyenne.
Samples of potash from the Dubois
region that were sent to the assayer
in Pittsburg, have been found to be 90
per cent pure.
Voluntary enlistments in the Unit
cd States army from Sheridan county
and surrounding territory since April
10, 1917, total over 900.
Sheep shearing is in full blast at
Alton. The clip is exceptionally n
In quality and the fleeoes are yielding
larger returns than usual.
Albert Rubis, a 1~2-year-old boy, who
was working in the beet fields at the
Industrial institute at Coulter, was in
stantly killed by lightning.
Kinney well No. IT is officially re-
ported as producing 750 barrels a
day. It is filling three 2bo-bsrrel
tanks every tw%enty-four hours.
Asleep in a tepee on the Pine Creek
range, near South Pass, Max Virgil,
a young Mexican. was instantly killed
when lightning struck the tepee, ar
rying it several yrrds away.
Midwest Oil Company declared its
regular quarterly dividend Of 2 cents .
share on preferred stock, payable July
20 to stock of record July 2. No &C
ton was taken looking to dividends on
common.
wyoming already has 8 per cent of
it's population in the army compared
with a 2 per cent average for the
country, according to an announce
ment made by Adjutant General Wea-
yer of the Wyoming National guard.
Fourteen miles of the Midwest pipe
line to the Salt Creek oil field have
been laid and connected up, while
practically every bit of the pipe has
been laid over the whole length Of the
line. About seventy-five men are en-
ployed on the work.
Wyoming has its first woman letter
carrier. Miss Elizabeth Rutledge of
Pine Bluffs is carrying mail between
Pine Bluffs and Albin and Gallo. She
has assumed charge of the mail bag
laid aside by Herbert Foulks, who
went away to training camp with the
last batch Of draftees.
The only Fourth of July tragedy in
the Cheyenne region occurred twenty
five miles east, when Ray r. Hughes,
"a, a farmer who was picknicking
with his wife and little son at a res
ervoir went bathing in the lake, got
beyond his depth and was drowned.
The body was recovered.
Leo Henderson, 80, of Osmund, was
drowned in an irrigation ditch.
Peter Natala, an Italian of Denver,
who was held on a charge of killing
DR.. F. Digiacomo in an office at KEN
merer June 20, escaped from the
county Jail. John Miller, who is &C
cused of evading the draft, and j. N.
Banner, charged with larceny, also es-
capped. The keys were taken from the
Jail guard.
Neighbors who instituted a search
for Lee Henderson, 80, a ranchman at
Osmund, who failed to return to his
home at the conclusion of his days
work, found his body In a shallow irri-
CATION ditch. He had been prostrat-
ed by heart trouble while working in
the ditch and drowned In a few inches
of water.
His foot caught in a switch frog in
one of the mine railroad tracks at
Glencoe, Joe Baskovich, 45, a miner,
stood helpless and watched the mine
cars approaching him. The oars
passed over his body. Death was al
most instantaneous. Baskovich was
engaged in greasing the rolls that
support the cables when his foot be
came firmly trapped in the automatic
switch. His cries for help were moi
heard by those in charge of the cars
The Coulter-Brook Operators OF
Corporation has struck a good vel
on their holdings in the Byron field
In the northern part of the state. Il
is said to be the largest well in the
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