, 1918-07-04
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

at Douglas.
Aug. so-sept. 1-Trapper's Union Re-
Sept. 9-14-Wyoming State Fair at
Sept iS-2o-Laramie County Fair.
Keeline 10 now lighted by cleo
tricity.
Glenrock is to have a $4,000 hospi-
tai building.
Lingle will soon have a new tele-
phone exchange.
Work of identifying the state CAPT
tol grounds is being pushed.
BARRIERS of Powell have raised the
price of a haircut to fifty cents.
Big Horn county's fine new court
house has been formally dedicated.
More than thirty new houses have
been started in Casper the last few
days.
Boyd v. Osborne has been employed
as secretary of the Basin Chamber Of
Commerce.
At Rock Springs, Amelia Notar,
little Slav girl, IL years old, raised
$685. for Red Cross work.
Thermopolis has been selected as
the meeting place for the Wyoming
State Dental Society next year.
The body of VIM. Greaser, who
committed suicide at Laramie, was
taken to Fremont, Neb., for burial.
Casper will have a new $4,000 0 post
office building, as d result Of jumping
from fourth to a second-class office.
Almost enough money has been sub
scribed to insure the erection of a
grain elevator and FIGURING mill for
Greybull.
Wyoming will send 500 men under
the call for 100000 to mobilize be-
tween July % and rs; 1000 on July 5
to 9, and 2S2 on July 15 to 10, to Fort
Logan, Colo, for training.
Florence Petroleum Company's we'll
being drilled by the Cactus Petroleum
Company and Producers and Refiners'
Corporation at Castle creek is 2,17o
feet deep and In the first Wall Creek
sand.
Word has been received at Cody
from Washington that the task OF i'm
proving and constructing, the washed
out Northfork road to the park will be
commenced at ono by the govern
ment.
William Greaser. a valley ranchman
near Laramie, shot and killed his
wife, Mrs. Katie Greaser and then
turned the revolver on himself. send
ing a bullet crashing into his own
brain.
Three artesian wells ranging from
$50 to 400 feet in depth and supplying
as high as 10000 gallons Of water each
twentyfour hours, have been brought
In on lands surrounding Baggs the past
month.
Just at present the crying need of
Wyoming is pipe. In every field ex-
cept perhaps the Big Muddy and Grey
bull, there are wells shut down for
want of transportation from the field
to a market.
Three miles of pipe line from the
Midwest tank farm, on the north bank
of the river west of Casper to the Salt
Creek field. already have been laid.
and for thirty miles the pipe is on the
ground ready to be connected.
The several hundred oil men who a
month ago staked thousands of acres
On what is known as the Murphy dome
on Kirby creek, twenty-eight miles
east of Thermopolis, have. had their
hopes renewed by a recent develop
ment there. The Leslie d. Welsh in
terests have struck oil at a depth of
900 feet in the second sand.
Powell streets are to be graded.
Miss Dorothy Barry Of Cheyenne is
credited with being the first woman
employed in any shop along the line
of the Union Pacific railroad, although
twenty-five women are employed in
the Cheyenne yards of the railroad.
Hearing that his brother Howard
had been killed In action in France,
Homer o. Mowry of Pinedale at once
enlisted in the army and went to Fort
Logan for training, with the determin-
alton to avenge the death of his rela-
tive.
Encouraged by support If Oregon
Short Line officials, a movement is on
foot at Diamondyille to build a side
walk from ~Diamondville to Kemmerer,
in order to stop sc much traffic be-
tween the two places on the railroad
right-of-way.
That Roy H. Eaton, the first Sheri-
dan county and the fourth Wyoming
man to be killed fighting in France,
accounted for several Germans before
he was shot through the heart, 10 in
formation contained in a letter to his
mother at Sheridan from Wilfrld q.
Robb, a chaplain of the American
forces who conducted his funeral ser
vices.
Promotion of eighty-five officers of
the One Hundred and S~ixty-sixth de
pot brigade at Camp Lewis, Tacoma,
Nal 49, A..n.aAAAL NH. oHAIan.. /.