, 1918-05-09
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

Basin.
A new residence section is to be
plated at Lander.
Five apartment houses are being
planned for Lander.
Two Mexicans were held at Kemm-
erer as draft evaders.
The Burlington is erecting a new
freight house at Casper.
William Wesley Howell, 70, Laramie
pioneer. died of pneumonia.
Wyoming's quota in the coming Red
Cross drive will be s190.400.
Thermopolis voted $4,000 bonds to
extend its water and sewer service.
A raid in the Sandbar district at
Casper resulted in the arrest Of five
women.
L. L. Flanagan was. jailed at Glen
rock ON the charge of issuing forged
checks.
At Upton the Southwest Oil Com
pany has started development work on
an extensive scale.
Wyoming will supply 1877 of the
23S,OOO men called on May rs. They
will train at Camp Lewis, Wash.
Badger Basin Oil and Gas Company
has been Incorporated at Cody with
10000 shares par at so cents.
/ A shipment of thirty-five cars Of
live stock valued at more than $780,
600 was made by Lowell men in one
week.
Thrift stamp sales in the Cheyenne
schools total about $8,400-an average
of nearly Sc per CAPITA for the stu
dents.
Margaret Duthie, s-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Duthie of From
tier, died, it being evident that she
was the victim of poisoning.
The ravages of smallpox and meas
les have become SO serious of late that
Buffalo school officials voted that
every student be vaecinated.
Sixteen men from the state Of Wyo-
ming will receive commissions as &C.
ond lieutenants In the third officers
training school at Camp Funston. Kan.
Wind River Petroleum Company has
struck oil on its recently acquired
holdings in the Pilot Butte field. The
oil was found in the first sand at near
700 feet.
Wyoming is going after the wildcat
Oil man in the Legislature next winter
by the passage of a stringent blue-sky
law. according to Attorney General
Preston.
Two persons were severely cut and
bruised when a car shot off the road
on Germania hill near Greybull and
plunged down a steep hillside into a
ditch 200 feet below.
Judge John c. Friend, the only
| Grand Army veteran in Rawlins, sub
scribed his entire savings for Liberty
Bonds. He purchased $1,000 worth of
the Thirty Liberty Loan issue.
Instruments filed for record with the
county clerk at Lander show that the
Carter OIL Company of Tulsa, Okla,
has leased four oil claims from the
government on the reservation.
Striking of oil in Bates Park causes
additional interest in structures lying
west and south of Casper. These in
clude Iron Creek, Oil Mountain, Poison
Spider, South Casper Creek, V~irginian
and Emigrant Gap.
Shorty" Gillard, condemned to be
hanged for the murder of Cornell
Cooper during a saloon brawl at HUI
lett, died In jail after he had taken
poison which he previously had Be-
GREETED in his clothing.
DR.. J. M. Wilson of Mckinley, presi.
dent of the Wyoming Wool Growers
Association, who was in Washington
comforting with administration off,
Gals relative to the government tax
ing over the wool output, wired the
Wyoming flockmasters not to dispose
Of their wool until rules and reEula,
tons are published by the govern
ment.
During March the state of Wyoming
received royalty oil from state lands
valued at $4,000. OIL from the dis
puted tract in the Grass Creek field.
valued at $500, was also received and
placed in escrow, pending the settle
ment of the title to the land which is
producing the oil. This brings the
total income of the state to $43, 500
from oil royalties.
Rather than spend the money re-
CURED to hold an election, the electors
of Diamondville by unanimous vote
at a mass meeting in the town hall,
decided to retain the mayor and two
councilmen for another year and use
the election money to buy Liberty
Bonds. The Town Council according
ly voted to purchase $4,000 worth of
the third Liberty Loan bonds.