, 1918-04-25
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming

western Newspaper Union SeWb oeFNioe'
Thermopolis home guards are being
drilled regularly.
The rate for electric light in Doug
las has been raised.
Platte county will have a new road
from iva to Guernsey.
Work will be continued on the new
Catholic church at Casper.
Jackson is considering q new wa
ter system to cost $4,000.
The old glass works at Laramie
were badly damaged by fire.
Mrs. Jane Eastman Bartlett, 70,
died at her home in Cheyenne.
Joe Lydon was killed when he fell
under a train as 1t pulled out of Sher-
idan. ODD.
ton May IL to issue $4,000 sewer
bonds.
The classification of the lands in
the Douglas land district is nearly
completed.
Red Star animal relief branches
have been organized in eighteen diff
ferent towns in the state.
Buffalo Ranch No. 30, National Or
der Of Cowboy Rangers. has a service
flag with forty-three stars.
The women of Casper and Natrona
county are doing splendid work in
selling third Liberty loan bonds.
Governor Houx honored the ~requisi-
ton papers issued by Governor Gun
ter Of Colorado for ]. G. Wilcox Of
Basin. n
A 850-barrel gusher has been un-
oorked ON the northwest quarter Of
section 81, township 40, range 70, Salt
Greek.
Geo. Lord Of Sheridan has bought
the J.. Frank Owen ranch northwest Of
Dayton, including stock and machin-
cry, for 100000.
While calling for help when two men
attempted to rob her, a girl inmate Of
the men. One is under arrest.
Wilfrid O'Leary, secretary Of the
Democratic state committee, has is
sued a call for a meeting of the COM
mittes to be held in Cheyenne Wednes-
day morning, May LIST.
Miss Emiline Storm Whitcomb, pro-
lessor Of home economies at the Uni
vsrsity of Wyoming, has accepted a
similar position at Missoula, Mont,
and will resign her present position.
Two attempts have been made to
poison the family of Edward Keahsy,
a farmer living near Whsatland, when
strychnine was placed in the family
sugar bowl, and also in the drinking
water.
T. Matsu, a Jap, who is section fore
man at Felix, near Gillette, is in the
hospital at Sheridan as the result of
being struck with the blunt side of an
ak by a negro whom he had dis
charged.
A. T. Rice, who halls from Gehring,
Neb., and who sawed out Of jail at
Scottsbluff recently, after being impli-
Dated in domestic troubles affecting
another mans family, was rearrested
by the sheriff's office at Casper.
Fred Ferro, a Mexican, is in st.
Johns Hospital with a bullet wound
In his right shoulder. According to
the police. he was shot by a man who
attempted to hold him up on the Colo
RADIO & Southern tracks in Cheyenne.
Oil interpretations in Wyoming dur
ing last week represented a total cap
ital stock of S2.496. 900. This brings
the total oil stock capitalization in the
state since Jan. 1 to 500, 1895, 900. An
even 100 companies have been moor
porated.
Robert F. Clark, a member Of the
116th ammunition train and recently
stationed at Camp Hill, Va, died there
of bronchial pneumonia. He lived at
Green River before enlisting last sum.
mel in Company q of the Wyoming
National Guard.
1t is reported hat the recent sale Of
the Valentine tract of 100 acres in the
Grass Creek oil field was based on an
estimated oil content of 80, 1000 barrels
per acre. This would mean that the
estimated oil content Of the tract was
placed at 4.S00,O0O barrels of oil.
That patriotism is as strong, II not
stronger, in the far isolated localities
of the United States as in the centsrs
of population, is suggested by the fact
that the first two Wyoming towns to
exceed their quota of the third Lib
erty loan were Sundance and jackson,
each of which is in a locality remote
from q railroad and aanaratad Tram