, 1918-03-21
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union New, Service.


Glenrock voted $40, 900 bonds to ex-
tend the water system.
Big sand Draw Oil and Gas Com
pany filed articles of incorporation at
Cheyenne.
The Federal Land bank of Omaha
loaned s2O6, 900 in Wyoming during
the first year of its existence.
The average fire in Wyoming last
year cost $607.S6 according to reports
that have been compiled by federal
authorities.
The required number of contracts
have been signed up, assuring hingie
telephone service as soon as the ex-
change can be installed.
The Elkhorn deep well No. 10 has
struck the fourth pay sand at abou
1900 feet according to reports reach
ing Cheyenne from Glenrock.
Governor Giunter of Colorado has
committed the sentence of Clyde b.
Pearson, murderer of Sheriff Frank B..
Roach, to life imprisonment.
What is declared TO be the largest
well in the entire Lander district has
been brought in by the Wine River
Petroleum and Refining Company. 1t
is reported good for 200 barrels a day.
Gov. Frank L.. Houx accepted the
resignation of Charles d. Oviatt oil
Jelm, as a member of the House OF
Representatives of the Fourteenth
State Legislature from Albany county.
Salt Lake, Denver and Kentucky
capital is the motive power behind the
Crosby-Wyoming Oil Company, CAPT
talized at s250,000, which owns 1000
acres of leases on the Lowell dome, in
the Big Horn basin.
Plans are being made for the en-
trainment of Wyoming's quota of the
emergency draft of 5 5000 which will
be indicted into the army, according
to a statement given out at the office
of Capt. Ray X. Odds in Cheyenne.
Joseph c. Hamilton, ]. w. Frasbie,
Walter Headlee and William l.. Brown,
charged with the murder of Gust Kon-
dacks, Greek taxicab driver on the
night of December Z, pleaded not
guilty before Judge Mentzer in Chey-
enne. The trial will be held late in
March or April.
Mrs. Jessie Jackson of Omaha began
a damage suit for $4,000 against the
Uncle Sam Oil Company, drilling e
Laramie, claiming title to the land,
and also demanding an injunction
against the further operations of the
company. The well is now down sew
| oral htnIrnl foot with anni chnpuinp
for oil.
AS indicated by Robert D. Carey at
the time he accepted temporarily the
position OF chairman of the State
Council of National Defense, he has
rendered his resignation to that body
n Maurice erosion, at the head of
the Wyoming Food Commission, will
act as chairman until the e meet
ing of the Defense Council.
According to the government report,
Wyoming farmers On March l had on
hand 10000 bushels of corn, COM
pared with $4,000 bushels a year ago:
100000 bushels of wheat, compared
with $4,000 a ear ago; 3,59S,O0
bushels of oats, compared with 2,10O,-
600 a year ago, and 1875, 1000 bushels of
barley, compared with 10000 a year
ago.
Efforts are being made to charter
or more special cars from Chey-
enne to convey stockmen from that
city and eastern and northern portions
of the state to Kemmerer for the an
nual meeting of the Wyoming Stock
Growers Association, which will be
held in that city April IL and ~, 1t
was announced by Robert d. Carey,
president of the association.
A report reaching Cheyenne is to
the effect that the Northwest Oil Com
pany's well on section 3 of the Big
Muddy field has come in with a flow
of 1000 barrels at a depth of 2,79l
feet.
Extensive improvements of the high
ways in the state will be undertaken,
according to completed plans of the
Board of Highway Commissioners. Six
bridges will be built, four of which
will be constructed on the Yellow.
stone highway in Platte county neal
Bordeaux. One bridge will be con.
structed over Belle Fourche river in
Crook county neal Moorcroft, while
another n will be built south of
Thermopolis.
Wyoming will supply 1874 of the 95,-
600 men called to assemble at training
camps beginning March 20. The fol.
lowing are the quotas that have been
figured out for the various counties in
the state at the office of Captain Odds:
Albany, Il Big Horn, 7; Carbon, g.;
Campbell D; Converse, 6; Crook, 4;