, 1918-01-24
MING
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 2S-29-Annual meeting State Ba
Association at Douglas.

A big store was destroyed by fire
at Basin.
A Home Defense Society has been
organized at Cody.
Schools at Worland are now open
six days per week.
The Big Horn Credit Association
was formed at Lowell.
1t is reported that water at the coal
camps is unfit to drink.
Wyoming sheepmen are alarmed at
the shortage of labor.
The Presidents aid has been sought
to close Wyoming saloons.
Rev. d. A. Turner is the new pastor
of Christ Church at Douglas.
A service flag has been presented
to the University of Wyoming.
Nearly 100000 acres of lane have
been filed upon through the Douglas
land office.
Cheyenne saloon men agreed to
close their places at 10 p. m and not
reopen until I a. III.
The chief of police reports that
there We're eleven murders committed
in Cheyenne in 1917.
Four mountain lions were bagged
by Don Stephenson, trapper for the
biological survey at Cody.
Policemen and firemen of Cheyenne
will receive higher pay in the future
than they have in the past.
Day and night shifts are being
worked Oh the Flat Top Oil and Gas
Company's well south of Glenrock.
James johnson was killed neal Ira
bling from a fall from a loaded wagon,
according to word reaching Kaycee.
Engineer Peter Parlow was injured
when he fell from his engine, while
working on it in the yard at Diamond
vile.
Five men are languishing in the city
Jail at Thermopolis believed to have
had a part in the stealing of five over
coats.
George Mcleod, well known wrest-
Ter, was arrested at Casper charged
with obtaining money under false pre-
lenses.
James A. Mcdonald, 16, and Fred E.
George were arrested at Laramie
charged with taking a car and driving
it to Bosler.
Charles Rador, ST., of Point of
Rocks was taken to the hospital suf-
fering from pneumonia and died at
Rock Springs.
Cheyenne's third day of sub-zero
weather Jan. IL brought a tempera-
ture of Is degrees below zero, &C.
companied by a high wind.
On complaint of Mayor C. C. Young
berg of Lyman, District Attorney B.
N. Matthews authorized the arrest of
r. L. Davis as a possible German spy.
A One Hundred Per cen American
Club has been organized at Lowell and
has a rapidly growing membership.
The club will endeavor to promote
patriotism.
A horse belonging to Paul Lyon was
killed at Teton by the deputy sheriff
and his assistants after a careful ex-
animation indicated that the animal
had the rabies.
F. ]. S. SUI, widely known oil ge-
ologist, is quoted as saying that the
crying iced of Wyoming is for more
drilling contractors and more drilling
tools.
There we're 1913 arrests in Casper
in 1917. The fines assessed by the
police judge amounted to $11.S00. The
chief of police collected $21, 593.5 30 for
licenses.
The U. P. spent Sc. SOC, 200 in 1917
for improvements in Wyoming.
Rose NJ. Cosgriff of Cheyenne, as
guardian of the Cosgriff minors es-
tate, through the National Surety
Company of New York, has filed a
$150,0OO bond guaranteeing faithful
performance of duties.
Utilization of the same range for
both sheep and cattle was advocated
before the Wyoming Wool Growers
Association in annual convention at
Douglas by John H. Hatton, assistant
district forester of Denver.
Ivan L.. Hobson, associated with the
cooperative extension work in the
agricultural and home economics
work of the state university at Lara
ME, and state club leader in Boys
and Girls club work in Wyoming, mas
announced the list of state champions
in this work for the year just closed.
Drilling activity in the Big Muddy
field of Wyoming is shown by a state
ment that ninety-six wells nave been
completed in the fourteen months
since the first deep well was brought
in. This includes nineteen Wall Creek
sand wells, seventy-one Shannon sand
wells and seven stray sand wells.
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