, 1918-01-31
WYOM MING
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Jan. S-29-Annu meeting State Bar
Association at Douglas.

AHA 4NlSDtl hdS Dttu appOAllSu iNt
lister of the land office at Evanston.
Elk are reported doing much dam
age in the section around Newcastle.
Many sheepmen complain of the
shortage q. laborers to help care for
their flocks.
Frank Wesley was found guilty of
assaulting Paul Paulus in the District
Court at Sheridan.
The Lake View postoffice near Lin
gle was robbed n the ~postoffice
temporarily suspended.
Chester Forkner, son of Thomas
Forkner of Meeteetse, has been listed
among the dead in France.
The District Court at Sheridan ad-
%journed after passing sentences on
bootleggers and gamblers.
The new building built at Greybull
to replace the water plant which was
burned is almost completed.
A miners house at Cumberland
mine No. 1 at Kemmerer was de
stroyed by fire while he was absent.
Reports of Postmaster Van Doren
show that the business in the Casper
postoffice has nearly doubled in the
year just passed.
Intimation of a general Cleanup"
of undesirable citizens in Casper have
been made by members of the Amer
lean Defense Society.
A telegram indicates that Saturday
will fall in line with Tuesday and
Wednesday as a conservation day.
Hereafter it will be 'porkless Satur-
day"
Leonard H. Moehler Of Saranac
Lake, N. Y. was Jailed at Rock
Springs, charged with having issued
fraudulent checks to the extent of
$115.
The Out West Company well on sec
ton %, West Salt Creek. is now dow
$500 feet n neal the point where
the Second Wall Greek sands should
bring oil.
The girls basketball team of the
Cody high scnool defeated the girls
quintet from Powell on the Powell
floor in the best game of the season.
The score vas II to 10.
The body of Christy Houx, son of
Governor Houx, who was drowned in
Lindenmeier lake at Fort Collins, vas
recovered by rescuers and taken to
Cheyenne for interment.
Casper firemen will be paid from
TO- on as the result of action taken
by the city council. Four men have
been hired who will be on duty at the
fire house all the time.
e Kwana Leo, the millionaire ORR
entail who went all the way from Salt
Lake City to Cheyenne to borrow a
five ent stamp from the sisters at a
convent at Cheyenne, and who was
arrested by the police on suspicion of
insanity, is in trouble again. He was
arrested at Green River, after break
ing the glass in a coach window, and
threatening to shear off the heads of
a number of passengers. 1t was nee
essary to shoot him before he could
be taken from the train.
Ten thousand volunteers are need.
ed at once for service in France, of
whom 1000 are required for special
work in the aviation section of the
signal corps and 5000 for the Tween.
tieth engineers n the railroad aux
Hilary forest battalions. Included in
this call, as received by Sergeant Gus
ter Hanks of the Casper recruiting
station, are gas engine men, sheet.
metal workers, painters, wheelwrights,
cooks, truck drivers and men for road
construction, sawmills and logging.
F. e. Mcintyre and his associates
at the Shoshone Indian agency, seven
teen miles northwest of Lander, have
been busy helping the redskins fill
out their qu~estionnaires. The registra-
ton at Fort Washable last June,
which included both the whites and
those of the darker color, was eighty
five.
1.-THE sight of our American boys at
the front brought tears to my eyes,"
said Senator John B. Kendrick in an
address to lawyers at Denver. while
France and England are fighting with
a grim determination to repel invasion
to save themselves from the butch
ering Huns-our boys are fighting in
a spirit just as glorious. They have
-consecrated their lives to the cause
OF right; they have travelled thousands
of miles to fight for a principle; they
have given up homes and families and
bright future; and before the German
can be defeated every person in the
United States must make as great a
sacrifice, comparatively. Our boys
know that a large part of the Amer
lean army will never return home,
but, without faltering, they have ded-
icated their lives to the cause. of jus
tice and right"
At the fourteenth convention of