, 1919-06-12

The Midwest Refining Company is
to begin at once the construction of
a 5.OO0-barrel refinery at Laramie, ac-
cording to late reports.
On July LIST the Torrington postof-
flee will be advanced to the second
| class, receipts for the year having
passed the required $4,000 by about
$1,000.
Greybull postoffice has been raised
to second class, thus insuring free de-
livery as Dol rs houses are mum
bered and sidewalks laid on all the
streets. The change will be effective
July list.
With the letting of the drainage con-
tract for the Sunlight district, about
1000 acres of land in the Lowell vi
cinity will be reclaimed. The land is
seeping rapidly but by drainage every
acre can be farmed.
The Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph Company has decided to
build Il permanent line from Big Piney
to Rock Springs, taking in Daniel,
Pinedale and Elkhorn. This will in
volve the construction of about 200
miles of line.
Reaching into a clump of bushes for
II stick with which to kill a RATHER
coiled on u rock, William Durham was
severely bitten by a second RATHER
hidden in the bushes. The snake SUM
its fangs deep into his right hand.
Mr.. Durham, who was working at An
telope Gap, bound up his arm and
made a record drive to Wheatland.
Seventy buffalo calves have been
born in the Yellowstone National Park
during the last few weeks, says Ches-
ter A. Lindsey, acting superintendent
of the park, in the wild nerd which
ranges in Pelican valley, in the eastern
portion of the park, twenty calves
have been born, making a herd of nine
ty. In the tame herd, which numbers
about 400, there are fifty calves.
A Riverton industrial convention to
be held in Riverton, September End to
9th, inclusive, is the plan of the Riv-
erton Commercial Club to advertise
the resources, industries and possible
ties of Riverton and Fremont county.
The event will take the form of a COM
bined county fair, general celebration,
horse racing, land sales, stock sales,
farmers institute, and Industrial
demonstrations.
w. NJ. letters, general manager of
the Union Pacific; Charles B. Irwin,
general agent for the same system,
and L. Blake Kennedy, well known
Cheyenne lawyer, have formed the
Jeff Land & Livestock Company, with
a capitalization of 100000. The in
corporation papers show that the main
office will be at Cheyenne and that
the company will operate in Laramie
and Goshen counties.
Six persons m~iraculously escaped
death when their automobile over
turned on the Dad to Denver a short
distance south of Cheyenne, caught
fire and burned. The party had
turned out for a C~helenne-bound ma
chine when the car struck a boulder,
hurting all six into the road. None
were seriously hurt. They were picked
up by n passing machine and taken
back to Cheyenne.
That Douglas will be the site for a
new refinery to be erected by one of
the Standard Oil subsidiaries seems
almost certain in the light of recent
developments. Officials of a pipe line
company, which represents Standard
OIL capital, were in Douglas q few
days G and stated that the pipe line
which will carry the oil production
from the Lance Creek fields would
strike the railroad at Douglas.
University addition will be a new
residence district of Laramie very
shortly, a group of business men hav-
ing secured eighty acres north of the
university campus which they will con-
vert into city lots.
The worlds luckiest man has been
found in the person of ]. W.. White,
ii Campbell county farmer. Potatoes
are n of his chief crops and while
blowing and planting last year he lost
his gold watch, which dropped from
his pocket and was covered up. This
year, while blowing the same patch OF
ground, Mr.. White found his watch,
which was in no way injured during
the year spent under the sod.
Peter Walter, a 19-year-old farmer
boy living our miles north OF Beaver,
was struck by lightning and died in
stantly. Young Walter was at work
in the field driving a team of horses,
which were unhurt by the lightning,
but which ran away when the bolt
struck. The boys brother, who was
working in the same field not five hun
dred feet away, saw the bolt strike
and says his brothers body was en-
veloped in a white flame. The body
vas burned beyond recognition.
The record price on Carbon county
wool-53% cents per pound-went to
the John A. Donnel Sheep Company.
All sales averaged more than sc cents,
the Niland-Tierney clip was the low
est selling for 46 cents. The John w.
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