, 1919-02-13
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
Newspaper Union New. Service.

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now in the field.
Ex-Governor Houx is reported to
have received the highest price for
shearing lambs ever recorded in the
state of Wyoming.
Twenty-one men are digging pits for
oil rigs in Harvey Greek field. Thirty
five of these excavations are being
made in that field.
Rock Creek is the scene of impor-
tant operations. Ohio OIL Company
has two wells, one good for 700 bar
rels, and one for 1000 barrels of oil
a day.
A few months old baby was burned
to death when the home of Sam Bas-
sard, in an isolated section, twenty
miles from Laramie, caught fire while
Bastard and his wife were at a neigh
boris, and burned to the ground. A
little girl, 2 years old, was also in the
house, but escaped.
Agreement by the members of the
conference committee of both Houses
of Congress on the oil leasing bill, had
the effect of stimulating the market
in Wyoming oil stocks in a remark
able degree and resulted in sharp ad
vances in the prices of all shares of
Salt Creek companies.
The ]. S. Brown Mercantile Com
pany of Denver has filed articles OF
incorporation with the secretary of
state at Cheyenne, paying a filing fee
of S311 on a capitalization of $780,
600. Q. c.. Goss is named resident
agent, and it is understood the COM
pany will open a branch at Casper.
With a record of having shipped
more than 10000 900 bushels of
wheat from this section last season,
local farmers have sold stock in a
mutual elevator which will be erect
ed in time for the 1919 wheat crop
at Gillette. The greater portion of
the wheat yield of last year was
from dry lands.
A Senate bill authorizing the addi-
ton of 10000 acres, in whole or in
part, to the Wyoming National forest
by the proclamation of the President
was passed by the House and sen to
conference. The land is in central
Wyoming and embraces an important
watershed or tributaries of Salt River
and other streams.
The House committee of the whole
has recommended for passage Repre-
sentative Hardin's measure, House
Bill A, ratifying certain acts of state
officials, which bill has an important
bearing on the interests of the state
of Wyoming in litigation involving
eighty acres of land in the heart of
the Grass Creek oil field which it is
estimated worth more than S3,OO0,OOO.
The first test to be completed In the
Muddy Creek district in Carbon coun-
" probably will be the well On section
G-15-92, zeal the village of Dad, being
drilled byTJohn A. Bell of Pittsburg,
j. A. Krear of Oklahoma n John
Grffey of Denver. This test reached
u depth of about LOO feet last Sep
tember when operations were sus-
pended on o of the water short
age.
Threats against the Cheyenne po-
lice department have been received
by the chief in a letter from j. A.
Kirkpatrick of Oak Creek, Colo,
wherein Kirkpatrick demands $4,000
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ground that the police here ruined his
business and allowed others to feast
on his hearts blood He further
charges the police with arresting him
and falsely charging him with murder.
Kirkpatrick was never charged by the
authorities with murder, according to
the county records. He is known as
a salesman of extracts, and the police
believe his mind is unbalanced.
The Riverton refinery will be com
pleted in the neal future. The boiler
house is completed and three of the
batteries of stills are in place. Three
more are on the way.
Telegraph communication between
the Salt Creek field of Wyoming and
the Denver offices of the Midwest Re
filming Company were established for
the first time last week. Heretofore
communication with this field was
made by telephone from Casper,
which has been connected with Den.
yer by private telegraph wire for tive
years.
State Treasurer A. d. Hoskins has
purchased for the state of Wyoming
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fourth issue. He bought them on the
open market at approximately $94.5f
per 500, with the result hat the net
interest return to the state will be
about Az per cent. This investment
the first one of any proportions to b'
made by the new state treasurer, Ii
from the permanent funds of h STATE
and will not be disturbed during th'
life of the bonds. Under the presenf
statutes the monies of the state can
not be Invested in mortgages but ma!
be expended for national and STATE
bonds.
Fort Russell, at Cheyenne, has beer
designated as a convalescent and de
mobilization point for soldiers from
Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Nortl
and South Dakota. This means tina