, 1919-09-11
WYOMING
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Lawrence f. Callen, 81 years old,
was instantly killed when lightning
struck a wire fence as he was going
through it in Il cloudburst near Dia-
mond, sixty miles north of Cheyenne.
A terrific electrical storm at Lusk
was the cause of II loss of $4,000.
Lightning struck and set on fire TWEEN
ty-four oil tanks, nine of which were
of 250-barrel capacity. All were de-
stroyed.
Liquor to the value of S21,6O0 was
seized in Il raid in Laramie by Earl
Daniels, deputy commissioner of pro-
hibition for Wyoming, and five men
from his office, assisted by sheriffs
and police.
The power plant at the Keystone
mine at Hartyille vas struck by light
ming and totally destroyed during a re-
operated by the Midwest Minerals
Company and James Hart is superin-
tendent.
+. y. Demorest, So years old, one of
the first Casper settlers, is dead. Mr..
Demorest went to Casper in 1888, while
Casper was still IL g II town, and es-
tabliShed the first restaurant in the
city. He was born in New Jersey. He
is survived by his wife, n daughter and
five SONS, three now living at Yanpa,
Colo.
The Midwest Refining Company,
drilling on section 27-36-65 in the
Lance Creek field for the Cactus Pc
troleum Company, brought in the big
gest gas well ever opened up in the
district and one of the largest in Wyo-
ming. Estimates of the flow, while
possibly inaccurate, place it at 50,000,-
600 cubic feet a day.
Sales at the fourth annual ram sale
of the National Wool Growers Asso-
citation, which ended in Salt Lake City,
aggregated 100000, with total sales
for the four days reaching about $780,
900. The feature of the sale was a
Rambouillet ram from the f. S. King
Brothers Company, Laramie, Wyo., to
Quealey Sheep Company of COkeville,
Wyo., for $1,000.
James u. Mcdonald, w%ell-known
Denver automobile driver, was killed
at Casper while tuning up his car for
the state fair races at Douglas. The
machine which he was driving against
time on the race track at Casper
crashed through the fence, turning
over twice and causing injuries to Nc
Donald's neck and chest that later
caused his death.
Il. ]. Sutton of Kansas City, Mo, died
of heart disease near Douglas, Wyo.,
while motoring overland to the Yellow
stone National Park. Mr.. Sutton be-
came ill nearly twenty miles from
Douglas and was taken to a farm
house. Proceeding later, after he felt
better, out the car had hardly started
before he fell dead from the seat in
which he was riding.
The State Board of Equalization has
added nearly S2,00O,OOO to the valua-
ton of certain lands in Albany coun-
ty, bringing the assessment from 500
531, 7S5 to SD, ,052, on the following
classes of land: Lands, irrigated, cul-
tivated, increased 10 per cent; lands
irrigated, uncultivated meadows, raised
30 per cent; lands irrigated, grazing,
raised 40 per cent lands, grazing, and
other lands remain the same.
a valuable COW belonging to w. w.
Graham of Beaver, Wyo., failed to
show up one evening. The boys went
in search of her and found her lying
lead in the pasture and Il huge RATHER
coiled at her side. They killed the
snake and summoned the father, who
went to skin the COW. Starting to turn
the carcass he saw another rattIesnake
crawl from beneath the leg and udder.
Examination showed the skin on the
udder and one leg bitten to shreds.
With the aid of rains in the Big
Horn forest, the fire which has been
burning in the Bonanza district i'm
Wyoming for more than ten days has
been put completely under the control
of the fighters, according to a mes
sage from John McLaren, who is i'm
charge of fire fighting in the Denver
district. AT one time the fire-fighting
crew in this district numbered 49,
men, and the fire was one of the most
destructive occurring in the territory
under the Denver branch of the Forest
Service this year.
The clerical force of the Indian De-
partment at Fort Washable still is en-
gagged in tabulating bids for Dead In
diam lands which we're received at the
sale held last week. More than 900 bids
were received, there being as many as
twenty bids for each of several of the
most desirable of the tracts offered.
Bids run as high as $40 an acre-sev-
eral times the appraised value of the
land. Buyers from as far away as
New York and Pennsylvania attended
the sale. Next to Wyomlng's represen-
tation among the the largest