, 1920-02-26
Brief News Notes
From All Parts of
Wyoming
western Newspaper Union News Service.

.urned in. A few minor leaks we're
repaired at once and the line is now
IN service.
The Nebraska-Wyoming Oil Com
)any is to start drilling work in the
Lance Greek field within the next two
weeks. A rig has been bought and
will be moved to the site of the ON
pany o
After unsuccessful efforts to graft
ikin onto her neck and save her life,
drs. David n. Jones died at Greybull
IS IL result of burns received in a
gasoline explosion which killed her
TWO little girls.
Cheyenne is to have q public mark
ct in which producers of foodstuffs
may sell their produce directly to the
| consumers of the city. The market
is to be provided Jointly by the city
Of Cheyenne and the county of Lara
mie.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the FIGURING plant of the Cheyenne
Milling Company at Cheyenne. The
loss is estimated at $125,000. The fire
started on the second floor. The fire
men had difficulty in fighting the
blaze, as the water pressure was low.
The mill was n four-story structure
and owned by B. f. Chandler.
A hog, believed to be the largest
ever raised in Wyoming, weighed 769
pounds dressed, after being b~utchered
by its owner, Z. S. Townsend, a farm
er at Beckton, Wyo., who s~pecializes
in registered Poland China hogs, and
purebred poultry. The hog. which
was n registered animal, was twenty
two months old.
Notice hat seventy-slx more French
war certificates were being forwarded
to state headquarters of the American
Legion was received at Casper by
State Secretary Harry Fisher. This
makes a total of 207 Wyoming boys
who lost their lives in action or who
died as a result of wounds received
in battle in France.
More property has changed hands
In Douglas during the winter than in
any corresponding season since the
city was Incorporated, according to
reports from the various agencies
there. The outlook is exceptionally
bright fer great activity with the COM
ing of spring as inquiries are being re-
ceived daily rs to values by prospec-
tive purchasers.
John Vegado was exonerated from
the charge of murder in his prelimi-
nary hearing at Kemmerer and was
given his freedom. Vegado was
charged with the murder of Dominick
Bannassi at Frontier on last Labor
Day when the two became engaged
day, after which Bannassi died as the
result of knife wounds received.
The land office at Douglas has es-
tablished a record of having a great
err volume of business than any other
office in this country. The Douglas
office is climbing towards a new rec
ord this year on showings made dur
ing the month of January when col
lections amounted to more than S.
plications allowed and sixty final
proof certificates issued.
The Wyoming Chief Oil & Refining
Co, which, with its associate, the Big
Indian OIL &c Gas Co., recently ac-
quired 5000 acres under lease on the
LaPrele dome, west of this city, has
completed its camp upon this ground
and is now erecting its rig preliminary
to the beginning of operations. Off
Gals of the company expect drilling
to be under way before the end of the
month.
Byron Shakleford of Sheridan was
instantly killed and q. G. Shores was
seriously injured when a scaffold on
which they were working broke and
hurled them twenty feet to the
ground.
At the meeting of the Wyoming
Wool Growers Association at Casper,
resolutions were adopted urging Con-
gress to secure legislation granting to
all honorab.y discharged service men
$40 acres Of arid land or 800 acres of
tillable land as a bonus for their serv-
ice in behalf of this country during
the late war. This resolution was
amended further to read that script
should be issued by the government to
buy this land.
Prof. ]. G. Fitterer, the irrigation
engineer at the University of Wyo-
ming was reelected president of the
Wyoming Engineering Society at the
meeting held at Thermopolis, the fol-
lowing other officers being chosen /:
@. w. Zorn of Greybull, vice presi-
dent; j. G. Chessington of Thermop-
oils, secretary and treasurer. The
society now has eighty members, in
GLIDING the leading engineers of the
state. and the meetings are attended
by a large number Of these.
A new warehouse and office build.
ing to be occupied by the National
Supply Company, which is to cost
100000, has been contracted for at
Caanar Work in m qfar ri ~ onco Tho