, 1925-01-14
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Contract for four-room school let for
$3O,5OO at Salt Creek.
Election to be called for bonds for
S125,000 school at Slaton.
Carbon County Game Protective AS
ISOLATION formed at Rawlins.
Call made for election to vote $751;
600 bonds at Rock Springs.
Contracts amounting to S1lO,25O let
for building Lincoln county court
house.
Standard Oil Company Of California
brings in gusher -four miles southwest
of Lowell.
Contract to be let for construction of
air-mail hangar and office building at
Cheyenne.
Forest service at Lander accepts
S11 900 scenic road to Sinks and Ran
ger station.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lar canning plant offered Wheatland
If citizens will subscribe one-half cap
ital.
Sweetwater sheepmen have received
100000 advance on 312,O5O fleeces
sold for 1925 delivery at average price
of 40 cents per pound.
Officers of Hatfield No. . Oil Com
pany have been very much encouraged
owe the progress that has been made
n over the showings that have been
encountered.
Rig builders completed the erection
of a new standard rig on the holdings
Of ]. i. Keener in the Eight-Mile
Lake district and Contractor Harris
states that within a few days the test
well will be spudded in. The location
of this well is a couple miles south of
the test well of Hatfield No. . Oil
Company and biologists have passed
very fnvorably upon the location.
Suit for $4,000 damages was filed
in the Laramie county District Court
by Sergt. Jesse Bennett of Fort D.. A.
Russell against the \. ii. Read Com
pany as the result of the death of
Richard Bennett, 1~3-year-Old son of
Sergeant Bennett, on Oct. II, after the
boy had been struck at the intersec-
ton of Nineteenth street and Capitol
venue, Cheyenne, by n cement truck
belonging to the Read company.
Alfred II. Beach, formerly of Chey-
enne, who recently was convicted at
Minneapolis of accepting. while n rep
resentative of the veterans bureau,
$3.50 for n disabled veteran of the
World war for expediting action on the
latter's claim for compensation, has
returned to Casper, where he was
practicing law Mt the time of his in
dictment. Following his conviction
Beach was sentenced to serve thirty
days in Jail and pay a fine of $500. He
gave an appeal bond of $1,000. Beach
served with the Wyoming forces over
seas. He returned from the war with
the rank of major.
Wyoming, represented by Herbert
Woodman and Ralph Conwell, won
the debate with oxford University stu
dents by an overwhelming vote of the
audience. The vote vas 6 for the
Cowboy debaters and 15i for the Eng
lish team. The Englishmen. j. ID.
Woodruff and II. c. Hollis. were witty
md kept the audience in laughter, but
Woodmnn and Conwell, especially
WOodman. made telling arguments for
their negative side Of the question,
which was Resolved, That this hause
stands opposed to the principle of pro
hibition." The English, on tour, were
participating in their thirty-third de
bate. The Cowboys. both natives of
Wyoming, are members Of n team that
toured Canada and the Pacific coast
last year, and in the two years since
versity here has won thlrty-three out
of thirty-seven debates.
Judge T. Blake Kennedy granted Il
continuance until March - of the trial
of the governments suit In equity for
annulment Of the Mammoth on Com
pany's lease on the Teapot dome naval
oil reserve.
The Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph Company has just completed
two branch lines 10 air mail stations.
One of The lines was run to the Cher
okee station. which is about eighteen
miles west of Rawlins, and the other
n to Red Desert station, which Is
about ten miles west Of Wamsuttcr
These lines are used for weather re-
ports and for amy other reports which
from time 10 time are sent from the
various stations.
sheridan has been selected as n sta
ton on the first government nlrway
system. This honor has gors, TO only
one other Wyoming city, Cheyenne, the
map drawn up by the aviation experts
show. This map indicates that Sheri.
dan will have n government aviation
field and be an important base of aer-
inl supplies. II the nlrwuy system II
adopted Ms proposed. business men be
llcvc Shcridnn's inclusion on the route
will he II decided boost To the city It.
self and tO northern Wyoming.