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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1919
Page
14
Short city notes recap visitors and locals around Plains. coal ads. frequent mentions of people visiting from Pine Bluffs Chugwater Denver Casper Cody Wheaton etc. road and business updates include auto service open hours resurfacing House street and highway condition reports along with state officials returning from Lovantia and meetings with state chemist Moudy.
Several wells in the Salt Creek field show promising gushers and shale shows. New York Oil and Curtis companies report 1570 to 2150 feet drilling depths with initial flows from 3000 barrels to 400 barrels daily, amid mergers and regional oil activity.
W. A. calls a regular meeting on Wednesday evening May 7 urging all members to attend. Business of importance to be discussed. Team members are asked to bring their uniforms. L. Gage, V. C.
The article explains optimal harvest times for roots and herbs for medicinal use. It notes diging annual plant roots before their growing season peaks and biennial or perennial roots after tops dry. It emphasizes considering all factors and annual herb yields.
In Laramie Wyoming on May 6 the oil boom extends into the Little Laramie valley. The Ohio Oil company has secured several hundred acres and plans to begin drilling within days. Leases have been signed by major valley holders and rigs may be erected soon to exploit the area within fifteen miles of the city.
Three Wyoming people were married in Denver Monday. Licenses were issued to Elmer B. Bentson of Wheatland and May H. Royston of Elbert Colorado Prank A. Probst of Casper and Gladys F. Pritchett of Graybull Wy.
Denver reports sixty one men in the 148th field hospital corps will be demobilized at Fort D. A. Russell. Captain Cook wires the Mayor that the unit expects to leave Camp Merritt, New Jersey, around May 8 and make few stops en route to demobilization.
Immigrant Jacob Hansen, 47, died near Fort Colling after a blow from a pipe bat by ranch hand Marty Shaffer at the Bishopp ranch 30 miles southwest of Cheyenne. Hansen, his wife and two daughters had traveled from Denver toward Seattle when he was killed Thursday near Virginia Dale, just over the Colorado line.
A hired man grabbed a club as the mover's wife handed him a loaded shotgun. Shaffer struck the assailant a heavy blow, fracturing his skull. He died after being taken to Fort Collins hospital. Officers call it plain self defense. the county will bury Nansen and assist his family due to lack of funds.
John Lane arrived from Kansas City and will take charge of the Union Pacific yard forces in Laramie at night. He previously worked on the Wyoming division, then the Short Lind, and later Kansas, expressing relief to be back where the air feels right.
Miss Margaret Mullison received notice she is appointed deputy state superintendent of public instruction to work with Mrs. Katherine A. Morton. A University of Wyoming normal department graduate, she plans to begin duties around May 21.
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