Judge Burgess opened the December term of district court this morning. Ten thousand acres of state and school lands were offered for sale at the Sheridan county courthouse this morning. About 100 bidders were present in addition to an immense crowd of spectators. All stores are crowded with Christmas shoppers. Many visitors from the surrounding …

A farm bureau was organized in Sheridan County at a meeting yesterday. E.C. Bowman was elected temporary chairman, and M. Moncreiffe temporary secretary. Both men are from Big Horn. A prisoner being escorted from Sherman, Texas, to Sheridan by Sheriff Mossberg jumped out of a toilet window of a passenger car Friday night in Nebraska …

Now that the drive for united war-work funds is over, the Loyalty League will take up a drive again for the sale of war saving stamps in Sheridan County. An effort will especially be made to collect upon pledges already given. Administrators of the Whitney estate have been paid by the county commissioners a tax …

Just as he was leaving town last night, J. Herschel Charles was taken into custody by Deputy Sheriff Blackbourn to answer to a homicide charge pending against him at Elijah, Georgia. Since his arrest, he has told officers of the sheriff’s force that he did kill a man in Elijah on the first of June. …

More than 5,000 men were enrolled for the draft in Sheridan county before the war ended, according to a detailed report of the local draft board. Steve Stolza entered a plea of guilty to petit larceny in Justice Hoop’s court yesterday afternoon. He was charged with taking a suitcase belonging to another man from the …

Nearly 3.2 million tons of coal have been mined this year in the northern Wyoming district. Of that, nearly 2 million tons have come from Sheridan county. District court will open for the term in Sheridan next Monday with a rather extensive docket on both the civil and criminal sides. George W. Perry was chosen …

Quick work by Miss Dorris Kooi and her automobile undoubtedly prevented a serious railroad accident yesterday forenoon by beating out a runaway car of coal at the end of an eight-mile spin on a downgrade. Four cases of influenza were reported to County Health Officer Hurd yesterday, and one death was reported in the 24 …

Most of the morning session of the city council was consumed in a discussion of an application of the Warren company for an extension of time to complete the paving on Residence hill. Under the contract entered into on June 24, paving was to have been completed by Dec. 1, which was yesterday. No new …

All of Sheridan’s hotels are full tonight, although nothing special is going on to attract visitors. One of the hotel people reported he could fill 25 more rooms if he had them. Miss Dot Bard, daughter of C.W. Bard and a popular employee of the First National Bank in Sheridan, was married today at Alliance, …

Owing to the manifest abatement of the influenza epidemic, the influenza committee of the Sheridan County Red Cross chapter has been discontinued. Inasmuch as restrictions upon all other public meetings have been abandoned, friends will hereafter be involved in attendance at funerals. Brewing of beer and other malt beverages will stop at midnight throughout