F.G. Cooper, a Civil War veteran living in Sheridan, has the distinction of having seen President Lincoln in Ford’s theater in Washington D.C. a few days before the president was assassinated. Mr. Cooper says he saw the president in the identical box in which he was killed 50 years ago tonight. Big Horn Avenue in …

R.A. Keenan has applied to Sheridan’s city council for a 25-year franchise for a central heating plant. Mr. Keenan proposes to build a plant that will heat the entire business district of the city. Sheridan’s city council has appointed E.W. Wilson as the new city clerk. He will fill the vacancy created by M.W. Foy, …

Homesteads have been filed on more than 8,000 acres of land in Sheridan County over the last three days. The most recent filings were this morning, when 14 homesteaders from four states filed for more than 4,300 acres. Most of the filings are for acreage in the Clearmont and Arvada districts. Federal court convened at …

Federal court will convene in Sheridan at 9 o’clock tomorrow in the court chambers in the federal building here. The session will probably not last longer than a day, as there is but one case to be heard. There will be no juries. E.E. Clancy has been appointed superintendent of the state hospital in Sheridan. …

Sheridan County commissioners at their last meeting ordered the county clerk to advertise for a suitable tract of land for location of two buildings. One will be an institution for caring for the poor of the county, and the other a hospital for contagious diseases. Commissioners desire a site of about five acres, not more …

M.W. Foy, who has been city clerk since January 1914, has been appointed city commissioner to succeed S.D. Canfield. Mr. Canfield resigned from the city position to become postmaster. An appointment hasn’t been made to fill the vacancy in the city clerk’s office. S.W. Service is in Sheridan from his homestead near Arvada. He will …

Early completion of the Lake DeSmet project has been assured by Verner Z. Reed, a Denver capitalist. The project will put at least 50,000 more acres of land in the Sheridan country under irrigation. Mr. Reed is the owner of several thousand acres of land south of Sheridan. A contract for grading right-of-way from Dow …

Goelet Gallatin, Roy Snyder and R. Nicholas, all of Big Horn, are in Sheridan today. Father John Duffy left today for Arvada and Clearmont. He will conduct services in that area. Mrs. R.E. Hayworth of Parkman is in Sheridan today, taking the railroad telegrapher’s examination. The new lingerie blouses are on sale at Reed’s, for …

Articles of incorporation for the Northern Wyoming Railroad company were filed this afternoon in the secretary of state’s office in Cheyenne. Terminals named in the articles are Sheridan, Beaver Hills and Big Horn. A.F. Meyer let a contract today for construction of a one-story brick building on Broadway opposite the Sheridan Commercial company. The

Sheridan city commissioners have asked the county to collect just over $46,000 in taxes this year to pay for the following city expenses: water bonds interest, $5,000; sewer bonds interest, $6,125; current expense, $32,640; and sewer bond sinking fund, $3,000. Mrs. Charles Waegle returned to the ranch today after visiting over Sunday with her sister,