Discovery of gold, some of which assays as high as $1,000 per ton, in the Big Horn mountains near Hyattville, immediately southwest of Sheridan, has led to the belief that the famous Spanish Cabin gold mines have been discovered. Employees of the local offices of the Western Union Telegraph company have received strike orders, effective …

Elimination of a bad stretch of road on the Jim Creek-Piney road has been assured through the granting of a right-of-way by three property owners on Lower Piney. Work will start on the new section of the road shortly. J. Reen of Clearmont is in Sheridan today. The water line to Fort Mackenzie, which was …

The city water department has found it necessary to place more restrictions on the use of water for irrigating and sprinkling. The council plans to amend the old ordinance and put it into effect within a few days. Mr. and Mrs. F.W. Taylor of Dutch creek are visitors in Sheridan today. A large number of …

The board of trustees of School District 7 today issued a call for a special election on June 19 for the purpose of voting $50,000 in school bonds. The bonds will help pay for a new grade school to supplant the Central School. Cost is projected to be $100,000. Clarence Stout, son of Mr. and …

Four little girls, between the ages of 12 and 14 years, have been caught for forging checks. Between May 28 and June 5, five checks totaling $25.50 were cashed by these girls forging the name of M.P. Stutsman, a bicycle repairman in Sheridan. A large assortment of beautiful silk boudoir caps is priced from 65 …

The war veterans will meet at 8 o’clock tonight at the City Hall. Mrs. J.W. Eldred of Banner was in Sheridan yesterday, calling on friends and doing some shopping. Marriage licenses were issued this week to Thomas H. Deckert of Billings and Gladys A. Orth of Acme; and to George F. Demple and Mabel Eddy, …

The final program for Sheridan high school seniors has been completed. Exams will be today and tomorrow, the Baccalaureate Sermon will be on June 8, and commencement exercises will be on Wednesday, June 11. A complete investigation of yesterday’s mine disaster, at Dietz No. 8, which cost the lives of two men, began today under …

An explosion of gas in the Dietz No. 8 coal mine at 11:30 o’clock this morning entombed seven men. Five had been rescued by 3 o’clock this afternoon, and a large rescue crew was at work to find the remaining two. Sheridan county’s supply of rodent poison has arrived, and it will be mixed and …

C.M. Emery and S.S. Bushnell, representing the Automobile Blue Book, are in Sheridan this week. Starting today, in connection with his blacksmith shop at 150 N. Gould street, F. French has announced he’ll be able to make all kinds of automobile repairs. Miss Opal Lewis became the bride of Mr. Roy Pickle in a wedding …

W.D. Fisher, secretary of the Sheridan Commercial club, has selected what’s known as the Chicken Creek road between Arvada and Gillette to mark. The first car of Kentucky horses to participate in the horse racing at the fairgrounds has arrived in Sheridan, and 200 additional race horses from Kentucky are now on the way here. …