C.O. Bennick, who has a homestead 18 miles northeast of Arvada, came to Sheridan yesterday on business matters. He remained here until today. Mr. Bennick says the dry farmers in his area have been very successful this season. G. Babson of Chicago arrived in Sheridan last night to go to his ranch on Powder River. …

The local forestry office today estimated that the forest fire in the Wolf district on Black mountain has done $40,000 in damage. The estimate is based only on damage to merchantable timber, and doesn’t take into account the smaller trees. Mrs. James Bronson has grown a squash in a garden on Sheridan’s south side that …

Two hundred delegates to the Grand Chapter of the Eastern Star and the Grand Lodge of Masons will be entertained in Sheridan this week. The Grand Chapter opened today, and will continue in session over tomorrow. The Grand Lodge will be in session Wednesday and Thursday. Sheridan’s city council voted to hold a bond election …

John R. Lawson, a member of the executive board of the United Mine Workers of America for Colorado, will speak at Acme at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Special cars will leave Sheridan at 1 o’clock. Mr. Lawson is touring Wyoming delivering a series of addresses. Sheridan’s New York store is having an advance showing of …

Mr. Trevor Heald won the singles match, three sets to one, over Riley in the finals of Sheridan’s first tennis tournament this afternoon, and the silver loving cup is now in his hands. Mrs. T.E. Roberson went to Arvada today to visit her son, Roy Roberson. He is living on a homestead near that place. …

Sheriff Mossberg has received complaints of automobilists speeding through the coal camps, particularly through Carneyville, through which the highway passes on the principal street of the village. State law sets the speed limit at 12 miles an hour through town, and six miles an hour across any street intersection. A heavy cloud of black smoke …

A.C. Evans received a shipment of pipe for the storm sewer in paving district six last night, and will begin construction of the storm sewer there at once. Sheridan County agricultural agent S.M. Fuller has secured some excellent exhibits of Sudan grass, brome grass and field corn grown on dry land by Adolph Laier of …

At a most enthusiastic and optimistic meeting of the democratic state committee in Cheyenne yesterday, it was announced that Gov. John B. Kendrick of Sheridan has decided to accept the nomination for the United States senate, as made at the primary election. C.H. Thatcher, manager of the Sheridan Sugar company, announced today that this year’s

The city council at a meeting this morning received a petition asking that an election be held to vote bonds for purchase of the Small property on Main street so that Smith street could be opened through. The election would also include bonds for the purchase of Mount Hope cemetery. The council will consider the …

Forty men, including the 10 men comprising the state road gang, are battling with a forest fire raging in the Big Horn mountains in the vicinity of Black Mountain. The fire is presumably from the fire of campers and is in a dense growth of lodgepole pine and spruce. The funeral of the late Herbert …