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BUFFALO BANK CLOSES The Johnson County bank, one of the largest banking institutions in the state, closed its doors last week after a meeting had been held by the board of directors. The closing is said to have been forced by the withdrawing of bonds to the amount of $50,000, which cut the bank's reserve so low that in justice to the depositors the directors ordered the doors closea. It is thought that there will be ne serious loss sustained by the closing of the institution.
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# LATE NEWS From All Over WYOMING Sheridan was the scene of the Wyoming conference of the Western States Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Paul Kendall, 50 years old, formerly of Waynesburg, Pa., died at a Laramie hospital following an accidental shooting while duck hunting at Lake James. Judge Burgess appointed T. P. Hill, prominent Buffalo attorney, receiver for the Johnson County Bank of Buffalo, which closed its doors last month. The body of Frank Yanko, the last of the thirty-nine ill-fated miners who met death in the terrible explosion at Kemmerer Coal Co.'s No. 5 mine at Sublet, was recovered from the debris after nearly a month's search. Progress of state and national organizations was reviewed and a campaign for the future outlined when the state convention of the Wyoming Women's Christian Temperance Union met for a three-day session at Casper. For further guidance of the night rail flyers, a revolving 900-candle power electric light which can be seen for forty-five miles has been placed on the top of Monument hill, just west of Rawlins, and the light is now operating. Wyoming will receive $74,167.66 as its 25 per cent share of the federal government's receipts during the fiscal year 1924 from forest reserves in Wyoming, according to information received from Washington by United States Senator Francis E. Warren. When an automobile went over an embankment on the Rock Springs-Winton road near the city limits of Rock Springs, Mrs. Bessie Pierce of Victor, Idaho, was killed instantly and Miss Lorraine Jones and Frank Rose of Rock Springs were injured, Miss Jones seriously. Wyoming made and grown products exhibited at the State Fair at Douglas have been removed to Casper and placed on exhibition by the Casper Lions Club co-operating with County Agent G. M. Penley. The Lions and other clubs were instrumental in securing the exhibit for the State Fair. Roscoe F. Warren, organizer of the Mutual Rocky Mountain Club and one of the managers of Pahaska Tepee at Cody, shot and killed one of his business associates, John C. Deskins, in Kansas City, Mo., and then turned the gun on himself, inflicting a serious wound. Three men were injured and an automobile badly wrecked when Leo J. Kent, mechanic, drove the car into the side of a locomotive on a West Yellowstone crossing near Casper. R. D. McCowen and R. E. McCormick were the other two injured. Kent passed another car near the track and failed to see the engine until it was too late to avoid a crash. Mat Rohr and William C. Schueler, timber workers at Clark's Fork, in the Medicine Bow mountains, were fined $100 and costs each at Laramie for killing deer. The hindquarters of a slaughtered doe were found in their cabin. The two men will also serve thirty days in the county jail. Forest service men worked with the sheriff in securing their arrest. Acting Governor Frank E. Lucas is awaiting reports direct from Jackson's Hole before replying to messages from New York requesting immediate closing of the elk hunting season. The New York messages, sent by persons interested in game conservation, assert that premature winter conditions have driven the elk herds from the mountains, and that there is danger of tremendous slaughter by hunters. At a special meeting of the stockholders of the Rawlins National Bank it was decided to increase the capital stock of the bank from $100,000 to $150,000. A royalty of 65 per cent is being paid by Midwest Refining to the state of Wyoming on all oil produced from section 36-40-79, Salt Creek, according to a lease that went into effect Oct. 1. The output at present is at the rate of 7,400 barrels per day, and at the present price of 85 cents per barrel for Salt Creek crude oil this represents a daily income to the state of over $4,000, or approximately $1,500,000 per year. This section has fluctuated considerably in production during the last three years, the 1922 output having been 1,900,000 barrels, 1923 1,600,000 barrels, while the present flow is at an annual rate of 2,700,000 barrels. While it is not likely that there will be so many wells drilled during the coming year as in the past year, yet the section should produce around 1,500,000 barrels even under curtailment. As the state will receive 65 per cent of this quantity, its share of the oil should be approximately 975,000 barrels. The Donnel Sheep Company, one of