Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 23, 1918, Page 4

YANKEES STEAL AWAY 10 FINGT SE ER TL \ FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1918 | | | OTIS & COMPANY., | Ground Floor Oil Exchange Bldg. | | | | QUID WEALTH Todays Quai TIE MUDDY DRILLS POUNDING QUT “1 ASLAN THEA | DEEP. AUIS SPFIMER HERE Attendants at Salvation Army Meeting Hear Stirring Ad- dress by Attorney; Other Features Given AT A RAPID RATE |the standard rig, altho quite 2 few rotaries are also digging their way into the sands.. The Ohio Oil Com- | pany and the Midwest have built up small cities of neat bungalows and bunkhouses for sheltering the work- ers and the drilling contractors ka ‘e |also provided other camps for their employes and the storage of their | tools and equipment. At Glenrock the new refinery is | nearing completion and the little oil town is a lively point. The Illi:vis | pipe line station is near Glenrock a 4 }its great pumps are sending the vil )thru the lines to Casper refineries at Speaking on “America and the| War,” at the Salvation Army last night, E. Richard Shipp, Esq., drew applause and laughter from the crowd by saying that he not only hoped the Kaiser would be “gotten,” but that he would be buried too deep | for Gabriel’s horn to awaken him. Mr. Shipp’s address dealt with the | early history of the Hun, and ssid} it was the Hessinus rather than the| English that we fought against for our freedom. In the course of his speaking, glowing tributes were paid) the Red Cross and the -ious organ- | izations working with the soldiers, in- | eluding the Salvation Army, upcn ar Ge 2032 a as | the rate of 10,000 barrels per day. Some of the oil is shipped by tank | cars also. At its station in North Wales the Marconi company has .started a school for the training of women in whose history and world-wide work, Attorney Shipp gave a masterful ex- GEOLOGICAL WORK position, Maps and Blue Prints, Surveying The crowd was xcerti'1ed with || Wyoming Map and Blue Print Co., piano music and song by Miss Wini-|} P.O. Box 325 .\ Phone 849 fred Deischer, and Southern melodies, | 111 North Wolcott Street given by Mr. Hutchinson Ice cream; Casper, Wyo. and cake were served by Mrs Shipp | and her helpers. Truck Tires SPSS SISIS ISIS SSIs TRUCK OWNERS we are at your service! If your truck were being drawn by horses you would not think of allowing your horses to perform this work day in aid day out, half shod or poorly ‘shod. You know that would be poor economy to sactifice the horse by saving the cost of having it properly shod. This holds trac of YOUR TRUCK. DON’T allow your truck to haul heavy loads day in and day out with TIRES WORN DAWN TO THE > Stock Bid Ask. | Allen Oil_ = +25 32 | | American -013 02 | S og- HAMEL BATT | Beaderet 3 04 06 | Forest of Derricks Testifies to Boston-Wyo. 15 17 | Great Development Pro- : |Black Pear ‘08 10 | f Thie ¥ r Tae . | Big Indian _ -20 25 | gram or .nis tear Hid Themselves to Aid Australians|Big Five _ 023 02 | ‘ —_ 5S and SBired Glory Of Bedliont | Co bie “08 "1" |atate is the ‘Big Muddy. "At first Engagement, Wires War | Cons. Royalty_ -57 -59 | sight this great oil operation gives Correspondent {Elkhorn -.__-- 68 72 jen impression of a regular forest of oo eesl Gi T. Williams-_ 2.50 2.75 | derricks, and as the traveler passes By G. E. BEAN |Glenrock Oil -_ 3.624 3.75 |thru the field along the road, the | = Hecla-Wyo. . 00: 003 | j i _ st Official War Correspondent For the Jupiter > Oat oni |G es Mic aac aa eae Australian Government. | Glenburst .07 -10 Since last spring, the derricks in WAR CORRESPONDENT'S | Kinney - 65 -70 | the Big Muddy have multiplied until HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, | Merritt “SE ae théy stretch away for miles on either July 20 (By Mail.)—Many of the|y,s.4 7) 100 1.10 ‘side of the ellows one eyes oe details of the fighting by wi iw y (os WALi00) - 118.00. Leese ana en pRSee keer aeee the Hamel was captured by Australians | Midway __.- “01% Towa | Sages Hig ofl euemery Mae ee ently and Americans on July 4, reflecting | Northwest ‘56 : [eae aerc ike a fog ne earl; great credit upon the assaulting | Qoutwest ‘023 (033 - B sh still ust troops, have not been related pub-| Pantfinder 07 ‘08 | Most of the wells are still using liely. \Premier ____ 04 06 _ When our barrage came down and) Republic Pet __ 02 023 | b the infantry advanced in the grey|Riverton Ref. .08 11 | niorning light toward Hamel, the|Shiloh ____ 01 O14 | wing continually carried a drifting! United Pet... 06 08 mist from the smoke of the barrage|Wyo, Blackfoot. .008 "008 across the field. This made the dawn | Western Ex.--~ “10 ‘80 far darker than it should otherwise| Wind River Ref. 08 bie, have been. The bursts of our own|young __.-___. 125 ‘30 | shells were most difficult to see thru | Wind River Pet._ 19 .20 | rahe eee the midst ahead. Australians, many of whom have followed a barrage | like this many times before, could! often only tell where the barrage was by seeing our own shrapnel shells bursting overhead. American infantry who had not} seen or heard shells before pluckily} faced the extraordinary difficulty of | sowing rettere they-wers by keeping) WITH THE AMERICAN / e eye on ustralians. 7 r WATCHED AUSTRALIANS | !N LORRAINE, Aug. 8.—(3, “We just looked out to see that we |—“The Boches over there ha’ kept in line with them,” said one of | that ought to be cited by us,” their officers. “So long as we kept| boys of a certain American regiment. going while they were going, we| Every time there is a big German knew we were all right.” At the be-|raid, this dog appears rurnirg slong ginning of the fight one American|*the German trenches. Every time, he platoon, for example, was pushing| has warned the Americans who are DOG IN TEUTON | TRENCH WARNS YANKS OF RAID | Northern Wyoming Down | 350 Feet;, New Road In the Shoshoni fields, the Indiana thas started to move in another rig, {having contracted with Contractor | Crull, an oil man from Montpelier, Ind., and who has been operating round Thermop. The Northern Wyoming Oil Com- =| pany, on the McComb Dome, is drill- | ing around 350 feet and going nicely. | Shoshoni is building a road to the |Maverick Springs that will be the shortest route for the oil men to }reach that district when completed. Indiana Company Ready to Drill; | NEW PRODUCER ON 20 FLOWING; | Outwest Well Recently Completed} | in West Salt Creek Better | Than Expected General Superintendent John J. Hancock, of the Out West Petroleum Company, reports, that the well re- | cently brought in by that company on Section 28, of West Salt Creek, is |far exceeding the expectations of the| | drillers, and that after pumping off | the head the well has settled down to a steady production of 100 barrels a day of high-grade ¢:). The well at) first reported to be good for 50 bar-| rels a day. | The company is rushing plans te} go after the shale production, andj wireless telegraphy. Wanted; will buy for cash; any issue,}. any denomi- nation; delay, imme- settle- || diate ment. OAN CO. SECURITY 4 Kimball Bldg. NOTICE HUNTING, FISHING AND 'TRES. : i a oO ALL STRICTLY PRO: VICINITY OF HORSE KINDS PROPERTY OWNED 1D. ARCHIE SANFORD, H: C. HOLMES, Phone 702 HIBITED IN THE CREEK ‘D THE SWEETWATER oN ROLLED BY THE UNDER- RIMS. We are here to give you quick, satisfactory ser- vice. Our COMPLETE STOCK of ALL SIZES IN SOLID TRUCK TIRES awaits your order and our hydraulic press will attach the PRESSED ON types within a few hours. Tell Us Your Tire Troubles SO0O0O00O00O no jf! Boyle’s Garage Telephone 9 231-237 No. Center St. The road is being promoted by pri will resort to deep drilling only when H. D. SCHOONAMAKER, Maverick Springs straight on into our barrage. The| ready for the Boches when they cume | vate capitai of Skoshoni, and the Australian company commander sqaw/over. Every raid has been repulsed | townspeople are all awake to the pos this and pulled it back. The next | and has been costly to the Gern | of the ventare and are show- | time when the barrage started he no- The only possible expls S|ing the glad hand to all members of | ticed that this platoon did not move that the dog belongs to a G 1|the oil fraternity who stop off at the on te follow it. jofficer of high rank, who inspccts| hustling little town. ew RCW, Shout getting on with|the trenches before big raid | eee eae — = = — | the fight?” he aske - - # | as the barrage moved yet?” they | Australian private found himself iso. LPI LPL LDS LIS Ts 6h hahha ahd hed Hlated except for a few scattered men | gone on a good half/ belonging to other companies. He} d. The Americans | immediately organized a party of 10, | were up at once, hurrying after it.|cleared dugouts in the village and | Men from the two forces worked| captured one German officer and 20) shoulder to shoulder wherever the men, and sent them off to the rear trouble was thick. |under an escort. At the opposite cor- An Austrajan Lewis gunner was ner of the village an Australian} facing a German machine gun team|corporal found in a house which was}! with his gun at his hip, when an|burning from shellfire a dump of! American sergeant dashed out and/rifle ammunition and bombs. This bayonetted three. turned out to be an old store of Brit-, TAKE DUGOUT FULL OF MEN |ish ammunition which had remained| An Australian with two Americans/ there since the village of Hamel was| who spoke German were detailed to|taken by Germans on April 4. The} search for dugouts. Working by | corporal saved from the house 13,000 themselves, immediately after the at-/rcunds of ammunition and some tacking troops had passed, they) bombs. found a dugout which they realized The same Australians who fought was important. The Americans called at Bullecourt where the tanks were down the entrance and a battalion) not so successful as now, are full of commander and three other officers! warm praise of the tanks. Time after and twenty-three men surrendered. the indications pcint t» a greater pre- | duction in the deeper sands. Drilling | contractor has about completed tie! second rig on Section £8 for the com- | pany and will spud in well No. 2} |about the latter part of next we TOM SUN, DONALD BEATON, LON CLAYTOR. Freight should be shipped to SHOSHONI ot BONNEVILLE. _The NEW ROAD tc MAVERICK SPRINGS FIELD will be ready for every class of travel by Monday, August 26th. This is positively the BEST and SHORTEST ROAD to MAVERICK SPRINGS. FREIGHT RATES are lower to SHOSHONI or Bonneville, than to points farther West, and freightets’ rates to the field ate 25 per cent less than from any other railroad point in the county. Communicate with Shoshoni Commercial Club ern ed “Why it has as minute,” he r r i. |time the tanks went straight at ob-| h : : Meny Americans are still wearing | stacles which the infantry wanted re- S oshoni, Wyoming the colors of Australian battalions! moved, and flattened them out. One to which theye were attached; many| tank moved straight along the bank others who should not have been in/of a sunken road, breaking down this fight hid themselves successful-| shelters along its whole length where ly when orders came to go out. In-| Germans had been holding out. Na- deed some Americans lost their lives turally the Germans would not face ; We are prepared to do all kinds of fighting beside Australians in Hamel | them. who by rights should have been many BIG TANK RIFLE .- miles away. Never was firmer friend-) The Germans fired on the tanks AUTO REPAIRING ship sealed than on this battlefield. with a special giant rifle, “Just the One American platoon went in un- sort of thing one would expect a Ger- der an Australian officer. When he) man anti-tank rifle to be,” one of- was hit, it went under the guidance) fjcer told us. But the whole bat- of his runner who had had experi-|talion of tanks only had 12 men ence on other battlefields. There|wounded. The tanks constantly times in one corner of this fight one| rubbed out machinegun posts where, heard of privates playing the part of the Germans did not wait for their! Acetylene Welding Magneto Starter and Generator Repairing officers. approach. f ARANTE One company commangse ay oie) As the line swept on in the grey ALL WORK GU, ED Wood lost touch with his main body. light past an awkward point known b 4 bf 4 dense smoke drifting thru Hamel as “pear” trench, a machinegun : The Mi west Novelty & Electric Co Later he found it again. It had gone|}opened from ahead. ‘The’ platgon ¥ on exactly as planned. commander was killed. In the ad- -66' PRIVATE WORKS ALONE \vancing wave, one big, quiet, slow- e ©05-669 West Second Street At ti P. O. Box 573 ame part of the fight an| moving, slow-speaking South Aus-! |tralian caught from the corner of his eye the dim forms of about a dozen heads and shoulders behind a bank, perhaps 70 yards awa. The youngs-| ters immediately made toward these} Germans. When he had got within 50 yards of the German officer in the party fized on him with his re- volver and missed. 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