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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1913
Page
4
Basin Wyoming post office lists the Basin Republican as entered as second class matter on June 30, 1906 under the Act of March 8, 1879, indicating its mailing status and official classification for publication.
P. P. Anderson, Publisher, offers subscription at 2 dollars yearly in advance. Official paper of Big Horn County and Basin town. Advertising rates include display per inch with 12 1/2 percent reg. insertion, single insertion per inch, locals per line first insertion, each additional insertion 5 cents.
The summer drought tests show silos save crops and sustain stock, proving their value to middle west farmers. Silo storage reduces waste and ensures green feed year round, prompting lessons for Nebraska Kansas and potentially Wyoming.
Critics blast the last Legislature for game law changes seen as favoring rich visiting sportsmen over Wyoming residents. The new rules require an extra fifteen dollars for elk with bonus. Public opinion grows for laws that favor residents over outsiders ahead of the next election.
The first of the week Basin will entertain the pathfinders for the Black and Yellow tall and it is up to our citizens to receive them properly. This highway will in years bring hundreds of tourists through our county and a fitting reception should be tendered those who are blazing the trail. The war in Mexico has not affected hot tamale prices. That Thaw family maintains its publicity record established several years ago.
Hospital attendants pursued the suspect but the chase faded. Dr. Kieb, returning to Matteawan, said Barnum left the gate open and appeared to let the prisoner walk out. Baroum remained in custody as officers continued a careful inquiry.
Investigators report that Harry K Thaw planned to flee on a yacht in Long Island Sound, aided by four men who checked into the Holland hotel as Roger Thompson Richard Beetle Michael O Keefe and Eugene Duffy all New York City. A fifth man, Thomas Flood, joined at Matteawan and drove the escape car. Barnum, the hospital attendant, is deemed unlikely to have aided Thaw. Thaw remains under confinement as an insane patient not a murderer. Canadian authorities plan deportation as a prohibited immigrant and return him to New Hampshire if possible.
Luther Burbank argues the true opportunity for boys and young men lies in agriculture not medicine law or engineering after lengthy study. He cites a single ear of corn increasing county yields and a potato improvement paying huge returns, warning half the population not farming raises cost of living. He urges practical, demonstrable work in farming and horticulture rather than abstract theory.
Notice is given by the Pound of School Trustees of School District No 15 Big Horn Wyoming inviting sealed bids for a schoolhouse. Plans and specs on file at the clerk offices in Manderson. Bids due August 7 1913 at 2 pm and opened at the clerk’s office. The board may reject any bids. Mark sealed bids Sealed Proposal and address to Margaret F Burley Clerk. Dated August 13 1913.
For sale or rent a small house with barn chicken coop and yard water and electric. If moving to town for school contact Lou Blakesley Basin Wyoming. Farmers seek priced alfalfa hay grades choice standard No 1 No 2 baled and delivered by car at Basin or nearby towns. Ship only good hay no mixed hay. payment on consumer acceptance to establish a permanent market.
County of Big Horn issues writ of attachment against F L Dornberger and Fannie Dornberger to secure Kus ter Johnson debt of 13 dollars. Appear before Justice J R Bonwell on September 6, 1913 at 9:00 AM. otherwise judgment, sale, or appropriation of property will occur. Easter Johnson, plaintiffs.
County commissioners plan a 60 foot wide road from Big Horn river through sections 15 and 33 to connect with a Greybull Shell road. Objections or claims for damages must be filed with the Big Horn county clerk by noon September 1, 1913, or the road will be established without regard to those objections. Also appears a separate notice for a road from the southwest corner of SE of NE in section nine to NE corner of NE in section ten, with objections due September 1, 1913.
Mortgage sale notices detail defaults on deeds dated 1910 and 1913 in Big Horn county. Foreclosure actions to satisfy debts of $363.41, $1789.00 plus $100 attorney fees, with properties in Basin and Fraternity Hall Basin. Also notice to creditors for the estate of Robert Boence and a Buffalo threshing outfit sale.
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