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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1913
Page
4
BasIN Republican offers subscription at $3 per year in advance. Official paper serving Big Horn County with local news and notices.
Advertising rates listed per inch regular insertion twelve cents per inch, for first insertion and six cents per line for each subsequent insertion. Mentions Gingte and Leesis as per line rates, with typographic oddities indicating line or measure references.
Word from Cheyenne states Governor Carey vetoed the appropriation for Worland Industrial Institute. Critics say personal politics and pressure from Herman Gates influenced the veto, opposed by Worland supporters who had backed the school. The vote delays the project for two years and harms Worland residents who funded planning.
A Sheridan representative in Basin urged locals to support home industries, noting he buys Sheridan flour in his own home town. The speaker criticized professionals who buy from mail order firms or out of state sellers, suggesting locals should halt patronizing nonlocal houses and stop being swayed by false appearances.
The legislature passed a veto on a bill for widow Mrs. Streasner, widow of a man killed in the Rawiling penitentiary outbreak. The governor argues the measure unconstitutional. Nearby Nebraska appropriates 20000 dollars for a similar purpose, reflecting state constitutional limits and political contention.
The commentary laments a two year wait before pricing the constitutional seat to the governor, predicting his retirement to private life. It criticizes ongoing censorship and doubts the state will benefit from the delay or the governor’s continued tenure.
Officials of the National Cash Register Company were convicted of violating the Sherman antitrust act and sentenced to jail and fines. This marks the first such case resulting in imprisonment. Also notes diverse local items including a cherry party, Shoshone creamery, a veto on term limits for county treasurers, and state school reading circle references.
Notice of foreclosure by B F Wickwire sheriff on March 29 1913 at 2 PM at the front door of Basin Fraternity Hall Basin Big Horn County Wyoming. Jonathan B Frisby and Bessie Frisby mortgaged property to Wyoming Security Investment Company and defaulted on $152.50 due on a note of $240 with prior mortgage securing $2000. The sale will be cash to highest bidder with proceeds distributed by law. Attorney for Mortgagee K B West. First publication Feb 21 1913. Last publication Mar 28 1913.
The Everett Flume Co is incorporated in Cheyenne Wyoming on January 30 1913 to manufacture and sell steel flumes and pipes. Capital stock is 25000 dollars in 230 shares of 100 dollars each with a 50 year term. Operations will be in Basin Big Horn county and three directors W J Booth J F Everett C A Zaring are named for the first year. Principal office is Basin Wyoming. agent in charge is W J Booth 114 28.
United States Land Office Buffalo Wyoming notes two settlers from Otto, David D Young and Jacob Hauer, have filed notices of intention to make final five year proofs before Clerk R H Ahrens in Basin Wyoming on March 15 1913. Both entries list non coal non petroleum non phosphate land with specific homestead entries and witness names.
In the lee Bound country near none all residents with ditches in that section are urged to open ditches and headgates and cut dykes immediately to relieve surplus water. The aim is to aid crop planting and protect alfalfa and fruit trees. action ordered by County Commissioners.
Sheriff B F Wickwire and Under Sheriff J I Ree inspect 48 horses for shipment from Big Horn County Wyoming to Booming, dated February 17, 1918. Horses include branded roan bay black brown sorrel and pinto mares geldings and colts, owned by Clark and Ware, with various brands noted on shoulders thighs and right shoulder.
Market notes on grain and farm produce including soft wheat and hard wheat prices, alfalfa hay, steers and cows dressed, stock hogs and hogs on foot, lambs dressed and on foot, butter eggs potatoes chickens and roosters with unit prices in cwt and per lb.
Notices detail foreclosures on A T Watson property near Burlington with a Feb 5 1913 sale to satisfy a 5753.04 debt plus 100 attorney fees. other adjourned cases include attachments against Lorenzo Bateman and a chattel mortgage sale in Manderson. multiple public sale dates listed, with property descriptions and parties including Constance Webster First State Bank Manderson and I E Jenking welfare of Basin. Additional items announce non coal land grazing filings and grazing permit applications for Big Horn National Forest in 1913.
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