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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1912
Page
4
A collection of humorous vignettes from Basin and surrounding towns recounting stingy hotel owners, rat pranks, wool growers delegates, basinin onlookers and townsfolk. Stories touch on bars, card clubs, local dog complaints, a barber wife quip, and a late finding that two men simply retired early, with no single cohesive plot.
A Higby of this place has been appointed as one of the members of the state fair board by Governor Carey. This appointment honors northern Wyoming and recognizes his work as a booster for the county fair. Higby’s success on the local fair board qualified him for the state post.
Los Angeles Times notes trapping remains lucrative in remote southern California and the southwest with many wild species hunted for pelts and bounties. In Tombstone county alone fifty trappers brought in about 3,000 skunks, 700 coyotes, 200 wildcats and numerous lynxes, bears, and mountain lions earning around 5,000 dollars in bounty payments.
A dialogue between Nellie and Anita centers on a claimed fib. Anita insists her father, a university professor and real estate man, would know more about lying in a minute than Nellie’s father. The exchange highlights pride and authority figures in a domestic quarrel style.
The author critiques overused terms like Etrenuous and impecca ble noting they have lost impact through excessive use. Banality extends to phrases such as in our midst or whilst going to Turkey revealing how worn stock expressions dull clarity and tone.
Grand Chancellor Will Reid of Rawlin g delivered an address at Laramie before the Knights of Pythias. Veterans C. G. Greenbaum and E. P. Pearson received jewels for 25 years of lodge membership. News from across the state includes white settlement on the Crow reservation near Sheridan, miners’ strike effects on Mike Broshears, shortages recovered from former Sheridan county officials, and local civic efforts in Laramie, Albany, and Rawlins. The Saratoga Sun begins a straw vote, Elks protest dilapidated buildings, typhoid cases rise in Dietz, and plans emerge for a sugar beet lure near Lingle with a proposed Sheridan Opera House project. The month closes with a parade of local incidents, from telegrams to trains blocked by snow and a new gun club forming in Rawlins.
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