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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1917
Page
6
Des Moines reports an estimated 50 000 to 35 000 majority for a constitutional amendment banning liquor manufacture and sale in Iowa The measure becomes effective immediately Despite partial results Des Moines shows a dry landslide with wet pockets in eastern cities and interior counties Des Moines itself votes dry by 1410
Chicago Americans defeated the New York Giants 4 to 2 in game six to claim the 1917 world series. Urban Faber bested Rube Benton in a pitching duel as Chicago seized the title at Comiskey Park before about 30,000 fans. The Sox scored three runs in the fourth and added another in the ninth to clinch the crown.
A man identifying as William J. Dunbar was arrested on charges of conspiring to obtain information against the United States through enlistment. He is believed to be an agent, with hints of falsified identity, interned at Ellis Island as an alien. Officials probe his service on a submarine chaser off the Atlantic coast.
Work to begin immediately on eight new steel tanks each 65 000 barrel capacity for Midwest Refining Co at Grey Bull. This adds to existing storage and could raise total tank farm capacity to 1 600 000 barrels as Grass Creek pipeline deliveries continue for three weeks.
The Rawlins Republican endorses national and state prohibition in the upcoming liquor campaign. It criticizes saloon influence, notes Cheyenne saloonmen forming an enforcement group, and warns a special session could pass prohibition if conditions don’t improve. A Rawlins soldier’s request for whiskey underscores local demand.
The Annalist argues Russia suffers under German hegemony as it builds industry via protective tariffs. The piece contrasts Taussig’s free trade stance with real republican doctrine, praising domestic production and warning that open markets let the cheapest producer win. Russia must industrialize to escape German economic dominance.
The department of commerce announces that Burwell Cutler, for fifteen years head of a Buffalo manufacturing establishment, has been appointed head of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce.
The article criticizes Redfield for four years of leadership at the department of commerce and for replacing the foreign commerce bureau head with a chosen appointee. It argues negligence and insists on immediate reform and broader departmental wakefulness to end four years of inefficiency.
A Basin Wyoming letter dated October 12 1917 thanks Cashier of Basin State Bank for prize money on the wild and native grass exhibit. Leone Calhoun expresses appreciation and notes both Calhoun and recipient enjoyed working for it.
150 head good native cows with calves by their side for sale plus 100 head dry cows. Inquire at this office.
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