Motive Alleged in Wyoming Oil Camp Murder Trial
Jealousy of a woman's affection is presented as the motive for the killings of Harry Feight and Worley Seaton. Albert Lampitt is on trial before Judge P. W. Mots in Grass Creek, Wyoming, with circumstantial evidence expected to tie him to the blast that destroyed the bunkhouse last April. County Surveyor J. R. Shamsey identified Grasa Creek camps from maps, and Anna Neese described the scene and body location.
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Lampitt
J. KR. Shamsey
Hot Springs County
Grasa Creek
Anna Neese
Scenoe
Foight
Albert Lampitt
Shephe S.” Bruce
Lamplit
Trian
Lomat
Joseph Ash
Cody
Wyo
Lampltt
Mormon Joe
James Smith
Harry Bruce
Kirby
Lockhart
Bryce
Smith
Foight-seaton
Lampitt Lampitt Model in Lockhart Novel Becomes Courtroom Sideshow
In Lockhart's Mullenderrore tale a painted cast of imagined figures haunts the Lampitt murder trial in the Big Horn county courtroom. The defense and prosecution cite immorality and crime as witnesses describe a fictional mirror of the case.
Plan for Muscle Shoals power and nitrate plant outlines aid terms
Secretary Weeks submits Ford plan to Congress detailing the completion of dam No. 2 and construction of dam No. 3 at government cost, with 4 percent annual rent. He suggests alternatives if the offer is rejected, including government completion of Wilson dam and potential sale to advantage, plus potential job creation and policy adjustments to waterpower law.
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Ford
Wilson Dam
Oftet of Engineers
Congress
Weeks
Casper chamber plans freight expert to cut city shipping costs
The Casper chamber proposes hiring a freight expert to study local carrier charges and secure relief from railroads. A campaign will raise over 8 000 dollars in delinquent memberships to fund the 4 000 dollar cost of the consultant who would target annual freight savings around 10 000 dollars.
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Cagper
Chamber of Commerce
Casper
Chamber of Commeres
Cooper
General Freight Service Corporation of
St. Louis
Cheyenne
Denver
Shack crackdown targets nuisance housing in Cheyenne
City commissioners plan to forbid building any shack not approved by the city government. The move follows a rise in ramshackle tenements in good residence districts amid housing shortages and high rents fueled by profit seeking owners.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Women Jury Duty Question Raised in Wyoming Trial
In Basin Wyoming Albert Lampitt faces murder charges and the court has not issued a clear ruling on whether women may serve on juries. Judge Metz ruled women are not eligible in this case, noting a jury of male taxpayers would represent the defendant's peers. The constitutional provision still limits eligibility to men for jury service.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Albert Lampitt
Basin
Wyoming
Worley Lenton
Harry Foight
Lampitt
P. W. Metz
First Ballot On New Pope To Be Cast Friday
Rome authorities announce the conclave will hold the first ballot Friday as 52 cardinals in seclusion set patterns for papal succession. Moderates hold power while both reform groups lack a clear candidate. The process is kept secret, with communications limited to the rotating box at St Damaso.
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Rome
Associated Press
Sacred College
Benedict XV
St. Damaso
Concensus
Vettern Cholen
Alcred College
Loreconeliables
Peace Party
Ihe
Benedict
Cathbollc Eburch
John J. Glennon
St. Loula
Mellon urges special taxes to fund soldier bonus
Secretary Mellon told the House Ways and Means Committee that the soldiers bonus should be paid from special taxes such as higher first and second class postage tobacco levies and other duties. He outlined revenue estimates from postage, tobacco, stamp taxes, bank book taxes auto licenses and more totaling hundreds of millions, noting the bonus could reach 426 million annually and could be expanded with additional taxable sources.
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Washington
Mellon
House
Ways and Means Committee
Sec
Post Office Department
Meilan
Wmour
Day Law Declared Unconstitutional by Court
Trenton New Jersey February 2. The Van Nese prohibition enforcement act was ruled unconstitutional by the court of error and appeals. The decision challenges state efforts to curb illegal day activities.
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Trenton
N. J
Etrora and
Appenta
Negro lynching shocks community after crystal springs assault claim
In Crystal Springs a Black man named Will Thrasher was found hanged from a tree. A note on the tree identified him as the man alleged to have attempted to assault a white school teacher.
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Jackson
Misc
Crystal Springs
Will Thrasher
Two Die From Botulinus Poisoning in Healdsburg
Santa Rosa, Cal, Feb 2. Two deaths attributed to botulinus poisoning from home preserved beans occurred overnight at Healdsburg. Victor Victims were Mr Om Mra and Joseph Pontores. Pontores Jr. was only hours from death, per doctors.
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Santa Rosa
Cal
Healdsburg
Om Mra
Joseph Pontores
Joseph Pontores Jr
Mail sacks found after theft in Indiana
Blaht mailsacks, two empty, stolen yesterday from a postal messenger at Whiting Indiana, were found today by South Chicago police in an alley. The ground nearby was strewn with envelopes and parcel matter.
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Chicago
Whiting
Ind
Twenty five miners believed dead in Gates mine explosion
Gates Pa February 2 Twenty five men are believed dead after an explosion at the Gates mine of the H C Frick Coke Co Sixteen bodies have been recovered and nine men remain unaccounted for rescue crews from Connellsville field work to reach the entombed miners as crowds gather and police hold back onlookers.
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Gates
Pennsylvania
H. C. Frick Coke Company
Alan Heen
Connellsville
Etute
Farmea
Poison Toli and Wife Die After Botulinus Poisoning
In Healdsburg Cal a pastor died overnight and his wife and a 22 year old were near death this morning from botulinus poisoning believed to stem from eating ham preserved. Physicians deem the meal the likely source of the foodborne illness.
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Banta Koba
Cal
Healdsburgh
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