Prisoner Escape Sparks Wyoming Institute Manhunt
Two Wyoming Industrial Institute inmates fled after supper by climbing a dining room window. Jack Roberts was captured in an irrigation ditch, submerged except his head. Leo Halligan, at large, was later found in sweet clover and returned. this was Halligan’s third escape attempt.
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Worland
Wyo
Wyoming Industrial Institute
Liberty
Jack Roberts
Trustes
Blake Partridge
Leo Halligan
Nether
Halligan
Girl Hobo in Men's Clothes Tries Coastward Freight Ride
Ruby Curtiss, 22, of Minneapolis, dressed as a man, rode freight to the Pacific coast then to Cheyenne where police detained her. She explained she hoped to work in Omaha to save enough to clothe herself before returning to her parents, who are unaware of her journey.
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Cheyenne
Ruby Curtiss
Minneapolis
Minn
Pacific Coast
Omaha
Construction Rush for Laramie Resort Road
Laramie Wyoming October 5. Efforts aimed at completing the forest service road from Centennial to Brooklyn Lake before winter. General contractors Peterson Shirley and Guenther of Denver oversee the project. The route to the popular resort is expected to be heavily traveled next summer.
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Laramie
Wyo
Forest Bureau
Centennial
Brooklyn Lake
Peterson
Shirley
Fall Into Machine Fatal to Stockman
Wylie Drinkill, a well known stockman living twelve miles from Hulett, Wyoming, was fatally injured when he fell into a threshing machine at his home. He died a few hours after being extricated, at age 38, and was the son of Bud Driskill, a pioneer cattleman of northwestern Wyoming.
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Sundance
Wyo
Wylie Drinkill
Hulett
Bud Driskill
Wyoming
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Ent Moneur
Gogather
Jenkins and
Sanders
Rawilon
Stockman
Leasant Entertainment
America
Chamber of Commerce
Casper Post Veterans of Foreign Wars
Staut
Axe
Magnolia
Lunta Palina
Havana
Congress Cigar Company
Metropolitan Cigar CO
Larimer Street
Denver, Col
The
Red Cross
Tribune
the Elks Lodge
Casper
Arkeon Dancing Academy
SNES
Cl Orace
Harry Yesness
Man IN the
West Second Street
Stockmen’s Bank
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