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Newspaper
Casper Daily Tribune
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1920
Page
6
Rich Charter Oak Mining company suspends operations at the Charter Oak copper mine in Encampment Wyoming transferring supplies and workers to Tolland Colorado for use at other company properties. The closure cited excessive operating costs.
Newcastle Wyoming October 12 Road agents attempted to hold up M Sorenson near the Coyle ranch He reported the incident to the sheriff who seized a car and eight sacks of Canadian whisky from the vehicle The sheriff awaits Sorenson return to act on the warrant and possible arrest The incident suggests highwaymen targeted Sorenson for the whisky cargo and a probable hijacking scheme
In Las Wyoming a banker J M Wood was robbed of his fur coat in front of a church. A bootlegging suspect wore the coat and gave the name R M Wood on a coat tag. The jacket matched a Douglas alderman’s garment and the unnamed prisoner is held for larceny and liquor law violations.
In Hayden National forest near Encampment Wyoming a large black mother bear defended her yearling brown cub as three hunters Walckhoya Eugene and Frank killed both bears days earlier. The encounter supports the view that black and brown bears are color variants of the same species.
The Wyoming land office onker A Pinker land commissioner Betty Beck issued oil and gas prospectors leases. Casper residents Floyd E Pendell and John L Biedermann are listed among others receiving leases for multiple ranges in Natrona and surrounding counties. Other named recipients include Harry P Hynds from Cheyenne and Clare R Menger of Thermopolis among several individuals and companies.
Two men knocked Max Lowenthal to the ground as he stepped from a street car, grabbing a satchel containing diamonds worth 200000 dollars. They fled in a taxi, taking jewelry value from the wholesale jeweler's agent in Buffalo, New York.
H M Harrison, longtime Lincoln county clerk since the county's organization, resigns to take a cashier position at the State bank in Freedom Wyoming. He has held office since the county's creation, elected four times.
Multiple rental ads list rooms and beds in private homes. Locations include 7713 EB second street 676 Park Ave 119 N Grant and 350 N Beech with varying space for one or two men. Contact numbers provided for inquiries and viewings.
Fragmentary city business card style notices show firms such as Dubois & Goodrich and Garbutt Weidner addressing offices at Townsend Block and Oil Scheme Building. Other items reference brick deliveries by Mantle Brick and a chiropody service with appointment only.
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