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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1909
Page
3
International events unfold across diverse nations with political shifts, economic updates, and cultural developments. Leaders address crises while trade talks and regional tensions shape the international agenda through scattered reports and editorials.
Reports show Wyoming sheep herds nearing completion with an estimated total clip between 38 and 40 million pounds, up from 36 million last year. Across the region 500 head in Montana died after being driven to summer pasture after ingesting loco weed.
Deaths from the Texas hurricane now total forty one with property losses around one million dollars. French premier Clemenceau and his cabinet resigned after a government defeat by vote. Baron De Forest offers twenty thousand dollars to the first British aeronaut to cross the channel in a British built plane in record time. One hundred thousand dollars was given to Bombay beggars during Neareji Wadia’s funeral. Wadia left about ten million to charity including funds to aid poor girls’ marriages. John Leonard Roeder died in Quincy Illinois at 108, having served as an orderly to General Blucher during Waterloo. Estimations warn of rising emigration from the United States to elsewhere.
President Taft expects to reach Colorado about September 20 or 21 to attend the Gunnison tunnel opening. He will exchange visits with Diaz, crossing into Mexico and returning to U.S. soil. Washington reports Chinese loan talks to support the open door policy in China.
Market listings show beef steers hay and pulp fed good to choice near 6.40 to 7.00 per hundredweight and hay fed ranges. Cows and heifers pulp grain and hay fed prices vary from about 3.76 to 6.26. Calves veal and stockers list between 3.60 and 7.00 per 100 pounds with grain and hay feeding noted. Grain prices include wheat rye oats corn bran and hay by ton with varied regional quotes. Eggs and South Park wire grasses also itemized.
A discussion of dairy practices stresses high grade butter from well fed cows and careful separation. Modern methods favor separators over old spring houses, with a dairy room and silo aiding quality. hand separators suit small dairies and barrel or power churns improve efficiency. Grained butter indicates proper cream temperatures and quality. over warm cream yields pasty butter. Brimmed milk fed to pigs is valued at about fifteen cents per hundred pounds for weights up to 26 pounds.
Orville Wright flew for 20 minutes and 30 seconds at an estimated 47 mph as a motion picture crew filmed the event. The machine performed elaborate aerial maneuvers while a contracted operator shot the proceedings for first rate footage.
The Rambler mine near Holmes, west of Laramie, yields ore assaying 60 to 70 per cent copper in the first level drift. Forty tons have been shipped. Copper ore described as pure glance and velate immense, confirming Rambler as a long time rich producer.
In a crowded room Addison Spriggs denounces idle judging of baseball fans. He taunts a boarder Williams and Ferguson over Cleveland's losses, brags of season tickets, and triumphantly reports Ed Walsh's shutout of the Washingtons, raising spirits among the group.
Mr Jinx and his wife share a domestic vignette about a married couple in a morris chair. He praises home life while she expresses concern about his gambling at penny ante with Maddox and the boarding house crowd. He promises to buy a bonnet despite losses but agrees to curb gambling next time.
Wentworth Livingston, a chorus player in a Shake spearean troupe, dreams of immortality as the Ghost in Hamlet. Rehearsals and misadventures follow, culminating in a brutal onstage mishap that ends with the stage manager's outburst.
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