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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1910
Page
6
A fragmented newspaper column surveys aviation, weather quirks, and social notes. It touches on airships, heroic aviators, growing interest in flight records, and the era's concerns about safety, health, and progress with satirical asides about milk, hats, and governance.
A week of varied items includes Western hospitality for Prince Temi Haun in Denver, Missouri population figures from the Census Bureau, J Ellison Carroll winning a world title in rodeo, Western wildfire risks near Santa Fe, a $7,500 robbery on a Rock Island line, and mall loot worth $19,?000. Also reports political fights over Amalgamated Copper, New Mexico’s constitutional convention, and a nationwide search linked to dynamite blasts. Taft opens the Spokane dry farming congress, and federal exams seek forest rangers across multiple states with Kaibab Arizona residency preference.
Taft spoke Saturday night before the National League of Republican clubs, with a hopeful tone about prosperity. A Democratic state convention in Rochester, New York, Friday night named John A. Dia as state committee chairman and discussed a broad progressive platform led by a wealthy Washington county business man.
Four dead and nineteen injured in the Vanderbilt Cup event at the Long Island Motor Parkway. Harry Gren won in a 120 horsepower Alco. Barney Oldfield dazzled crowds at Springfield Illinois with a Knox car and a ten mile demonstration. Walter Brooking performed a high flight display before 90 000 spectators with a safe landing.
The Comptroller of the Currency proposes a central credit bureau in Washington to track borrowings from national banks and prevent overextension of credit within cities. Postal bank bonds will pay 24 percent interest in denominations from $20, issued to depositors or to replace government bonds. The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended a proposed freight-rate increase from the Pacific Northwest to Eastern destinations, affecting lumber prices and Willamette Valley mills, with a formal inquiry into reasonableness against several Northwestern lines including Southern Pacific and Corvallis & Eastern.
The report notes a price hike of 4 to 5 cents per pound for coffee amid a cholera scare in Europe and disrupted trans Atlantic mail, with quarantines on Lapland and Perugia. It also covers a Pacific steamship Chiriqui sinking near Point Jara shine, about eighty miles from Panama, with around fifty missing.
State officers and members of the Order of Red Men gathered in Cheyenne for the semiannual great council meeting. Two days of business. Officers elected Friday. A class was initiated Friday evening followed by a banquet.
G J Gilland of Cheyenne completed a 172 mile journey to Saratoga Wyoming in twelve hours with a 17 mile detour due to slope issues. One hour was spent at Laramie and Encampment where a repair outfit and pump tube were stolen. He did not discover his love until returning home.
State figures released by Auditor LeRoy Grant show the ten year cost of maintaining Wyoming government rising over 900 percent. State disbursements reached 288 000 75 in 1800 and 875 056 00 in 1909 while taxable property value grew from 55 579 806 49 to 148 500 010 90 about 373 percent. Yet the tax levy ratio fell by 40 percent in that period.
Two tourists died on a railroad near Evanston Morriston when a speeding train struck them on a sharp curve. One man is identified as Peter Van Der Jagt of Ravena Michigan, about 45, the other and younger man about 30 remains unidentified. The engineer did not see the pair until impact. bodies were badly mangled.
Prof Campbell argued that 20 inches of evenly spread rainfall can yield bigger crops than 30 inches with uneven distribution if other conditions are equal. His City Hall speech challenged standard tillage beliefs and suggested Wyoming could lead in farming with his methods.
The report shows Wyoming sheep numbers rose by 74 113 head in 1910 from 108 the wool growers paid 11684 16 less in state and county taxes than 1908. Total sheep valuation for 1908 56416050 rose to 19995019 60 in 1910 an increase of 110401 48700. State and county tax per head was one cent in 1908 and 3 684 cents per head in 1910 as recorded in the Tax Commissioner Richarde office.
A new Church of Christ building at Ranchester is dedicated with services led by Rev. N Aldrich of Terre Haute. The substantial structure seats 260 and will serve Ranchester and the church community. Hov 1. Lt. Ghick, once Sheridan resident, oversaw early work and construction began last July. Rev. Hk Aldrich, son of the preacher, preached the dedicatory sermon and will supervise ongoing duties.
In Huberidan Wyoming the coal mine operator and Mine Workers America Local No 22 representatives reached and signed a two year wage agreement. Several unspecified contract interpretations were granted by the parties.
The news item covers Sheridan school sessions in public and teachers institutes, Rhodes scholarship exams at Laramie on October 26, a $50,000 Kik’s home cornerstone at Laramie, and various local incidents including missing accountant Rumfelt, a campus sidetrack project, and a fatality near Buffalo. It mentions Red Man council sessions in Cheyenne and local civic notices.
The fragment mentions a doctor advising an operation and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a treatment for various female ailments. It cites a Kansas address and asserts the remedy relieves displacement feelings irregularities fatigue indigestion and nervous prostration with claimed large benefits and low cost.
George H. Beattie jeweler and L. E. Ralston auditor of the Newa were sleeping on Beattie’s farm near Chagrin Falls when a runaway team from the county fair sped into the lane. They awoke as horses dodged between them, both narrowly escaping injury. Since then Ralston camps in town and Beattie seeks shelter under his house eaves.
A church party rides to service late and jokes that the audience will wait. The old pastor recalls a condemned man who says not to fret, as nothing happens until he arrives, a quip illustrating calm under delay.
A Millinery Trade Review notes that fall consumer flirtation with fashion caused uncertainty in buying. Distributors and consumers lacked confidence in accepted lines, reducing purchases. Prosperity or adversity do not drive the millinery market, Faah lon’s influence determines success.
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