Coal Boom At Sheridan Rails 100 New Engines 3000 Cars
Sheridan Wyoming August report from The Enterprise notes Sheridan county coal mines near doubling output with 100 new Burlington engines and 3000 cars. Monarch Dietz Kooi Carney and other mines expand, Vaster hacienda of investment and trucking, daily tonnage seen near 5000, miners wages 100 to 175 monthly, new town Kouiton planned.
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Prise
Sheridan County
Burlington
Sheridan
Monarch
Sheridan Coal Company
Dietz
Kooi
Kooiton
Kovui
Tongue River
Kouiton
Tom Hotchkiss
Sherarea
Tenderfoot in Cheyenne shows Wyoming prospects for dry farming
Shelby County Republican editor, visiting Cheyenne Wyoming, notes a lively city of 15 000 with government forts and union Pacific shops. He reports Dr Cook’s dry farming method yielding forty bushels of wheat per acre and eighty of oats by half land in fallow, aided by irrigation.
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Shelby County Republican
Harland, In
Cheyenne
Wye
Union
Fort Russell
Dr. Cook
Washington
Wyoming
Iowa
Oregon
Rockies
Desert
Fire Company Loses Insulated Wire Cutters
While en route to a fire at the Anheuser-Busch warehouse Saturday afternoon, the Alert Hose Company lost a pair of large insulated wire cutters from their wagon toolbox. The white rubber handles were distinctive. Finder should return cutters to the Alert Hose house on Capitol Avenue.
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Fire Company
Anheuser-Busch
Alert Hose Company
Alert
Capitol Avenue
Weather Report for Wyoming Showers Wednesday
Weather forecast for Wyoming predicts showers on Wednesday. Local data shows temperature around 74 degrees, low near 72, with no precipitation reported.
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Washington
Wyoming
Palmer
Taft Train Wreck Delays Secretary’s Kansas City Visit
Kansas City Mo Aug 27 Passenger train No 5 on the Frisco line carrying Secretary Taft was wrecked near Springhill Kan when a switch flew open. The mail car derailed and dragged 500 feet but no passengers or trainmen were hurt. Taft helped reassure frightened travelers and the delay postponed his boulevard tour and hotel reception with Senator Warren and Missouri Republicans attending.
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Kansas City
Taft
Springhill
Kan
Springfield
Baltimore
F. E. Warren
Wyoming
Japanese official calls war talk absurd in U.S. visit
Kooi Kipiko labor director of Japan's commerce department says Japanese in America show progress and contentment. He asserts Japan would not fight the United States and that expansion is aimed at Corea and Manchuria, not the Philippines, noting 800,000 immigrants a year.
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Los Angeles
Kooi Kipiko
Department of Commerce of Japan
America
Japan
Kooi
United States
Philippines
Corea
Manchuria
Wyoming Railroader Resigns to Join Northwestern
Special to The Leader Saratoga Wyo Aug 27 W H Bardwell resigns as passenger agent for the Saratoga and Encampment railroad and accepts a position with the Northwestern at De Plane Iowa.
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Sheridan, Wyo
Saratoga
Wyo
W. H. Bardwell
Burglar Strikes Bon Shoe & Clothing Store Twice
Sunday night burglars entered the Bon Shoe and Clothing Company store and stole $7.60 from a cash register. Policeman Tom Holland found the front door open and noted a possible break in. Monday night the shoe department door was open and thieves may have remained hidden in the building. Three weeks earlier burglars attempted to blow the safe and netted about $100.
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Bon Shoe & Clothing Company
Tom Holland
Holland
Bon
Moors Fail Bold Assault on Casa Blanca Shells Repel Invasion
At Casa Blanca on August 27 the Moors opened a major assault on the city but a precise shell barrage from foreign warships scattered their force while suffering heavy casualties. General Drude led a counter move and by nightfall order was restored.
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Casa Blanca
Drude
Officer Teague's Wound Worsens After Surgery
Officer John Teague who ten days ago shot himself in the leg with his police revolver underwent an operation to remove part of the bullet and bone fragments. The injury is proving more serious than initially expected.
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John Teague
Defunk Bank President Aims to Pay Depositors in Full
Cooper Morris, president of the defunct Oregon National Savings Bank, arrived in Portland Oregon on August 27 and said he is too tired to talk but confident the bank can pay dollar for dollar. He will use his personal property if needed to safeguard depositors.
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Portland
Oreg
Cooper Morris
Oregon National Savings Bank
Veterinarian Returns From Idaho Campaign Against Granders
State Veterinarian Pilaegling returned from the Italo Wyoming line in Uinta county where he joined an Idaho veterinarian in a campaign against granders among horses of the Teton basin.
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Idaho
Pilaegling
Uinta County
Teton Basin
Conspirators Bound Over in Los Angeles Case
Three alleged Mexican conspirators arrested in Los Angeles were arraigned in police court on a charge of resisting an officer. Trials set for separate dates between now and October 1. Bail fixed at 10 000 for each.
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Los Angeles
Noted Woman Lecturer to Visit Cheyenne This Week
Cheyenne welcomes Mrs John St John wife of Governor Bt John of Kansas as a national W C representative. She speaks this afternoon at 2 at Mrs W J Whipple’s residence and attends a mothers’ meeting at the High School tonight with likely address.
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Cheyenne
John
St. John
Wyoming World Champion Meets Arizona Star In Five Steer Contest
Angus McPhee of Cheyenne and Pete Dickerson of Douglas will duel for a $500 side bet and $1,000 purse at Frontier Park September 20 21 under Texas style rules. Five steers tied, three judges chosen by contestants, aims to crown roping supremacy with a celebration and barbecue drawing ranchers from Wyoming and nearby states.
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Gus McPhee
Cheyenne
Pete Dickerson
Douglas, Ariz
Dickerson
Arizona
Frontier Park
Angus McPhee
Brownwood
Texas
Douglas
North West
Wyoming
Southwest
Mr. McPhee
Elton Perry
van Guilford
Denver
Larame County Teachers Institute Day Two Attendance Grows
The second day of Larame County’s twentieth annual Teachers Institute opened with larger attendance. Judge J A Riner spoke at the opening, Mr Fee sang, and Dwelle led discussions on grammar arithmetic and school management. Miss Knight and Mr Stockwell addressed reading history and music in the public schools. A joint teachers and parents conference followed with A D Cook H A Dwelle H B Henderson Martha Cressy W C Benning and others as speakers.
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Larame County
Teachers’ Institute
J. A. Riner
Fee
Dwelle
Stockwell
Mr. Dwelle
Miss Knight
Mr. Stockwell
Miss Sampoon
America
Wyoming
A. D. Cook
H. A. Dwelle
H. B. Henderson
Martha Cressy
W. C. Benning
Musse
Forest Fires Rage in Big Horn Mountains
Special to The Leader Basin Wyoming August 27 A serious forest fire roars through the Big Horn mountains near Tongue River head destroying a large area of heavy timber. From forty miles distant the fire is visible and smoke can be smelled as government forest guards struggle to halt it with no success today.
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Leaer
Basin
Wyo
Big Horn Mountains
Tongue River
Governor Brooks to Speak at Saratoga Celebration
Governor TB and TV Trooks left yesterday for Saratoga to deliver an address at the railway arrival celebration. The event starts today and continues tomorrow. A. Bartlett also departed to attend the ceremony with other officials.
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Governor Brooks
Saratoga
W. A. Bartlett
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Carney
Tenderfoot
Weather Report
Mikado
Defunk Bank
Dickerson and
MC Phee
Great West
Laramie County
R. Emnesti
Bural
Big Horn
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