Strike Ends Union Pacific Shops Reopen After Yearlong Battle
Machinery workers and boilermakers return to Union Pacific shops after a twelve month strike. Only 71 of 116 machinists who quit return. 13 of 31 boilermakers rejoin. Non union staff may join the union. shop hotels to be abandoned. featured terms include reinstatement of old workers and end of piece work within sixty days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Livingston
Mont
B. R. Chapman
Chapman
Machinata
Wnton
Ie Shop
Hie Company
Clever Escape From Rawlins Penitentiary
William, a five year sentence from Uinta County, escaped from Rawlins penitentiary using a wooden key to unlock the women's ward, then descended from the roof with a rope made from bedding. Authorities pursued toward Solon and along rail lines, with strong hopes of recapture and a full term if recaptured.
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Willian
Uinta County
Rawlinw
Williama
Finney
Williams
Glaze A Wonder Pitcher Shines For Dartmouth At Yale
Special to Daily Leader Howling, Wyo June 8. Ralph Glaze, former Cheyenne Indian pitcher, stars for Dartmouth and won a June 4 game at Yale with notable pitching. Also reports on Cheesebrough guilty of horse stealing. a Wyoming drowning. forgery arrest in Rawlins. Powder River Oil Co incorporation. a drunken man loses a leg near Bridgeport. Bishop Keane confirms fifty at Rawlins and forty at Laramie. Thomas A. Davies dies in Cumberland.
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Ralph Glaze
Dartmouth College
Yale
Glaze
Dartmouth
Daily Leader
Howling
Wyo
Joseph Cheesebrough
Cheesebrough
Elk Mountain
Guernsey Gasette
Bridgeport
Cheyennne
Thomas A. Davies
Wyoming
Union Pacific
Dad
Cumberland
Laramie
J. J. Oakley
City
Rawlins
Mra. Lavin
Private Capital Targets New Railroad Through Dillon Area
Surveyors are at work between Dillon and Rawlins for a rumored railroad backed by wealthy Rawlins investors and eastern money. The line would run from Dillon to iron and Snake River country, connecting with the Moffat route via freight agreements and aiming to tap vast coal, cattle, and copper resources. Backers claim the Snake River valley could support such a line, leveraging Rudefeha copper ore and regional mines to justify construction.
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Snake River
Moffat
Union Pacific
Snake River Valley
Dixon
Dages
Slater
America
Dillon
Rudefeha
Battie Lake
Sierra Madres
SINKING DEEP WELLS FOR FORT RUSSELL WATER SUPPLY
Carlatram and Becketram of Pin Bluffs began sinking deep tubular wells at Fort Russell to supply the port water. The six inch wells should reach twenty five feet per day. If water is found in the first two within three hundred feet, four more wells will be added. Noah Young, Coal Mine Inspector, reports flood-ravaged Kansas conditions. Forty confirmed at Gath Catholic church in Laramie as Bishop Keane returns. C A Rooker and wife travel to the city to prepare a gasolline engine for irrigation on Campetogl ranch.
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Carlatram and Becketram
Pin Bluffs
Fort Russell
State Coal Mine
Noah Young
Kansas
C. A. Rooker
Campetogl Ranch
Mr. Rooker
Trial of Hicks Delayed to June 22 at Sundance
The murder trial of Jones D Hicks for the death of Bob Bryson at Ullette Crook County was continued to June 22 at Sundance after Judge Stotts was removed from the bench. Judge R K W Scott of this city will preside at Sundance on the rescheduled date. Edison phonographs and records at Buechner & Gons.
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Jones D. Hicks
Bob Bryson
Uillette
Crook County
Sundance
Stotts
RK WH. Scott
Itty Tee
Ghoul Grave Robbery Report Prompts Reward Notice
A wave of grave robbing since Decoration Day north of the city targets flowers and ribbons placed on graves. A $6 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest of the thief or thieves. reports note earlier thefts from Governor Richards' grave and a pattern of vandalism with redressed ribbons and pressed white ribbons used as evidence. Meanwhile local notices mention assorted crimes and local happenings including employment changes and a Country Club incorporation near Laramie.
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Richards
Thhieves
Roosevelt's photograph autograph sent to Sunshine Perry in 1903
In May 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt autographed a photograph sent to Sunshine Perry of Cheyenne Wyoming by secretary William Lohr Jr. The note accompanying the photo mentions a welcoming display and the banner reading Welcome. Also reported are Pitt Covert’s fall from a horse on Capitol Avenue and a baseball game where Eagles beat Thirteenth Artillery 12 to 4. Kilie the Woodchuck is noted as killed by Oscar Brawn at the city cemetery.
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Perguson Street
Hin Attenton
Organized Labor
Bertanid & Banner
Hiue
Mir
Sunahine ‘Perry
B. F P. Perry
the Machinists
Ven
Athletic Park
Eagles
Artillery
Oscar Brawn
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The
Grand Union Tea Co
Capitol Avenue
JNO, Fleming
A. E. Roedel
17Th Street
Chayense
Pharmacy
Knight's
West 16Th St
Logan
Cahill Bros
Allegaretti
Gunthers
Tel
Keefe Hall
Hos. Longhur
Ferguson
HH. G. Enders
Bacycle
Princeon
Tribune
Stearns
Monarch
Wolf
American
la Elede
Oxfords
Kent
M. . House
Ferguson Street
Bam
Mandel
Epoyv Street
Union Eye Works
Sastes
U. P
Bollermakers
Sterling Bilver
ALGO
Warren Mer, CO
Neaving
Wyoming Fuel, Food and Delivery
Trac
Solon
Hehen
Hehn
Rawlins Penitentiary
B. Temple
Lowt Cabin
Wye
Campbell
Temple
Misa Milford
Casper
Ll. A
Matney
Grieiey
Colo
Greeley
New Oil Company
Powder River Oil Company
Powder River
Johnson County
J. J. Keane
Tri West
Evan
Treweera
Sr Asa
Aperta As
Bay
Ee Dattinn
Dade
Veo Ballets
Rawling
Audefeha
Wae
Gathatlo
Edison Phonographg
Buechner & Gon's
Frank Newman
Rawlings
Weston County
Mike McDonald
George Bacus
Mary Hickson
Indy
Country Club
Country Club of
Robert McCabe
Hubert McCabe
Santa Fe Railroad
Balda
Sherif Leslie Snow
Evanston
Pedro G. Lara
Maculcan
Ulty
Hn Son Volker
Jack McCabe
John McCabe
Hutchman
Lost In London
Harry Caron Clarke
Ware
E. P. Schoonmaker
E.P. Schoontumker
Troy
Natrona County
Niroma County
Ladies’ Bell Association
Cheyenne
Sunshine Perry
Theodore Roosevelt
Pitt Covert
Kilie
Woodchuck
Manewal’s
Touneront, Hart, Schaffner & Marx
OF ‘Em
Hart Schaffner & Mark Good Clothes Makers
John Harrington
Gorham
D. Miller
Mahaffay & Buffum Obtropathic Physicians
Examina- Howe
Pleturva
Opera
Geo. H. Nagle
Chag
F. Miller
Corson
Bec. and
Treas
Union Mercantile Co
Fergugon Street
E. S. Johnston
W. 17Th Street
Williams & Myers
West 17Th Street
Heaney
England
Roseman
Underwood Grocery Co
17Th St
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