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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1912
Page
10
The Fronties celebration program lists August events with cowpony races military drills and Indian dances. Key races include Half mile cowpony events, an Indian race and a 1 1/2 mile relay with $200 purse, plus buffalo harness demonstrations and a world championship racking contest.
The schedule outlines events across August 15 to 17 1912 including calf branding cowpony races roping bucking contests and Indian war dances. Prizes range from 5 to 100 dollars with contenders from cow ponies to soldiers in uniform and Sioux performers.
In Evanston, Wyoming, jailer Joseph Fife was bound and prisoners freed after Joe Tayner, an inmate serving time for forgery, torched a jail break. Seven inmates were present. six escaped with one recaptured or still at large as the riot unfolded.
The fugitive Dalton fled Cokeville while serving a term for killing Marshal Hanson. Rumors say Dalton started the break. A posse of about twenty five men is pursuing the escaped convicts.
Andrew K. Thornton, a University of Wyoming summer session student, died after being kicked by a horse while working on a ranch near Gingle Idaho. He had recently finished classes and was employed at the Idaho ranch following the summer school term.
While on duty the worker was kicked in the head and his skull fractured. He was taken to Dr. BLN Turner for treatment and doctors doubted whether he would survive the night.
Moetestis Wyoming Aug 4 While repairing town hall work two years ago Jeff Starkey had a pane of glass fall on his back. Recently a wedge shaped shard over an inch long was found protruding above the hip bone and, with help, removed. The fragment had traveled about eight inches since the accident.
Bulgarian anger over killings of subjects in Turkey sparks calls for war as ministers meet. Bulgaria seeks indemnity and action in Macedonia while diplomatic circles fear a Turko Montenegrin clash and possible Ottoman empire breakup endangering European peace.
Ranchman Albert N. Nilslate, 27, a wealthy east of Pueblo, Colo., was thrown when a steer crossed his path as he rode to town. He struck his head on the road, was brought to a Pueblo hospital unconscious, and died hours later.
James J. Hill retires after 33 years of service with the Great Northern, ending his presidency and remaining on the executive committee. Laula W. Hill Richard Smithtown successor Carl Gray becomes chair. Hill born 1838 in Guelph Ontario and began as a day laborer.
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