Prisoner Warns in Jail Threats Case in Wyoming
Grant Smith now in county jail awaiting district court trial for running away with another man’s wife says if he escapes he will aid Sheriff Sheffner and Deputy Sheriff Tripeny. He is said to have attempted to saw a bolt from a lever box and to have taken a clock spring to fashion a saw. He has served two penitentiary terms for grand larceny and faces additional charges tied to a horse theft in the county.
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Casper, Wyre
Grant Smith
Sheffner
Tripeny
Smith
Thia
Oregon
Uinta County
Sheridan County
Petitions Circulate to Amend State Game Laws
In Garland on December 22 petitions call for shorter deer elk season from November 1 to December 15 and limit bag to one elk two deer while adding bear to game animals with two bears per hunter. Proposals seek banning courtship of bears with dogs and placing mountain sheep under indefinite prohibition. Nonresident license fees would double. guides would be appointed wardens with $1 000 bonds. No new preserves in Park county. Yellowstone is cited as sufficient. Delegation to lawmakers aims at remedial legislation.
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Garland
Park County
Yellowstone Park
Shoshone River
Petition for pardon of Samuel Staples circulates in region
Clar ence Woodard gathers signatures for a pardon petition in Thermopolis Independent. The document asks the Board of Charities and Reforms to review the case, citing Staples age limited means and distance from the crime scene hindering a full investigation before his sentence. Staples is described as an old man known in Iowa and other parts of the state.
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Samuel Staples
Clarence Woodard
Board of Charities and Reforms
Asag
Staples
Iothia
Thermopolis
Petition to establish a mail route from Worland to Dickie
In Cody on December 23 residents south and east of Meeteetse and near Gooseberry Creek petition the government to create a mail route from Worland to Dickie about 0 miles long. They also seek Meeteetse to join, arguing the road is passable in winter and summer and that the new railroad could speed mail to Meeteetse by 24 hours.
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Cody
Meeteetse
Gooseberry Creek
Worland
Dickie
Meeteetae
Local Businesses Extend Hours and Unclear Plans Abroad
All atom barber shops stay open until 9 p.m. Thursday December 24, and close all day. A movement in Colorado advocates conservation of the human appendix, framed as a push for natural resources. Mr Knox's event will not go to Mexico after New Years, allowing Milto to review a leaf of her own account if she chooses.
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Knox
Mexico
Mlestoo
Open Letter to John H. Smith from Lovell Chronicle
An optimistic Lovell Chronicle letter urges John Smith to return home to Lovell. It notes the Burlington railroad connectivity, a planned Lovell sugar factory, beach land patents, new local stores and loans, and rising basin activity. It mentions residents Ira Waters H S Jolley Orve Linnabarry Will Crisman Ren Jolley and Cheyenne boosters planning a basin visit.
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John Smith
Florida
Big Horn Basin
John
Burlington
Lovell
Henrietta Johnson
Seth Johnson
Peterson
Stryker
Lowell
Ira Waters
H. S. Jolley
Orve Linnabarry
Will Crisman
Big Horn
Ren Jolley
Ren
A. Reyn
Lovell Chronicle
Oil Fueled Fire Attempt in Byron Home
In Byron on December 29 B D Boxston turned heater gas higher to burn more fuel when Deaton and Sessions battled a blaze caused by kerosene in a heater. A crowd formed a makeshift brigade to control the fire, saving the house and most furnishings despite extensive damage.
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Byron
B. D. Boxstons
Deaton
Sessions
Shipment of Minnows Reaches Destinations With Low Loss
A large shipment of fish from Hazeman Mont. to Cody was delivered with only about a dozen to fifteen dead. Ranger Miller of North Fork suffered a car accident in the canyon forcing the disposal of some fish into a big dam to prevent wider losses. The muskets were moved to keep the fish alive through winter months.
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Cody
Hazeman
Mont
Ranger Miller
North Fork
Garland Courier
Barber shops stay open till 9 p.m. Tuesday Dec 24
All Union barber shops will remain open until 9 p.m. Tuesday evening December 24 and close all day Christmas.
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All Union
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Star Brand
United States
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St.louis
Citizens National Bank
Cook Bros. CO
Isth ST. and
Carey Ave
Atom
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The
Modesto & Pipitone
Capitol Ave
A. T. Hale
W. 17Th St
Carey Aveyue
Wyoming Fuel "Ov and Feed CO
Treadquarters For
Mandy Lee
Conkey’s Poultry Remedies
Pratt
Max Davis
Westith St
Continental Oil Company
Chapenna
Butte, Boise
Balt
Young’s Cafe
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