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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1917
Page
12
The writer condemns leniency for a gang of alleged traitors and argues for strong detention camps and hard penalties. They contrast self declared anarchists like Emma Goldman with perceived domestic agitators and urge strict measures to keep idle hands occupied. Policy should favor firm confinement and deterrence over lenient treatment.
In Murdo South Dakota an I W W attempt to burn a Chicago Milwaukee St Paul freight car was halted as the fire was put out. Two I W W members were arrested. Earlier an o d house of the Milwaukee road at Scotland Junction burned. Government officials investigate I W W plots to destroy crops. In Washington state sheriff and national guard capture 25 box car riders on vagrancy charges.
The piece reports deportations of alleged I W W troublemakers from Jerome Arizona to California and similar expulsions from Delphi and Columbus to Colub s New Mexico. It notes resistance in Washington state as locals organize home guards to protect railroad passes and urges federal Department of Justice involvement amid suspected German spy influence in the I W W disturbances.
A Christian Science Monitor summary argues Mexico under Carranza has adopted a benevolent neutrality toward wartime nations. It credits Carranza with unifying Mexico, resisting German influence, and aligning future prosperity with cooperation with the United States, Britain, and France.
Washington July 10 The world will owe the victory to free Russia and to democratic United States. The article argues Germany must be toppled by democratic revolutions led by the United States and Russia, noting U boats, ship shortages, and Britain’s need for ships. Free Russia and the United States are pictured as decisive for world peace and democracy.
Washington July 13 An embargo effective at once blocks export shipments of coal coke feed grain flour meal fodder meat fats fuel oils kerosene gasoline pig iron steel bullets ship plates scrap iron and steel ferromanganese fertilizers arms ammunition and explosives unless a bill of lading bears a federal license number issued by the export council in Washington The American Railway association commission on car service ordered the measure under President Wilson s export proclamation with specified license conditions.
Wyoming labor commissioner Edward P. Taylor says more men seek harvest jobs than there are openings. He has turned away many ready workers while farmers have not provided harvest needs data. Big Piney district cites about 700 extra laborers and Platte County 300, but verification is pending. Federal aid depends on farmer reports.
Middleweight title claimant Thos. R. Russell a Pueblo sergeant in the Colorado National Guard sought a local opponent for a ring bout planned in Pueblo on Saturday night July 21. His manager Illatry Pross of Pueblo arrived to arrange the fight as Russell looks to box before his unit departs for training. Russell has fought many Colorado rivals and recently drew with Kid Max who beat Kid Bruce.
Baseball scores across the National League detail matches between Philadelphia Chicago Pittsburg Boston Detroit and others with varied battery pairings. A separate notice describes the San Francisco snow shed project by the Union Pacific at Rock River and Elk Mountain, costing about 1 million dollars as insurance against severe winters.
The Union Pacific uses concrete lumber for snow sheds at Rock River and other Wyoming sites. Concrete slabs 2 to 2 1/2 inches thick, with a reinforced edge, are fastened to a timber frame. This Unit built construction marks a historic use of such material in railroad snow sheds.
Butte Mont July 13 The Northwestern baseball league suspends on Sunday and will be replaced immediately by a new league composed of teams from Great Falls Billings Butte and Spokane The Tacoma club will be transferred to Billings under the reorganized circuit.
London signals consent to enter negotiations with Russia to revise the entente's war aims as England leads allied talks with France and Italy on how to conduct the discussion in Copenhagen amid German upheaval.
Mexico City to Galveston July 13 reports a treaty between Mexico and the United States to return all Americans who crossed the border to evade military enrollment. The agreement aims to enforce enrollment compliance and root out slackers.
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