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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1917
Page
10
Report from Rock Springs Wyoming details a registration drive for women on a Thursday with about 607 names. The piece lists local weddings, visits, social gatherings, and community notices including club meetings, birthday celebrations, travel plans, and a parade with flags.
Plans call for the Wyoming Abcoto Producing Company to erect an asbestos plant on nearly thirty acres along the garden creek boulevard within a week and complete it within sixty days. The facility will process seven railroad cars daily and supply Northwestern and Burlington Systems, with testing samples and potential expansion as demand grows.
A telegram from Hot Springs reports the death of engineer Fredrick Vrackken after a neck operation. He left five motherless children, as their father died recently and their family faced bereavement. The deceased was a well known engineer on the Northwest line in Wyoming. Funeral arrangements will be announced.
Rawlins July 00 survey results show J W Whedla received a telegram from the state highway department directing proceed with airwey survey. The plan includes building a new road between iachine and Soten with construction to start and finish before fall under state and local cost sharing.
CORT COL LINS Colo July 20 Two railroads the Union Pacific and the Colorado and Southern plan extensions toward Buckeye ranch district to ship cattle hay and beets. Vice President J H Monroe and traffic officials visited the Buckeye area to weigh an extension that would connect with the Denver, Lar amie and Northern, with talk of a tract agreement to bypass legal hurdles.
Maccabees of Cheyenne Tent No. 6 announce open house all next week with nightly dances starting Monday. A large orchestra will perform and ventilation improvements have been completed for visitor comfort. The hall is among the state’s largest and hosts from out of town will receive a royal welcome.
Riverton hosts a large wolf roundup led by J Farlow and J A Delfelder. The 160 mile boundary runs from Dever Creek to Beaver Creek with a quarter mile spacing at dawn and a final leg near Buck Camp where crowds travel by auto. Trained hounds will kill rattlesnakes and coyotes in staged displays as part of the event drawing national interest.
In Rawlins July 20 two Lincoln County road gang inmates Casey with three months left Hagen with five years remaining escaped after drinking gin Foreman Meade called for volunteers to aid in pursuit A liveryman helped capture the fugitives and they guarded them overnight until officers arrived Both prisoners were returned to the penitentiary and faced further years due to the escape attempt The incident underscores how the honor system weakens with each attempted break and reduces the likelihood of future escapes.
Dr WK Mylar of Kimball Nebraska faces a $25000 federal suit filed in the U S district court by former Kimball physician Dr BE G Clegg. The case, set to appear by August 1, arises from a prior quarrel over insults about flowers to a patient. Dr Mylar had previously pleaded guilty to a fight. The matter is being handled by attorneys Wright and Mothershead of Scottsbluff.
Yesterday evening a large transfer truck loaded with lumber iron and other cargo moved onto the Casper scales but was found too heavy to be weighed correctly the incident interrupted traffic and drew attention to the scale limits and weight rules at the city facility.
Thieves blew open the Workingmen's Commercial company store in Kembmerer using nitroglycerin to blast the safe. About 1460 dollars were taken, with 200 dollars hidden in another department. Entrance was through a window. an axe used to break it. Undersheriff C. B. Glant moved to Hanna to investigate. no suspects named.
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