Notorious Wyoming horse thief captured near McCracken ranch
Jane Aulett reports that a major horse thief, one of the worst to prey on local stockmen, was captured June 14 at Thompson Creek near the McCracken ranch by State Live Stock Inspector Richardson of Montana with a deputy. The suspect was handcuffed and taken to Baker, Montana, for a preliminary hearing June 19, news welcomed by stockmen hoping to break up a taunting gang operating in Thompson Creek country.
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Aulett
Jane
Meracken
Thompson Cresk
McCracken Ranch
Btate
Richardson
Montana
McCracken
Baker, Mont
Thompson Creek
Roy Holdren Killed in Thermopolis Mine Incident
Roy Holdren, 23, longtime Owl Creek Coal employee, died three days after a June 18 mining accident in which a coal fall discharged an iron brace striking his head. Survived by wife and child, funeral held Tuesday under Mineral Union of Gebo auspices. Interment at Monument Hill cemetery.
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Thermopolis
Roy Holdren
Owl Creek Coal Company
Holdren
Meia
Mineral Union of
Gebo
Monument Hill Cemetery
Big Wind River 18 Running High at Riverton
Riverton reports the Wind River rising higher than in years. A Timber company boom rumor spread, but investigation shows the boom strong. about a thousand feet of lumber fallen this week while the drive remains eighty to seventy metres above Riverton as the river stays elevated.
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Riverton
Wind River Timber Company
Rock of Gibraltar
Kevera
Sheepherder Wounded in Metaler Shooting
June 26 Lander Sam Hardman was shot in the shoulder by Bill Maley during a sheep herding dispute with D J Woodruff's group. Finley offered medevac after Maley fled to Miverton. Hardman is in Bishop Ran Gall hospital with possible recovery. Finley surrendered to Constable Smart after a retraction.
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Siashooter
Miverton
Hardman
Bishop Ran Gall Hospital
Finley
Bounty Jail
Bhoshoa
Smart
Fractured Leg Suffered By Burlington Brakeman
SUSTAINS HAD PRACTORE. THERMOPOLIS June 1. A P Alles a Burlington brakeman sustained a badly fractured leg last Friday night while rain fell on the siding at Bonneville. He was riding the pilot wheel when the engine ran into an empty car standing on the track. Mr. Allen was caught and badly crushed the bone above the knee. He was rushed to town and placed in the care of Dr. Naga Carver who treated the fracture and gave him attention. The outlook is uncertain whether he will recover fully.
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Thermopolis
P Alles
Burilington
Bonneville
Little Girl Struck By Sudden Blindness in Thermopolis
The unnamed Thermopolis child of Mr and Mrs Jesse Meady seated on Owl Creek was suddenly blinded Wednesday night. Taken to Cheyenne Sunday with Dr Gifford from Omaha consulted while Union Pacific paused fifteen minutes for examination. Child remained at Hopewell hospital in Thermopolis for treatment.
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Thermopolis
Mia
Jesse Meady
Owl Creek
Cheyenne
Gifford
Omaha
Union Pacific
Incubator Barry Out After Premature Birth
The Denny family celebrates the first public showing of their premature daughter born April 24 who survived two months in an incubator. Dr. J. C. Truesblood arranged the device, the infant now weighs about five pounds and is in good health aside from a minor temperature lapse. The nurse, family, and physician are praised for the success of the method.
Food Cooperatives Rise in Paris to Cut War Prices
Paris reporters describe consumer co operative buying forming at central markets as actresses a lawyer and an authoress join to obtain weekly market bundles at wholesale prices. The plan reduces delivery costs by sharing cabs and distributing baskets to several families, boosting profits for sellers.
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Paris
Associated Press
France
War Horses Wanted at Cheyenne Inspection Date
Will inspect horses at Cheyenne July 7. Will buy class A and AA horses for 125 and 150 dollars. For information inquire Hersig Bros Joseph Michener. 6 27¢
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Cheyenne
Hersig Bros
Joseph Michener
Weather conditions and unsettled patterns across the west
The report notes low pressure over the west with unsettled weather and scattered clouds. Light showers affected parts of the North Pacific states, Montana and Wyoming while Western temperatures remained near normal though Nevada and Montana were locally cooler. Unsettled conditions continue in Cheyenne with changing temperatures and northern state precipitation. A Wisconsin storm center brought showers to the region and fair weather persisted in the Ohio Valley and south.
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North Pacific
Montana
Wyoming
Nevada
Potata
Cheyenne
Wisconsin
Fat
Ohio Valley
U. L Pree Ieee
Baker City
Ore
Boles
Idaho
Deaver Cole
We ‘Tender
New York
Rocone
Merth Platte
Neo
Ned
S of
le Lake
Sheridan
Washington AC
Yellowstone Park
Laborer Moran Arrested Over Knife Attack in Burlington
Moran, a Burlington ex tra gang laborer, was arrested on complaint by Joe Husby who says Moran forged a knife and attacked him in a bunk car. Husby states Moran, intoxicated, lunged while Husby slept, stabbing him in the head chest and arm. Moran had a preliminary hearing and was bound over to district court. Sheriff Roach escorted him to Wheatland.
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Y Guernsey
Mike Moran
Burlington
Extra
Ths Place
Joe Husby
Husky
Moran
Husby
Justice Court
Roach
Wheatland
Rock Springs selects new school superintendent
Rock Springs District No 4 held a meeting last week to approve bills and elect personnel. Charles B Carter of Birdville Pennsylvania was chosen as superintendent at a salary of 2100 dollars per year. Jennie Elias was elected to teach grades. she recently graduated from the State University Normal Department.
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Rock Springs
Charles B. Carter
Birdville
Penn
Carter
Greeley
Col
Jennie Elias
Elias
State University
Alleged Forgery Suspect Nabbed Near Pilot
Riverton, June 26. Marshal A L Boland arrested Roy Tracewell at Pilot on a Washakie County warrant for alleged forgery. Sheriff Kent joined the pursuit, arriving Sunday from Worland and returning with Tracewell the next day.
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Riverton
A. L Boland
Roy Tracewell
Washakie County
Tracewell
Sheriff Kent
Wor‘Land
University uses textbook of dead officer in Wyoming
Captain Charles T. Boyd of the Tenth Cavalry killed in Mexico is cited as author of a textbook, Criticism on Solution of Map Problems, now used in the University of Wyoming military department. Boyd entered service from Iowa with a captain’s commission dated January 16, 1908. The item appears amid a local clearance sale notice.
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Laramie
Charles T. Boyd
Tenth Cavalry
Mexico
Gomes
Iowa
University of Wyoming
Dutch Mennonites in Odessa Face Eviction Threat
A Dutch-descent population in Odessa near the Black Sea, about 80 000 people, risks eviction by the Russian government unless they can prove non German origin. Many Mennonites fled German persecution and settled along the Lower Vistula before aiding Catherine I’s Russian territories.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Associated Press
Odessa
Black Sea
Friesland
Germany
West Prussia
Vistula
Poland
Frederick I
Catharine I
Russia
Wheile
Union Trust Company Debentures Offer Safer Investment
Investors are urged to consider Union Trust Company debentures as a secure option. The company, capitalized at 100000, is backed by multiple real estate mortgages on property valued well above the mortgage amounts. Each debenture relies on many mortgages, and the failure of any single mortgage would not affect security.
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HE Union Trust Company
Union Trust Company
Fins
First National Bank of
Cheyenne
Wyo
Union ‘Prist Company
Wyoming
Partic
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GoRs
Barry
Partner
Guernsey
Timna
Porger
University
Flynn
Hoo Merk Chapman
Carey
George E. Abbott
John L. Baird
C. L. Beatty
First National Bank
Newcastle
Pine Bluffs State Bank
Pine Bluffs
Carey Avenue
Cheyenne, Wyoming
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