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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1917
Page
9
Government witnesses testified in a U S court that stolen Cripple Creek gold ore entered circulation through miners storekeepers theater workers and even firemen and wives of miners. The case centers on eleven men charged with defrauding the United States by selling stolen ore as bullion.
Four people are dead and ten injured in a devastating explosion at the E I Du Pont de Nemours powder company works in Augusta near Aguilar. Superintendent J B Jeandell is among the dead. William Wilson is among the injured and may die. The blast wrecked several buildings and the cause is not yet known.
Phoenix Arizona June 29 Governor Campbell acting on a request from Sheriff Harry Wheeler and Warren mine operators recommended actions in the Warren district to address unrest and safeguard mining operations.
Today offers for extra votes tied to subscription totals reach 2400 per dollar and 3000 in the following two weeks. A 60000 vote push and a 160 cash prize offer close by 10 pm tonight. The dispatches mention miners and employers tensions as a sheriff fears bloodshed until results are released.
June 29 Gramm in a timber camp sixty miles from Laramie was threatened by a forest fire. A change of wind and back firing saved the town as the blaze burned about a mile long and a quarter mile wide. Fire started reportedly by sparks from a passing locomotive. A party of men with engines was organized to strengthen containment.
June 29 report says the German steamer Westfalia struck a mine while sailing from Letterdam to Copenhagen in Dutch waters. It was reported seventeen Dutch crew members were saved with others missing after the explosion near The Hague.
Reports from Major General Pershing on the French landing are incomplete. The draft of the national guard into nation service will send units to divisional training camps in southern southeastern and western districts to speed front readiness. It is likely 12 or more divisions could be formed at full war strength about 360000 men with at least a third well trained.
President Wilson intervened to limit the prohibition fight to distilled spirits and urged leaders to drop opposition to beer and light wine. An informal Senate agreement also moves to exclude beer and wine from the liquor measure while pushing food control legislation.
Frank Dunn was found guilty late today by a county jury on the charge of first degree murder for killing his wife Alien Mi Quillan Dunn in Great Falls Montana.
The article traces the 1916 rate rise triggered by the Adamson law and looming strike, noting railroads faced unprecedented freight and passenger loads, port congestion, and near record receipts while costs spiked. It explains coal steel oil and wages pushed prices to high levels, eroding net returns despite higher gross income.
The Interstate Commerce Commission paused a planned general 15 percent railroad freight rate increase until October 28. Southern districts may see coal and ore tariffs rise up to 16 percent with a 5 cent minimum per ton, while western districts limit increases to 15 percent or 15 cents per ton. Commissioner McCord dissented, arguing policy over service.
Senator Walsh aims to add a life of leasing measure to a food control bill, but prospects seem slim. Critics note riders are unlikely and a standalone leasing act must stand on its merits, with calls to protect miners who staked claims under placer laws, though defining a discovery remains complex.
The passage discusses the legal distinction between locating oil by shovel work and discovering oil by drilling. It warns that misapplying mining concepts to oil locating can mislead judges and harm legitimate claimants in the oil industry.
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