Sheep Wagon Fire Near Casper Sparks Mystery
A sheep wagon reportedly belonging to J. L. McIntosh burned near the Sage Hen range outside Casper. A stranger rode by, entered the wagon, then rode away. minutes later the wagon caught fire. Locals doubt if accidental or arson, sheriff investigating. Nearby, a house nine miles north of Manville burned by unknown incendiaries, destroying home and belongings of Mr and Mrs James Sullivan. loss about $1,000. A neighbor heard pistol shots before the blaze. The Sullivan couple were away.
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Casper
Mar
J. L. McIntosh
Sheffner
Molntreh
Mhome
Mdnville
Pire
James Sullivan
Ame
Kansas City
Sullivan
Gordon
Sullivan Home
Sullivan Place
James
Capture Morse Thief In Horse Theft Case
Sheridan reports a thief named Alpert Cox charged with stealing a Hayes horse at Monarch and taking another horse to Burt Edgeton’s ranch before abandoning it. Deputy Veach captured Cox near Grass Montana and returned him for trial after days of pursuit across territory. A separate note mentions a $60,000 theatre project and A J Hamy leaving Sheridan to oversee Kirby Opera House activities.
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Morse
Sheridan
Mar
Robert Hayes
Monarch
Burt Edgeton
Rancheater
Hayes
Edgeton
Alpert Cox
Grass
Mont
Veach
A. J. Hamy
Kirby Opera House
This Place
Theatre loan plan and extradition tug of war
Chicago financier claims intent to close a loan of sixty thousand dollars for a new theatre in the city and says he will return soon to begin construction. In Wyoming, Deputy Stirling reports trouble securing George Crins, a Gypsy charged with theft, as Utah authorities resist extradition and Crins has obtained counsel.
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Chicago
Blaustement
Thie City
Sheridan
Laramie
Mar
Stirling
Ogden
Utah
George Crins
Frazer
Laramie Chooses Molli Day as Chamber President
Frank Molli Day was elected president of the Laramie Chamber of Commerce at a meeting of the new board of directors. An executive committee was selected including J. M. Christenson, Carl Ralfe, J. B. Winslow, Willis Jenson, and D. O. Merrick.
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Laramie
Mar. 10
Frank Molliday
Seabies Disease Reported Among Walton Sheep
Casper March 10. Announcement states seabies tay has appeared among sheep in Walton country with only one hand affected so far. There has been no sign of a big disease that once ravaged state flocks in Wyoming for several years.
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Casper
Mar
Walton Country
Wyoming
Wyoming District President Forms Lost Springs Local Union
State brief reports President Gibson of the United Mine Workers of America organized a local union in Lost Springs with good membership. Unrelated items note monument work in Casper, a Trinity cathedral resignation in Omaha, a new Lost Springs hotel planned after a fire, and a bank opening March 1 with cashier D W Hibble.
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Lost Springs
Gibson
Wyoming
United Mine Workers of America
Casper
Pioneers’ Monument
Northwestern Railroad
Wilbahare
Douglas
Trinity Cathedral
Omaha
Neb
J. A. Tancock
Douglas Presbyterian Church
Jaramie
Oscar Waechster
John McGil
Lost
Papes Cold Compound Claims Quick Grippe Cure
A vintage advertisement touts Papes Cold Compound as a guaranteed cure for grippes and severe colds. It promises rapid relief from head and neuralgia pain and claims the product contains no quinine and costs over fifty thousand dollars to develop.
Author of Three Thousand Poems in Queens Prison
New York March 11 prisoners in Queens County Jail hear from George Jones of Cameron Terrace Woodside aged over seventy. A Crimean War survivor tall scholarly with a long beard he inspires inmates with sympathy and cheer. A religious worker and prolific author Jones has written more than three thousand poems, many religious in sentiment.
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New York
Queens County
Morehan
George Jones
Cammeron Terrace
Woodside
Ong Wale
Jall
Lfe
Heroic sewer rescue keeps boy alive in Manhattan snow
Edward James Hurrell four, fell into a sewer at East End Avenue, drifted 200 feet through slush. Police Lieutenant Michael Mulhall and Lea Kelser descended a 12 foot deep, five foot diameter manhole, fought through odor and ice to locate the child, lifting him to safety amid cheers.
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New York
Edward James Hurrell
East End Avenue
Michael Mulhall
Lea Kelser
Mulhall
Kelser
Co Gown
Muliwtt
Ole Bull Daughter Loses In Will Contest
In Biddeford Maine on March 10 Judge Nathaniel Mobbs denied Mrs Olea Bull Vaughan a special administration for Maine in the estate of her mother Mrs Sarah Bull widow of Ole Bull the famed violinist Vaughan contests the will claiming large sums were diverted to Indian doctors and philosophers and that gifts and curios related to the violist were withheld from her.
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Biddeford
Nathaniel Mobbs
Olea Bull Vaughan
Maine
Sarah Bull
Ole Baill
Vaughan
Ole Bull
Bromo Quinine Laxative Ad Claimant Signature Sought
Advertisement promotes Bromo Quin ine as a quick cure for a cold in one day. The copy urges readers to look for the signature of B W Grove and claims world wide recognition for the product. Cited as a laxative remedy with medicinal notes and sales emphasis.
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B. W. Grove
Nome to Seward road survey reveals frozen prospector
A survey party from the Alaska road commission arriving in Seattle reports finding the body of John Olson, a Prospector, on the trail near Distakegt sixty miles from the Iditarod in late January. The body was frozen stiff in a slitting attitude on a sled. The team was surveying the Nome to Seward route.
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Seattle
Wash
Alagka Road Commission
Nome and
Seward
John Olson
Distakegt
Iditarod
Nome to Iditarod road project faces harsh start
Congress has allocated 59000 for a Nome to Iditarod survey. Eight surveyors and a caravan of forty dogs left Nome on February 25. They endured temperatures down to 60 degrees below zero while mapping a 512 mile route. Prospectors line the Kuskokwim tributaries. Eskimos drove 150 reindeer to curb whiskey and tobacco supply.
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Congress
Iato Pyes
Kuskokwim
Iditared
Nome
Kuskok- Wim
Iditarod
Chinese Eating Bark to Stave Off Death
Washington dispatch reports Shanghai consul general summaries of February conditions in famine struck China. Travelers describe 13 bodies in 13 miles and leaves and bark eaten mixed with millet chaff as rations. Dr Cochrane notes 3,000,000 starving across afflicted regions and one village where a third of 100 families died.
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Washington
Mar
State Department
Shanghai
Cochrane
Relief funds travel from Cincinnati to Shanghai
Snow fell as many lacked shelter and clothing. The Chinese relief commission of the Cincinnati chamber raised one thousand dollars and cabled the amount to Shanghai via the American Red Cross.
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Chamber of Commerce of
Cincinnati
Shanghai
Red Croan
Garnishment Aims at Mrs Sperry Over Loans and Support
Garnishment papers served on Security Trust company in St Paul charge Mrs Caroline Sperry with $1500 loan plus past board and room for herself and child. Sayre, her father, filed suit after she eloped to St Louis and remarried her ex-husband J T Sperry. Complaint not yet filed.
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St. Paul
Minn
Caroline Sperry
St. Louis
J. T. Sperry
A Et Paul Real Estate Nan
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