Wyoming News Briefs on Field Purchases and Campus Events
The article reports the executive committee purchasing ten acres between the city, planning a Battle Field with a track and athletic facilities. It notes a new mansion style president’s residence on Thornburg Street, expected occupancy by September. It also mentions Miss McCreery of the AAUW touring Wyoming, and cadet indoor marksmanship with a medal offered by Lieut Major Covurn.
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Ard of
Mecca
Thornburg Street
Walker
Miss McCreery
AW. C.A
Tor Colorado
Wyoming
Eaghvear
Majol K. Covnrn
Red Desert sheep losses reported at twenty percent
Baratoga Wyoming May 10 H J Blydenburg returns from the Red Desert where since January 28 his flocks suffered extreme weather in February and drought. He estimates at least 20 percent of sheep died from starvation as grain could not reach them. He cites 3 000 000 bushels of corn and 200 loads of hay failed to feed the flocks. some losses reached sixty percent of holdings.
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Baratoga
Wyo
H. J. Blydenburg
Red Desert
Blydenbure
Vaudeville Actors Plan Sheridan to New York Trip
Sheridan Wyoming May percent Harry Armstrong and wife vaudeville artists will travel by horse from Sheridan to New York starting May 15. They will perform in Cheyenne Denver and other towns en route and aim to reach New York by October. They have been riding 45 miles daily to train for the tour.
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New York
Sheridan
Wyo
Harry Larmstrong
Cheyenne
Denver
Newark
Basin Basin development creditors seek public sale of Oregon project land
In Basin Wyom a sale is slated for June 26 by creditors of the Oregon Basin Development Co a major project aiming to reclaim 800 acres of land The auction is to settle debts and allow the company to reorganise and continue with the project under protection from its creditors.
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Pregon Basin
Basin
Wyo
Eig Horn Basin Development Co
Great Oregon Basin
Cmpany
Miner killed while thawing dynamite in Wind River camp
Alejandro Omisha, a minor worker on the Wind River Reservation, was instantly killed while thawing dynamite sticks in a stove oven of a tent camp. The explosion tore through his skull as the blast damaged the stove area. He had served as a powder expert for 26 years and was known in the camp.
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Lander
Wyo
Alejandro
Omisha
Wind River
Ninn
Wile
Tamanhe
Ving Randled
Brey Bull Decides To Become Real City
Grazy, Wyo May 11. By vote of 38 to 12 Greybull residents approve steps toward city status. The action marks a major shift from town to incorporated municipality as officials pursue formal city government.
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Breybull
Greybul
Wye
Fon Sport
Greybull
Borganise
Bull
Tick Bites Fatal to Two Wyomingites
Worland Wyoming May 9 Mia Mary Robinson elderly woman and Jonathan Roy resident of Paint Rock Valley die from tick bites used embedded in flesh with immediate poisoning. Medical aid summoned too late. Unknown tick species and fear of further deaths in Paint Rock country as Wyoming reports rare tick bites.
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Worland
Wyo
Mia
Mary Robinson
Oathaniel Roy
Paint Rock
Ucke
Paint Rock Country
Wyoming
Gas wells flare with big finds in Wyoming fields
In Greybull Alfred Bros. and Lamb report a new gas well flowing 5,000,000 cubic feet daily after a discovery well pumps 26,000,000. The pair plan more wells near Basin while a second prospect near Cody reaches the cap stage and investors offer a ten thousand dollar bonus for gas supply.
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Greybull
Wyo
Alfred Bros. and
Lamb
Basin
Cody
Philip Miner
Gad
Thin Place
Develo
Gela
Sixty Horsepower Auto-Stages For Thermopolis
Four 40 horsepower seven passenger automobiles have arrived at Kirby the Burlington terminus twelve miles north and will be used for stage service between Kirby and Thermopolis and Thermopolis and Shoshoni thirty five miles south on the Northwestern. Two machines operate on each leg providing daily connections with railroads in both directions.
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Thermopolis Thermopolis
Wyo
Kirby
Burlington
Plare
Thermopolis
Shoshoni
Heavy fleece yields in Shoshoni sheep bands
Shoshoni Wyoming May 11 reports fleeces from two sheep bands averaging 14 pounds each, unusually heavy. Additional unshorn fleece likely to be heavier. lightest fleece recorded at nine pounds and overall average about twelve pounds.
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Shoshoni
Wyo
Plunketts Barbecue Showers Wind River Indians With Celebration
In Hudson Wyoming on May 11 a large Arapaho and Shoshone gathering followed ol R H Plunkett s barbecue. Colonel Plunkett, dining more than a few acres, was adopted into the tribes and given Indian names hard to spell. Dances and entertainment accompanied the feast as hundreds attended the event celebrating the first well on the Mond oil lands.
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Ol. Plunkett
Tommy Aches Hudson
Wyo
Wind River
Ol. R. H. Plunkett
Colonel Plunkett
Civil War Veteran Granted Back Pension Pay
William McCarty of Rawlings Wyoming has been notified he will receive an additional ten years of back pay totaling about 1,400 dollars, on top of a 12 dollar monthly pension for his Civil War service.
Widow of Civil War veteran granted pension
Widow Myra Ellen L Wood of Baratoga Wyoming has been granted a pension of 42 dollars per month with back pay of 72 dollars. She is the widow of a Civil War veteran.
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Baratoga
Wyo
Myra
Ellen L. Wood
Title Place
Wild Race for Evidence Inquest Ends in Coroner’s Victory
In Big Horn County a tense inquest case pits the coroner against adversaries seeking control of key evidence. The proceedings center on a death ruled as self-inflicted, with letters and personal records attached to the case.
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Big Hon County
Tenslee
Body of John Garrison Found With Note Threatening Disposal
The body of John Garrison, a key grand jury witness in the Tensleep sheep camp raid case, was found near Manderson with two gunshot wounds and a revolver, a note directing the discovery of a key, and incriminating letters held in custody. Authorities say Garrison died by his own hand after testimony.
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John Garrison
Beform Grand Jury
Brutus Bown
Bein
Tensleep
Alleman
Emge
Laster
Manderaon
Carter
Allegeidl Muniorira
Horazback
Alston
Law
Tridia
Seven Min
Garrison
Manderson
Honda
Garrigan
Garriison
Muriane
Stallist the Rat
Johnson County Sheep Deal Involves $90 000
In Bofalo Wyoming on May 10 Harry G. Cook and R A Andrews bought Ned Brown Co holdings owned by E D Metcalf and G F Randall for 90000. The transfer includes 10 000 head of sheep 2960 acres of deed land and leases on state and private range sections.
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Bofalo
Wyo
Harry G. Cook
This Place
R. A. Andrews
Billings, Mont
Ned Brown
Dayton man lands 13 pound Tongue River trout
Truman Shaddock of Dayton displays the largest trout seen in the region, a native Tongue River fish weighing 13 pounds . The 33 inch catch was made near Sheridan on May 10 with a bail in the Tongue River.
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Dayton
Sheridan
Wyo
Truman Shaddock
Tongue River
Convict to asylum instead of penitentiary
Mangus Anderau, recently convicted of grand larceny and sentenced to the penitentiary, was adjudged insane by a jury. He will be sent to Swanston asylum rather than Rawlins prison.
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Basin, Wye
Mangus Anderaou
Swanston
Rawlins
Wyoming man arrested in Utah on forged checks charge
Basin Wyoming May 11 Laster Rutt ner a year after being charged with forging Charied Parris name to several checks was arrested in Dillon Utah days ago and brought back to this office for trial on the old charge
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Utah
Basin
Wyo
Laster Ruttner
Charied Parris
Dillon
Jealous Italian kills young man in Deadwood dispute
In Deadwood South Dakota early morning James Ferro an Italian man living with a woman shot and killed Ralph Walker a young Black man who was talking with the woman Ferro fled into the darkness but was captured near Sturgis Walker had just returned after a Li years absence and was among Deadwood youths
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Deadwood
Attenuo
James Ferro
Ralph Walker
Ferro
Sturgio
Walker
Premier Stolypin Prepared to Retire
St. Petersburg May 10 a near relative of Premier Stolypin declared that the premier’s retirement is imminent as he had refused the emperor’s repeated request to remain in office A telegram was sent to former Premier Goromykin at Wembaden to return to St Petersburg to assume the premiership and foreign affairs portfolio.
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St. Petersburg
Goromykin
Wembaden
Pa ton Sees Good Conditions in U S Agriculture
London May 10 Mr Pa ton president of the Mquinat Assurance Company notes sound business in New York and across the United States. He says high prices for wheat and corn are making the agricultural classes prosperous.
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London
Paton
Mquinat Assurance Company
la Ae
Tn Ae Bialijd
Howald
Agen
Ton
New York
United States
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