Wellington Cheyenne line to start work January
Colorado & Southern plans Wellington to Cheyenne rail construction within 45 days with passenger and freight service to begin soon after. A cross section of the state land is nearly finished and grade contracts will be let in about 30 days. Rumors point to a Hudson branch to connect with the Burlington main line, placing Cheyenne on the Hill route to Galveston.
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Wellington-Cheyenne
Colorado & Southern
Colorado Railway Company
Cheyenne
Lnk
Burlington Hines
Cook
T. C. McMurray
Onesie
Hudson
Burlington
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Galveston
Tex
Orin Junction
Colorado & Southern Road
Election Fatal Toll At Sheridan Prefinct Official
Sheridan Wyoming November 15 Dick Black a well known man died last night as a direct result of the election last week He suffered tuberculosis but would likely have lived months longer had he not served as an election official at a Sheridan precinct He worked long hours and collapsed from over exertion and a hemorrhage of the lungs the attending physician says the death stems from the excitement and strain of the election
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Sheridan
Wyo
Dick Black
Black
Purchase of King Ranch Creates World Largest Game Preserve
A Scranton syndicate led by J. J. Jermany closed a deal for the King ranch in Southwestern Texas, a 1 220 000 acre fenced property near the Gulf with bayside timber, home to deer and bears and ducks. It will operate as a public game preserve with over 100 lodges for rent or lease and follows the Lady Constance McHengle hunt.
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Galveston
Texas
J. J. Jermyn
Scranton
King Ranch
Gulf of Mexico
Constance Mchengle
Noted Writer on Mining Subject Dead
Fitz James McCarthy known as MPitu-Mae died in Phoenix of apoplexy. He was a prolific author with mining focused stories and articles widely copied across Colorado and the western states.
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Denver
Colo
Fitz- James McCarthy
Colorado
West
Mpitu-Mae
Phoenix
Atlanta plan to bridge Union Pacific tracks near Speer
A proposed project shows Union Pacific tracks about three quarters of a mile from the city limits. Builders will lay a forty five foot fill and construct a viaduct to cross the rail line, with the new track running northwest of Speer toward Wellington.
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Union Pacific
Speer
Wellington
Dayton house fire kills two children brothers burned
In Dayton Wye on November 16 Bar Bates aged four died from fire and his brother Hay aged two was fatally burned when their house was destroyed by a blaze started by the children playing with matches after losing their mother two months earlier. Nate Crogham rescued the living boy and corpse before collapsing. The father is said to be grieving intensely.
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Dayton
Wye
Bar Bates
Hier
Hay
Nate Crogham
Uitle
Hig
Croshem
Valle
Aude
Elks First Reunion Program Begins Today
Cheyenne hosts the first annual Wyoming Elks reunion as more than two hundred visiting members arrive from across the state. The Elk lodge held a large initiation yesterday and a big game dinner awaits at the Hersig ranch with a parade of several hundred uniformed bikers planned for tomorrow.
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Benevolent and Protective Order of
Wika
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Elk
Herslg Ranch
Can Airplane Alight on Deck of Warship
Washington November 15. The navy department will study whether an aeroplane can alight on a warship. Ely's flights prove the aircraft valuable for scout duty, but landing on a vessel's deck presents many difficulties.
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Washington
Navy Department
Ely
American Wheat at French Piers Rogging Vast Pileup
Havre reports a wheat glut from the United States Argentina Australia and India. More than four hundred thousand quintals line the piers rotting in mud and rain as grain ships wait six days to unload. The Western Railroad now a government line can move sixty cars daily though four hundred are needed. Locomotives delayed by strikes and unfinished sheds worsen the crisis amid Seine floods hindering river and canal transport.
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Havre
United States
Argentina
Australia
India
Western Railroad Company
Seine
Many Wyoming Visitors Attend City Meetings Throughout Week
Visitors from towns across Wyoming arrive for a series of meetings this week. Notables include Homer Merrill Rawlins A H Crow Laramie BH J Irwin William Gerlach Frank Ris tor Ed A Renall W F Hamilton Douglas Lewis C Miller and others from Casper Rawlins Sheridan Lander Lusk and Laramie.
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Wyoming
United States
Homer Merrill
Rawlins
A. H. Crow
Laramie
BH. J. Irwin
William Gerlach
Frank Ristor
Ed A. Renall
W. F. Hamilton
Douglas
Lewis C. Miller
W. R. Johnson
Letstand
Www
D. Rhoades
Harrold Banner
William Tripeny
J. C. Burns
Casper
William Daley
James J. McAndrews
F. O. Peacock
Harry Fulmer
Sheridan
F. H. Ferris
P. Marty
Lander
Bawin Wall
Lusk
J. A. Warren
Holland and Rath Buy Stanton Transfer & Storage
A. M. Holland and John H. Rath, popular Union Pacific employees, completed a deal to take over the Stanton Transfer & Storage company from Frank Stanton and associates. Stanton plans to leave the city with his family. The purchase includes drayage storage, shipment, and real estate and buildings.
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Holland and Rath
A. M. Holland
John H. Rath
Union Pacific
Stanton Transfer & Storage Company
Frank Stanton
Stanton
Messrs. Holland and Rath
Tate and Buildings
Women Invited to League Meeting at Carnegie Library
Mrs Clbson Clank president of the Women's Club league announces a league meeting this afternoon at 4 in the women's room of the Carnegie library. All women of the city interested in the public welfare movement and civic affairs are urged to attend regardless of party or affiliation.
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Clbson Clank
Women's Club League
Cagnegie Library
Tolstoy Near Death in Lates Hall Turmoil
Count Leo Tolstoy lies critically ill with bronchitis and fever in Tula as his daughter Alexandra nurses him. A note says death is not imminent. The Countess Telatel travels by special train with Vladimir Tehertkoff to Tolstoy’s side amid family feuds over copyright of his works.
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Tula
Leo Tolstoi
Alexandra
Télatel
Tom
Riameme Ct
Ey Sous
Vladimer Tehertkoff
Telstel
England
Tehertkoff
Tolatol
Food prices expected to fall nationwide
Chicago reports a bumper corn crop and large cattle and hog receipts fueling a broad decline in food prices. Sugar drops one cent per pound, flour down 20 cents a barrel, pork 4 cents a pound, beef 2 to 3 cents, lamb 5 cents, and chickens 2 1 2 cents. Los Angeles New Orleans and Duluth also note declines while Pittsburgh Atlanta and Denver show no change. Eggs stay high and may rise. turkeys and chickens continue to fall nationwide.
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Chicago
Los Angeles
New Orleans
Duluth
Pittsburg
Atlanta
Denver
Graham gives wife 250000 gift, California mansion
William Miller Graham, a wealthy California oil operator, presented his wife with a 250000 birthday gift. The package includes a palatial Montecito home and twelve Santa Barbara properties. The Grahams, who live much abroad, will join Mrs. Graham in Paris next week.
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San Francisco
Oal
William
Miller Graham
California
Montecito
Santa Barbara
Graham
Grahams
Cannibals Shed Light on Ancient Mystery
A fourteen year mystery about an Austrian scientific expedition in the Solomon Islands is solved. Dr Northcutt Pevk, a missionary, discovers the remains and learns the fate from natives. Baron von Norbeck led the party. natives fought them, the leader was killed and ten were killed and eaten. Three escaped to the coast.
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Victoria
Solomon
Montana Dems Take Control in Next Assembly Race
Official returns indicate Democrats gain control of the upcoming assembly which will elect a senator to encaged Carter, with references to Montana Helens and Renato. The report is fragmented but notes party shift and key names in the race.
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Nami
Montana
U. 5
Renato
Helens
Dem
Carter
Taft Sees Panama Canal Finish by 1914 and Open in 1915
President Taft was told the Panama Canal would be completed by December 1, 1914 and officially opened January 1, 1915. He inspected the Gatun dam and addressed Americans at the YMCA before inspecting the Culebra Cut tomorrow.
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Panama
Taft
Goethals
Gatun
Y. M
Women Vote Urged by Maude Younger at Labor Fed
Maude Younger urged universal female suffrage at the Federation of Labor convention in St. Louis saying women need the ballot to protest industrially while men rely on unions, as she noted women face difficulty forming unions due to marriage as an escape from toil. Governor Hadley also spoke to the gathering.
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St. Louis
Maude Younger
Federation of Labor
Hadley
Mexican Clubs Ready for War With Yankees
Irene Spade a Denver girl prompted a report of a incident leading to James Hunt Fort Russell soldier being charged after police found him in a room with the girl in Cheyenne. Hunt denies the charge while acknowledging the girl’s fondness for soldiers and jovial companionship in a Cheyenne case that unsettles local authorities.
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Edward Wilson
Irene Spade
Denver
Wilson
James Hunt
Fort Russell
Wwormn
Cheyenne
Smalley
Connelly
Hazel Wilson
Mra. Connelly
Young Hunt
Hunt
C. L. Rigdon
Explosive Tests Sink Monitor and Puritan at Fort Monroe
At Fort Monroe on November 15, high explosive tests of the Monitor and the ship Puritan used 200 pound charges of nitro glycerine and gelatine. The first test cracked the eight inch armor of the turret while a second bent the ten inch waterline plate, admitting water rapidly and causing the stern to sink within minutes. Both charges were unconfined and placed alongside armor plates requiring tugs to move the vessels to dry dock.
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Fort Monroe
Wheeler Wright Flight Challenging In Thin Air
Denver November 1 Ralph Johnstone flew a Wright biplane at Overland Park during a four day aviation meet opening tomorrow. Johnstone found the rarified atmosphere makes control difficult but expects improvement with practice. Hoxsey and Brooking also attend the event.
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Denver
Ralph Johnstone
Wright
Overland Park
Hoxsey
Brooking
Johnstone
Taft Set to Outline Progressive Reform Agenda
Washington reports President Taft is preparing a message for Congress's December session. The plan includes banking and currency reforms, tariff revision per tariff board recommendations, Canada reciprocity, resource conservation laws, Alaska government creation, and injunctions without notice.
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Washington
Congress
Taft
Board of Tariff Experts
Canada
Alaska
Rabbit Jump Startles Hunter Dies in Shock
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania on November 15 Albert Henne a school director and hotel man from Ditkaoan City died of heart disease after a rabbit he had shot suddenly jumped up causing fatal shock according to physicians.
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Wilkesbarre
Albert Henne
Ditkaoan City
Weather Forecast for Wyoming Weather
Weather forecast from Washington notes potential rain or snow in Wyoming on Wednesday or Thursday. Local temperature changes not specified.
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Washington
Wyoming
Baltimore Births and Population Trends in 1870s
Article notes Baltimore dropped in ranking among American cities due to race death by own action. Provides ward birth counts Jan 1 to Sept 50, with 161 births in Eleventh Ward and 661 in Third Ward. Totals show 8,796 births in Baltimore that year versus 8,970 in 1876, and population around 300,000 in 1875, about 600,000 in last year, with birth rate tied to population changes.
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Baltimore
Poltnace
Volunteer for Possible Clash Preparations Across Mexico
At Sayula a meeting of political clubs adopted a resolution to offer services to the army in case of war with the United States. They also urged sending instructors to elites to teach military tactics. Quiet along the border reports calm and troops on the Mexican side.
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Guadalajara
Sayula
Mexico
United States
Laredo
Mexican ambassador defends government over Rodrigues lynching
New York reports Senor Don Francesco Dela Barra says Mexico condemns the Tie Rodrigues lynching as beyond law. He distances the Mexican government from the crime and praises immediate action to quell disorder while noting Knox and Cree support swift resolution. In Anadarko Oklahoma Oscar Opel, the slayer of Police Chief Temple, is rumored seen twice near farms, prompting search efforts.
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New York
Francesco Dela Barra
Rodrigues
Mexico
Knox
Cree
Anadarko
Okla
Oscar Opel
Pollbe Chief
Wihuiwekah
Lawton
Demonstration Planned Across Rio Grande
El Paso reports Tyres police prepare for an expected demonstration against Americans alleged to be organized by Mexicans on both sides of the Rio Grande in opposition to the Ding administration. A large number of mounted deputies have been sworn in.
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el Paso
Texas
Raid Rumor Eases as Patrols Thin at Rock Springs
Evening patrols at Rock Springs drop to fifteen after days of reported cross border raid near San Antonio with Mexican entrants uncertain and crowds dispersing.
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San Antonio
Rock Springs
Son of Temperance Advocate Has a Gay Time in Sheridan
Sheridan Wyoming reports a temperance worker’s son Clarence Stout caused a rampage wielding a revolver at a pool hall. He was jailed, tore up a note to his mother confessing intent to commit suicide, released after promising reform, then escaped and was recaptured, with his mother seeking mental health evaluation.
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Sheridan
Clarence Stout
Mia
Battle Stout
Young Stout
Aga
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Irene. Spade
Rabbit
Hunter
Krack
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