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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1920
Page
12
In Casper Wyoming a county court hears a suit by a sheep company against Pine Dome Company seeking a temporary injunction. The case centers on water discharge polluting land, sheep deaths, and storm losses. a government map error prompted delay. Costs to date and a 30 day continuance are noted.
Chief Stinking Bear of the Rosebud Sioux visits Newcastle Nebraska after seventeen years, allowed again under official permission following the 1903 murder of Sheriff Miller. He is 79, once notorious for preying on local merchants, and his presence recalls a controversial policy shift.
David McCullagh of Wyoming and F. O. of Basin lead a Wyoming delegation to the Sovereign Grand Lodge meeting in Boston. They travel via Chicago Port Huron Toronto and Montreal with J. C. Schenk of Basin joining in transit. The group plans to return about two weeks later by Niagara Falls.
In Laramie Wyoming on September Sunday the sixth district of the Union Pacific between this city and Rawlins handled twenty one passenger trains and seventy four freight trains in twenty four hours. An average of one train every 164 minutes. Sixty five? carloads of freight were received at the Lara mile freight station for unloading.
Jackson Wyoming residents feel fame from an all women city government backfired as a Denver traveler buying a ticket to Jacksons Vale was routed to Basin Wyoming. The error showed how widely the town is misunderstood beyond its borders.
Sheridan Wyoming September 21 five hundred laborers, many Mexican, harvest beets in preparation for the sugar factory opening October 4. About 5000 acres of beets are to be harvested and eight thousand tons will be on the factory dump when the plant opens. Harvesting will take about seven weeks.
Taremie Wyoming September 21 county commissioners plan a vote on major issues facing the Laramielles government. Officials said the decision will influence regional funding and oversight for local services.
Arthur Jayne 36 president of Moorcroft bank was struck and killed by lightning near Sundance on September 21 while returning from inspecting land holdings. He carried 75000 in life insurance and left an estate estimated between 60000 and 100000. The horse also died.
Appointed judges will preside at the six week distant state county and city elections. Voters face two bond propositions for sewer and water projects totaling 289,200. The city chooses a mayor and three councilmen while Albany county voters elect four assembly members and one state senator.
Samuel Thompson Marion Week and Abe Davis ranchers on Lone Tree creek are jailed in Coalville Utah charged with stealing 238 head of sheep from Bryan Stringham near Vernal Utah. The sheep allegedly crossed into Wyoming. In famine areas of China some fathers are reportedly selling daughters for six cents to buy essentials for others.
Morgan, jailed for postoffice thefts, escaped briefly after manipulating jail locks with a wire handle. He robbed the Newcastle Drug Company and attempted to flee by freight, recaptured at Gillette while trying to leave town after a series of postoffice and store robberies.
Claude J. Gavin received a sentence of five to seven years in the state penitentiary for embezzling funds at Continental Supply while acting as its dictatorial manager. Judge Ralph Kimball imposed the sentence as the supreme court ruling on appeal looms. Gavin appeared stoic, with his wife Mrs. Gavin staying by him, insisting the act was accidental.
Newcastle Wisconsin September 21 Among the distinctions of Congressman Frank W Mondell Republican floor leader of the lower house in owning an oil spring the petroleun spring has been improved through cross-cutting operations and now yields about fifteen barrels of crude daily If production continues as expected it could rise to 100 barrels daily making the spring among the leaders in the region It reportedly turned down an offer of forty thousand dollars for a 79 percent lease interest.
The article reports drought induced fire danger in forests near Sheridan with lack of rain fueling rapid spread. Foresters monitor treetop mountains for smoke day and night and threaten action against arsonists who set sage brush fires to improve grazing.
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