Coal Miners Strike Over Screening System in Wyoming
Special dispatch from Rock Springs Wyoming reports a coal mine shutdown after miners refuse the screening system and demand the old top-of-mine weighing method. About 1200 miners are out of work as the strike continues. Soldiers Perry Polk and Thomas ONeill of Camp Pilot Butte are jailed for passing counterfeit silver dollars. seventeen fakes found, moulds believed hidden in the hills.
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Sun
Wyo
Union Pacific
Bere
Camp Pilot Butte
Perry Polk
Thomas O'Neill
A O U W Reception Draws Hundreds in Cheyenne
About 290 ladies and gentlemen attended the Ancient Order of United Workmen installation at the Masonic hall in Cheyenne. Cheyenne Lodge No. 3 counted 117 members present with a band, banquet, and speeches by Warren Richardson J F Jenkins W M Mass and Dr Maynard praising the event and guiding officers.
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Order of United Workmen
Masonic Hall
Sixteenth Street
Cheyenne Lodge
Mr. Whitcomb
Germania Hall
Walter L. Larsh
Messrs. Warren Richardson
J. F. Jenkins
W. M. Mass
Maynard
P. J. Black
M. W
Joseph Gape
Geo. H. Truckey
P. Michels
W.S. Hurlburt
Ira L. Fredendall
Joseph Leming
A. D. McNeil
I. W
JR. Walker
O. W
T. B. Adams
Cheyenne Lodge No. 3
Artcient Order of United Workmen
TIPS FROM THE TIES BRIDGE YARD EXPANSION NEAR STOCK YARDS
The doubles track to be laid over Crow creek bridge near the stock yards with seventy pound steel rails. The embankment widened and rails laid for a new side track. Contractor Bradley to finish ash pit work and crews to excavate for new paint. Masonry on the new round house to be finished this week. No layoffs in builder shops. more men soon needed. Shaw Electric crane to be positioned in machine shops. Yard east end busy with track and water main work. Superintendent Baxter in Cheyenne return today. June baggage checks by the company exceed any month in three years for Cheyenne visitors.
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Crow Creek
Stock Yards
Bradley
Roundhouse
Senate bill to deliver unclaimed land patents to rightful owners
Senator Plumb reported a senate bill to expedite delivery of land patents held unclaimed in the general land office. He noted about 250000 patents awaiting claimants and alleged collusion with a Washington law firm to collect fees, urging immediate consideration. The measure directs the interior secretary to send county sick lists of uncalled for patents for twelve months to the recorder of deeds.
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Wasuixcron
Senator Plumb
Committee On Public Lands
Senate
Plumb
Paddock and Berry
General Land Office
Washington
World's Fair site at Jackson Park chosen for Columbian exposition
The World’s Fair National Commission accepted the joint lake front and Jackson Park site by a 78 to 11 vote. Debate was brief with both sides presenting varying resolutions before the final tally. A separate note cited a request from the National Dairy association for favorable consideration due to its financial impact.
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Curiaco
National Dairy Association
Committee
Moonshiner Conflict Reported Bloody, Three Killed
A Flemingsburg dispatch cites reports of a violent clash between revenue men and moonshiners in Bowen County with three killed. In another item Mrs Steinemer’s lamp explodes injuring her, killing two children and severely burning her husband as flames engulf the room.
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Kentucky Moonshiners
Louisville
Flemingsburg
Bowen County
Greensuurs
Steinemer
Robbing an Editor Sentenced for $50,000 Heist
New York on July 2 Young Wallace and his accomplice who robbed Editor Wallace of $50,000 were today sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary at hard labor.
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New York
Young Wallace
Wallace
Lottery bill clears senate amendment in Baton Rouge
In Baton Rouge on July 2 the senate amendment to the lottery bill was concurred by the house by a vote of 68 to 2. The battle ends as the bill can pass despite a potential gubernatorial veto.
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Baton Rouge
Senate
House
A Writer of Bird Books in Brooklyn Home
A Brooklyn writer, Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller, observes birds from indoors. Her room dedicated to pets enables careful study and experimentation, producing notes later published in leading magazines. Colonel F. A. Sulzer sold property to J. B. Jeffrey for 4,000 dollars, then Jeffrey bought another lot from Mrs. Mary E. B. Larech.
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Brooklyn
Olive Thorne Miller
Tree and Post
Zopeba Capital
F. A. Stilver Hae
J. BK. Jeffrey
Sulzer
Jeffrey
Mary EB. Larech
Meek Travels a Mile a Minute from Cheyenne to Denver
The article notes Wilde’s appointment as General Freight Agent on the Union Pacific. It also covers Hon. John L. Webster confirming he represents McKibbin, the Union Pacific purchasing agent accused in a contract case, and outlines defense plans, potential testimony, and readiness to bring McKibbin to Omaha on short notice.
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Meek
Cheyenne
Denver
Meek's Fast Run from Cheyenne to Denver Sets Record
General Manager Meek rode the fast mail from Omaha Monday night and reached Cheyenne about 10 oclock. Engine 710 and Engineer Fellows sped to Denver, covering 106 miles in 1 hour 47 minutes, a record on the line and praised for speed with safety.
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Cheyenne
Denver
Denver News
Meek
Omaha
Fellows
Wilde Named General Freight Agent at Union Pacific
Fred Wilde of the Union Pacific was appointed general freight agent replacing N A Johnson. H W Adams, previously appointed assistant general freight agent last week by Traffic Manager Mellen, resigned after a Tuesday conference. Adams will return to resume duties after a brief visit to Butte.
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Denver News
Fred Wilde
Union Pacific
H. W. Adams
Adams
Mellen
Meek
Mr. Wilde
N. A. Johnson
Wilde
Butte
McKibbin Takes Stand in Salt Scandal Defense
Ex purchasing agent McKibbin of the Union Pacific faces charges of improper salt appropriation totaling sixty thousand? linked to the railroad. He hired Hon John L Webster to lead his defense, claiming innocence and readiness for trial in Omaha within twenty four hours. A new seven ton safe was added to the Cheyenne post office amid rising mail volume.
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McKibbin
Onanta Republican
Union Pacific System
John L. Webster
Comany
Theentleman
Chicago
Union Pacific
Webster
Omaha
Cheyenne
The Nerve to Do Right in the House Election Bill Clash
The House resumed work on the federal election bill with amendments. Rowell proposed a jury commission plan to draft panels from voters, drawing opposition from Springer who warned it would pack juries. The amendment passed 150 to 144 as partisan tension rose amid procedural maneuvers and heated remarks.
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HOUSE
Wastutner
Tucker
Virginia
Rowel
Illinois
United States
Springer
Rowell
Struble
Iowa
Outhwaite
Ohio
Hemphill
Lodge
Blount
Georgia
McKinley
Yeas
Coleman
Louisiana
Lehrbach
New Jersey
Ewart
North Carolina
Balter
Simmonds
Connecticut
Veas
North
McMillan
Tennessee
Samson
Perkins
Kansas
Lafotte
Wisconsin
Rollin
Nave
Motion to reconsider and passage of bill in Congress
The house debated motions to reconsider votes on the bill. Springer, Grosvenor, and others argued over tabling, adjournment, and engrossment. After a long session with heated exchanges, the bill passed 155 yeas to 149 nays and the house adjourned at 9 25.
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Springer
Yeas
Hemphill
Iowa
Nave
Coleman
Lehrbach
Outhwaite
Louisiana
New Jersey
Houk, Taylor
Tennessee
Waddill
Senate Recedes from Amendments on Appropriation Bill
Wasuixeton July 2 The Senate agreed to Hiscock motion to reconsider the vote on receding from amendments to the legislative appropriation bill and the bill goes to the pressent. The body then moved to two commerce bills to aid American merchant marine and ocean mail service as West opposed subsidy plans noting harm to other trades. West criticized Pan American plans as a back number. An executive session followed and the Senate adjourned.
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Wasuixeton
Hiscock
Senate
Committee On Commerce
United States
West
Pan-American Congress
Harrison
Secretary of — State
Frey
Wyoming Admittance Bill Seeks July 4 Signature
The American Woman Suffrage Association and National Christian Temperance Union urged President to sign Wyoming’s admission bill on July 4. They cite political equality without gender distinction and aim to celebrate the day in honor of the republic’s beginnings. Proposals plan to move the Wyoming and Idaho bills to Cape May Point for the president to sign during the holiday observance.
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Washington
American Woman Suffrage Association
June H. Spofford
National Christian Temperance Union
Ada M. Bittenbender
Wyoming
Republic
Idaho
Cape May Point
Democratic state convention convenes in Scranton
The Pennsylvania Kickers meeting opened with Edhley B. Coxe elected temporary chair. Ex-Postmaster Harrity chosen permanent chair. Black named for lieutenant governor and Patterson for governor on the first ballots. Platform backs tariff reform and Cleveland’s administration while denouncing Republican misrule and federal overreach.
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Pennsylvania
Republican Party
House of Representives
Cincinnati Carpenters Set Return After July Fifteenth
Striking carpenters in Cincinnati agree to return to work with employers offering ten hours pay for nine hours work after July 15. About 1,000 of the 1,000 unemployed men are expected to find work as a result.
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Cincinnati
Portrait of Despair as Laudanum Claims a Life
William R. Keenright, about 40, bought two ounces of laudanum at Dr. Hunt's drug store and ingested it at home. Witnesses describe a late night struggle with temporary insanity, the coroner's jury ruling death from self-administered poison during a personal crisis. The funeral was set for this afternoon. Keenright had recent typhoid illness and worked in a construction gang near Union Pacific shops.
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W. R. Keenright
Dr. Hunt
Seventeenth Street
William Mass
Sixteenth and
O'Neill Streets
Daniel Hanesworth
Hunt
Union Pacific
William R. Keenright
IH. H. Heerensrine
A. W. Shilling
Ep. Towser
Entitled to Their Claims Patents issued to Larime residents
Patents were issued yesterday by the United States Land Office to residents of Lar am ie Albany and Carbon counties who proved up on their claims. Names include C. C. Miller W. M. Reynolds Jay Pettibone J. Wilson J. Kern W. C. Tilton J. M. Cassiday C. T. Jones W. Fallon C. B. Stark G. L. Willson J.T. Atkinson W. F. Barry W. L. Hobbs G. W. Peiffer A. M. Kimmel and J. C. Shaw.
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United States Land Office
Laramie
Albany
Carbon
C. C. Miller
W. M. Reynolds
Jay Pettibone
J. Wilson
J. Kern
W. C. Tilton
J. M. Cassiday
C. T. Jones
W. Fallon
C. B. Stark
G. L. Willson
J.T. Atkinson
W. F
Crook's Pet Mule Jennie Remains Stationary at Camp Carlin
General Crook rode Jennie the mule through the Arizona campaign and kept her with the mule pack train at Camp Carlin. Local accounts say the animal stayed in place for hours after dismounting until the general returned.
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Crook
Jennie
Arizona
Camp Carlin
Burlington and Missouri Extensions Begin Track Laying
Track laying has started on Burlington and Missouri new extensions. Thirty miles from Newcastle west to the Big Horn mountains should be ready by August 4. Caves may run on the Deadwood line by October 4. Newcastle extension to Sheridan and Buffalo to be pushed quickly.
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Burlington
Missouri
Newcastle
Big Horn Mountains
Deadwood
Sheridan
Buffalo
Promoted From the Banks to General Superintendent
Edward Dickinson, former general manager of the Union Pacific Missouri division, will on Tuesday assume duties as general superintendent of the Trans-Ot lines for the Baltimore company, succeeding Mr. Peabody. Dickinson, of Cumberland, has forty years in railroading, starting as a messenger boy in Cleveland and Toledo.
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Washington’sf
Edward Dickinson
Union Pacific Railway Company
Baltimore
Peabody
Baltimore and Southwestern
Dickinson Los
Cumberland
Cleveland
Toledo
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Congress
Blaine
Pan American Conference
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Valpariso
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Uruguay
Argentine Republic
Omaha Bee
Davis
Mr. Webster
Barnes & Co
Barnes
Mr. McKibbin
Keenright
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